Konstantinos Dalamagkidis Mailing Address: Institut für Informatik VI Technische Universität München Boltzmannstraße 3 85748 Garching bei München Germany Tel: +49 89 289 17636 (work) Fax: +49 89 289 17637 (work) Tel: +49 163 727 8632 (cell) web: http//www6.in.tum.de/ Work email:
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Personal email:
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Research Interests My main area of interest is mobile robotics and in particular modeling, simulation and control problems. Specifically I am interested in the areas of unmanned systems reliability, intelligent planning and perception/knowledge acquisition and representation. Education Dec 2009 Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering , University of South Florida, US
Research field: (a) Nonlinear model predictive control for autorotative landing of small unmanned helicopters; (b) Policy issues on the integration of unmanned aircraft into the national airspace system. Jul 2003 M.Sc. in Electronics and Computer Engineering , Technical University of Crete, Greece
Research field: Environmental control of buildings for energy conservation and thermal comfort of occupants using reinforcement learning. May 2001 Dipl. in Chemical Engineering , National Technical University of Athens, Greece Research experience June 2010 – current Research associate with the Technical University of Munich, Faculty of Informatics I am a member of the Robotics and Embedded Systems Chair and currently work for the ECCEROBOT project in collaboration with two PhD students. Jan 2010 – May 2010 Research associate with the University of Denver, Unmanned Systems Lab I participate in project coordination, grant proposal preparation, technical reporting and other lab activities. My duties also involve mentoring a team of eight PhD students working in different research projects involving unmanned helicopters, unmanned ground vehicles, swarming and human-robot interface among others. Aug 2005 – Dec 2009 PhD candidate with the University of South Florida, Unmanned Systems Lab Performed research in the field of unmanned aircraft operations safety. Developed a non-linear, autonomous autorotation controller for unmanned helicopters. I contributed to a number of research proposals on unmanned systems collaboration, unmanned aircraft system safety as well as improved vehicle endurance. I also prepared a survey of unmanned aircraft systems regulation which later resulted in the publication of a book, the first in the area. Jan 2005 – May 2007 Research associate with the Technical Educational Institute of Crete, Department of Natural Resources Engineering I was involved in the EU-THERMO research project and responsible for the development of a greenhouse environment simulation model. I also developed fuzzy controller modules and integrated everything in the TRNSYS software. After Aug 2005 I was involved mostly with data analysis and technical report preparation. Research experience (continued) Nov 2000 – June 2001 Undergraduate student with the National Technical University of Athens, Department of Chemical Engineering I took part in a THERMIE research project that involved the retrofitting of the Chemical Engineering Department building of the National Technical University of Athens with a 50kW photovoltaic array. I was mainly involved at the small PV testing station and the weather station development on the roof of the building. Jul 2000 – Sep 2000 Intern at the Center for Renewable Energy Sources, Greece Practical training in the Photovoltaic Systems department. The objective of my work was the autonomization of a reverse-osmosis desalinization plant with the use of PV systems. I collaborated with a graduate student in setting up the connections, an inverter and in doing preliminary testing of a pilot plant. Teaching Experience TA for “CDA 3103 - Computer Organization” Semesters: Summer 2008, Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Summer 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005 Department: Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida
Graded exams, quizzes and projects, as well as held office hours for a class of 40 to 60 students at a time. TA for “COT 4400 - Analysis of Algorithms” Semesters: Spring 2008, Fall 2007 Department: Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida
Graded exams and homework for classes of about 30-40 students. Also substituted for the instructor in his absence, taught the help sessions and held office hours. TA for “CIS 4930 - Object-Oriented Design” Semesters: Summer 2006 Department: Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida
Held office hours as well as graded exams and programming assignments for a class of about 35 students. Instructor of “Computer Science II” Semesters: Spring 2003, Fall 2002, Spring 2002 Department: Natural Resources Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete
I was one of three instructors for a class of 120 students divided into 3 to 4 sections. This was an introductory course in programming concepts using Visual Basic. I was responsible for doing the lecture, supervising hand-on excercises on personal computers as well as preparing and grading exams and assignments. Instructor of “Computer Science I” Semesters: Spring 2002 Department: Natural Resources Engineering,
Technological Educational Institute of Crete I was one of two instructors involved in teaching computer fundamentals and office productivity software. Lab Assistant for “Introduction to Programming: Fortran” Semesters: Fall 2000, Fall 1999 Department: Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens.
My responsibility was to assist students in setting up for and preparing their programming assignments. Teaching Experience (continued) Seminars, Courses and Workshops attended for teaching education Fall 2005–7 “Graduate Instruction Methods” for Computer Science and Engineering Teaching
Assistants. Oct 2005 “Sexual Harassment Awareness” Aug 2005 “Teaching Effectiveness Workshop” Aug 2005 “Teaching USF Undergraduates: A Workshop for International Teaching Assistants” Career Development Jan 2009 Attended a short course on “Systems Engineering Fundamentals” organized by the
American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics. Feb 2007 Attended a short course on “Fuel Cell Technology” presented by the Florida Solar Energy
Center/University of Central Florida. Military Service Aug 2003 – Jan 2005 Rank and position: Second Lieutenant at the Logistics Department of the 3rd and 5th
infantry brigades. Duties: I arranged transportation of people, equipment, food and fuel supplies at the
infantry level. I was also in command of privates (up to small platoons) for training exercises or other activities of up to 3 weeks in duration. Professional Activities Service • Assisted with the organization of the 1st International Symposium on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles that took place in June 2008 in Orlando, FL. • Assistant to the IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics eNewsletter editor for three years (2006-2008). • Reviewed several articles for the Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems and the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. • Participated in the organization of the 3rd Panhellenic Scientific Chemical Engineering Conference in June 2001 in Athens, Greece. Memberships • Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as well as the IEEE ”Control Systems”, ”Robotics and Automation”, ”Computer” and ”Systems, Man and Cybernetics” Societies. • Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Computer Skills Operating Systems: Unix/Linux (5 years), Windows (15 years) Special Software: Matlab/Simulink (General Simulation), TRNSYS (Transient System Simulation), X-Plane
(Flight Simulation), Maxima (Computer Algebra System) Programming C/C++ (STL, Boost::Math, Posix Threads, Sockets, Qt), Matlab/Octave, FORTRAN, Python,
Bash scripting, Visual Basic Office Productivity: TEX or the Microsoft and OpenOffice.org Office Suites Web Development: HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP Language Competency Native Language Greek English Excellent speaking and writing German Intermediate level French Beginner level List of Publications Book and book chapters [1] On Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems into the National
Airspace System: Issues, Challenges, Operational Restrictions, Certification, and Recommendations ,
volume 36 of . Springer-Verlag, 2009. [2] K. Dalamagkidis and D. Kolokotsa. Reinforcement learning for building environmental control. In C. Weber,
M. Elshaw, and N. M. Mayer, editors, , chapter 15, pages
283–294. I-Tech Publications, 2008. Journal [3] K. Dalamagkidis, K. P. Valavanis, and L. A. Piegl. Non-linear model predictive control with neural network
optimization for autonomous autorotation of small unmanned helicopters. IEEE Transactions on Control
Systems Technology , 2010. Accepted. [4] K. Dalamagkidis, K. P. Valavanis, and L. A. Piegl. Autonomous autorotation of unmanned rotorcraft using
nonlinear model predictive control. , 57(1):351–369, January 2010. [5] D. Kolokotsa, G. Saridakis, K. Dalamagkidis, S. Dolianitis, and I. Kaliakatsos. Development of an
intelligent indoor environment and energy management system for greenhouses. Energy Conversion and
Management , 51(1):155–168, January 2010. [6] S. Ioannou, K. Dalamagkidis, K. Valavanis, and E. Stefanakos. Improving endurance and range of a UGV
with gimballed landing platform for launching small unmanned helicopters. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic
Systems , 53(4):399–416, December 2008. [7] K. Dalamagkidis, K.P. Valavanis, and L.A. Piegl. On unmanned aircraft systems issues, challenges and
operational restrictions preventing integration into the national airspace system. Progress in Aerospace
Sciences , 44(6–7):503–519, October–November 2008. [8] K. Dalamagkidis, K.P. Valavanis, and L.A. Piegl. Current status and future perspectives for unmanned aircraft
system operations in the US. , 52(2):313–329, June 2008. List of Publications (continued) [9] K. Dalamagkidis, D. Kolokotsa, K. Kalaitzakis, and G.S. Stavrakakis. Reinforcement learning for energy
conservation and comfort in buildings. , 42(7):2686–2698, July 2007. [10] G. Saridakis, K. Dalamagkidis, D. Kolokotsa, G. S. Stavrakakis, E. Koutroulis, K. Kalaitzakis, E. Antonidakis,
J. Chatzakis, and I. Kaliakatsos. Development of a greenhouse model with an intelligent indoor environment and energy management system for greenhouses. ,
2(5):690–697, May 2006. Conference [11] M. H. Mahoor, R. Godzdanker, K. Dalamagkidis, and K. P. Valavanis. Vision-based landing of light weight
unmanned helicopters on a smart landing platform. In 3rd International Symposium on Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAV’10) , June 2010. [12] K. Dalamagkidis, K. P. Valavanis, and L. A. Piegl. Autonomous autorotation of unmanned rotorcraft using
nonlinear model predictive control. In ,
June 2009. [13] K. Dalamagkidis, K. P. Valavanis, and L. A. Piegl. Evaluating the risk of unmanned aircraft ground impacts.
In , pages 709–716, June 2008. [14] K. Dalamagkidis, K. P. Valavanis, and L. A. Piegl. A survey of unmanned aircraft systems regulation: Status
and future perspectives. In , pages
717–723, June 2008. [15] K. Dalamagkidis, S. Ioannou, K. Valavanis, and E. Stefanakos. A mobile landing platform for miniature
vertical take-off and landing vehicles. In ,
pages 1–6, June 2006. [16] S. Ioannou, K. Dalamagkidis, K. P. Valavanis, E. K. Stefanakos, and P. H. Wiley. On improving endurance of
unmanned ground vehicles: The ATRV-Jr case study. In Proc. 14th Mediterranean Conference on Control
and Automation , pages 1–6, June 2006. [17] K. Dalamagkidis, G. Saridakis, and D. Kolokotsa. Development of simulation algorithms for control scheme
optimization in greenhouses. In Proc. Conference on Dynamic Analysis, Simulation and Testing applied to
the Energy and Environmental Performance of Buildings (DYNASTEE’05) , October 2005. Thesis [18] . Phd dissertation, University
of South Florida, 2009. [19] K. Dalamagkidis. Reinforcement learning for energy conservation and comfort in buildings. Master’s thesis,
Technical University of Crete, July 2003. [20] Internet service of measurement data - Application in an environmental data measurement
station and a photovoltaic system monitoring station. Dipl. Eng. Thesis, National Technical University of
Athens, June 2001. Major Presentations, White papers and Reports [21] Tutorial
Presentation in 3rd International Symposium on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’10) , June 2010. [22] Tutorial
Presentation in 1st International Symposium on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’08) , June 2008. [23] K. Dalamagkidis. Handling helicopter tail-rotor failures - reducing the risk of catastrophic helicopter accidents
by automatic detection, diagnosis and accommodation of tail-rotor failures. , May 2008. [24] , December
2007. [25] K. Dalamagkidis. A greenhouse model for simulation in
