Lucas de Sousa

Graduating Control and Automation Engineer, proficient in robotics (ROS) and Mechatronic projects and prototyping. Have published two articles based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles inspections.

Seeking international experience and willing to work on robotics area.

CEFET-RJ (November 2021 – until now) 
Final paper project and lead member of scientific research team
Guiding members, studying articles and dividing tasks using management tools. Learning and applying Computer vision inside a simulated environment using AI(Yolov4) to converge an image database into a variety of actions. Project created specifically using ROS among other tools to make an automated inspection of oil and gas piping failures. Article development to be published on Lisbon Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies

Radix Engineering and Software (June 2021 – until now) 
Automation and Control Engineering Intern
Carrying out tasks at level 2, 3 and 4 of Industrial Automation and Instrumentation daily. Handling of engineering software such as Pi System, Siemens’ Plant Engineering Software COMOS and Intouch HMI. Project and verification of electric and automation diagrams. Participation during meetings with international clients and developing projects directly to USA plants. Studying, participating in training and earning softwares certifications.

Schott Brasil LTDA. (June 2020 – June 2021) 
Industrial Automation and Control Engineering Intern
Design single-line, multi-line electrical diagrams, electrical and instrumentation boards with the help of software such as Autocad and Eplan. Carry out development projects and prototypes and improvements for the factory environment using Solidworks. Manipulation of automated spreadsheets in Excel, applications of python programming language and maintenance of electrical panels and instrumentation.

CEFET-RJ (April 2020 – June 2021) 
Scientific Research team member
Research and simulation of a UAV navigation plan for inspection of solar panels. Using softwares like Ardupilot and Airsim from Unreal to perform calculations, testing and simulating the space of the solar power plant. Make scientific articles based on advances and discoveries. Work published and presented on AIRPHARO 2021 international conference, in Croatia. Article published on IEEE Xplore : Virtual Reality Simulationn of Autonomous Solar Plants Inspections with Unmanned Aerial Systems = IEEE Conference Publication.

IEEE CEFET-RJ (July 2018 – December 2021) 
Robotic team Leader
Instruct and manage team members. Operate mechanical machinery, as well as manipulate electronic components, planning, projection and manufacture of printed circuit boards using Altium Designer. Projection, simulation and coding of mechanical projects with the aid of tools such as Solidworks CAM for CNCs and machining companies. Projection and review of technical documents. Financial management of the team.

Solidworks Instructor (January 2018 – May 2020)
Objectively teach basic and intermediate SolidWorks tools and concepts on university campus, certificated by college teachers. Allowing the student to have the ability to develop small projects, alone, through the software.

CEFET-RJ – Federal Center for Technological Education of Rio de Janeiro

Graduation in Industrial Automation and Control Engineering (in progress).