Nikolaos Tsiogkas

Nikolaos Tsiogkas

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Robotics and A.I.

KU Leuven

Biography

Nikolaos Tsiogkas is a postdoctoral research associate in robotics and artificial intelligence at the Robotics research group in KU Leuven. His research interests include multi-robot systems, semantic knowledge representations, online planning and optimisation. He works on standardised semantic representations of knowledge, world modeling for multi-agent applications, online communications planning for multi-agent systems and online meta-heuristics for routing problems. In his free time he can be found painting miniatures, cooking or enjoying fine Belgian beers.

Interests

  • Multi-Robot Systems
  • Semantic Knowledge Representations
  • Online planning
  • Optimisation

Education

  • PhD in Robotics, 2019

    Heriot-Watt University

  • MSc in Artificial Intelligence, 2012

    The University of Edinburgh

  • BSc in Applied Informatics, 2009

    University of Macedonia

Professional Appointments

 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral research associate

KU Leuven

May 2019 – Present Belgium
Involved in projects regarding knowledge representation for multi-robot systems.

Recent Publications

Guided Stochastic Optimization for Motion Planning

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a family of methods used to teach robots specific tasks. It is used to assist them with the …
Bence Magyar, Nikolaos Tsiogkas, Bruno Brito, Mayank Patel, David M. Lane, Sen Wang
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Towards an Online approach for Knowledge Communication Planning

Explicit coordination among robot usually requires a method to exchange information regarding their intentions and their knowledge of …
Nikolaos Tsiogkas, David M. Lane
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Timed-Elastic Bands for Manipulation Motion Planning

Motion planning is one of the main problems studied in the field of robotics. However, it is still challenging for the state-of-the-art …
Bence Magyar, Nikolaos Tsiogkas, Jérémie Deray, Sammy Pfeiffer, David M. Lane
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ESROCOS: Development and Validation of a Space Robotics Framework

The H2020 ESROCOS project has builtan open-source framework for the development of space robotics software. The ESROCOS framework …
Mmiguel Muñoz Arancón, Malte Wirkus, Kilian Hoeflinger, Nikolaos Tsiogkas, Saddek Bensalem, Olli Rantanen, Daniel Silveira, Jerome Hugues, Mark Shilton, Herman Bruyninckx
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DCOP: Dubins correlated orienteering problem optimizing sensing missions of a nonholonomic vehicle under budget constraints

Advances in robotics have allowed mobile robotic platforms to be deployed in an increased number of field operations. The dynamic …
Nikolaos Tsiogkas, David M. Lane
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Industry experience

 
 
 
 
 

Senior Roboticist

Intermodalics BVBA

Sep 2016 – May 2019 Belgium
Involved in projects regarding sensor processing, navigation, localisation and mapping for ground and aerial autonomous robots.

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