I’m currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology (FCT) and researcher at CTS/UNINOVA , Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (UNL) , and also a researcher with the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) , Dynamic Systems and Ocean Robotics group (DSORg) , in Lisbon, Portugal. My research interests include sensor-based SLAM , sensor-based control of helicopters relative to infrastructures, nonlinear MPC for helicopters, laser automatic calibration, and helicopter dynamic models and simul