Publications

			@article{Kostavelis2016,
			doi = {10.5772/62099},
			url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/62099},
			year  = {2016},
			publisher = {InTech},
			volume={13}, 
			number={21}, 
			pages = {},
			author = {Kostavelis, Ioannis and Boukas, Evangelos and Nalpantidis, Lazaros and Gasteratos, Antonios},
			title = {Stereo-based Visual Odometry for Autonomous Robot Navigation},
			journal = {International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems}
			}
			@article{boukascbs2016,
			author = {Boukas,Evangelos and Gasteratos,Antonios},
			title = {Modeling Regions of Interest on Orbital and Rover Imagery for Planetary Exploration Missions},
			journal = {Cybernetics and Systems},
			volume = {47},
			number = {03},
			pages = {180-205},
			year = {2016},
			doi = {10.1080/01969722.2016.1154771},
			url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01969722.2016.1154771},
			}
			@inproceedings{boukas2016extraction,
			title={HDPR: A Mobile Testbed Testbed for Current and Future Rover Technologies},
			author={Boukas, Evangelos and Hewitt, Robert A. and Pagnamenta, Marco and Nelen, Robin and Azkarate, Martin and Marshall, Joshua A. and Gasteratos, Antonios and Visentin, Gianfranco},
			booktitle={Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS 2016), 13th International Symposium on},
			year={2016},
			month={June},
			pages={1--6},
			address={Beijing, China (to be presented)}
			}
			@inproceedings{azkarate2016CNES,
			title={Remote Rover Operations: Testing the Exomars Egress Case},
			author={Azkarate, Martin and Kapellos, Konstantinos and Hewitt, Robert A. and Boukas, Evangelos and Joudrier, Luc and Poulakis, Pantelis and Bussi, D. and Ferentino, E. and Visentin, Gianfranco},
			booktitle={Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS 2016), 13th International Symposium on},
			year={2016},
			month={June},
			pages={1--8},
			address={Beijing, China (to be presented)}
			}			
			@inproceedings{lentaris2015spartan, 
			title={SPARTAN/SEXTANT/COMPASS: Advancing Space Rover Vision via Reconfigurable Platforms},
			author={Lentaris, George and Stamoulias, Ioannis and Diamantopoulos, Dionysios and Maragos, Konstantinos and Siozios, Kostas and Soudris, Dimitrios and Rodrigalvarez, Marcos Aviles and Lourakis, Manolis and Zabulis, Xenophon and Kostavelis, Ioannis and Nalpantidis, Lazaros and Boukas, Evangelos and Gasteratos, Antonios},
			booktitle={Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC), 11th International Symposium on},
			address={Bochum, Germany},
			pages={475--486},
			year={2015},
			month={January},
			publisher={Springer International Publishing}
			}
			@inproceedings{boukas2015matching,
			title={Matching Sparse Networks of Semantic ROIs Among Rover and Orbital Imagery},
			author={Boukas, Evangelos and Gasteratos, Antonios and Visentin, Gianfranco},
			booktitle={Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA 2015), 13th Symposium on},
			pages={1--6},
			year={2015},
			month={May},
			address={Noordwijk, The Netherlands}
			}
			@inproceedings{boukas2105icra, 
			author={Boukas, E. and Gasteratos, A. and Visentin, G.}, 
			booktitle={Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015 IEEE International Conference on}, 
			title={Towards orbital based global rover localization}, 
			year={2015},
			pages={2874-2881}, 
			keywords={autonomous aerial vehicles;search problems;DARCES;ESA seeker activity;GN;ROI;absolute coordinate system;absolute frame;autonomous exploration;common regions of interest;composite semi-autonomous exploration;data-aligned rigidity-constrained exhaustive search;extraterrestrial surfaces;global network;local network;matching procedure;offline procedure;onboard procedure;orbital based global rover localization;orbital imagery;planetary rover;rover imagery;space exploratory;Entropy;Extraterrestrial measurements;Feature extraction;Rocks;Space exploration;Space vehicles;Three-dimensional displays}, 
			doi={10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139591}, 
			address={Seattle, WA},
			month={April}
			}
			@inbook{charalampous2015autonomous,
			chapter={Autonomous Robot Path Planning Techniques Using Cellular Automata},
			author={Charalampous, Konstantinos and Kostavelis, Ioannis and Boukas, Evangelos and Amanatiadis, Angelos and Nalpantidis, Lazaros and Emmanouilidis, Christos and Gasteratos, Antonios},
			title={Robots and Lattice Automata},
			pages={175--196},
			year={2015},
			publisher={Springer International Publishing}
			}
			@article{boukas2014robot, 
			author={Boukas, E. and Kostavelis, I. and Gasteratos, A. and Sirakoulis, G.C.}, 
			journal={Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on}, 
			title={Robot Guided Crowd Evacuation}, 
			year={2014}, 
			volume={12}, 
			number={2}, 
			pages={739-751}, 
			keywords={cellular automata;emergency management;mobile robots;simulation;cellular automaton simulation model;citizens safety;crowd evacuation problem;custom-made mobile robotic platform;emergency situations;human behavior;innovative technological solution;mobile robot agents;robot guided crowd evacuation;robot guided evacuation model;Automata;Computational modeling;Mobile communication;Mobile robots;Robot sensing systems;Safety;Cellular automata (CA);Robot guidance;evacuation models;safety;simultaneously localization and mapping (SLAM)}, 
			doi={10.1109/TASE.2014.2323175}, 
			ISSN={1545-5955}, 
			month={December}
			}
			@article{kostavelis2014spartan,
			title={SPARTAN: Developing a vision system for future autonomous space exploration robots},
			author={Kostavelis, Ioannis and Nalpantidis, Lazaros and Boukas, Evangelos and Rodrigalvarez, Marcos Aviles and Stamoulias, Ioannis and Lentaris, George and Diamantopoulos, Dionysios and Siozios, Kostas and Soudris, Dimitrios and Gasteratos, Antonios},
			journal={Journal of Field Robotics},
			volume={31},
			number={1},
			pages={107--140},
			year={2014}
			}
			@inproceedings{boukas2014localization,
			title={Localization of Planetary Exploration Rovers with Orbital Imaging: a survey of approaches},
			author={Boukas, Evangelos and Gasteratos, Antonios and Visentin, Gianfranco},
			booktitle={Modelling, Estimation, Perception and Control of All Terrain Mobile Robots (WMEPC14), ICRA14 Workshop on}, 
			year={2014},
			month={June},
			pages={95--99},
			address={Hong Kong}
			}
			@inproceedings{boukas2014extraction,
			title={Extraction of Common Regions of Interest from Orbital and Rover (Ground) acquired Imagery},
			author={Boukas, Evangelos and Gasteratos, Antonios and Visentin, Gianfranco},
			booktitle={Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS 2014), 12th International Symposium on},
			year={2014},
			month={June},
			pages={1--8},
			address={Montreal, Canada}
			}
			@inproceedings{boukas2014intelligent,
			title={An Intelligent Tool for the Automated Evaluation of Pedestrian Simulation.},
			author={Boukas, Evangelos and Crociani, Luca and Manzoni, Sara and Vizzari, Giuseppe and Gasteratos, Antonios and Sirakoulis, Georgios Ch},
			booktitle={AI (SETN 2014), 8th Hellenic Conference on},
			pages={136--149},
			year={2014},
			month={May},
			address={Ioannina, Greece}
			}
			@inproceedings{kostavelis2013visual,
			title={Visual Odometry for autonomous robot navigation through efficient outlier rejection},
			author={Kostavelis, Ioannis and Boukas, Evangelos and Nalpantidis, Lazaros and Gasteratos, Antonios},
			booktitle={Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST), 2013 IEEE International Conference on},
			pages={45--50},
			year={2013},
			organization={IEEE},
			address={Beijing, China}
			}
			@inbook{kostavelis2013mechatronic,
			chapter={A mechatronic platform for robotic educational activities},
			author={Kostavelis, Ioannis and Boukas, Evangelos and Nalpantidis, Lazaros and Gasteratos, Antonios},
			title={Interdisciplinary Mechatronics},
			pages={543--568},
			year={2013},
			publisher={John Wiley \& Sons, Inc.}
			}
			@inproceedings{lentaris2013spartan,
			title={SPARTAN: Efficient Implementation of Computer Vision Algorithms for Autonomous Rover Navigation},
			author={Lentaris, George and Diamantopoulos, Dionysios and Siozios, Kostas and Stamoulias, Ioannis and Kostavelis, Ioannis and Boukas, Evangelos and Nalpantidis, Lazaros and Soudris, Dimitrios and Gasteratos, Antonios and Aviles, M},
			booktitle={Reconfigurable Computing, 7th HiPEAC Workshop on},
			pages={1--10},
			year={2013},
			address={Berlin, Germany},
			month={January}
			}
			@inproceedings{kostavelis2012learning,
			title={Learning the terrain and planning a collision-free trajectory for indoor post-disaster environments},
			author={Kostavelis, Ioannis and Gasteratos, Antonios and Boukas, Evangelos and Nalpantidis, Lazaros},
			booktitle={Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2012 IEEE International Symposium on},
			pages={1--6},
			year={2012},
			address={College Station, TX, USA},
			organization={IEEE}
			}
			@inbook{kostavelis2012path,
			chapter={Path tracing on polar depth maps for robot navigation},
			author={Kostavelis, Ioannis and Boukas, Evangelos and Nalpantidis, Lazaros and Gasteratos, Antonios},
			title={Cellular Automata},
			pages={395--404},
			year={2012},
			publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg}
			}
			@inproceedings{boukas2012graph,
			title={Graph Based Localisation Refinement by Orbital Images},
			author={Boukas, Evangelos and Kostavelis, Ioannis and Nalpantidis, Lazaros and Gasteratos, Antonios},
			year={2012},
			booktitle={Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS 2012), 11th International Symposium on},
			year={2012},
			month={September},
			pages={1--8},
			address={Turin, Italy}
			}
			@inproceedings{kostavelis2011spartan, 
			author={Kostavelis, I. and Boukas, E. and Nalpantidis, L. and Gasteratos, A. and Rodrigalvarez, M.A.}, 
			booktitle={Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), 2011 IEEE International Conference on}, 
			title={SPARTAN system: Towards a low-cost and high-performance vision architecture for space exploratory rovers}, 
			year={2011}, 
			pages={1994-2001}, 
			keywords={aerospace robotics;path planning;planetary rovers;robot vision;ExoMars;Martian exploratory rover;SPARTAN system;computer vision;high-performance vision architecture;low-cost vision architecture;rover vision sensor;space exploratory robotic rover;space exploratory rover;space robot;space rover navigation;sparing robotics technologies for autonomous navigation;Accuracy;Cameras;Mars;Robot vision systems;Three dimensional displays}, 
			doi={10.1109/ICCVW.2011.6130493}, 
			month={Nov},
			address={Barcelona, Spain}
			}
			@inproceedings{Siozios2011, 
			author={Siozios, K. and Diamantopoulos, D. and Kostavelis, I. and Boukas, E. and Nalpantidis, L. and Soudris, D. and Gasteratos, A. and Aviles, M. and Anagnostopoulos, I.}, 
			booktitle={Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC), 6th International Workshop on}, 
			title={SPARTAN project: Efficient implementation of computer vision algorithms onto reconfigurable platform targeting to space applications}, 
			year={2011}, 
			pages={1-9}, 
			month={June},
			address={Montpellier, France}
			}
			@inproceedings{aviles2011co,
			title={A co-design methodology for implementing computer vision algorithms for rover navigation onto reconfigurable hardware},
			author={Avil{\'e}s, Marcos and Siozios, Kostas and Diamantopoulos, Dionysios and Nalpantidis, Lazaros and Kostavelis, Ioannis and Boukas, Evangelos and Soudris, Dimitrios and Gasteratos, Antonios},
			booktitle={Computer Vision on Low-Power Reconfigurable Architectures, FPL2011 Workshop on},
			month={September},
			address={Chania, Greece},
			pages={9--10},
			year={2011}
			}