Rafael Arrais

About

Rafael Arrais is a robotics researcher whose work spans industrial automation, mobile manipulation, and robotic software engineering — areas where his contributions have meaningfully advanced the state of the art in smart manufacturing and dependable robotic systems. His research addresses real-world challenges in aerospace and logistics industries, most notably through his work on reconfigurable grasp planning pipelines for aerospace factory picking operations (31 citations) and collaborative robotic systems for industrial coating cells (24 citations). Arrais has made significant strides in integrating mobile manipulators within production environments, demonstrated through his application of the Open Scalable Production System to additive manufacturing operations (26 citations). On the software infrastructure side, his investigations into ROS usage patterns (22 citations) laid important groundwork for coding standards and static analysis in safety-critical robotic applications, while his work on containerized robotic deployments (14 citations) and cloud-based continuous integration (7 citations) addresses the persistent challenge of reproducibility and scalability in robotics software. His bridging of IEC 61131-3 automation standards with ROS further reflects a commitment to practical interoperability between legacy industrial systems and modern robotics frameworks. Collectively, his portfolio represents a coherent vision for intelligent, deployable, and industrially relevant robotic systems.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Reconfigurable Grasp Planning Pipeline with Grasp Synthesis and Selection Applied to Picking Operations in Aerospace Factories

   31 citations · 2020
2. 2
   Application of the Open Scalable Production System to Machine Tending of Additive Manufacturing Operations by a Mobile Manipulator

   26 citations · 2019
3. 3
   On the development of a collaborative robotic system for industrial coating cells

   24 citations · 2020
4. 4
   Mining the usage patterns of ROS primitives

   22 citations · 2017
5. 5
   A mobile robot based sensing approach for assessing spatial inconsistencies of a logistic system

   16 citations · 2017
6. 6
   Development and Deployment of Complex Robotic Applications using Containerized Infrastructures

   14 citations · 2021
7. 7
   Enhancement of Industrial Logistic Systems with Semantic 3D Representations for Mobile Manipulators

   9 citations · 2017
8. 8
   Bridging Automation and Robotics: an Interprocess Communication between IEC 61131–3 and ROS

   8 citations · 2018
9. 9
   Autonomous Scene Exploration for Robotics: A Conditional Random View-Sampling and Evaluation Using a Voxel-Sorting Mechanism for Efficient Ray Casting

   8 citations · 2020
10. 10
    Cloud Simulation for Continuous Integration and Deployment in Robotics

    7 citations · 2021

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