RAICYCLE

Advanced technologies for intelligent waste processing and recycling: detection and estimation of volatile organic compounds in municipal solid waste.

Role:
Research Fellow · UPB (Universidade Politécnica de Bragança)
Period:
Apr 2025 – Jan 2026
Advisors:
Rui Pedro Lopes
Funding:
FCT – Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), ref. 2024.07316.IACDC/2024
Machine Learning Gas Sensors Volatile Organic Compounds Waste Management

About the research

RAICYCLE (Tecnologias Avançadas para o Processamento e Reciclagem Inteligentes de Resíduos) develops advanced technologies for intelligent waste processing and recycling. The work was carried out at the Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics (CeDRI).

My goal was a system for detecting and estimating volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in municipal solid waste. The main tasks were:

  1. Collecting and designing VOC detection datasets for training machine learning models
  2. Implementing classification and estimation models
  3. Testing and validating the models

Related publications

  • 2026

    Anomaly Detection in Gas Sensor Data Using LSTM Autoencoder and Latent Space Analysis

    Ahmadi, Mahdia, Izidorio, Felipe Merenda, Igrejas, Getúlio, Rodrigues, Pedro João, Lopes, Rui Pedro

    2026 IEEE 24th World Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics (SAMI)

    DOI
  • 2025

    VOC pattern recognition in waste using AI-Enabled BME688 sensors

    Izidorio, Felipe, Jvarsheishvili, Mariam, Igrejas, Getúlio, Rodrigues, Pedro João, Lopes, Rui Pedro

  • 2025

    Synthetic data generation for volatile organic compounds recognition

    Ahmadi, Mahdia, Ibrahim, Ahmad Gamal, Jvarsheishvili, Mariam, Igrejas, Getúlio, Izidorio, Felipe, Lopes, Rui Pedro, Soares, Caio, Rodrigues, Pedro João

  • 2025

    Multi-sensor pattern recognition and real-time data processing for autonomous smart waste management

    Jvarsheishvili, Mariam, Ibrahim, Ahmad, Ahmadi, Mahdia, Igrejas, Getúlio, Soares, Caio, Izidorio, Felipe, Lopes, Rui Pedro, Rodrigues, Pedro João