Projects

14 projects developed in partnership with companies, government agencies, and national and international universities.

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ErgoTech — Ergonomic Work Assessment

SESI — Industry Social Service

Smartphone-based ergonomic evaluation system for worker activities. Field evaluators capture video of work tasks; the system segments activities, classifies posture risk across body segments (arms, back, legs, load, displacement) and generates color-coded ergonomic risk reports.

  • Smartphone-native video capture for field ergonomists
  • Automated posture classification across 5 body segments
  • Color-coded risk charts (green / yellow / orange / red)
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AGITO — Interactive Graphical Environment for Operator Training

CHESF / ANEEL P&D

VR and game-engine-based simulation platform for electrical system operators. Features immersive, semi-immersive, and desktop modes with gamified scoring, fault-scenario scripting, and 3D substations reconstructed from real CHESF installations.

  • 3D photorealistic substation environments
  • Immersive (HMD), semi-immersive, and desktop modes
  • Gamified scoring and operator ranking system
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Concluded

AutoLeitura & AutoClara — Equatorial Energia

Equatorial Energia / ANEEL P&D

Self-reading system enabling residential consumers to submit meter readings via WhatsApp chatbot (AutoClara virtual assistant). Incorporates periodic self-audit with image acquisition to reduce fraud, decrease operational costs, and improve customer satisfaction.

  • WhatsApp-native consumer interaction via virtual assistant Clara
  • Fraud resistance through self-audit image capture
  • Reduced meter-reader operational costs
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Concluded

E-PCA & META — Maranhão State Court of Accounts

TCE-Maranhão (Maranhão State Court of Accounts)

Two integrated systems for the Maranhão State Court of Accounts: E-PCA (Electronic Public Accounts Submission) enabling jurisdictioned entities to file annual accounts digitally, and META (Auditor Workbench) providing data science-based audit analytics with interactive dashboards.

  • Digital replacement for paper-based public accounts submission
  • Data science audit workbench with scatter-plot anomaly detection
  • Salary accumulation analysis across payroll datasets
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Concluded

Panoramic Visualization for Industrial Teleoperation

CHESF

Panoramic image-based visualization system that overlays real-time SCADA equipment data onto 360° photographs of industrial environments, enabling remote inspection and teleoperation of electrical substations without physical presence.

  • Real-time SCADA data overlaid on panoramic photography
  • Remote substation inspection without physical access
  • Equipment info panels accessible by clicking any device
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PCTM & Portfolio ALUMAR/ALCOA

Alumar (Alcoa / Rio Tinto)

Comprehensive portfolio of 23 computational systems developed for Alumar, including PCTM (maritime terminal ship queue planning and demurrage minimization), LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System, winner of the Alcoa Innovation Award), augmented-reality heat exchanger management (HTM), power systems maneuver simulation, and nine 2D e-learning modules covering centrifugal pumps, calcination, chemical burns, fall prevention, sampling, and energy connection.

  • 23 systems developed for a single industrial partner
  • Alcoa Innovation Award — LIMS system
  • Augmented reality application for industrial field inspection (HTM)
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Concluded

SAUL — Meter Reading Team Management

CEMAR-CELPA / ANEEL P&D

Geospatial logistics management system for residential electricity meter-reading teams. Uses computational intelligence and GIS to cluster service units into optimized reading routes, minimizing travel time and operational cost.

  • GIS-based spatial clustering of thousands of service units
  • Optimized reading route generation
  • Integration with SILEM mobile reading system
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Concluded

SIJURI — Intelligent Litigation Prevention System

Equatorial Energia / ANEEL P&D

Intelligent system for continuous detection of dissatisfied customers, identification of dissatisfaction drivers, and suggestion of pre-litigation agreements. Integrates the virtual assistant Clara for proactive consumer outreach via WhatsApp.

  • Continuous consumer monitoring loop
  • Virtual assistant Clara for automated outreach
  • Agreement suggestion engine to prevent lawsuits
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Concluded

SILEM — Image-Based Energy Metering

CEMAR-CELPA / ANEEL P&D

Mobile image acquisition and computational intelligence pipeline for reading and validating residential electricity meter digits. Uses FAST/GFTT feature detection for meter identification, CNN digit segmentation, and an automated audit trail.

  • End-to-end OCR pipeline for analog and digital meters
  • FAST + GFTT + CNN multi-stage recognition
  • Integrated audit workflow reducing fraud
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Concluded

SiPAJu — Judicial Propensity Prediction

Equatorial Energia / ANEEL P&D

Computational intelligence system that identifies consumer profiles predisposed to filing legal actions against the energy distributor, using historical records from CP-PRO, SAP-CCS, SAP-CRM, and judicial databases to prioritize preventive action.

  • Consumer risk profiling from multi-source CRM/ERP data
  • Two-stage pipeline: topic profiling + active risk scoring
  • Reduces legal costs and improves conflict resolution efficiency
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SmartView — CHESF GIS/SCADA Platform

CHESF / ANEEL P&D

Integrated GIS-based platform for CHESF's electrical system covering SCADA/EMS supervision, alarm management, power quality, oscillography, environmental licensing (reservoir borders, PAS), and lightning/wildfire event correlation. Developed in partnership with UFCG.

  • SCADA/EMS integration with map-based interface
  • Satellite-imagery reservoir border supervision
  • Lightning and wildfire correlation with grid incidents
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Concluded

Socioeconomic Indicator Dashboards — Maranhão

SEPLAN-MA / São Luís City Hall / IMESC

Suite of GIS-based socioeconomic indicator monitoring platforms for state and municipal governments, including the SEPLAN PPA dashboard, the São Luís municipal indicators system (DIEE), and the Maranhão municipal indicators platform for IMESC.

  • Spatial visualization of 200+ socioeconomic indicators
  • Multi-year PPA monitoring for the Maranhão state government
  • Integration with IBGE Census and administrative records
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Solos Maranhenses — Motion Capture and Augmented Performances

LabTecDrama — Laboratory of Dramatic Technologies

Motion capture and augmented reality project that digitizes Maranhão folk dance movements and integrates them into augmented scenic performances. Features a marker-free, programming-free authoring tool for mapping virtual props to performer bodies.

  • Motion capture of Maranhão cultural heritage dances
  • AR authoring tool requiring no programming or physical markers
  • Presented at JIT 2022 — Journées d'Informatique Théâtrale, Lyon
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Truck Dispatch Optimization — Port of Itaqui

Porto do Itaqui (EMAP)

Mathematical modeling and discrete-event simulation project to optimize truck dispatch and flow in bulk unloading operations at the Port of Itaqui, São Luís-MA. Delivered measurable operational, economic, and environmental benefits.

  • 30% reduction in vehicle waiting times
  • 15% decrease in operational costs
  • 20% reduction in CO₂ emissions
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