Martins, Nuno
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Institute for Systems Research
Maryland Robotics Center
The Institute for Systems Research
Maryland Robotics Center
2259 A.V. Williams Bldg.
Nuno C. Martins graduated with a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from I.S.T., Portugal, in 1997, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 2004. He has also concluded a Financial Technology Option program at Sloan School of Management (MIT) in 2004.
He is Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Maryland, where he also holds a joint appointment with the Institute for Systems Research. He was Director of the Maryland Robotics Center from 2012 until 2014.
He served as Associate Editor for Systems and Control Letters (Elsevier), Automatica and the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board. He was also a program Vice-Chair for the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in 2013 and 2014.
Honors and awards
Prof. Martins received the 2006 American Automatic Control Council O. Hugo Schuck Award, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2007, the 2008 IEEE CSS Axelby Award for the best paper in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the 2010 Outstanding ISR Faculty Award, the 2010 George Corcoran Award from the ECE Department / UMD and he was an UMD/ADVANCE Leadership Fellow in 2013.
His research interests are in control theory, distributed control, team decision, optimization, networked control and communications, estimation and information theory.
Martins, Arcak and Park organize 'population games' workshop at the 62nd IEEE CDC
The workshop covers population games basics, recent advances in dissipativity-based techniques for mechanism design and dynamic model analysis, and applications to epidemiology and autonomous systems research.Graduate students win ISR and ECE awards
Awards given for outstanding performance, teaching, and dissertation work.A new epidemiology model based on game theory
A population's collective decision making follows an evolutionary dynamics model that captures individual agents’ preferences and assumes the agents can repeatedly revise their strategies.Martins, Kara publish population games research on excess payoff evolutionary dynamics
The new paper will appear in IEEE Control Systems Letters.Alum Marcos Vasconcelos to join FSU faculty this fall
The former student of Nuno Martins will be an ECE assistant professor.Alum Shinkyu Park wins 2022 O. Hugo Schuck Award
The award recognizes the best papers presented at the American Control Conference.ASTrA project to provide new tools for power generation, robotics, smart manufacturing
Nuno Martins will address the challenges of modeling and designing large-scale, mixed-autonomy, multi-agent cyber-physical systems.A system theoretic approach to epidemic modeling
Nuno Martins, Richard La and Jair Certorio's model steers epidemic variables to an endemic equilibrium with the lowest prevalence of infections.New research will help citizens and authorities make better decisions in extreme traffic scenarios
Nuno Martins is developing systems and procedures for managing strategic options and actions related to traffic in natural disasters and other extreme events.ISR gives awards to Professor Richard La, four graduate students
ISR's annual awards ceremony was held on the Iribe Building's cantilever plaza.In memoriam: Dr. Radhakisan Baheti, NSF ECCS Program Director
Dr. Baheti passed away in March and will be greatly missed by ISR, ECE and the Clark School.‘Smellicopter’ drone uses live moth antenna to seek smells, avoid obstacles
Timothy Horiuchi is a co-author on the research published in IOP Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.Nuno Martins, alum Shinkyu Park and Jeff Shamma lead tutorial session at IEEE CDC 2019
The session focused on "Payoff Dynamics and Higher-Order Learning in Population Games"ISR, ECE, CS, UMIACS faculty present 12 talks at Northrop Grumman University Research Symposium
ISR faculty's eight presentations are in machine learning, science of test, cybersecurity, and IoT sensing.Alumnus Amir Ali Ahmadi receives PECASE Award
Ahmadi, who earned a 2006 BS in electrical engineering and math, is a professor at Princeton University.Lu, Gollob win ISR annual awards
ISR's outstanding graduate student and undergraduate student awards were given at the Institute's welcome back reception.Paley, Abshire, Martins promoted to full Professor by UMD President Wallace Loh
The faculty members' new rank will become effective on July 1.Alumnus Serban Sabau wins NSF CAREER Award for network research
Research will develop a mathematical description to allay the "butterfly effect" in large-scale networks.Shinkyu Park joins MIT Senseable City Lab as postdoc
Park (EE Ph.D. 2015) was advised by Nuno Martins.New AFOSR NIFTI Center features eight Clark School faculty
Center will create bio-inspired solutions for small, remotely operated aircraft.Narayan, Martins participate in BIRS decentralized systems workshop
The invited workshop addressed decentralized decision-making.New NSF grant funds research to build network of tiny robots for bridge inspection
Nuno Martins, Sarah Bergbreiter, Richard La to collaborate with Resensys on development of semi-autonomous system.Students present final projects for 2014 NSF Microrobotics REU
Research ranged from robotic skin to leg designs, inertial tail actuators, and more.Twelve-day test with deer shows viability of animal-borne wireless sensor network
Network that gathers GPS, audio and video data could someday help protect endangered species.ECE Students Take Top Prize at Michigan Hackathon for Intelligent Trashcan
Three ECE students win MHacks, a hackathon with more than 1200 students competing.UAE students, Northrop Grumman engineers tour robotics laboratories
Visitors were in town for the annual AUVSI conference.REU in Miniature Robotics holds final project symposium
Nine projects range from wings for MAVs to vision sensors for small robots to small grasping hands.Alum Serban Sabau joins Stevens Institute as assistant professor
The 2011 EE Ph.D. recipient was advised by Nuno Martins.Martins, Gupta, Aloimonos speak at 'Fostering Excellence in Robotics'
Workshop at American Control Conference introduced high school students to robotics.ECE Undergrad Wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Eric Kim secures funding for graduate school through prestigious award from the National Science Foundation.Robotics Team Mentored by UMD Students Advances to FIRST Championship Competition
Clark School of Engineering undergrads help middle and high school students prepare, compete.Martins speaking as part of MIT's LIDS seminar series
His topic is "Convex Parameterizations for Norm-Optimal Linear Control."Martins interviewed in story about robotics use in Maryland
ISR faculty member speaks on the emergence of the robotics industry in the state.Martins speaks at LCCC workshop on information and control in networks
Martins spoke on decentralized control and estimation.Faculty Members Take On New Responsibilities
Flatau, Martins, Kofinas to serve Clark School in new roles; Gupta to lead NSF initiative.Miniature Robotics REU students give final presentations
Ten undergrads from around the country give talks on their summer projects.Martins selected for Leadership Fellows program
University of Maryland initiative will prepare faculty for future leadership.Antbot research profiled in Pacific Standard magazine
Article explores potential of antbots in search and rescue operationsMaryland Robotics Center featured on live TV broadcast
Robots from five research groups help promote Maryland Day activities.Nuno Martins speaks at Queen's University colloquium
ISR/ECE faculty member spoke on controller design.ECE Names 2011-2012 Distinguished Dissertation Fellows
Ekrem, Ropp, Shroff, and Tyagi recognized for research excellence in their dissertations.NSF Grant to Help Monitor and Protect Endangered Species
Clark School, National Geographic, Princeton to build wireless network of animal-borne embedded devices to track wildlife.Serban Sabau will be postdoctoral researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Alumnus will work on next generation network science.Nuno Martins receives NSF grant for animal-borne wireless networks
The $1.8M grant is a collaboration with National Geographic to monitor and protect endangered species.Nuno Martins promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
Dr. Martins' research interests are in control theory, estimation and information theory.Martins wins IEEE Control Systems Society award
George Axelby Outstanding Paper Award given for paper in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.Robotics@Maryland Places 3rd in AUVSI Underwater Vehicle Competition
Clark School students help lead team to top-three finish in international, ONR-sponsored competition.Martins, Somasundaram, Frazier win awards at ISR's annual ceremony
Congratulations to our outstanding faculty, graduate student and staff member!Martins, Abshire, Smela, Bergbreiter win $1.5 million NSF grant
The team will develop self-organizing ant-sized microrobots.Baras, Martins part of $9 million funding for microelectronics and systems research
SRC/DARPA grant establishes the Multi-Scale Systems Design Center.Eyad Abed to Join United Arab Emirates University
ISR director, ECE professor will become dean of UAEU's College of Information Technology.Martins gives invited lecture at UCSD Cymer Center
The lecture focused on the design of optimal decentralized state estimators in the presence of communication costs.ISR faculty participating in two Department of Defense MURI projects
Baras, Abed, Martins and Shamma to conduct research in multi-university research initiatives.Live TV broadcast showcases Robotics@Maryland team
WTTG Fox 5 (Washington, D.C.) focused on the land and water robots of the ISR-affiliated group.Maryland Students Win Underwater Vehicle Contest
Clark School students part of first-place team in international contest.Nuno Martins appointed to Conference Editorial Board
The board serves the IEEE Control Systems Society.Robotics@Maryland team wins underwater vehicle contest
The students are advised by Nuno Martins and Dave Akin.ECE Faculty Honored at Inaugural Scholarship & Research Celebration
Twenty-seven ECE faculty members honored, representing 1/8 of researchers recognized university-wide.ISR hosts 4th Northeast Control Workshop
Event for graduate students and postdocs draws more than 100 participants.Nuno Martins to be guest editor for control journal
Special issue focuses on information processing and decision making in distributed control systems.Martins receives AFOSR grant for control of mobile multi-agent systems
Research will develop guidance, control, and wireless communication modules for networked systems.Martins Joins Editorial Board of Systems & Control Letters
Prof. Martins invited to join editorial board of leading journal in systems and control research.Martins to investigate optimal reference tracking
NSF grant funds the next step in designing controllers for Markovian jump linear systems.ISR postdoc Vijay Gupta to join Notre Dame faculty
Research will focus on networked systems and multi-agent systems.Nuno Martins receives NSF CAREER Award
ISR faculty member will introduce two new paradigms for distributed control of dynamic systems in wireless communication.Martins Wins AACC Award for Theory
Dr. Nuno Martins won the AACC O. Hugo Schuck Award for Theory.Nuno Martins joins ISR
Assistant professor is specialist in control, estimation and information theory- NSF CR CPS Medium: ASTrA: Automated Synthesis for Trustworthy Autonomous Utility Services
- NSF CR CPS Medium: Population Games for Cyber-Physical Systems: New Theory with Tools for Transportation Management under Extreme Demand
- AFOSR: Designing Resilient Networked Swarms: A New Evolutionary Dynamic Approach that Introduces Dynamics and Variability to Population Games
- AFOSR: Air Force Center of Excellence on Nature-Inspired Flight Technologies and Ideas (NIFTI)
- NSF: Optimal Distributed Estimation over Shared Networks
- NSF CPS Collaborative Research: Designing semi-autonomous networks of miniature robots for inspection of bridges and other large infrastructures
- NSF; NGS: Remote Imaging of Community Ecology via Animal-borne Wireless Networks
- Distributed Learning and Information Dynamics in Networked Autonomous Systems
- NSF CPS: Ant-Like Microrobots—Fast, Small, and Under Control
- NSF CAREER: Distributed control of dynamic systems using a wireless communcation medium: two new paradigms
- NSF Optimal Reference Tracking, the Next Step in the Design of Controllers for Markovian Jump Linear Systems
- Semi-Autonomous Networks of Miniature Robots for Inspection of Large Infrastructures
- Reaching a Target inside a Denied Area: What is the Optimal Control Strategy?
- Monitoring Multiple Systems over Channels with Usage-Dependent Performance
- Optimal estimation over shared networks
- W-Crittercam system: Animal-borne wireless camera networks
- Optimal remote estimation: Managing a human operator's workload
- CPS: Ant-Like Microrobots
- Distributed Decision Theory Group
- Optimal Distributed State Estimation with Communication Cost: A Majorization Theory Approach
- A Convex Parameterization of All Stabilizing Controllers for Non-strongly Stabilizable Plants, under Quadratically Invariant Sparsity Constraints
- Gene Network Detection using Directed Mutual Information