Sotiris Papatheodorou
Research Interests
Autonomous Exploration, 3D Mapping and Reconstruction
Education
PhD Student
Smart Robotics Lab, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
Supervisor: Prof. Stefan Leutenegger
October 2018 - April 2023 (estimated)
Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of Patras, GR
Joint Bachelor's and Master's degree, 300 ECTS
Diploma GPA: 8.4/10 (top 2%)
Master's in Systems and Control GPA: 9.6/10
Diploma thesis: Cooperative control for area coverage by robots with positioning uncertainty
Supervisor: Prof. Anthony Tzes
October 2011 - March 2017
Experience
Research Engineer
Member of Prof. Anthony Tzes' lab in New York University Abu Dhabi.
August 2017 - August 2018
Undergaduate Researcher
Member of the University of Patras' team for the European Union's Aeroworks 2020 project. Work has been accepted in the 1st deliverable.
October - December 2016
Awards
President's PhD Scholarship
Awarded from Imperial College London in 2018.
Skills
Programming Languages
C, C++, Go, Python, MATLAB, Octave, POSIX Shell, Bash
Software Development
ROS, OpenCV, SDL, Git, CMake, Make
Technical Writing
Articles, reports, presentations, posters
Languages
Greek (native), English (fluent), French (basic)
Other
Video editing, HTML/CSS, Linux system administration
Journal Articles
- M. Popović, F. Thomas, S. Papatheodorou, N. Funk, T. Vidal-Calleja, S. Leutenegger,
Volumetric Occupancy Mapping With Probabilistic Depth Completion for Robotic Navigation,
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021
- N. Funk, J. Tarrio, S. Papatheodorou, M. Popović, P. F. Alcantarilla, S. Leutenegger,
Multi-Resolution 3D Mapping with Explicit Free Space Representation for Fast and Accurate Mobile Robot Motion Planning,
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021
- M. Tzes, S. Papatheodorou, A. Tzes,
Visual Area Coverage by Heterogeneous Aerial Agents Under Imprecise Localization,
IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2018
- S. Papatheodorou, A. Tzes, K. Giannousakis, Y. Stergiopoulos,
Distributed area coverage control with imprecise robot localization: Simulation and experimental studies,
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2018
- S. Papatheodorou, A. Tzes, Y. Stergiopoulos,
Collaborative visual area coverage,
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2017
Conference Papers
- S. Papatheodorou, N. Funk, D. Tzoumanikas, C. Choi, B. Xu, S. Leutenegger,
Finding Things in the Unknown: Semantic Object-Centric Exploration with an MAV,
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023
- Y. Wang, N. Funk, M. Ramezani, S. Papatheodorou, M. Popović, M. Camurri, S. Leutenegger, M. Fallon,
Elastic and Efficient LiDAR Reconstruction for Large-Scale Exploration Tasks,
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021
- A. Tsoukalas, A. Tzes, S. Papatheodorou, F. Khorrami,
UAV-deployment for city-wide area coverage and computation of optimal response trajectories,
International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, 2020
- A. Dai, S. Papatheodorou, N. Funk, D. Tzoumanikas, S. Leutenegger,
Fast Frontier-based Information-driven Autonomous Exploration with an MAV,
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020
- N. Bousias, S. Papatheodorou, M. Tzes, A. Tzes,
Collaborative visual area coverage using aerial agents equipped with PTZ-cameras under localization uncertainty,
European Control Conference, 2019
- M. Tzes, S. Papatheodorou, A. Tzes,
Collaborative Visual Area Coverage by Aerial Agents under Positioning Uncertainty,
26th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 2018
- S. Papatheodorou, M. Smyrnakis, T. Hamidou, A. Tzes,
Path Planning and Task Assignment for Data Retrieval from Wireless Sensor Nodes Relying on Game-Theoretic Learning,
5th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, 2018
- S. Papatheodorou, A. Tzes, K. Giannousakis,
Experimental studies on distributed control for area coverage using mobile robots,
25th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 2017
- S. Papatheodorou, A. Tzes,
Cooperative visual convex area coverage using a tessellation-free strategy,
56th Conference on Decision and Control, 2017
- S. Papatheodorou, Y. Stergiopoulos, A. Tzes,
Distributed area coverage control with imprecise robot localization,
24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 2016
Book Chapters
- S. Papatheodorou, A. Tzes,
Theoretical and Experimental Collaborative Area Coverage Schemes Using Mobile Agents,
Applications of Mobile Robots, 2019