Alexandra Moutinho

Instituto Superior Técnico, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento, University of Lisbon

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Total Citations

216

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Dr. Alexandra Moutinho is a leading researcher in autonomous aerial robotics, with a primary focus on the control, navigation, and sensing systems for unmanned airships. Her foundational work, including the highly cited "Airship Hover Stabilization Using a Backstepping Control Approach" (73 citations), introduced novel nonlinear control strategies—such as backstepping and dynamic inversion—that enable stable hovering and full-envelope flight for robotic airships. As a key contributor to Project AURORA (58 citations), she helped pioneer infrastructure and flight control experiments that demonstrated autonomous flight for environmental monitoring missions. More recently, Dr. Moutinho has advanced the application of thermal infrared sensing for real-time fire detection and monitoring (63 citations), integrating mobile robotics with extreme-environment sensing. Her research bridges theoretical control design and practical robotic systems, with over 140 total citations across her most-cited works. Dr. Moutinho’s contributions are instrumental in shaping the capabilities of autonomous aerial platforms for inspection, surveillance, and disaster response.