Eduardo Oliveira Freire

@ufs.br

Full professor, Electrical Engineering Department
Federa University of Sergipe

Eduardo Oliveira Freire
He has experience in the fields of Robotics and Automation, with a focus on Human–Robot Interaction, Mobile Robotics, Sensing Systems, Image Processing, and Computer Vision.

EDUCATION

Eduardo Oliveira Freire holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Paraíba (1995), a master’s degree (1997) and a doctorate (2002) in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Espírito Santo, as well as a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Automation of the National University of San Juan.

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Neuroscience
71

Scopus Publications

1068

Scholar Citations

16

Scholar h-index

25

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Trajectory tracking of a wmr using a neuro-adaptive mrac control with dynamic uncertainties
    J Uliarte, EO Freire, FU Vázquez, F Camargo, H Secchi, R Carelli, ...
    IEEE Access , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • A study on human behavior patterns in social navigation
    E Zavalla, H Secchi, E Freire, F Rossomando
    2025 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 702-707 , 2025
    2025
  • Changes in the Intermuscular Coherence of the Multifidus and Its Relationship with Fatigue and Low Back Pain: A Case Series
    GD Gerez, LA Cano, FE Escobar, E Freire, MS García, M Parajón Víscido
    Engineering Proceedings 81 (1), 23 , 2025
    2025
  • Motor Reaction Assessment in Multimodal Immersive and Laboratory Settings: A Time-Based Comparison in Athletes
    LA Cano, R Morollón-Ruiz, MS García, GD Gerez, EO Freire, E Fernández, ...
    Congreso Argentino de Bioingeniería, 1708-1716 , 2025
    2025
  • Execution of Musical Chords: Electrophysiological Characterization of Motor Planning
    CE Tagashira, FD Farfán, EO Freire, LP Acosta, GL Padilla, AL Albarracin
    Congreso Argentino de Bioingeniería, 1740-1747 , 2025
    2025
  • Effects of Visual Cortical Stimulation on Functional Muscle Network Efficiency in a Blind Subject: a Pilot Study
    AL Albarracín, LA Cano, EO Freire, F Escobar, E Fernandez, FD Farfán
    Congreso Argentino de Bioingeniería, 1292-1300 , 2025
    2025
  • MediaPipe Pose Estimation for Basic Human Movement Patterns Across Different Camera Views
    TSF Valença, TV Silva, LMDS Chaves, ME Da Silva-Grigoletto, ...
    2025 9th International Symposium on Instrumentation Systems, Circuits and … , 2025
    2025
  • Performance Assessment of Object Detection Models Trained with Synthetic Data: A Case Study on Electrical Equipment Detection (vol 24, 4219, 2024)
    DO Santos, J Montalvao, CAC Araujo, UDES Lebre, TV Ferreira, ...
    SENSORS 25 (15) , 2025
    2025
  • Correction: Santos et al. Performance Assessment of Object Detection Models Trained with Synthetic Data: A Case Study on Electrical Equipment Detection. Sensors 2024, 24, 4219
    DO Santos, J Montalvão, CAC Araujo, UDES Lebre, TV Ferreira, ...
    Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 25 (15), 4801 , 2025
    2025
  • Assessing the Relationship Between Gesture Intuitiveness and Muscle Network Efficiency: A Comparison of NMF and Inter-Muscular Coherence Analysis Methods
    EO Freire, LA Cano, GD Gerez, MP Víscido, AL Albarracín, FD Farfán
    Engineering Proceedings 81 (1), 22 , 2025
    2025
  • Monitoring ZnO surge arresters using convolutional neural networks and image processing techniques combined with signal alignment
    BVS Araujo, GA Rodrigues, JHP de Oliveira, GVR Xavier, ...
    Measurement 248, 116889 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 5
  • Frontier Voronoi-based Algorithm to Expand Coverage and Connectivity in the Internet of Robotic Things
    WA Farias, RCS Freire, EÁN Carvalho, JGN Carvalho Filho, L Molina, ...
    2025 Brazilian Conference on Robotics (CROS) 1, 1-6 , 2025
    2025
  • An extension of the MB-RRT method to solve the inverse kinematics problem for real robot manipulators
    DO Santos, RCS Freire, EAN Carvalho, MC Santos, L Molina, ...
    2025 Brazilian Conference on Robotics (CROS) 1, 1-6 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • A Quantitative Metric for Reproducibility in Human Robot Interaction Experiments
    BT Tavares, EO Freire, L Molina, JGN Carvalho, EAN Carvalho
    2025 Brazilian Conference on Robotics (CROS) 1, 1-6 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Automated monitoring of insulation by ultraviolet imaging employing deep learning
    GA Rodrigues, BVS Araujo, JHP de Oliveira, GVR Xavier, ...
    Measurement 242, 116018 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 5
  • Multimodal Immersive Environment for Evaluating Reaction Time and Decision-Making in Sport Situations: A Pilot Study on Time Analysis and Learning Effects
    L Cano, RM Ruiz, G Gerez, M García, E Freire, E Fernández-Jover, ...
    MDPI , 2024
    2024
  • Changes in the intermuscular coherence of the multifidus and its relationship with fatigue and low back pain: a pilot study.
    G Gerez, L Cano, F Escobar, EO Freire, M Garcia, MP Víscido
    MDPI , 2024
    2024
  • Assessing the Relationship between Gesture Intuitiveness and Muscle Network Efficiency: A Comparison of Non-Negative Matrix Factorization and Intermuscular Coherence Analysis …
    E Freire, L Cano, G Gerez, M Viscido, A Albarracín, F Farfan
    MDPI , 2024
    2024
  • Symmetry-based Eye Detection in Facial Images Using Hough Transform for Circles
    T Valença, T Silva, E Freire, E Carvalho
    MDPI , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Voronoi-based approach to increase connectivity and coverage in randomly deployed wireless sensor networks
    WA Farias, RCS Freire, EÁN Carvalho, JGN Carvalho Filho, L Molina, ...
    2024 8th International Symposium on Instrumentation Systems, Circuits and … , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 8

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Corridor navigation and wall-following stable control for sonar-based mobile robots
    R Carelli, EO Freire
    Robotics and Autonomous Systems 45 (3-4), 235-247 , 2003
    2003
    Citations: 195
  • A new mobile robot control approach via fusion of control signals
    E Freire, T Bastos-Filho, M Sarcinelli-Filho, R Carelli
    Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on 34 … , 2004
    2004
    Citations: 79
  • On the equalization of keystroke timing histograms
    JR Montalvão Filho, EO Freire
    Pattern Recognition Letters 27 (13), 1440-1446 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 73
  • Stable AGV corridor navigation with fused vision-based control signals
    R Carelli, C Soria, O Nasisi, E Freire
    IEEE 2002 28th Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society … , 2002
    2002
    Citations: 67
  • Contributions to empirical analysis of keystroke dynamics in passwords
    J Montalvão, EO Freire, MA Bezerra Jr, R Garcia
    Pattern Recognition Letters 52, 80-86 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 35
  • Equalization of keystroke timing histograms for improved identification performance
    J Montalvao, CAS Almeida, EO Freire
    2006 International telecommunications symposium, 560-565 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 33
  • Self-tuning of a neuro-adaptive PID controller for a SCARA robot based on neural network
    EO Freire, FG Rossomando, CM Soria
    IEEE Latin America Transactions 16 (5), 1364-1374 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 31
  • An algorithm inspired by the deterministic annealing approach to avoid local minima in artificial potential fields
    NSF Doria, EO Freire, JC Basilio
    2013 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 1-6 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 30
  • M-FABRIK: A new inverse kinematics approach to mobile manipulator robots based on FABRIK
    PC Santos, RCS Freire, EAN Carvalho, L Molina, EO Freire
    IEEE Access 8, 208836-208849 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 29
  • A robotic vision system using a modified Hough transform to perform weld line detection on storage tanks
    L Molina, EAN Carvalho, EO Freire, JR Montalvão-Filho, FA Chagas
    2008 IEEE Latin American Robotic Symposium, 45-50 , 2008
    2008
    Citations: 24
  • Multimodal biometric fusion—joint typist (keystroke) and speaker verification
    JR Montalvao Filho, EO Freire
    2006 International telecommunications symposium, 609-614 , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 24
  • The impact of parametric uncertainties on mobile robots velocities and pose estimation
    JGN De Carvalho Filho, EÁN Carvalho, L Molina, EO Freire
    IEEE Access 7, 69070-69086 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 22
  • Teleoperation of a mobile robot through the Internet
    RL Alves, RF Vassallo, EO Freire, TF Bastos-Filho
    Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (Cat … , 2000
    2000
    Citations: 22
  • Controle de robôs móveis por fusao de sinais de controle usando filtro de informaçao descentralizado
    EO Freire
    Ph. D. dissertation, PhD thesis , 2002
    2002
    Citations: 20
  • FABRIK-R: an extension developed based on FABRIK for robotics manipulators
    MC Santos, L Molina, EAN Carvalho, EO Freire, JGN Carvalho, ...
    IEEE Access 9, 53423-53435 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 19
  • Mobile robot navigation based on the fusion of control signals from different controllers
    EO Freire, R Carelli, V Mut, CM Soria, TF Bastos-Filho, M Sarcinelli-Filho
    2001 European Control Conference (ECC), 1828-1833 , 2001
    2001
    Citations: 16
  • Fillet weld identification for automatic inspection of spherical tanks
    E Carvalho, L Molina, E Freire, R Freire, B Luciano
    2007 IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference IMTC 2007, 1-6 , 2007
    2007
    Citations: 15
  • Modifications of fully resampled PSO in the inverse kinematics of robot manipulators
    DO Santos, L Molina, JGN Carvalho, EAN Carvalho, EO Freire
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 9 (2), 1923-1928 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 14
  • Prototyping a wheeled mobile robot embedding multiple sensors and agent-based control system
    EO Freire, RF Vassallo, TF Bastos-Filho, M Sarcinelli-Filho
    Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (Cat … , 2000
    2000
    Citations: 14
  • Analysis of cross-cultural effect on gesture-based human-robot interaction
    IV Brito, EO Freire, EAN Carvalho, L Molina
    International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research 8 (6 … , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 12