Eliete Caldeira
Papers
17
Total Citations
261
H-Index
8
About
Eliete Caldeira is a prominent robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of assistive technology, human-robot interaction, and neurodevelopmental disorders. With a career spanning over two decades, she has become particularly renowned for her pioneering applications of socially assistive robotics in therapeutic contexts for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Down syndrome. Caldeira's most impactful contributions include developing robot-assisted intervention frameworks for children with ASD, with her 2016 pilot study (54 citations) and 2019 work on multimodal emotion recognition using visual and thermal imaging (53 citations) establishing her as a leader in Child-Robot Interaction research. Her development of MARIA T21 — a mobile autonomous robot integrating serious games for therapy — represents a significant engineering achievement, garnering 42 citations since 2021. Beyond assistive applications, her earlier research laid important groundwork in mobile robot navigation, formation control, and aerial-ground robot coordination. What distinguishes Caldeira's research is its deeply interdisciplinary character, combining robotics engineering with EEG-based neurological assessment, computer vision, and clinical psychology. Her sustained focus on vulnerable pediatric populations reflects a commitment to socially meaningful technology, making her body of work essential reading for researchers exploring therapeutic robotics and human-centered AI applications.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4A New Controller for a Smart Walker Based on Human-Robot Formation30 citations · 2016
- 5
- 6
- 7USING OPTICAL FLOW TO CONTROL MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION11 citations · 2002
- 8Mobile robotics: A tool for interaction with children with autism9 citations · 2014
- 9
- 10