Research Experience

Aug 12 – present:

Coordinated Science Laboratory, College of Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Currently working on multi-objective control for multi-agent systems

June 2013:

GRASP Laboratory
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Visiting Scholar – Invited by Prof. Vijay Kumar
Currently working on distributed task assignment problems for multi-robot networks

Oct 11 – Jun 12:

Control Systems Lab, School of Mech. Eng.
National Tech. Univ. of Athens

Research Associate – Worked in Research Project PANDORAPersistent Autonomy through learNing, aDaptation, Observation and ReplAnning”, funded by the European Commission (FP7: Cognitive Systems and Robotics)

Fall 2010:

GRASP Laboratory
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Visiting Scholar – Invited by Prof. Vijay Kumar
Worked on coordinated control for nonholonomic robots with visibility/communication constraints in obstacle environments

Spring 2009:

University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
Mechanical Engineering Dept.

Visiting Scholar – Invited by Prof. Herbert Tanner
Worked under the MAST CTA (Micro Autonomous System Technologies, funded by US ARL)

Jan 09:

Automatic Control Laboratory
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Visiting Researcher – Invited by Prof. John Lygeros
Worked on viability-based optimal control for underactuated underwater vehicles in the presence of enviromental disturbances

Feb 08:

MIT Sea Grant’s AUV Lab
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, MA, USA

Visiting Researcher – Worked on the development of a 3D Navigation System for underwater vehicles

Oct 07 – Mar 08:

Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR)
Institute of Oceanography

Research Engineer – Worked on the development of a GUI, providing 3D terrain visualization and real time display of navigation data (subsystem of a 3D Navigation System for underwater vehicles)

Sep 06 – Mar 08:

Control Systems Lab, School of Mech. Eng.
National Tech. Univ. of Athens

Research Associate – Worked on the development of Terrain Aided Navigation algorithms for underwater vehicles (under the Research Project “Underwater Telecommunication, Automatic Navigation and Acoustic Visualization Technologies for Undersea Vehicle Systems”, funded by the Greek Ministry of Development)

Jul 06 – Apr 08:

Control Systems Lab, School of Mech. Eng.
National Tech. Univ. of Athens

Research Associate – Worked on the development and implementation of a semi-autonomous inspection system, employing an underactuated low-weight ROV (under the Research Project “EPIPLEON: Underwater Inspection using Remotely Operated Vehicles”, funded by the Greek Ministry of Development)

Field Deployment

Oct 08:

Ionian Sea, R/V Philia
Installation and testing of a GUI-enhanced Navigation System, employing Bathymetry data and GPS, DVL and USBL measurements, on HCMR MaxRover ROV

Mar 08:

Heraklion Port, Crete, Greece
Preliminary field experiments on the development and testing of a 3D GUI-enhanced Navigation System, using GPS and DVL measurements