Emmanouil Tsardoulias

Asst. Prof. of Networks and Unified Digital Communications with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

About Me

Dr. Eng. Tsardoulias Emmanouil is an Assistant Professor of Networks and Unified Digital Communications with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests are focused on Systems Engineering, Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things, Networking, and No/Low-code tools and platforms. He has worked as a research associate/engineer in GRNET, the Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI) of CERTH and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), in several EU- and National-funded projects. He currently is the technical manager of the Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering group (ISSEL), as well as the scientific responsible for the Vroom research team. His work has been published in over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and conference publications.

Education and training

Thessaloniki, Greece

2003-2007

Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thesis title: Emerging robot behaviors using genetic procedures
Grade: 9.17

Thessaloniki, Greece

2007-2013

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thesis title: Artificial collective intelligence among a team of rescue robots
Grade: Excellent
Full text: https://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/39929

Academic experience

Undergraduate courses

  • 2007-2012: Microprocessor systems AUTH University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Thessaloniki.
  • 2007-2012: Microprocessors & peripherals AUTH University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Thessaloniki.
  • 2016-2020: Intelligent robot systems AUTH University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Thessaloniki.
  • 2018-2020: Structured programming AUTH University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Thessaloniki.
  • 2023-2024: Retrieval and analysis of Big Data AUTH University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications,Thessaloniki.
  • 2025-Present: Computer Networks I AUTH University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Thessaloniki.

Postgraduate courses

  • 2015-2025: Intelligent and autonomous systems AUTH University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thessaloniki, part of the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Programme “Advanced Computer and Communication Systems”
  • 2019-Present: Rapid software development techniques AUTH University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thessaloniki, part of the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Programme “Advanced Computer and Communication Systems”
  • 2023-2025: Estimation theory AUTH University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thessaloniki, part of the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Programme “Advanced Computer and Communication Systems”
  • 2025-Present: Intelligent Robotic Systems AUTH University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thessaloniki, part of the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Programme “Aerial Autonomous Systems”

Publications

Metrics (updated June 2026)

Authored - Edited books

  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Dimoulas C., & Symeonidis A. (Eds.), Special Issue on “Multimodal Sensing Technologies for IoT and AI-Enabled Systems”, Sensors (MDPI), https://rb.gy/yrsdt, 2024 (in progress, upcoming).
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, & Symeonidis A. (Eds.), Special Issue on “Emerging Approaches to Intelligent and Autonomous Systems”, Machines (MDPI), https://bit.ly/3IuMyQc, 2024 (in progress, upcoming).

Book chapters

  • Petrou L., Symeonidis A., Dimoulas C., Emmanouil Tsardoulias, “RoboCupRescue 2015 - Robot League Team PANDORA (Greece)”, technical description paper (tdp), RoboCup 2015
  • Dimitriou, Antonis G., Stavroula Siachalou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Loukas Petrou. “Robotics Meets RFID for Simultaneous Localization (of Robots and Objects) and Mapping (SLAM)–A Joined Problem.” Wireless Power Transmission for Sustainable Electronics: 175-222, 2023.

Journal papers

  • Mingas, Grigorios, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Loukas Petrou. “An FPGA implementation of the SMG-SLAM algorithm.” Microprocessors and Microsystems 36, no. 3 (2012): 190-204.
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Loukas Petrou. “Critical rays scan match SLAM.” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 72, no. 3 (2013): 441-462.
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Anna T. Serafi, Maria N. Panourgia, Anestis Papazoglou, and Loukas Petrou. “Construction of minimized topological graphs on occupancy grid maps based on GVD and sensor coverage information.” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 75, no. 3 (2014): 457-474.
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, A. Iliakopoulou, Andreas Kargakos, and Loukas Petrou. “A review of global path planning methods for occupancy grid maps regardless of obstacle density.” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 84, no. 1 (2016): 829-858.
  • Reppou, Sofia E., Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Athanassios M. Kintsakis, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Pericles A. Mitkas, Fotis E. Psomopoulos, George T. Karagiannis et al. “Rapp: a robotic-oriented ecosystem for delivering smart user empowering applications for older people.” International Journal of Social Robotics 8, no. 4 (2016): 539-552.
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Aristeidis G. Thallas, Andreas L. Symeonidis, and Pericles A. Mitkas. “Improving Multilingual Interaction for Consumer Robots through Signal Enhancement in Multichannel Speech.” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 64, no. 7/8 (2016): 514-524.
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, A. Iliakopoulou, Andreas Kargakos, and Loukas Petrou. “Cost-based target selection techniques towards full space exploration and coverage for USAR applications in a priori unknown environments.” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 87, no. 2 (2017): 313-340.
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Athanassios M. Kintsakis, Konstantinos Panayiotou, Aristeidis G. Thallas, Sofia E. Reppou, George G. Karagiannis, Miren Iturburu et al. “Towards an integrated robotics architecture for social inclusion–The RAPP paradigm.” Cognitive Systems Research 43 (2017): 157-173.
  • Zieliński, Cezary, Maciej Stefańczyk, Tomasz Kornuta, Maksym Figat, Wojciech Dudek, Wojciech Szynkiewicz, Włodzimierz Kasprzak… Emmanouil Tsardoulias…, et al. “Variable structure robot control systems: The RAPP approach.” Robotics and Autonomous Systems 94 (2017): 226-244.
  • Thallas, Aristeidis G.,Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Loukas Petrou. “Topological based scan Matching–Odometry posterior sampling in RBPF under kinematic model failures.” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 91, no. 3 (2018): 543-568.
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Marios Protopapas, Andreas L. Symeonidis, and Loukas Petrou. “A Comparative Analysis of Pattern Matching Techniques Towards OGM Evaluation.” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 98, no. 3 (2020): 733-758.
  • Tzitzis, Anastasios, Spyros Megalou, Stavroula Siachalou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Athanasios Kehagias, Traianos V. Yioultsis, and Antonis G. Dimitriou. “Localization of RFID tags by a moving robot, via phase unwrapping and non-linear optimization.” IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification 3, no. 4 (2019): 216-226.
  • Filotheou, Alexandros, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Antonis Dimitriou, Andreas Symeonidis, and Loukas Petrou. “Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of ROS-enabled local and global planners in 2D static environments.” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 98, no. 3 (2020): 567-601.
  • Poptsi, Eleni, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Despina Moraitou, Andreas L. Symeonidis, and Magda Tsolaki. “REMEDES for Alzheimer-R4Alz battery: Design and development of a new tool of cognitive control assessment for the diagnosis of minor and major neurocognitive disorders.” Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 72, no. 3 (2019): 783-801.
  • Geromichalos, Dimitrios, Martin Azkarate, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Levin Gerdes, Loukas Petrou, and Carlos Perez Del Pulgar. “SLAM for autonomous planetary rovers with global localization.” Journal of Field Robotics 37, no. 5 (2020): 830-847.
  • Tzitzis, Anastasios, Spyros Megalou, Stavroula Siachalou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Alexandros Filotheou, Traianos V. Yioultsis, and Antonis G. Dimitriou. “Trajectory planning of a moving robot empowers 3D localization of RFID tags with a single antenna.” IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification 4, no. 4 (2020): 283-299.
  • Poptsi, Eleni, Despina Moraitou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas L. Symeonidisd, and Magda Tsolaki. “Is the discrimination of subjective cognitive decline from cognitively healthy adulthood and mild cognitive impairment possible? A pilot study utilizing the R4Alz battery.” Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 77, no. 2 (2020): 715-732.
  • Filotheou, Alexandros, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Antonis Dimitriou, Andreas Symeonidis, and Loukas Petrou. “Pose selection and feedback methods in tandem combinations of particle filters with scan-matching for 2D mobile robot localisation.” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 100, no. 3 (2020): 925-944.
  • Filotheou, Alexandros, Anastasios Tzitzis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Antonis Dimitriou, Andreas Symeonidis, George Sergiadis, and Loukas Petrou. “Passive Global Localisation of Mobile Robot via 2D Fourier-Mellin Invariant Matching.” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 104, no. 2 (2022): 1-31.
  • Panayiotou, Konstantinos, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Christoforos Zolotas, Andreas L. Symeonidis, and Loukas Petrou. “A Framework for Rapid Robotic Application Development for Citizen Developers.” Software 1, no. 1 (2022): 53-79.
  • Antoniadis, Panagiotis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Andreas Symeonidis. “A mechanism for personalized Automatic Speech Recognition for less frequently spoken languages: the Greek case.” Multimedia Tools and Applications (2022): 1-18.
  • Panayiotou, Konstantinos, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Andreas L. Symeonidis. “Commlib: An easy-to-use communication library for Cyber–Physical Systems.” SoftwareX 19 (2022): 101180.
  • Poptsi, Eleni, Despina Moraitou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Vasileios Papaliagkas, and Magdalini Tsolaki. 2023. “R4Alz-Revised: A Tool Able to Strongly Discriminate ‘Subjective Cognitive Decline’ from Healthy Cognition and ‘Minor Neurocognitive Disorder’” Diagnostics 13, no. 3: 338.
  • Brouzos, R., Panayiotou, K., Emmanouil Tsardoulias et al. “A Low-Code Approach for Connected Robots”. J Intell Robot Syst 108, 28 (2023).
  • Panayiotou, Konstantinos, Constantine Doumanidis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Andreas L. Symeonidis. “SmAuto: A domain-specific-language for application development in smart environments.” Pervasive and Mobile Computing (2024): 101931.
  • Tsiakas, Kosmas, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Andreas L. Symeonidis. 2024. “Autonomous Full 3D Coverage Using an Aerial Vehicle, Performing Localization, Path Planning, and Navigation Towards Indoors Inventorying for the Logistics Domain” Robotics 13, no. 6: 83.
  • Poptsi, Eleni, Despina Moraitou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas L. Symeonidis, and Magda Tsolaki. 2024. “Subjective Cognitive Impairment Can Be Detected from the Decline of Complex Cognition: Findings from the Examination of Remedes 4 Alzheimer’s (R4Alz) Structural Validity” Brain Sciences 14, no. 6: 548.
  • Malamas, Nikolaos, Konstantinos Panayiotou, Apostolia Karabatea, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Andreas L. Symeonidis. 2024. “A Multilayer Architecture towards the Development and Distribution of Multimodal Interface Applications on the Edge” Sensors 24, no. 16: 5199
  • Georgoudas, Michael, Despina Moraitou, Eleni Poptsi, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Despina Kesanli, Vasileios Papaliagkas, and Magda Tsolaki. 2024. “The Mixed Role of Sleep and Time of Day in Working Memory Performance of Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment” Healthcare 12, no. 16: 1622.
  • Eleni Poptsi, Despina Moraitou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas L. Symeonidis, and Magda Tsolaki. 2024. “R4Alz-R: a cutting-edge tool for spotting the very first and subtle signs of aging-related cognitive impairment with high accuracy” GeroScience.
  • Anagnostara, I. M., Emmanouil Tsardoulias, & Symeonidis, A. L. “Deep Reinforcement Learning and Imitation Learning for Autonomous Parking Simulation” Electronics, 14(10), 2025.
  • Papafotiou, Theodoros, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Alexandros Nikolaou, Aikaterini Papagiannitsi, Despoina Christodoulou, Ioannis Gkountras, and Andreas L. Symeonidis. “How to Win Bosch Future Mobility Challenge: Design and Implementation of the VROOM Autonomous Scaled Vehicle” Machines 13 (2025), no. 6: 514.
  • Panayiotou Konstantinos, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Andreas L. Symeonidis. “LocSys: A Low-Code Paradigm for the Development of Cyber-Physical Applications” Sensors 25 (2025), no. 13: 3951.
  • Eudokia Emmanouilidou, Despina Moraitou, Nikoleta Frantzi, Eleni Poptsi, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Georgia Papantoniou, Maria Sofologi, Elvira Masoura, Glykeria Tsentidou, Ioanna-Giannoula Katsouri, and Magda Tsolaki. “Early Detection of Cognitive Decline: Executive Functioning Index R4Alz-pc Predicts Memory-Related Concerns in Community Adults” Diagnostics 15, (2025), no. 17: 2158.
  • Frantzi, Nikoleta, Despina Moraitou, Eudokia Emmanouilidou, Eleni Poptsi, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Georgia Papantoniou, Maria Sofologi, Elvira Masoura, Glykeria Tsentidou, and et al. “Objective Assessment of Cognition for Detecting Subjective Cognitive Decline Is More Accurate than Subjective Estimations: The Role of Trait Affect” Journal of Intelligence 13, (2025), no. 9: 118.
  • Malamas, Nikolaos, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Konstantinos Panayiotou, and Andreas L. Symeonidis. “Toward Efficient Vibe Coding: An LLM-based Agent for Low-code Software Development.” Journal of Computer Languages (2025): 101367.
  • Electra Chatzidimitriou, Georgios Ntritsos, Roza Lagoudaki, Eleni Poptsi, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Magda Tsolaki, Eleni Konstantinopoulou, Kyriaki Papadopoulou, Panos Charalambous, Katherine P. Rankin, Eleni Aretouli, Chrissa Sioka, Ioannis Iakovou, Theodora Afrantou, Panagiotis Ioannidis, and Despina Moraitou. “Functional Impairment in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia: Cognitive, Behavioral, Personality, and Brain Perfusion Contributions.” Journal of Personalized Medicine (2025): 15(10):466.
  • Konstantinos Panayiotou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Theodoros Tsampouris, Andreas L. Symeonidis. “Defining a Domain-specific Language for Behavior verification of Cyber-Physical Applications.” Sensors (2025): 25(21).
  • Papafotiou, Theodoros, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Andreas Symeonidis. 2026. “A Distributed and Reconfigurable Architecture for Unified Multimodal Indoor Localization of a Mobile Edge Node in a Cyber-Physical Context” Robotics 15, no. 5: 91

Conferences with proceedings

  • Antaris Stefanos, Doulgeri Zoe, Nikolaidis Georgios, Papadopoulos Charalampos, Papanikas Georgios, Papazoglou Anestis, Petridis Vasileios, Petrou Loukas, Serenis Charalampos, Skolarikis Michalis, Tsalidis Paraskevas, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Zolotas Christoforos, “PANDORA - Program for the Advancement of Non Directed Operating Robotic Agents”, ICAPS 2009, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, A. Iliakopoulou, A.Kargakos, and L. Petrou, “On Global Path Planning for Occupancy Grid Maps“, 22nd International Workshop on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD2013.
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Cezary Zieliński, Włodzimierz Kasprzak, Sofia Reppou, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Pericles A. Mitkas, and George Karagiannis. “Merging robotics and aal ontologies: The rapp methodology.” In Progress in Automation, Robotics and Measuring Techniques, pp. 285-297. Springer, Cham, 2015.
  • Gkiokas, Alexandros, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Pericles A. Mitkas. “Hive Collective Intelligence for Cloud Robotics: A Hybrid Distributed Robotic Controller Design for Learning and Adaptation.” In Progress in Automation, Robotics and Measuring Techniques, pp. 65-78. Springer, Cham, 2015.
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas L. Symeonidis, and Pericles A. Mitkas. “An automatic speech detection architecture for social robot oral interaction.” In Proceedings of the Audio Mostly 2015 on Interaction With Sound, pp. 1-8. 2015.
  • Thallas, Aristeidis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Loukas Petrou. “Particle filter—Scan matching SLAM recovery under kinematic model failures.” In 2016 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), pp. 232-237. IEEE, 2016.
  • Thallas, Aristeidis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Loukas Petrou. “Particle filter—Scan matching hybrid SLAM employing topological information.” In 2016 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), pp. 226-231. IEEE, 2016.
  • Thallas, Aristeidis G., Konstantinos Panayiotou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Pericles A. Mitkas, and George G. Karagiannis. “Relieving Robots from Their Burdens: The Cloud Agent Concept (Short Paper).” In 2016 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (Cloudnet), pp. 188-191. IEEE, 2016.
  • Panayiotou, Konstantinos L., Sofia E. Reppou, George G. Karagiannis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Aristeidis G. Thallas, and Andreas L. Symeonidis. “Robotic Applications Towards an Interactive Alerting System for Medical Purposes.” In 2017 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), pp. 564-569. IEEE, 2017.
  • Mousouliotis, Panagiotis G., Konstantinos L. Panayiotou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Loukas P. Petrou, and Andreas L. Symeonidis. “Expanding a robot’s life: Low power object recognition via FPGA-based DCNN deployment.” In 2018 7th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2018.
  • Doxopoulos, Panagiotis, Konstantinos L. Panayiotou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Andreas L. Symeonidis. “Creating an extrovert robotic assistant via IoT networking devices.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.04361. Presented in ICCR 2017: International Conference on Cloud and Robotics (2018)
  • Remmas, Vasilis N., Konstantinos L. Panayiotou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Andreas L. Symeonidis. “SRCA-The Scalable Robotic Cloud Agents Architecture.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.04362 Presented in ICCR 2017: International Conference on Cloud and Robotics (2018) - Best paper award
  • Tzitzis, Anastasios, Spyros Megalou, Stavroula Siachalou, Traianos Yioultsis, Athanasios Kehagias, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Alexandros Filotheou, Andreas Symeonidis, Loukas Petrou, and Antonis G. Dimitriou. “Phase ReLock-localization of RFID tags by a moving robot.” In 2019 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2019.
  • Megalou, Spyros, Anastasios Tzitzis, Stavroula Siachalou, Traianos Yioultsis, John Sahalos, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Alexandros Filotheou et al. “Fingerprinting localization of RFID tags with real-time performance-assessment, using a moving robot.” In 2019 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2019.
  • Tzitzis, Anastasios, Spyros Megalou, Stavroula Siachalou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Traianos Yioultsis, and Antonis G. Dimitriou. “3D Localization of RFID Tags with a Single Antenna by a Moving Robot and” Phase ReLock”. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications (RFID-TA), pp. 273-278. IEEE, 2019.
  • Siachalou, Stavroula, Spyros Megalou, Anastasios Tzitzis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Aggelos Bletsas, John Sahalos, Traianos Yioultsis, and Antonis G. Dimitriou. “Robotic inventorying and localization of rfid tags, exploiting phase-fingerprinting.” In 2019 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications (RFID-TA), pp. 362-367. IEEE, 2019.
  • Panayiotou, Konstantinos, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Christopher Zolotas, Iason Paraskevopoulos, Alexandra Chatzicharistou, Alexandros Sahinis, Stathis Dimitriadis et al. “Ms Pacman and the Robotic Ghost: A Modern Cyber-Physical Remake of the Famous Pacman Game.” In 2019 Sixth International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS), pp. 147-154. IEEE, 2019.
  • Tzitzis, Anastasios, Alexandros Filotheou, Stavroula Siachalou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Spyros Megalou, Aggelos Bletsas, Konstantinos Panayiotou, Andreas Symeonidis, Traianos Yioultsis, and Antonis G. Dimitriou. “Real-time 3D localization of RFID-tagged products by ground robots and drones with commercial off-the-shelf RFID equipment: Challenges and solutions.” In 2020 IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFID), pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2020.
  • Eleni Poptsi, Despina Moraitou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Magda Tsolaki, “Towards novel tools for discriminating healthy adults from people with neurocognitive disorders: A pilot study utilizing the REMEDES for Alzheimer (R4Alz) battery“, In 2020 Alzheimer’s Disease International Conference
  • Dimitriou Antonis, Tzitzis Anastasios, Filotheou Alexandros, Megalou Spyros, Siachalou Stavroula, Chatzistefanou Aristidis R., Malama Andreana, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Panayiotou, Konstantinos, Giannelos Evaggelos, Vasiliadis Thodoris, Mouroutsos Ioannis, Karanikas Ioannis, Petrou Loukas, Symeonidis Andreas, Sahalos John, Yioultsis Traianos, and Bletsas Aggelos “Autonomous Robots, Drones and Repeaters for Fast, Reliable, Low-Cost RFID Inventorying & Localization.” In 2021 6th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech), pp. 01-06. IEEE, 2021.
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, C. Zolotas, S. Siouli, P. Antoniou, S. Amanatiadis, T. Karanikiotis, E. Chondromatidis, P. Bamidis, G. Karagiannis, and A. Symeonidis. “Science and Mathematics Education via Remote Robotics Deployment - The TekTrain Paradigm.” In ICERI2021 Proceedings, pp. 8282-8291. IATED, 2021.
  • Δημήτριος Καβελίδης Φραντζής, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Θωμάς Καρανικιώτης, Ελένη Πόπτση, Μάγδα Τσολάκη, Ανδρέας Λ. Συμεωνίδης, “Αναγνώριση Κατηγορίας Νοητικής Έκπτωσης μέσω Χαρακτηριστικών Ομιλίας”, παρουσιάστηκε στο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο ΑΚΟΥΣΤΙΚΗ 2022, Θεσσαλονίκη
  • Euripidis Chondromatidis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Konstantinos Panagiotou, and Andreas Symeonidis, “Towards a modular IoT device design and prototyping for the Sports domain”, Presented in Emerging Tech Conference “Edge Intelligence” 2023
  • Nikolaos Altanis, Eleni Poptsi, Andreas Symeonidis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, “An ecological virtual house for the assessment of general cognitive deficits and activities of daily living in people with Mild and Major Cognitive Impairment: Design of the battery”, 36th Global Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International, Krakow, Polland 2024.
  • Eleni Poptsi, Despina Moraitou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas Symeonidis, Magda Tsolaki, “Can the Remedes for Alzheimer’s battery (R4Alz-R) replace the classic neuropsychological tests for the diagnosis of minor neurocognitive disorders? Examining the battery’s construct validity”, 36th Global Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International, 24-26 April, 24-26 April, Krakow, Polland 2024.
  • Konstantinos Panayiotou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas Symeonidis, “A hybrid Edge-to-Cloud Architecture towards low-code development of global food-security applications: The Nostradamus case”, RSCy2025, the Eleventh International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environment, 17-19 March, 2025 - Paphos, Cyprus [Best Paper Award]
  • I. Varvaris, D. Hadjimitsis, … Konstantinos Panayiotou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas Symeonidis, et. al., “Nostradamus: Harnessing Data Cubes and Multiple Sources of Data for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security”, RSCy2025, the Eleventh International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environment, 17-19 March, 2025 - Paphos, Cyprus
  • Electra Chatzidimitriou, Georgios Ntritsos, Roza Lagoudaki, Eleni Poptsi, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas Symeonidis, et.al., “Examining the Key Correlates of Functional Impairment in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia: Cognitive, Behavioral, Personality, and Brain Perfusion Contributions”, 35th Alzheimer Europe Conference, 6-8 Oct. 2025, Bologna, Italy
  • Theodoros Tsampouris, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Konstantinos Panayiotou, Andreas Symeonidis, “RQ2DSL: An AI Agent for Automated Domain-Specific Language Grammar Generation from Requirements”, Presented in the 37th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), November 03-05, 2025, Athens, Greece
  • Theodoros Tsampouris, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Konstantinos Panayiotou, Andreas Symeonidis, “An Ontology-Based Recommendation Engine for Domain-Specific Language Discovery”, Presented in 24th IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), November 15-18, 2025, London, UK
  • Konstantinos Panayiotou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Theodoros Tsampouris, Ioannis Gkountras, Themistoklis Diamantopoulos, Andreas L. Symeonidis, “A Low-Code Paradigm for Rapid Development of Cyber-Physical Applications in the Food Security Domain: The Nostradamus Approach”, Presented in Twelfth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2026), 27-29 April, 2026 - Paphos, Cyprus

Conferences without proceedings

  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, A. Iliakopoulou, A.Kargakos, and L. Petrou, “On Global Path Planning for Occupancy Grid Maps“, 22nd International Workshop on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD2013.
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, K. L. Panayiotou, C. Zolotas, A. Philotheou AL, and L. Petrou Symeonidis. “From classical to cloud robotics: Challenges and potential.” (Keynote speech), In 3rd International Workshop on Microsystems, Sindos Campus, ATEI Thessaloniki (2018)
  • Eleni Poptsi, Despoina Moraitou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Panayiotou Konstantinos, Symeonidis Andreas, Petrou Loukas and Magda Tsolaki, “Αξιολόγηση του νοητικού ελέγχου στη γήρανση με τη χρήση ηλεκτρονικών εργαλείων μέσω του συστήματος αντανακλαστικών/αντίδρασης REMEDES4Alzheimer“, 11th Panhellenic Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease & 3rd Mediterranean Conference on Neurodegenerative Diseases PICAD & MeCoND, Thessaloniki,Greece, (2019)
  • Eleni Poptsi, Despoina Moraitou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Panayiotou Konstantinos, Symeonidis Andreas, Petrou Loukas and Magda Tsolaki, “Συστοιχία REMEDES: Ένα νέο ηλεκτρονικό εργαλείο αξιολόγησης ικανοτήτων νοητικού ελέγχου στη γήρανση“, 11th Panhellenic Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease & 3rd Mediterranean Conference on Neurodegenerative Diseases PICAD & MeCoND, Thessaloniki, Greece, (2019)
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Panayiotou Konstantinos,Symeonidis Andreas and Petrou Loukas, “REMEDES: Τεχνικά χαρακτηριστικά και προδιαγραφές συστήματος αποτίμησης κιναισθησίας προς διάγνωση της νόσου Alzheimer“, 11th Panhellenic Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease &3rd Mediterranean Conference on Neurodegenerative Diseases PICAD & MeCoND, Thessaloniki,Greece, (2019)
  • Eleni Poptsi,Despina Moraitou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Magda Tsolaki “Είναι εφικτός ο διαχωρισμός του Υγιούς Νοητικά Γήρατος από την Υποκειμενική Νοητική Εξασθένιση; Πιλοτικά αποτελέσματα της καινοτόμου συστοιχίας REMEDES for Alzheimer (R4Alz)”, 12th Panhellenic Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease & 3rd Mediterranean Conference on Neurodegenerative Diseases PICAD & MeCoND, Thessaloniki,Greece, (2021)
  • Ελένη Πόπτση, Δέσποινα Μωραΐτου, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Ανδρέας Συμεωνίδης, Μάγδα Τσολάκη, “Υποκειμενική νοητική εξασθένιση: Κομμάτι της υγιούς γήρανσης ή έναρξη νευροεκφύλισης; Νεότερα δεδομένα της συστοιχίας R4Alz”, 8ο Παγκρήτιο Διεπιστημονικό Συνέδριο Νόσου Alzheimer και Συναφών Διαταραχών και 4ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο στην ενεργό και υγιή γήρανση, Σεπτέμβριος 2022, Εμπορικό και Βιομηχανικό Επιμελητήριο Ηρακλείου
  • Ελένη Πόπτση, Δέσποινα Μωραΐτου, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Ανδρέας Συμεωνίδης, Μάγδα Τσολάκη, “Νευροψυχολογική συστοιχία REMEDES for Alzheimer (R4Alz): Παρουσίαση ενός εργαλείου πρώιμης διάγνωσης των νευροεκφυλιστικών νοσημάτων”, 8ο Παγκρήτιο Διεπιστημονικό Συνέδριο Νόσου Alzheimer και Συναφών Διαταραχών και 4ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο στην ενεργό και υγιή γήρανση, Σεπτέμβριος 2022, Εμπορικό και Βιομηχανικό Επιμελητήριο Ηρακλείου
  • Δημήτριος Φ.Καβελίδης, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Ελένη Πόπτση, Θωμάς Καρανικιώτης, Μάγδα Τσολάκη, Ανδρέας Συμεωνίδης, “Αναγνώριση Κατηγορίας Νοητικής Έκπτωσης μέσω Χαρακτηριστικών Ομιλίας”, 13ο Πανελλήνιο συνέδριο νόσου Alzheimer (PICAD) & 4o Μεσογειακό συνέδριο νευροεκφυλιστικών νοσημάτων (MeCoND), 9 - 12 Φεβρουαρίου, 2023, Θεσσαλονίκη. Πρακτικά συνεδρίου
  • Νικόλαος Αλτάνης, Ελένη Πόπτση, Μάγδα Τσολάκη, Ανδρέας Συμεωνίδης, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, “Σχεδιασμός οικολογικού συστήματος εικονικής πραγματικότητας (3D) προς εκτίμηση σφαιρικών νοητικών ικανοτήτων σε άτομα με ήπια νοητική έκπτωση”, 13ο Πανελλήνιο συνέδριο νόσου Alzheimer (PICAD) & 4o Μεσογειακό συνέδριο νευροεκφυλιστικών νοσημάτων (MeCoND), 9 - 12 Φεβρουαρίου, 2023, Θεσσαλονίκη. Πρακτικά συνεδρίου
  • Ελένη Πόπτση, Δέσποινα Μωραΐτου, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Ανδρέας Συμεωνίδης, Μάγδα Τσολάκη, “Υποκειμενική νοητική εξασθένιση: Φυσικό επακόλουθο του νοητικά υγιούς γήρατος ή προ-στάδιο της ήπιας νοητικής διαταραχής; Διερεύνηση της διακριτικής ικανότητας της αναθεωρημένης έκδοσης της συστοιχίας R4Alz-R”, 13ο Πανελλήνιο συνέδριο νόσου Alzheimer (PICAD) & 4o Μεσογειακό συνέδριο νευροεκφυλιστικών νοσημάτων (MeCoND), 9 - 12 Φεβρουαρίου, 2023, Θεσσαλονίκη. Πρακτικά συνεδρίου
  • Kelesi Elpida, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Andreas Symeonidis, “On-Road Autonomous Vehicle Navigation In A Dynamic Environment Using Deep Reinforcement Learning, Towards Fuel Consumption Optimization”, Presented in 2023 Hi-Drive Summer School Link
  • Aivatzoglou Maria, Elena Poptsi, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Moraitou Despoina, Magda Tsolaki, “Πιλοτική εφαρμογή οικολογικού συστήματος εικονικής πραγματικότητας (3D) για την εκτίμηση σφαιρικών νοητικών ικανοτήτων και λειτουργικότητας σε άτομα με ήπιες και μείζονες νοητικές διαταραχές”, 14ο Πανελλήνιο συνέδριο νόσου Alzheimer (PICAD) & 6o Μεσογειακό συνέδριο νευροεκφυλιστικών νοσημάτων (MeCoND), 13 - 16 Φεβρουαρίου, 2025, Θεσσαλονίκη.
  • Triantafyllidis Dimitrios, Elena Poptsi, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Magda Tsolaki, “Implementation of a System to Assess the Suitability of Interiors for People with Dementia”, 14th Panhellenic Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and the 6th Mediterranean Conference on Neurodegenerative Diseases, 13 February–16 February, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Kalomitsinis Georgios, Dimitris Nastos, Nikolaos Malamas, Elena Poptsi, Tsolaki Magda, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, “Cognitive Decline Category Recognition Through Text Features from Speech Transcription”, 14th Panhellenic Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and the 6th Mediterranean Conference on Neurodegenerative Diseases, 13 February–16 February, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Olympia Giagkouli, Elena Poptsi, Magda Tsolaki, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, “Cognitive Decline Category Recognition Using R4Alz Battery and Machine Learning Techniques”, 14th Panhellenic Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and the 6th Mediterranean Conference on Neurodegenerative Diseases, 13 February–16 February, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Efstathia Tsarouchi, Elena Poptsi, Magda Tsolaki, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, “Cognitive Decline Prediction Using Neuropsychological Assessment Results and Machine Learning Techniques”, 14th Panhellenic Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and the 6th Mediterranean Conference on Neurodegenerative Diseases, 13 February–16 February, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Elena Poptsi, Moraitou Despoina, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Tsolaki Magda, “Capturing Cognitive Decline in Aging Since Its Beginnings: Findings from the Use of the R4Alz-R Battery”, 14th Panhellenic Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and the 6th Mediterranean Conference on Neurodegenerative Diseases, 13 February–16 February, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Elpida Kelesi, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas Symeonidis “Optimizing Fuel Consumption of a Driverless Car Using Deep Reinforcement Learning in the Edge”, Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Conference of Greece - ECESCON, April 2025, Thessaloniki, Greece

Posters

  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Eleni Poptsi, Dimitrios F. Kavelidis, Thomas Karanikiotis, Magda Tsolaki, Despoina Moraitou, Andreas L. Symeonidis, “Early detection of neurocognitive decline using Cyber Physical Systems and Artificial Intelligence”, presented in the 9th Technology Forum, Thessaloniki (2022)
  • Theodoros Papafotiou, Efthymia Amarantidou, Efseveia Nestoropoulou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, “Autonomous Driving Vehicle in 1:10 scaled environment”, presented in the 9th Technology Forum, Thessaloniki (2022)
  • Konstantinos Panayiotou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias and Andreas Symeonidis, “Low-code development & verification of Cyber-Physical Systems”, presented in the 9th Technology Forum, Thessaloniki (2022)
  • Elena Poptsi, Despina Moraitou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Magda Tsolaki, “Can the Remedes for Alzheimer’s battery (R4Alz-R) replace the classic neuropsychological tests for the diagnosis of minor neurocognitive disorders? Examining the battery’s construct validity”, presented in the 36th Global Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International, Kraków, Poland (2024)
  • Nikolaos Altanis, Elena Poptsi, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, “An ecological virtual house for the assessment of general cognitive deficits and activities of daily living in people with Mild and Major Cognitive Impairment: Design of the battery”, presented in the 36th Global Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International, Kraków, Poland (2024)
  • Kelesi Elpida, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Andreas L. Symeonidis, “On-Road Autonomous Vehicle Navigation In A Dynamic Environment Using Deep Reinforcement Learning, Towards Fuel Consumption Optimization”, presented in the 2023 Hi-Drive Summer School, Athens, Greece (2024)

Pre-print articles

  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Aristeidis Thallas, and Loukas Petrou. “Metric map merging using RFID tags & topological information.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.06591 (2017).
  • Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Pericles Mitkas. “Robotic frameworks, architectures and middleware comparison.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.06842 (2017).

Datasets

  • Kalaitzis, Evangelos, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Symeonidis, Andreas, “MMoRWaD - The Multi Modal Recyclable Waste Management Dataset”, 2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18364275
  • Fotios Alexandridis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Symeonidis, Andreas, “Camera-only self driving vehicle dataset for end to end trajectory prediction and vehicle control in autonomous driving”, 2026, https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/nva2-kn07

Awards / Distinctions

  • 2026 - 5th place (out of 163 teams) in the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge 2026 (VROOM)
  • 2025 - 5th place (out of 79 teams) in the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge 2025 along with the Popularity Award (VROOM)
  • 2025 - Best paper award in “RSCy2025, the Eleventh International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environment” for the presentation “A hybrid Edge-to-Cloud Architecture towards low-code development of global food-security applications: The Nostradamus case”
  • 2025 - ΒAwarding of the Vroom student team by the AUTh Alumni Association for its international activity during the previous year
  • 2024 - 1st place (out of 80 teams) in the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge 2024 (VROOM)
  • 2023 - 8th place (out of 73 teams) in the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge 2023 along with the Marketing Award (VROOM)
  • 2022 - 2nd place (out of 55 teams) in the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge 2022 along with the Marketing Award (VROOM)
  • 2021 - 3rd place (out of 9 teams in the semi-finals) in the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge 2021 (VROOM)
  • 2017 - Excellence award from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, regarding exemplary distinctions in the past year of the PANDORA team
  • 2016 - Excellence award from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, regarding exemplary distinctions in the past year of the PANDORA team
  • 2015 - 2th place in the Autonomy finals, in the RoboCup - RoboRescue, Hefei, China (PANDORA)
  • 2013 - 2th place in the Autonomy finals, in the RoboCup - RoboRescue, Eindhoven, Netherlands (PANDORA)
  • 2012 - Excellence award for distinct university students from the Technical Chamber of Greece
  • 2011 - 10th place (out of 17 teams) in the RoboCup - RoboRescue, Istanbul, Turkey (PANDORA)
  • 2009 - 9th place (out of 20 teams) in the RoboCup - RoboRescue, Graz, Austria (PANDORA)