News

April 1, 2022
GLIMPSE Started !

April 15, 2022
GLIMPSE Kickoff meeting !

August 22, 2022
Our GLIMPSE paper has been accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

S. Papaioannou, P. Kolios, T. Theocharides, C. G. Panayiotou and M. M. Polycarpou, “Integrated Guidance and Gimbal Control for Coverage Planning With Visibility Constraints,” in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 1276-1291, April 2023, doi: 10.1109/TAES.2022.3199196.

February 23, 2023
Our GLIMPSE paper has been accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems.

S. Papaioannou, P. Kolios, T. Theocharides, C. G. Panayiotou and M. M. Polycarpou, “Distributed Search Planning in 3-D Environments With a Dynamically Varying Number of Agents,” in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, doi: 10.1109/TSMC.2023.3240023.

March 10, 2023
Our GLIMPSE paper has been accepted in the 21st European Control Conference (ECC).

A. Anastasiou, S. Papaioannou, P. Kolios and C. Panayiotou, “Model Predictive Control For Multiple Castaway Tracking with an Autonomous Aerial Agent,” 2023 European Control Conference (ECC), June 13-16, Bucharest, Romania.

April 16, 2023
Two papers have been accepted in the 31st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2023

1. Angelos Zacharia, Savvas Papaioannou, Panayiotis Kolios and Christos Panayiotou, “Distributed Control for 3D Inspection using Multi-UAV Systems,” in Proceedings of the 31^st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), June 26-29, 2023, Limassol, Cyprus.
2. Constantinos Heracleous, Panayiotis Kolios, and Christos G. Panayiotou. “UAV-based system for real-time wildfire perimeter propagation tracking,” Proceedings of the 31^st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), June 26-29, 2023, Limassol, Cyprus.

July 12, 2023
Our paper entitled “Cooperative Receding Horizon 3D Coverage Control with a Team of Networked Aerial Agents” has been accepted to the 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) !

December 14, 2023
Our KIOS CoE team, has received the First Prize at the Cooperative Aerial Robots Inspection Challenge (CARIC) during the flagship 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2023), 13-15 December 2023, held in Singapore.

Our team proposed an innovative solution that effectively coordinated multiple aerial robots (i.e., drones) for automated monitoring and infrastructure inspection. As part of the GLIMPSE project (Task: Multi-drone indoor exploration and inspection), we have developed a distributed cooperative control system, enabling a team of drones to efficiently address the infrastructure inspection problem. Our approach, which outperformed competing methods, involved a two-stage innovative methodology. Initially, it entailed reconstructing the search area optimally for obstacle avoidance. This was followed by enabling the 3D inspection of the infrastructure (both outdoors and indoors) through a cooperative control scheme that jointly optimized guidance and camera controls of multiple aerial robots. Our approach earned us the top spot among 19 international teams. The solutions were evaluated by the organizing committee, comprising five experts in the field, with criteria including inspection quality, infrastructure coverage, and execution time.

March 7, 2024
Our GLIMPSE paper entitled “Hierarchical Fault-Tolerant Coverage Control for an Autonomous Aerial Agent“, has been accepted at the 12th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision, and Safety of Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS 2024) , 4-7 June, Ferrara, Italy, 2024.

April 6, 2024
Our GLIMPSE paper entitled “Automated Real-Time Inspection in Indoor and Outdoor 3D Environments with Cooperative Aerial Robots”, has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2024.