OctoBot
Octopus-inspired compliant-body aquatic robot

28. M. Sfakiotakis, A. Chatzidaki, T. Evdaimon, A. Kazakidi, D.P. Tsakiris, "The Role of Compliance in Pedundulatory Locomotion" In 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Athens, Greece, June 21-24, 2016, accepted

27. A. Kazakidi, D.P. Tsakiris, J.A. Ekateriaris, "Arm morphology and hydrodynamic behavior of a two-arm robotic swimmer," Rob. & Autom. Letters, 2016, under review

26. M. Sfakiotakis, A. Kazakidi, T. Evdaimon, A. Chatzidaki, D.P. Tsakiris, "Multi-arm Robotic Swimmer Actuated by Antagonistic SMA Springs," In IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Int. Rob. Syst. (IROS'15), 28 September-2 October 2015, Hamburg, Germany, pp. 1540-1545 [pdf] [video]

25. A. Kazakidi, D.P. Tsakiris, J.A. Ekaterinaris, "Tip-vortex flow separation in drag-based arm-swimming propulsion," In 6th symposium on Global Flow Instability and Control, 28 September-2 October 2015, Hersonissos, Greece

24. M. Sfakiotakis, A. Kazakidi, D.P. Tsakiris, "Octopus-inspired multi-arm robotic swimming," Bioinsp. Biomim. vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 035005 (1-22), 2015 [url] [video]

23. A. Kazakidi, D.P. Tsakiris, D. Angelidis, F. Sotiropoulos, J.A. Ekaterinaris, "CFD Study of Aquatic Thrust Generation by an Octopus-like Arm Under Prescribed Deformations," Computers & Fluids vol. 115, pp. 54-65, 2015 [url]

22. A. Kazakidi, V. Vavourakis, D.P. Tsakiris, J.A. Ekaterinaris, "A numerical investigation of flow around octopus-like arms: near-wake vortex patterns and force development," Comp. Meth. Biomech. Biomed. Eng. vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 1321-1339, 2015 [url]

21. A. Kazakidi, X. Zabulis, D.P. Tsakiris, "Vision-based 3D motion reconstruction of octopus arm swimming and comparison with an 8-arm underwater robot," In IEEE Int. Conf. Rob. Autom. (ICRA'15), 26-30 May 2015, Seattle, WA, USA, pp. 1178-1183 [video]

20. A. Kazakidi, M. Sfakiotakis, X. Zabulis, D.P. Tsakiris, "Octopus arm kinematic analysis for use in multi-arm underwater robotic swimmers", IEEE Int. Conf. Rob. Autom. (ICRA'15), Late Breaking Results. 26-30 May 2015, Seattle, WA, USA, pp. 4136

19. V. Vavourakis, A. Kazakidi, D.P. Tsakiris, J.A. Ekaterinaris, "A nonlinear dynamic finite element approach for simulating muscular hydrostats," Comp. Meth. Biomech. Biomed. Eng., vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 917-931, 2014 [url]

18. M. Sfakiotakis, A. Kazakidi, A. Chatzidaki, T. Evdaimon, D.P. Tsakiris, "Multi-arm Robotic Swimming with Octopus-inspired Compliant Web," In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 14-18, 2014, pp. 302-308 [url] [pdf] [video]

17. A. Kazakidi, D.P. Tsakiris, F. Sotiropoulos, J.A. Ekaterinaris, "A Computational Fluid Dynamic Study of Intense Cephalopod-like Motions," In AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition (AVIATION 2014), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 16 - 20, 2014, pp. 1-15 [url]

16. T. Evdaimon, M. Sfakiotakis, D.P. Tsakiris, "A Closed-Loop Position Control Scheme for SMA-Actuated Joints," In 2014 22nd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Palermo, Italy, June 16-19, 2014, pp. 1527-1532 [url]

15. A. Kazakidi, E.P. Gnanamanickam, D.P. Tsakiris, J.A. Ekaterinaris, "A flow visualization study of single-arm sculling movement emulating cephalopod thrust generation,� In 67th Ann. Meeting APS Division Fluid Dynamics, San Francisco, USA, November 23-25, 2014 [url]

14. Kazakidi A., Stefanou S., Zabulis X., Kuba M., Ekaterinaris J.A., Flash T. Hochner B., Tsakiris D.P., "3D Reconstruction of Octopus Arm Swimming Motion," In 7th World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB), Boston, USA, July 6-11, 2014 [url]

13. M. Sfakiotakis, A. Kazakidi, N. Pateromichelakis, D.P. Tsakiris, "Octopus-inspired Eight-arm Robotic Swimming by Sculling Movements", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), Karlsruhe, Germany, May 6-11, 2013, pp. 5135-5141 [url] [pdf] [video]

12. M. Sfakiotakis, A. Kazakidi, D.P. Tsakiris, "Turning maneuvers of an octopus-inspired multi-arm robotic swimmer,� In 21st Med. Conf. Control Autom. (MED'13), Chania, Greece, June 25-28, 2013, pp. 1343-1349 [url] [pdf] [video]

11. A. Kazakidi, D.P. Tsakiris, F. Sotiropoulos, J.A. Ekaterinaris, "Numerical investigation of aquatic locomotion with cephalopod-like appendages,� In 19th Congr. Eur. Soc. Biomech. (ESB2013), Patra, Greece, August 25-28, 2013

10. A. Kazakidi, S. Stefanou, X. Zabulis, M. Kuba, A. Botvinnik, S. Hanassy, M. Sfakiotakis, T. Gutnick, J.A. Ekaterinaris, T. Flash, B. Hochner, D.P. Tsakiris, "Motion reconstruction of arm swimming in the octopus vulgaris,� In 19th Congr. Eur. Soc. Biomech. (ESB2013), Patra, Greece, August 25-28, 2013

9. V. Vavourakis, D. Bampasakis, A. Kazakidi, N. Pateromichelakis, J.A. Ekaterinaris, D.P. Tsakiris, "Generation of primitive behaviors for non-linear hyperelastic octopus-inspired robotic arm,� In IEEE Int. Conf. Biomed. Robotics Biomechatr. (BioRob), Roma, Italy, June 24-28, 2012, pp. 725-730 [url]

8. A. Kazakidi, V. Vavourakis, N. Pateromichelakis, J.A. Ekaterinaris, D.P. Tsakiris, "Hydrodynamic analysis of octopus-like robotic arms,� In IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics Autom. (ICRA 2012), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 14-18, 2012, pp. 5295-5300 [url]

7. M. Sfakiotakis, A. Kazakidi, N. Pateromichelakis, J.A. Ekaterinaris, D.P. Tsakiris, "Robotic underwater propulsion inspired by the octopus multi-arm swimming,� In IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics Autom. (ICRA 2012), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 14-18, 2012, pp. 3833-3839 [url] [pdf] [video]

6. A. Kazakidi, D.P. Tsakiris, J.A. Ekaterinaris, "Vortex formation in the vicinity of moving octopus-like arms,� In 5th Symp. Global Flow Instability Control, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, September 19 - 22, 2012, pp. 1-2

5. A. Kazakidi, V. Vavourakis, N. Pateromichelakis, D.P. Tsakiris, J.A. Ekaterinaris, "Flow patterns around moving octopus-like arms,� In 10th World Congress Comp. Mech., Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 8-13, 2012

4. A. Kazakidi, M. Kuba, A. Botvinnik, M. Sfakiotakis, T. Gutnick, S. Hanassy, G. Levy, J.A. Ekaterinaris, T. Flash, B. Hochner, D.P. Tsakiris, "Swimming patterns of the octopus vulgaris,� In 22nd Ann. Meet. Neural Control Movem. Soc., Venice, Italy, April 23-29, 2012

3. R. Kang, A. Kazakidi, E. Guglielmino, D.T. Branson, D.P. Tsakiris, J.A. Ekaterinaris, D.G. Caldwell, "Dynamic model of a hyper-redundant, octopus-like manipulator for underwater application,� In IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intellig. Robots Sys. (IROS 2011), San Francisco, CA, September 25-30, 2011, pp. 4054-4059 [url]

2. V. Vavourakis, A. Kazakidi, D.P. Tsakiris, J.A. Ekaterinaris, "A finite element method for non-linear hyperelasticity applied for the simulation of octopus arm motions,� In IV Int. Conf. Comput. Methods Coupled Problems Sci. Eng. (COUPLED PROBLEMS 2011), Kos Island, Greece, June 20-22, 2011, pp. 1-13 [url]

1. A. Kazakidi, V. Vavourakis, J.A. Ekaterinaris, D.P. Tsakiris, "Computational investigation of octopus arm hydrodynamics,� In 4th ANSA and mETA International Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 1-3, 2011, pp. 1-9

Picture and description of Octopus robot in: "La Bionique : Quand la Science Imite la Nature", By: Agn�s Guillot and Jean-Arcady Meyer, new updated version 2014.