Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Pedro Filipe Russo de Almeida Lima
Amanuensvägen 14/1301 (312), 114-16 Stockholm Stockholm (Sweden)
+46 767158777
+351 916058811
+351 924139517
+46 767158777
pedro.a.lima@ist.utl.pt, pfrdal@kth.se
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Sex Male | Date of birth 27 November 1990 | Nationality Portuguese
PREFERRED JOB
Electrical and Computer Engineering
WORK EXPERIENCE
01 September 2013 – Present
PhD Student
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)
iQMatic is a recently established collaboration between KTH, LiU and Scania, with the aim to develop
a fully autonomous heavy vehicle for goods transport and other industrial applications. A research
platform consisting of a heavy duty vehicle equipped with multiple sensors, wireless communication
and significant processing power will be developed within the project in close collaboration with Scania
in Södertalje. The PhD project will focus mainly on routing and path planning with respect to time,
transport efficiency and energy consumption, as well as on the control of the vehicle along the decided
path.
10 June 2013 – 01 August 2013
Research Engineer
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)
- Take care of both software and hardware material of the Smart Mobility Lab;
- Supervise students that want to use the Smart Mobility Lab;
- Develop individual work, with the final target of publishing a paper;
14 January 2013 – 04 June 2013
Master Thesis - Implementation and Analysis of Platoon Catch-Up Scenarios for
Heavy Duty Vehicles
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)
Heavy duty vehicles (HDV) platooning is currently a big topic both in the academic world and in
industry. Platooning is a smart way to solve problems such as safety, traffic congestion, fuel
consumption and hazardous exhaust emissions since its concept enables several vehicles to drive
close to each other while maintaining all the security requisites. This way, each vehicle will use the so
called slipstream effect, an atmospheric drag reduction that occurs behind a traveling vehicle,
consuming less fuel and consequently reducing the exhausted gases. Furthermore, it increases the
traffic flow since the distance between vehicles is significantly reduced. The concept and idea of
platooning is not particularly new, but only in the last few decades new technology made it possible.
HDV platooning scenarios were developed in the completely renovated Smart Mobility Lab, in KTH,
Stockholm. A LabVIEW application was developed giving a robust and stable control of the trucks
while following and driving on a newly designed and built road network. The trucks are able to follow a
predefined trajectory, change lane and road, platoon with each other with different platooning
distances, overtake when the platoon master is changed in order to take the lead of the platoon and
change speed to catch up, among other features.
The last part of this thesis covers the analysis of the scenarios developed in the testbed. These
scenarios represent several situations of HDV platooning, particularly the platoon catch up case. The
main object of this study was the saved fuel due to platooning, and the break-even point, i.e. as the
distance ratio when neither driving alone nor catching up a platoon ahead would be more feasible.
Using real HDV models and their fuel consumption models, simulations in order to check the benefits
of platooning were performed and the data got from the scenarios was analyzed. Finally, conclusions
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were drawn from the experiments where the parameters such as HDV weight, speed increment when
catching up and intermediate distance when platooning were different in each trial. It was concluded
that a single HDV has to travel 8 to 15 times more than the initial distance that separates it from the
HDV(s) ahead and it can save 5 to 13% of fuel depending if catching a single HDV or a platoon
already existent. Furthermore, it is less beneficial for a platoon already formed to decide to catch up
another HDV.
20 June 2011 – 22 July 2011
Trainee - Software Developer
IdMind - Engenharia de Sistemas, Lda
Pólo Tecnológico de Lisboa, Lote 1 PT-1600-546 Lisbon Lisbon (Portugal)
http://www.idmind.pt/
The traineeship consisted in design, develop and test a path generation algorithm for a mobile robot. It
was created an application that is an interface which allows a user, who wants to interact with a mobile
robot, making it follow a preset path. This application was developed in Visual C# graphical
environment. The application was built to suit for any type of differential traction mobile robot, and it is
configurable (wheel radius, distance between wheels and motor characteristics). Odometry
corrections were also made using the square test.
Business or sector Electronics and Robotics
01 July 2008 – 30 July 2008
Electronic components assembly assistant
IdMind - Systems Engineering, Lda
Lisbon Technopolis, Lt 1 PT-1600-546 Lisbon Lisbon (Portugal)
http://www.idmind.pt/
PCB assembly and soldering of electronic components.
Business or sector Electronics and Robotics
06 July 2007 – 20 July 2007
Instituto Superior Tecnico
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1 PT-1049-001 Lisbon Lisbon (Portugal)
http://www.ist.utl.pt/
Attendance of the traineeship "INCISTA-Alameda: Introduction to Science in IST Alameda". The tasks
performed ranged from the assembly of electronic components on printed circuit boards to the
programming of robots using a programming environment with logic blocks.
Business or sector Education
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
18 September 2013 – Present
Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer, License 100-313-5225
National Instruments, Stockholm (Sweden)
24 June 2013 – 27 June 2013: LabVIEW course attendance - Core 1 and 2
2012 – 2013
Frequency in the 2nd year of the Dual Degree Cluster Program with
KTH: Major in Systems, Control and Robotics (TSCRM)
5
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)
Dual Degree Cluster Program with KTH Final Average: 17,45 (0-20)
2011 – 2012
Frequency in the 1st year of the Dual Degree Cluster Program with
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Pedro Filipe Russo de Almeida Lima
KTH: Major in Systems, Control and Robotics (TSCRM)
Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal)
2008 – 2011
Frequency in Integrated Master in Electrical and Computer
Engineering (1st Cycle - 3 Years)
5
Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon
1st Cycle Final Average: 15.53 (0-20)
2005 – 2008
12th Grade
3
Vergílio Ferreira High School
Quinta dos Inglesinhos 1600-764 Lisbon (PT)
Science and Technology
Final average: 179.3 (0-200)
PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue(s)
Portuguese
Other language(s)
UNDERSTANDING
SPEAKING
WRITING
Listening
Reading
Spoken interaction
Spoken production
English
C1
C1
C1
C1
C1
Swedish
B1
B1
A2
A2
A2
Spanish
A2
A2
A1
A1
A1
A1
A1
A1
A1
A1
French
Levels: A1/A2: Basic user - B1/B2: Independent user - C1/C2: Proficient user
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Communication skills
- Team spirit due to countless participations in team sports like handball and volleyball in school sports;
- I create a good work environment;
- Ease of communication;
Organisational / managerial skills
Job-related skills
- Leadership and organization developed in all projects and work throughout my school career.
- Welding of electronic components;
- Programming in C - from basic programs to client/server managers as well as simulators;
- Programming in Visual Basic C# graphical environment;
- Programming in Phyton;
- Programming in Matlab™;
- Programming in LabVIEW™;
- Basic programming in C18;
- Basic experience with MPLAB IDE environment;
- Simulink™ development environment;
- Practice with LaTeX™ document preparation system;
- Design and simulation of basic circuits involving simulation software like PSpice™ and Xilinx™.
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Computer skills
Pedro Filipe Russo de Almeida Lima
- Microsoft Office™ (Word™, Excel™ and PowerPoint™) experienced user;
- Operating Systems: Windows™ (W95 to W7), Linux™ (Ubuntu™ and Kubuntu™) and MacOS™;
- Programming in Matlab™;
- Programming in LabVIEW™;
- Simulink™ development environment;
- Programming in C;
- Programming in Visual Basic C# graphical environment;
- Basic programming in C18;
- Basic experience with MPLAB IDE environment;
- Programming in Phyton;
- Practice with LaTeX™ document preparation system;
- Basic circuit simulation software like PSpice™ and Xilinx™ domain.
Other skills
Regular practice of sport:
- Handball and volleyball in school sport in High School - Vergilio Ferreira High School.
- Piano lessons (6 years of classical, 3 years of Jazz) - "Piano Musical" School, Inc. and Telheiras
Music Academy;
- 4 years of Music Theory - "Piano Musical" School, Inc.;
- Familiarization with the stage due to more than a dozen appearances in concerts and piano
auditions (social competence: ease of communication).
Driving licence
B
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- Participation on "Ciência Viva" holiday courses;
- Frequency of English course "English as a foreign language" in Headington Oxford University in
Oxford, England from 05/08/2007 until 18/08/2007 with the level "Advanced";
- Participation, as a volunteer, assisting the homeless at the private institution of social solidarity
"Comunidade Vida e Paz", from September 2007 to July 2008.
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