Lucas Caetano Meireles Pereira

Develop Hardware and Software solution for different projects within the Nautec lab (Robotics and Smart Automation nucle). This include, embedded C/C++ development; use single board computers, such as raspberry Pi and Odroid in image processing and robotics; Fpga prototyping using VHDL for image processing and comunication across devices.

Propose and build up software solutions to be used in conjunction with the hardware and mechanical systems available within the company to develop automation systems for industrial environments. Heavy use of structured text and ladder language to program PLCs to control the automation systems and communicate with external software.

Collect data on maintainability of mobile FPGA-controlled system present in LIFE (Fluid-Structure Interaction Laboratory); Study the possibility of replacing the system's FPGA with a more modern one and ascertain costs; Assist other students in work involving mobile system within the laboratory.

Hardware description using VHDL language, development modules for robotic project within welding context. The modules developed include: communication via modbus, float point unit, filters and debounce modules for read signals, encoder decoder, Finite state machine to perform welding routines, edge detection, FIFOs and other data structures.

Vhdl, FPGA, Embedded Systems, Image processing, Computer Architectures.