Events


o Invited talk.
Organization: Department of Computer Science of Rice University.
Location: Houston, TX, USA.
Title: "Bio-inspired Pedundulatory Robotic Locomotion".
Host: Prof. Lydia Kavraki.
Date: 11 March 2009.


o Invited talk as part of the GRASP Seminar series.
Organization: GRASP Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania.
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Title: "Bio-inspired Pedundulatory Robotic Locomotion".
Host: Prof. Kostas Daniilidis.
Date: 5 March 2009.


o Invited talk.
Organization: Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Location: Athens, Greece.
Title: "Biologically-inspired Robotics".
Host: Prof. Ioannis Z. Emiris.
Date: 16 October 2008.


o Invited talk.
Organization: Honda Research Institute Europe.
Location: Offenbach/Main, Germany.
Title: "Bio-inspired Motion Control: computational tools and robotic prototypes".
Host: Dr. Yaochu Jin.
Date: 9 November 2006.


o Invited talk.
Organization: IRIDIA Institute of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
Location: Bruxelles, Belgium.
Title: "Motion Control for Undulatory Robotics".
Host: Prof. Marco Dorigo.
Date: 20 October 2005.


o Invited talk.
Organization: Department of Computer Science of Rice University.
Location: Houston, TX, USA.
Title: "Bio-inspired Robotic Motion Control".
Host: Prof. Lydia Kavraki.
Date: 27 July 2004.


o Invited talk as part of the Control and Dynamical Systems lecture series.
Organization: Institute for Systems Research of the University of Maryland.
Location: College Park, MD, USA.
Title: "Bio-inspired Robotic Motion Control".
Host: Prof. P.S. Krishnaprasad.
Date: 20 July 2004.


o Invited Session on ``Sensor-based Control for Robotic Systems''

Session TB1, Tuesday July 18, 2000, MAIN Hall

8th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED 2000)

Rio, Greece, July 17-19, 2000

Organizer and Chair: Dimitris P. Tsakiris

Technical Program:

o ``Solutions for Visual Control of Motion: Active Tracking Applications'', J. Barreto, J. Batista, H. Araujo, Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal.

o ``Robot Formations: Learning Minimum Length Paths on Uneven Terrain'', D. Hristu, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, USA.

o ``Using Statistical Dynamic Contours for Grasping Occluding Contours'', D. Perrin, O. Masoud, C. Smith, N. Papanikolopoulos, Univ. of Minnesota, USA.

o ``Corridor-following by Nonholonomic Mobile Robots Equipped with Panoramic Cameras'', D. Tsakiris, A. Argyros, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece.

o ``A New Partitioned Approach to Image-based Visual Servo Control'', P. Corke, CSIRO, Australia, S. Hutchinson, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.