{"id":5347,"date":"2025-10-17T16:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/?page_id=5347"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:31:11","slug":"jorge-silva","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/index.php\/people\/jorge-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-162129 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-450826 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-256236\" style=\"height: 20px; clear: both; width:100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-942226 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-964395 kc_col-sm-4 kc_column kc_col-sm-4\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-203669 kc_shortcode kc_single_image\">\n\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mecatron.rma.ac.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jsilva.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" \/>    <\/div>\n<div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-483312 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; font-style: inherit;\">Robotics Researcher<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Robotics &amp; Autonomous Systems,<br \/>Royal Military Academy<\/p>\n<h4>Address<\/h4>\n<p>Avenue De La Renaissance 30, 1000 Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n<h4>Contact Information<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Call<\/strong>: &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:JorgeAndre.FreitasSilva@mil.be\">JorgeAndre.FreitasSilva@mil.be<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-504871 kc_col-sm-7 kc_column kc_col-sm-7\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-935255 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\" style=\"border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\" style=\"border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\" style=\"border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit;\">Jorge Silva is an engineer with an excellent academic background in top-tier institutions&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit;\">(GPA: 5\/5 &amp; 18\/20), a solid background in physics and over a year of hands-on&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit;\">research experience in robotics. His work has focused on the control of dynamical&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit;\">systems, computer vision, deep learning, and machine learning, and has extended&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit;\">across diverse domains, including retail, construction, biomedicine, and cargo&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit;\">transport. He is especially interested in applied research in control theory, robot&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit;\">perception, and multi-robot cooperation, particularly in the context of aerial&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit;\">robotics. Real-world viability is something he holds dear and strives for in his&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit;\">engineering projects, and is particularly motivated by the defense industry and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit;\">the protection of democratic values. He brings adaptability, strong problem-solving&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit;\">skills, and a genuine passion for impactful engineering.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-810090 kc_col-sm-1 kc_column kc_col-sm-1\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-916532 kc-raw-code\"><script src=\"https:\/\/kit.fontawesome.com\/5feed4ac07.js\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.rawgit.com\/jpswalsh\/academicons\/master\/css\/academicons.min.css\">\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 36px; color: Dodgerblue;\">\r\n<center>\r\n<a href=\"mailto:JorgeAndre.FreitasSilva@mil.be\"> <i class=\"fas fa-envelope fas-3x\"><\/i><\/a><br><br>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jorge-silva-a574a720a\"> <i class=\"fab fa-linkedin\"><\/i><\/a><br><br>\r\n<a href=\"\"> <i class=\"ai ai-cv-square ai\"><\/i><\/a><br><br>\r\n<\/center>\r\n<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 36px; color: Dodgerblue;\">\r\n<center>\r\n<br><br>\r\n<a href=\"\"><i class=\"fab fa-researchgate\"><\/i><\/a><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<a href=\"\"><i class=\"ai ai-orcid-square ai\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n<\/center>\r\n<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-926435 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-294758 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-676352\" style=\"height: 20px; clear: both; width:100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-988031 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-36331 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\">\n<div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-613504 kc-title-wrap \">\n\n\t<h2 class=\"kc_title\">Publications<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-122626 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"papercite\">2025<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"papercite_bibliography\">\n<li>    V. N. Fernandez-Ayala, J. Silva, M. Guo, and D. V. Dimarogonas, &#8220;Robust visual servoing under human supervision for assembly tasks,\" <span style=\"font-style: italic\">European Journal of Control<\/span>, p. 101312, 2025.    <br \/>   <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" id=\"papercite_0\" class=\"papercite_toggle\">[BibTeX]<\/a>      <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" id=\"papercite_abstract_0\" class=\"papercite_toggle\">[Abstract]<\/a>         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0947358025001414\" title='Download PDF' class='papercite_pdf'>[Download PDF]<\/a>         <a href='http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ejcon.2025.101312' class='papercite_doi' title='View on publisher site'>[DOI]<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"papercite_bibtex\" id=\"papercite_abstract_0_block\">\n<p>We propose a framework enabling mobile manipulators to reliably complete pick-and-place tasks for assembling structures from construction blocks. The picking uses an eye-in-hand visual servoing controller for object tracking with Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) to ensure fiducial markers in the blocks remain visible. An additional robot with an eye-to-hand setup ensures precise placement, critical for structural stability. We integrate human-in-the-loop capabilities for flexibility and fault correction and analyze robustness to camera pose errors, proposing adapted barrier functions to handle them. Lastly, experiments validate the framework on 6-DoF mobile arms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"papercite_bibtex\" id=\"papercite_0_block\">\n<pre><code class=\"tex bibtex\">@article{FERNANDEZAYALA2025101312,\ntitle = {Robust visual servoing under human supervision for assembly tasks},\njournal = {European Journal of Control},\npages = {101312},\nyear = {2025},\nissn = {0947-3580},\ndoi = {https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ejcon.2025.101312},\nurl = {https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0947358025001414},\nauthor = {Victor Nan Fernandez-Ayala and Jorge Silva and Meng Guo and Dimos V. Dimarogonas},\nkeywords = {Visual servoing, Control Barrier Functions, Human-in-the-loop, Construction assembly, Object tracking},\nabstract = {We propose a framework enabling mobile manipulators to reliably complete pick-and-place tasks for assembling structures from construction blocks. 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