About Me
Dr. Eng. Tsardoulias G. Emmanouil obtained his doctorate and engineering diploma from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece, in 2013 and 2007 respectively. His research interests are focused in Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things, autonomous Robots, no/low-code tools and platforms, and applied ML. He has worked as a research associate and/or 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) and the PANDORA research team, as well as the scientific responsible of the Vroom research team. His work has been published in over 75 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
Language skills
- Greek: Mother tongue
- English: Proficient user (C2)
Digital skills
Programming languages / Frameworks
- Expert: C, Python, HTML, JS, MongoDb
- Proficient: C++, SQL
- Competent: Bash, AVR assembly, CSS, PHP
Information technology tools
- Expert: ROS (Robot Operating System), RabbitMQ, Commlib, Git/Github, React, React Native
- Proficient: Gazebo, OpenCV, Carla, Google Colab, Github Actions, OpenAPI
- Competent: Docker, Angular, Unity
Skills/Methods
- Robot agnostic applications, Cloud robotics, Robotics middleware, SLAM, Robot localization, Path planning, Autonomous robot navigation/ exploration/ coverage/ target selection, Multi-robot collaboration
- Genetic algorithms, Neural networks
- Driverless cars algorithms
Others
- Windows, Linux, MacOS, Office, GIMP
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.
Postgraduate courses
- 2015-Present: 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-Present: Estimation theory AUTH University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thessaloniki, part of the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Programme “Advanced Computer and Communication Systems”
Other academic experience
- 2023-2024 (3 cycles): Seminars on Entry-level computer programming with Python, AUTH University, Faculty of Engineering. These seminars comprised an introduction to programming and entry-level knowledge of the Python language, each cycle lasted 16 hours and the target group included students from all eight departments of the Faculty of Engineering, AUTH.
Research experience (funded)
2008-2015
Robotics researcher in the RAPP Project
CERTH/ITI, Thessaloniki, Greece
RAPP was a 3-year research project funded by the European Commission through its FP7 programme. The RAPP Project provides an open-source software platform to support the creation and delivery of robotic applications, which in turn are expected to increase the versatility and utility of service and assistive robots. The emphasis of this project is on applications targeted at elders in danger of social exclusion.
2015-2021
Technical leader of R4A team
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
R4A was a research team focused on delivering enhanced functionality to/with cyber-physical systems. The team is manned by Faculty members and Researchers at the Electrical and Computer Engineering School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, who have been extensively working on efficient and intelligent solutions for robotics, devices and systems. The main novelty of the R4A approach is the design and implementation of a middleware architecture and the respective tools that allow for rapid prototyping of device-agnostic applications. The R4A architecture supports the collaboration of robots, devices and/or “things” (in the IoT concept), as well as with cloud services and components, this way fostering a wide range of applications. The R4A approach has already been used in real problems and has proven efficient towards creating solutions in a fast and reliable manner.
2021-Current
Technical leader of ISSEL team
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
The Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Labgroup (ISSEL) belongs to the Information Processing Laboratory (IPL) of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The main research areas of ISSEL are Software Engineering, Data mining & Machine Learning, Infrastructure, Decentralized Technologies, Cyber-Physical Systems, Robotics, Self-driving cars and Mobile Apps/Sensors.
Link: http://issel.ee.auth.gr/
2018-2021
Technical manager of the TekTrain project (EPAnEK 2014-2020)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
The constant evolution in Information Technology, the Internet of Things, Robotics and technology in general has led to the introduction and utilization of new methods in our everyday lives. The current project proposes a novel architecture on top of which a software framework will be developed, accompanied by smart devices/robots, this way providing the necessary tools and interfaces to make STEM education in modern fields quick and easy.
Link: https://www.tektrain.gr/
2018-2021
Robotics Researcher in the project RELIEF (EPAnEK 2014-2020)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
This project lies within the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification technology) and Robotics domain. Its objectives are a) to construct novel robotic vehicles, capable of performing continuous identification and localization of products and b) to develop novel low-cost approaches, capable of extending the reading area of passive, UHF RFID systems. The projects’ products could be used in logistics, in management of large storage facilities, in retail shops, in libraries, hospitals, airports and in conjunction with sensor networks in precision agriculture.
Link: https://relief.web.auth.gr/language/en/home/
2018-2021
Cyber-physical-systems Researcher in the project eeRIS (EPAnEK 2014-2020)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
The eeRIS project aims to provide useful information to electric energy residential consumers with regards to their electric energy consumption. The ultimate goal of the project is to achieve engagement through feedback for the consumers, by offering them a better understanding regarding the nature of their consumption. The project includes a) design and implementation of a low cost, high accuracy metering infrastructure, which will be connected to a central point of the residential electric installation, b) design and implementation of a low cost processing unit that will be able to collect measurement values sampled by the eeRIS metering device, process them and communicate the results to the end user, c) implementation of algorithms for the processing of the electric consumption measurements and d) implementation of the necessary user interface that will bridge the back-end services and the end user.
Link: https://eeris.web.auth.gr/en/
2018-2022
Technical manager in the project ΣΥΤΗΕΣ (EPAnEK 2014-2020)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
ΣΥΤΗΕΣ, in Greek, stands for “System for Supporting the Third Age with Smart Devices” and is a research project that aspires to offer autonomous living for elders, as well as complete health services. The main objective of this project is to develop a low-cost smart assistant device that supports the Greek language, which can be purchased by any elder. This smart assistant will be capable of providing useful services in the form of smart applications (some of which will be installed similarly to smart phones), either automatically or on demand.
Link: https://sities-project.gr/en/
Research experience (non-funded/internal projects)
2008-2015
Technical leader of AI group of PANDORA robotics team
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
PANDORA is a robotics team in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AUTH, Thessaloniki, as well as an IEEE branch. Team PANDORA has participated in the international RoboCup - RoboRescue competitions in China (2008-Suzhou, Hefei-2015), Austria (2009-Graz), Turkey (2011-Istanbul) and Netherlands (2013-Eindhoven), achieving the 2nd place in the Autonomy finals twice (2013 & 2015).
Link: https://lab.issel.ee.auth.gr/pandora-robotics/
2018-Current
Scientific responsible / mentor of Vroom research team
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
VROOM is focused on developing autonomous driving solutions for scaled vehicles. The main target of the team is the participation in the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge (BFMC) organized by the Bosch Engineering Center in Cluj Napoca, Romania. Our ultimate aim is the promotion of research on autonomous driving in academia. Vroom has participated three times in BFMC, achieving the 3rd place in 2021 and the 2nd place in 2022, along with the Marketing Award.
Link: https://vroom.web.auth.gr/
2018-Current
Technical manager of the REMEDES project
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
REMEDES is a multi-device system oriented towards high precision measuring and recording reflexes via visual or/and auditory stimuli. The system is suitable for detecting and quantifying a person’s proprioception/kinesthesia (awareness of the position and movement of the parts of the body). REMEDES applications include: a) training, modeling of athletic performance, tracking personal or group performance over time, and b) diagnosis, rehabilitation or tracking the progress of neurological, neuromotor, psychiatric or ophthalmological conditions.
Link: https://lab.issel.ee.auth.gr/remedes/
2018-Current
Technical manager of the R4Alz project
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
The R4Alz (REMEDES for Alzheimer) battery is a neuropsychological tool used for the assessment of cognitive control abilities. The battery comprises three different aspects of cognitive control (working memory, attention control, and executive function).
Link: http://r4alz-online.issel.ee.auth.gr/
2019-Current
Technical manager of the R4Alz project
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Google Summer of Code is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. GSoC Contributors work with an open source organization on a 12+ week programming project under the guidance of mentors. My affiliation is the Open Technologies Alliance - GFOSS and I have mentored two projects:\
- Development of a backend management system for NodeRed instances (2022)
Link: https://github.com/eellak/gsoc2022–Nodered-backend- - A mechanism for personalized Automatic Speech Recognition for less frequently spoken languages: the Greek case (2020)
Link: https://github.com/PanosAntoniadis/personalized_asr
2019
Robotics expert in the Nao4All project
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
The goal of the Nao4All platform is to apply the MDE methodology on creating applications for the NAO robot. Specifically, Nao4All attempts to: a) Provide to people with no technical background an easy and fast way to correctly design and implement robotic applications, b) Significantly increase the success rate of developing correct robotic applications for NAO robot, c) Allow for easy and fast modification of already created robotic applications created with the current tool, in order for their maintenance to be cheap, in terms of time and money
Link: https://lab.issel.ee.auth.gr/the-nao4all-platform/
2019
Robotics/IoT expert in the RoboPacman project
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Robotic, IoT, and CPS concepts, along with Web-based components and Model-driven Engineering principles, towards implementing a modern remake of the famous Pacman game.
Link: https://lab.issel.ee.auth.gr/ms-pacman-and-the-robotic-ghost/
2020
Technical manager of an IoT broker-based remote robot management project
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
The project’s goal is the development of tools which will support the management of a robotic system via graphical interfaces, even when the robot exists in a remote network (not in a LAN).
Link: https://codin.issel.ee.auth.gr/
2021
Robotics/IoT expert in the SocIoTy project
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
SocIoTy was a platform via which a virtual contest was held, where the participants were invited to find solutions for day-to-day scenarios, using the Internet of Things(IoT). The programming of the tasks was performed in the low-code platform NodeRed.
2021
Technical manager of the NavPin project
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Indoor Navigation & Localization mobile App. The NavPin application offers several unique ways of indoors localization for the user, namely via GPS, via specialized QR Codes and via Cisco’s DNA Spaces, allowing for a real-time location update functionality.
Link: https://lab.issel.ee.auth.gr/navpin/
2022
Technical manager of the Cando project
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Cando aims at providing a solution for the problem of limited participation of citizens in donations, by allowing alternative methods of donating to humanitarian or social-related campaigns. Specifically, Cando includes a software/hardware solution, via which citizens can donate small amounts at specialized stands, quickly and efficiently with their cards or mobile phones.
Link: https://lab.issel.ee.auth.gr/cando/
2022-2023
Robotics/IoT expert of the PoRoLog project
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Modern warehouses require modern logistics solutions. PoRoLog aspires to provide a robotics-based solution that can contribute to automate and/or improve day-to-day workload, so that the warehouse improves its efficiency, optimizes storage capacity, and decreases physical work. Specifically, PoRoLog proposes a new reconfigurable and scalable robotic system for pallet and box transfers in existing logistics warehouses and a new open source software for supervision of groups of robots named NOOS-Open
Link: https://github.com/NoosWare/Noos-Open
Other professional experience
2010-2013
Developer
GRNET - Athens, Greece
Developer at the Eudoxus project (http://eudoxus.gr), performed in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Greece. Participation in I) the implementation of a web application for connecting the universities departments’ secretaries in a unified system for manipulation of the books’ distribution to university students and II) the implementation of a web application for the on-line payment of the publishing houses, according to their books’ distribution in Greece’s Universities.
2008-2010
Platform administrator & Developer
AUTH University - Thessaloniki, Greece
Administrator and developer of the ΣΕΔΔιΣ project. ΣΕΔΔιΣ was an on-line system enabling the University departments’ secretaries to organize the specific of the book distribution, as well as the students to make selection. This tool was utilized in many departments of Aristotle University, before Eudoxus.
2007-2009
Platform administrator
AUTH University - Thessaloniki, Greece
Administrator of the e-thmmy project. E-thmmy is an educational platform assisting students of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering to get on-line aids for courses, applying for laboratory courses etc.
Publications
Metrics (updated 2024-03-13)
- Google Scholar: Citations: 793, h-index: 17, i10-index: 23
- Scopus: Citations: 430, h-index: 13
- Semantic scholar: Citations: 517, h-index: 13, i10-index: 23
Authored - Edited books
- [B-1] Tsardoulias E., 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).
- [B-2] Tsardoulias E., & 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
- [BC-1] Petrou L., Symeonidis A., Dimoulas C., Tsardoulias E., “RoboCupRescue 2015 - Robot League Team PANDORA (Greece)”, technical description paper (tdp), RoboCup 2015
- [BC-2] 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. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119578598.ch7, 2023.
Journal papers
- [J-1] Mingas, Grigorios, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Loukas Petrou. “An FPGA implementation of the SMG-SLAM algorithm.” Microprocessors and Microsystems 36, no. 3 (2012): 190-204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micpro.2011.12.00 - [J-2] Tsardoulias, Emmanouil, and Loukas Petrou. “Critical rays scan match SLAM.” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 72, no. 3 (2013): 441-462.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-012-9811-5 - [J-3] Tsardoulias, Emmanouil G., 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-013-9995-3 - [J-4] Tsardoulias, Emmanouil G., 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-016-0362-z - [J-5] Reppou, Sofia E., Emmanouil G. 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-016-0361-z - [J-6] Tsardoulias, Emmanouil, 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2016.0022 - [J-7] Tsardoulias, Emmanouil G., 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-016-0434-0 - [J-8] Tsardoulias, Emmanouil G., 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2016.08.004 - [J-9] Zieliński, Cezary, Maciej Stefańczyk, Tomasz Kornuta, Maksym Figat, Wojciech Dudek, Wojciech Szynkiewicz, Włodzimierz Kasprzak et al. “Variable structure robot control systems: The RAPP approach.” Robotics and Autonomous Systems 94 (2017): 226-244.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2017.05.00 - [J-10] Thallas, Aristeidis G., Emmanouil G. 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-017-0730-3 - [J-11] Tsardoulias, Emmanouil G., 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-019-01053-7 - [J-12] Tzitzis, Anastasios, Spyros Megalou, Stavroula Siachalou, Tsardoulias G. Emmanouil, 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/jrfid.2019.2936969 - [J-13] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-019-01086-y - [J-14] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/jad-190798 - [J-15] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/rob.21943 - [J-16] Tzitzis, Anastasios, Spyros Megalou, Stavroula Siachalou, Tsardoulias G. Emmanouil, 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/jrfid.2020.3000332 - [J-17] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/jad-200562 - [J-18] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-020-01253-6 - [J-19] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-021-01535-7 - [J-20] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/software1010004 - [J-21] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-12953-6 - [J-22] Panayiotou, Konstantinos, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, and Andreas L. Symeonidis. “Commlib: An easy-to-use communication library for Cyber–Physical Systems.” SoftwareX 19 (2022): 101180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2022.101180 - [J-23] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13030338 - [J-24] Brouzos, R., Panayiotou, K., Tsardoulias, E. et al. “A Low-Code Approach for Connected Robots”. J Intell Robot Syst 108, 28 (2023).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-023-01861-y
Conferences with proceedings
- [CP-1] Psomopoulos, Fotis, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Alexandros Giokas, Cezary Zielinski, Vincent Prunet, Ilias Trochidis, David Daney et al. “Rapp system architecture.” In Assistance and Service Robotics in a Human Environment, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2014.
Full paper: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01090891/document - [CP-2] Tsardoulias, Emmanouil G., 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15847-1_28 - [CP-3] Gkiokas, Alexandros, Emmanouil G. 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15847-1_7 - [CP-4] Tsardoulias, Emmanouil G., 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2814895.2814931 - [CP-5] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/med.2016.7535849 - [CP-6] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/med.2016.7535844 - [CP-7] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/cloudnet.2016.38 - [CP-8] Panayiotou, Konstantinos L., Sofia E. Reppou, George G. Karagiannis, Emmanouil G. 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/cbms.2017.17 - [CP-9] Mousouliotis, Panagiotis G., Konstantinos L. Panayiotou, Emmanouil G. 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/mocast.2018.8376612 - [CP-10] 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.
DOI: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8739423 - [CP-11] 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.
DOI: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8739486 - [CP-12] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/rfid-ta.2019.8892256 - [CP-13] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/rfid-ta.2019.8892183 - [CP-14] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/iotsms48152.2019.8939255 - [CP-15] 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/rfid49298.2020.9244904 - [CP-16] Dimitriou, Antonis, Anastasios Tzitzis, Alexandros Filotheou, Spyros Megalou, Stavroula Siachalou, Aristidis R. Chatzistefanou, Andreana Malama et al. “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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/splitech52315.2021.9566425 - [CP-17] Tsardoulias, E., 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2021.1897 - [CP-18] Δημήτριος Καβελίδης Φραντζής, Εμμανουήλ Τσαρδούλιας, Θωμάς Καρανικιώτης, Ελένη Πόπτση, Μάγδα Τσολάκη, Ανδρέας Λ. Συμεωνίδης, “Αναγνώριση Κατηγορίας Νοητικής Έκπτωσης μέσω Χαρακτηριστικών Ομιλίας”, παρουσιάστηκε στο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο ΑΚΟΥΣΤΙΚΗ 2022, Θεσσαλονίκη
Proceedings: https://conferences.helina.gr/2022/en/proceedings/ - [CP-19] Δημήτριος Φ.Καβελίδης, Εμμανουήλ Τσαρδούλιας, 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.
Proceedings: Link to proceedings - [CP-20] Νικόλαος Αλτάνης, Ελένη Πόπτση, Μάγδα Τσολάκη, Ανδρέας Συμεωνίδης, Εμμανουήλ Τσαρδούλιας, “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.
Proceedings: Link to proceedings - [CP-21] Ελένη Πόπτση, Δέσποινα Μωραΐτου, Εμμανουήλ Τσαρδούλιας, 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.
Proceedings: Link to proceedings - [CP-22] 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 \
Conferences without proceedings
- [CwP-1] Tsardoulias, E. G., 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.
- [CwP-2] Doxopoulos, Panagiotis, Konstantinos L. Panayiotou, Emmanouil G. 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) Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04361
- [CwP-3] Remmas, Vasilis N., Konstantinos L. Panayiotou, Emmanouil G. Tsardoulias, and Andreas L. Symeonidis. “SRCA-The Scalable Robotic Cloud Agents Architecture.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.04362 (2018).
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04362 - [CwP-4] Tsardoulias, E. G., 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) \
- [CwP-5] Eleni Poptsi, Despoina Moraitou, Tsardoulias Emmanouil, 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) \
- [CwP-6] Eleni Poptsi, Despoina Moraitou, Tsardoulias Emmanouil, 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)
- [CwP-7] Tsardoulias Emmanouil, 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)
- [CwP-8] 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
- [CwP-9] 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)
- [CwP-10] Ελένη Πόπτση, Δέσποινα Μωραΐτου, Εμμανουήλ Τσαρδούλιας, 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
- [CwP-11] Ελένη Πόπτση, Δέσποινα Μωραΐτου, Εμμανουήλ Τσαρδούλιας, 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
Posters
- [P-1] 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)
Poster: Link to poster - [P-2] Theodoros Papafotiou, Efthymia Amarantidou, Efseveia Nestoropoulou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, “Autonomous Driving Vehicle in 1:10 scaled environment”, presented in the 9th Technology Forum, Thessaloniki (2022)
Poster: Link to poster - [P-3] Konstantinos Panayiotou, Emmanouil Tsardoulias and Andreas Symeonidis, “Low-code development & verification of Cyber-Physical Systems”, presented in the 9th Technology Forum, Thessaloniki (2022)
Poster: Link to poster - [P-4] 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)
Poster: Link to poster - [P-5] 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)
Poster: Link to poster
Pre-print articles
- [PP-1] Tsardoulias, Emmanouil, Aristeidis Thallas, and Loukas Petrou. “Metric map merging using RFID tags & topological information.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.06591 (2017).
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06591 - [PP-2] Tsardoulias, Emmanouil, and Pericles Mitkas. “Robotic frameworks, architectures and middleware comparison.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.06842 (2017).
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06842
Awards / Distinctions
- 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)