Intelligent Systems & Robotics Laboratory Department of Production Engineering & Management • Technical University of Crete

Education

• Ph.d, 2008, Dept of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete
• M.Sc, 2002, Dept of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete
• Engineering Diploma, 2000, Dept of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete

Current Research Interests

• Mobile Robot Navigation
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Multi-Robots Teams
• Fuzzy Logic Control
• Evolutionary Computation

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Professional Experience

• Laboratorial Instructor, DPEM , Technical University of Crete (September 2000 - August 2003, September 2004 - present)
• Research Assistant, DPEM , Technical University of Crete, (September 2000 - present)
• Instructor, Technical Educational Institute of Crete (September 2001- August 2003, September 2004 - present)
• Visiting Scholar, CRASAR , CSEE , University of South Florida (August 2003 - June 2004)

Recent Research Grants and Contracts

• 'Optimization and Modelling of a Robot Team Computational Intelligence ', HERAKLEITOS Fellowships for research, EPEAEK II
• Naval automation and information management technology (Research Focus: Distributed Sensor Fusion, UAV-UGV Navigation and Control), Participants: University of South Florida, Coastal Systems Station Panama City Florida, University of West Florida, Funded by the Office of Naval Research.
• 'Development of a VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicle – Phase I', General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), PEPER Grant, 2001.
• ' Robust integration methodologies of a team of commercially available autonomous robots', (Participants: Technical University of Crete, National Technical University of Athens, University of Patras), Funded by the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Development.

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Selected Publications

1. L. Doitsidis, N. C. Tsourveloudis, S. Piperidis, 'Evolution of Fuzzy Controllers for Robotic Vehicles: The Role of Fitness Function Selection', Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems,vol. 56, pp. 469–484, 2009 (DOI 10.1007/s10846-009-9332-z) pdf
2. Andrew L. Nelson, Gregory J. Barlow, and Lefteris Doitsidis. 'Fitness Functions in Evolutionary Robotics: A Survey and Analysis.', Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2008. (doi:10.1016/j.robot.2008.09.009) pdf
3. N. Tsourveloudis, L. Doitsidis and S. Ioannidis, 'Work-in-process scheduling by evolutionary tuned fuzzy controllers', International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology , vol. 34, no. 7-8, pp. 748-761, 2007 pdf
4. S. Piperidis, L. Doitsidis, C. Anastasopoulos, and N. C. Tsourveloudis, 'A Low Cost Modular Robot Vehicle Design for Research and Education ,' in CD-ROM proceedings of the IEEE 15th Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation, Athens, 2007 pdf
5. L.Doitsidis, N. C. Tsourveloudis, 'An Empirical Study for Fitness Function Selection in Fuzzy Logic Controllers for Mobile Robot Navigation ,' in proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society , pp. 3868-3873, Paris, 2006 pdf
6. K. P. Valavanis, L. Doitsidis, M. Long, R. R. Murphy, 'Validation of a Distributed Field Robot Architecture Integrated with a MATLAB Based Control Theoretic Environment: A Case Study of Fuzzy Logic Based Robot Navigation', IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, pp. 93-107, September 2006 pdf
7. N. Tsourveloudis, L. Doitsidis and S. Ioannidis, 'Work In Process Scheduling by Evolutionary Tuned distributed Fuzzy Controllers', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1420-1425, Orlando, USA pdf
8. Nikos C. Tsourveloudis, Lefteris Doitsidis, S. Ioannidis, 'Optimized Fuzzy Scheduling of Manufacturing Systems', in proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Informatics, Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2005), pp. 196-201, Barcelona, 2005 pdf presentation
9. Nikos C. Tsourveloudis, Lefteris Doitsidis, Kimon P. Valavanis, 'Autonomous Navigation of Unmanned Vehicles: A Fuzzy Logic Perspective', Cutting Edge Robotics, pp:291-310, ISBN:3-86611-038-3 pdf
10. L. Doitsidis, A. L. Nelson, K. P. Valavanis, M. Long, R. R. Murphy, 'Experimental Validation of a MATLAB Based Control Architecture for Multiple Robot Outdoor Navigation', In proceedings of the 13th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, pp. 1499-1505, Limassol, Cyprus pdf presentation
11. A. L. Nelson, L. Doitsidis, M. T. Long, K. P. Valavanis, R. R. Murphy, 'Encorporation of MATLAB into a Distributed Behavioral Robotics Architecture', In Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference On Intelligent Robots And Systems (IROS04), pp.2028-2035, Sendai, Japan pdf
12. Doitsidis L., K. P. Valavanis, N. Tsourveloudis, M. Kontitsis, 'A Framework for Fuzzy Logic Based UAV Navigation and Control', Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4041-4046, New Orleans, USA, 2004 pdf
13. I. K. Nikolos, L. Doitsidis, V. N. Christopoulos, N. C. Tsourveloudis, 'Roll Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Fuzzy Logic', WSEAS Transactions on Systems, pp. 1039-1047, Issue 2, vol. 4, October 2003 pdf
14. P. Spanoudakis, L. Doitsidis, N. C. Tsourveloudis, K. P. Valavanis, 'The Market for VTOL UAVs', Unmanned Systems Magazine, pp. 14-18, vol. 21,no. 5, Sept/Oct 2003 pdf
15. L. Doitsidis, K. P. Valavanis, N. C. Tsourveloudis. 'Fuzzy Logic Based Autonomous Skid Steering Vehicle Navigation', CD-ROM proceedings of the ΙΕΕΕ International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington D.C, 2002 pdf
16. L. Doitsidis, K. P. Valavanis, N. C. Tsourveloudis, 'Fuzzy Logic Based Software Control Architecture for a Skid Steering Vehicle', Proceedings of the IEEE Third International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control, pp:279-284, Bukowy Dworek, Polland, 2002 pdf

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