selected publications academic article Reinforcement Learning for Collaborative Robots Pick-and-Place Applications: A Case Study. Automation. 2022 chapter Teaching Practical Robotics During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study on Regular and Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations. 538-549. 2023 Deep Reinforcement Learning Applied to a Robotic Pick-and-Place Application. 251-265. 2021 conference paper Using Machine Learning Approaches to Localization in an Embedded System on RobotAtFactory 4.0 Competition: A Case Study 2023 Enhancing motivation and learning in engineering courses: a challenge-based approach to teaching embedded systems. 701-706. 2023 journal article A Machine Learning Approach to Robot Localization Using Fiducial Markers in RobotAtFactory 4.0 Competition. Sensors. 2023