Associations and Professional Societies
- Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (2009-2011);
- Member of the Board of Governors (BOG) of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (2009-2011);
- Co-chair of IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Committee on Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems (RAS TC on AgvITS);
- Senior Member of IEEE (RAS, IES, ITS, CS);
- Member of the IFAC TC/MIL on Cost-Effective Automation (1999-2005);
- AdCom member of the IFAC-affiliated APCA Association (Automatic Control Portuguese Association) (2003-2005).
International Journals
- Associate Editor of the IEEE ITS Magazine of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Society
- Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Member of Editorial Board of the Int. Journal of Machine Intelligence & Robotic Control, Cyber Scientific (Japan);
International Journals Special Issues (Guest Editor)
- U. Nunes, Christian Laugier and Mohan Trivedi, SI of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems: Introducing Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles, Vol.10, Nº3, Sept. 2009;
- U. Nunes, H. Rakha, Y. Wang, and D.-H. Lee, SI on ITSC06, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 9, Nº. 1, March 2008;
- Urbano Nunes and M. Parent, SI on Robotics Technologies for Intelligent Road Vehicles, Autonomous Robots , Springer, vol.19, nº2, Sept., 2005;
- Urbano Nunes and J. Tenreiro Machado, SI on Selected Papers from ICAR 2003, Advanced Robotics, VSP and RSJ, vol.18(8), 2004;
- Urbano Nunes and M. Parent, SI on Robotics Technologies for Intelligent Vehicles, Machine Intelligence & Robotic Control, Cyber Scientific Japan, vol.5(3), 2003;
- Urbano Nunes and Luigi Villani, SI on Force Control of Advanced Robotic Systems, Machine Intelligence and Robotic Control, Cyber Scientific Japan, vol.2,n.2, June 2000.
Conferences (Editions)
- Co-Editor of the “Proceedings of the 11th Int. Conference on Advanced Robotics”, June/July 2003, Coimbra.
- Co-Editor of the Proceedings of Robotica 2005 Scientific Meeting of the 5th Robotics National Festival.
Organization (Conferences and Workshops)
- General Chair of ITSC2010 13th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, September 2010, Madeira Island, Portugal.
- Co-organizer of ITSC2010 Workshop on "Emergent Cooperative Technologies in Intelligent Transportation Systems", September 2010, Madeira Island, Portugal.
- Co-organizer of ICRA2010 Workshop on "Robotics and Intelligent Transportation System", 2010, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
- Co-Organizer of IROS09 Workshop on "Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles", October 2009, St. Louis, MO, USA.
- Co-Organizer (with P. Martinet and C. Laugier) of IEEE ICRA2009 Workshop on "Safe Navigation in Open Dynamic Environments: Aplications to Autonomous Vehicles", May 2009, Kobe, Japan.
- Co-organizer of IEEE IROS08 Workshop on "Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles", September 2008, Nice, France.
- Program Co-chair of ITSC2008, IEEE Int. Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, October 2008, Beijing, China.
- LOC member of CLAWAR2008, 11th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, September 2008, Coimbra, Portugal.
- Program chair of ICVES07, IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety, December 2007, Beijing, China.
- Co-organizer of IROS07 Workshop on "Safe Navigation in Open and Dynamic Environments: Applications to Autonomous Vehicles", October 2007, San Diego, CA.
- Co-organizer of ICRA07 Workshop on "Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles", April 2007, Rome.
- Program Chair of ITSC2006, IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, September 2006, Toronto, Canada.
- LOC member (with Paulo Peixoto) for the Scientific Meeting of Robótica2005, 5th Portuguese Robotics Festival, April 29 - May 1, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.
- General Co-Chair (with A. T. de Almeida) ICAR2003, IEEE 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2003, Coimbra, Portugal.
- LOC member and member of the IPC of AMC98, IEEE 5th International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control, 1998, Coimbra, Portugal.
- LOC member of ARS97, Advanced Research Workshop on Autonomous Robotic Systems, June 1997, Coimbra, Portugal.
- LOC member of RECPAD92, 4th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1992, Coimbra, Portugal.
International Program Committees
- 2008 - CONTROLO2008 - 8th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, UTAD , Vila Real, Portugal, July 21-23, 2008.
- 2008 - ICINCO 2008 - 5th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 11-15 May 2008.
- 2008 - IV08 - IEEE Intelligent Transport Systems Society, Eindhoven, Netherlands, June 4-6, 2008.
- 2008 - IEEE IROS08 -IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems, Nice, France, 22-26 September, 2008.
- 2008 - MFI2008 -IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, Seoul, Korea, August 20-22, 2008.
- 2008 - ICCP 2008 -IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, August 28-30, 2008.
- 2008 - Robotica2008 -8th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Aveiro, Portugal, April 2-6, 2008.
- 2007 - IEEE ITSC 2007 -10th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Seattle, Washington, USA, Sept. 30 - Oct. 3, 2007.
- 2007 - ICINCO 2007 -4th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Angers, França, 09-12 May, 2007.
- 2007 - MARS 2007 -3rd International Workshop on Multi-Agent Robotic Systems (MARS 2006), Angers, França, 10 May, 2007.
- 2007 - EUROCAST 2007 -11th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, Spain, Feb. 2007.
- 2006 - IV06 - IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, June 13-15.
- 2006 - ICINCO06 - 3rd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics.
- 2006 - MME06 - International Symposium on Mathematical Methods in Engineering, Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, April 27-29.
- 2006 - IEEE IROS06 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
- 2006 - CONTROLO06 - 7th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control.
- 2005 - IEEE IROS05 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
- 2005 - IEEE ITSC05 - Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Vienna, Austria, September.
- 2005 - MARS05 - 1st International Workshop on Multi-Agent Robotics, Barcelona, Spain, September.
- 2005 - IFAC ICINCO2005 - 2nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Barcelona, Spain, September.
- 2004 - IEEE IROS04 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, September.
- 2004 - CONTROLO04 - 6th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, June.
- 2004 - IEEE IV04 - IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, University of Parma, Parma, Italy, June.
- 2004 - IFAC IAV04 - 5th IFAC/EURON Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, ISR, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon Portugal, July.
- 2004 - IFAC COA04 - 7th IFAC Symposium on Cost Oriented Automation, Ottawa, Canada, June.
- 2004 - ROBOCUP04 - International Symposium, (Scientific Meeting), Lisbon, Portugal, July.
- 2003 - IFAC SICICA03 - 5th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Components and Instruments for Control Applications, Aveiro, Portugal, July.
- 2003 - ICAR03 - 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Coimbra, Portugal, July.
- 2002 - CONTROLO02 - 5th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, September.
- 2002 - ECAI00 - Workshop W20, on Service Robotics - Applications and Safety Issues in an Emerging Market, at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, Germany.
