Aniana Cruz, Gabriel Pires, Ana Lopes, Carlos Carona and Urbano J. Nunes, "A Self-Paced BCI with a Collaborative Controller for Highly Reliable Wheelchair Driving: Experimental Tests With Physically Disabled Individuals," IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Vol. 51, No. 2, April 2021, pp. 109–119. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9336656
Best Poster - on
the Portuguese Conference Gestão & Tecnologi@ - Criação de
Valor em Saúde
G. Pires, A. Lopes, A. Manso, D. Jorge, D. Mendes, L. Almeida,
L. Oliveira, N. Gomes, P. Dias, R. Panda, T. Pereira, P. Monteiro,
C. Grácio, "VITASENIOR–MT: Architecture of a Telehealth Solution",
Conferência Gestão & Tecnologi@ - Criação de Valor em Saúde,
Santarém, junho 2018. (presented by Gabriel Pires)
Winning team of
11º Edição Nacional - Poliempreende - Concurso de Ideias e Planos
de Negócio - 2014, with the project
"Wheelchair-Head Motion Unit"
Team: Gabriel Pires as supervisor/mentor of the project (Professor
of Electrical and Computer Engineering); Catarina Pires and Diogo
Pirão (students of the Escola Superior de Gestão de Tomar); Cláudio
Caramelo e Fábio Pereira (students of the Escola Superior de
Tecnologia de Tomar). The project included also the collaboration of
the coordinator of the center of entrepreneurship and innovation of
IPT, Prof. Olinda Sequeira.
The Poliempreende is a contest of ideas and business plans that evaluates and rewards projects developed and presented by students, graduates and teachers of Portuguese Polytechnics. The 11º Edition inlcuded 20 participant teams.
Poliempreende is an initiative of "Programa estratégico para o empreendedorismo e a Inovação" e do "Conselho Coordenador dos Institutos Superiores Politécnicos"
2nd prize on the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2012 in the
Phd category
G.Pires, "The effective use of brain-computer interfaces in
real-world applications"
Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge is an Idea Contest Awarding Research of Practical Utility. Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge is an initiative from Fraunhofer AICOS, whose main objective is to reward the scientific investigation with “practical utility” done in Portuguese Universities in the areas of ICT, Multimedia and other related Sciences.
"Engineering prize" (best robot design) award in the
national portuguese Micro-robot (Microrato) contest 2000,
attributed by an international jury. And 5th
classified in the mobile robot navigation competition.
Participation of 29 teams.
I was the mentor/supervisor of the "BlueT" team, composed of
students (Paulo Ferreira, Fernando Sousa, Paulo Inácio, Ezequiel
Bráz) and teachers (me (Gabriel Pires) and Paulo Coelho) from IPT.