Research Interests

• Biologically-inspired robotics
  • Modeling and Control of Continuum Octopus Arm-like Robots
  • Pedundulatory Locomotion of Polychaete-like Robots
  • Undulatory Locomotion of Nonholonomic G-Snakes
  • Insect-like Centering Behavior
  • Vision-based Stabilization of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots
  • Robotic Motion Planning and Control
  • Nonlinear Geometric Control
  • Geometric Mechanics
  • Image Understanding and Computational Vision (Active and Purposive)

Grants and Projects

(Partial listing)

• EU FP7 ICT FET Project OCTOPUS
  (Novel Design Principles and Technologies
  for a New Generation of High Dexterity Soft-bodied Robots
  Inspired by the Morphology and Behaviour of the Octopus)
  Duration: 2/2009-1/2013
  Principal investigator in charge of FORTH activities
• EU FP6 IST Project VECTOR
  (Versatile Endoscopic Capsule for Gastrointestinal Tumor Recognition and Therapy)
  Duration: 9/2006-2/2011
  Principal investigator in charge of FORTH activities
• EU FP6 IST Project MATHESIS
  (Observational Learning in Cognitive Agents)
  Duration: 2/2006-1/2009
• EU IST FET Project BIOLOCH
  (BIOmimetic structures for LOComotion in the Human body)
  Duration: 5/2002-10/2005
  Principal investigator in charge of FORTH activities