People

Faculty

Charalampos Bechlioulis
Associate Professor
Peter Groumpos
Emeritus Professor

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Athanasios Gkesoulis
Control of nonlinear systems with input and output constraints
Dimitris Kastaniotis
Machine Learning & Computer Vision

Staff

Michael Tsingelis
Teaching Staff

Collaborating Researchers

Panos Syriopoulos
PhD Student, University of Patras (Department of Mathematics)
Alexandros Ntagkas
Incoming PhD Student, Oxford Robotics Institute
Ioannis Tsikelis
PhD Student, INRIA Centre at Université de Lorraine

PhD Students

Christos Vlachos
Reinforcement Learning Control with Prescribed Performance
Konstantinos Asimakopoulos
Physics Informed Reinforcement Learning
Dimitrios Kotsinis
Prescribed Performance Optimal Control
Lampros Printzios
Accelerated Optimization Techniques for Robot Control
Dimitra Koumoutsou
Cognitive legged robot navigation in the wild

Master Students

Spyros Garmpis
Optimization-based Control

Collaborators

Dimitrios Kanoulas
Professor, University College London (UCL)
Jean-Baptiste Mouret
Senior Researcher, INRIA Centre at Université de Lorraine
Serena Ivaldi
Senior Researcher, INRIA Centre at Université de Lorraine
Enrico Mingo Hoffman
ISFP Researcher, INRIA Centre at Université de Lorraine
Chairi Kiourt
Principal Researcher, Athena RC (Xanthi)

Undergraduate Students

Dimitris Kotinas
[2024-today]: Time Scheduling through Policy Search: Optimizing Personal and Small Group Scheduling with Reinforcement Learning
Georgios Kalakonis
[2024-today]: Implementation and control of a biped Robot
Georgios Theophilogiannakos
[2024-today]: Time Scheduling via Optimization
Anastasia Barla
[2024-today]: Control of robotic surgical systems
Evangelos Tsiatsianas
[2024-today]: Kinodynamic Contact Planning for Legged Robotic Systems
Christos Chytas
[2024-today]: Football analysis using machine learning algorithms
Georgios Kalyviotis
[2023-today]: Modeling, simulation and control of a magnetic levitation platform
Apostolos Akrivoulis
[2023-today]: Distance-based and bearing-based formation control for multi-robot systems
Panagiotis Alevras
[2023-today]: Robot navigation in complex environments based on artificial harmonic potential fields
Andreas Vlastaras
[2023-today]: Robot exploration in complex environments based on artificial harmonic potential fields
Konstantinos Augoustianakis
[2023-today]: Visual servoing for a multicopter mini drone
Ioannis Sintoris
[2023-today]: Design, implementation and control of a quadrotor unmanned aerial robot
Vassilios Venizelos-Triantafyllou
[2023-today]: Design, implementation and control of a system of two coupled tanks
Vassilis Farmakis
[2023-today]: Localization of quadrotors employing infrared cameras
Theodoros Tsemperis
[2023-today]: Control of uncertain input and output constrained systems via Reinforcement Learning
Damianos Stavridis
[2023-today]: Design and Implementation of Controllers for an Inverted pendulum on a cart
Sofia Zgouleta
[2023-today]: Control of a 2 DOF ball balancer system
Kyriazis Delimaris
[2023-today]: Mine detection using a flying robotic vehicle
Christos Theodoropoulos
[2023-today]: Design, implementation and control of an irrigation canal
Georgios Papoutsas
[2023-today]: Design, implementation and motion control of a quadruped robot
Panagiotis Politis
[2023-today]: Distributed Estimation and Control of Connectivity for Multiagent systems
Dimitris Dilaris
[2023-today]: Data based learning for feedback linearization of unknown nonlinear systems
Dimitra Tsakiri
[2023-today]: Interaction Control with an Aerial Robot
Georgios Baknis
[2023-today]: Robot Learning via Diffusion Policies
Aristeidis Androutsopoulos
[2023-today]: Robotic Skill Discovery via Manifold Techniques
Vassilios Kalaitzopoulos
[2022-today] Biped robot walking via reinforcement learning
Sotirios Stavrakopoulos
[2022-today] Aerial robotic autonomy in cluttered environment navigation
George Zisimos
[2022-today] Imitation Learning of Dynamics via the Koopman operator
Andreas Peppas
[2021-today] Optimal control for nonlinear systems based on reinforcement learning

Alumni

Xanthi Papageorgiou
Control Systems (Post-doc)
Panagiotis Vlantis
Path Planning & Control Theory (Post-doc)
Panagiotis Trakas
Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems (PhD Student)
Constantinos Tsakonas
Robot Learning (Junior Researcher)

Past Undergraduate Students

Agisilaos Kounelis Imitation Learning
Alexandros Ntagkas [2024-2025]: Learning Robot Behaviors via Privileged Reinforcement Learning
Konstantinos Kostakopoulos [2024-2025]: Autonomous navigation in robotic vehicles
Sotirios Rekoumis [2023-2024]: Robot control employing electromyographic (EMG) signals
Charilaos Kanellopoulos [2023-2024]: Extremum Seeking Control for the Tight Formation of Fixed Wing UAVs
Sofia Tsatsouli [2023-2024]: Distributed Control of Multi-agent Systems under Switching Communication Topologies
Lampros Printzios [2023-2024]: Manipulation and collision avoidance with a 3D printed robotic manipulator
Theodoros-Antonios Franztis [2023-2024]: Learn-by-demonstration for a pick and place task with a 3D-printed robotic manipulator
Ioannis Tsotakis [2023-2024]: Distributed conjugate gradient optimization employing dynamic average consensus with prescribed performance
Stefanos Depountis [2023-2025]: Aerial Multi-robot Cooperation with Collision Avoidance
Nikolaos Kerastas [2023-2024]: Node ranking on Networks: Applications on Energy, Traffic and Social Networks
Nikolaos Karydakis [2023-2025]: Effective Robot Control via Combining Machine Learning and Control Methods
Dimitrios Prekas [2022-2023] Mobile manipulator for pick and place
Michael Chachalios [2022-2023] Multi-robot coordination in obstacle cluttered environments
Andreas Tantoulas [2022-2023] Formation control for multiple mini-drones
Alexandros Kalergis [2022-2023] Robot writing via reinforcement learning
Theodore Staikos [2022-2023] Robot playing the piano via reinforcement learning
Taxiarchis Blounas [2022-2023] Autonomous cooperative exploration via multiple aerial robotic vehicles
Vassilios Skordas [2022-2023] Adaptive learning of uncertain nonlinear dynamical systems
Lampros Stravomitis [2022-2023] Distributed optimization with constraints and application to the energy dispatch problem
Spiros Anogiatis [2022-2023] Motion coordination of multiple autonomous wheeled mobile robots
John Gkini [2022-2025] Learning Controllers for Robot Locomotion via Reinforcement Learning
Vassilios Miaoulis [2022-2024] Longitudinal control of fixed wing airplanes based on the prescribed performance control technique
Panagiotis Georgakis [2022-2024] Modeling and Dynamic Control of Irrigation Canals
Vassilios Tzias [2022-2024]: Learning Control Lyapunov Functions from demonstrations via the Koopman operator
Andreas Katsanikakis [2021-2022] Autonomous driving and obstacle avoidance for car like robotic vehicles
Konstantinos Bobolos [2021-2023] Robot exploration
Fotis Tolis [2021-2023] Prescribed performance control of nonlinear systems with input constraints