Dr. 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 working experience includes participation in the ”Eudoxus” project with the collaboration of the Ministry of Education, the EU project RAPP (FP7-ICT-610947), and NSRF projects (RELIEF, TekTrain, SYTHES), among others. His research interests are focused on robotics and specifically on autonomous robots (ground or aerial). Some of the topics involved are autonomous navigation, SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping), multi-robot exploration / full coverage, robotic architectures oriented for the creation of robotic applications and robot-agnostic RESTful APIs. In addition, since 2009, he has been the technical manager of the artificial intelligence group of the P.A.N.D.O.R.A. and R4A robotics teams, which operate at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. PANDORA has participated in five world-wide RoboCup competitions, achieving second place in the Autonomy finals twice.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloníki, Kentrikí Makedonía, Greece
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering