Konstantinos Karakasiliotis

Research Assistant, Biologically Inspired Robotics Group (BIRG), EPFL

Short bio:

Konstantinos Karakasiliotis received his diploma in Electronics and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete (T.U.C.). He worked for 12 months as a Research Associate in the Computational Vision and Robotics Laboratory (CVRL) at the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FO.R.T.H.) where he developed a biomimetic robotic undulatory prototype that imitates the locomotion and morphology of the Nereis Polychaete worms. The biggest part of the above work was the topic of his diploma thesis. He worked for 8 months as a Research Associate in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory in T.U.C. where he initiated with Prof. Michail G. Lagoudakis the Larvabot project. The goal of this project is to develop biomimetic robotic prototypes that combine the undulatory and climbing gaits in one system, imitating the morphology of the Chlorochlamys Chloroleucaria larva. In April 2008 he joined BIRG as a Research Assistant and a PhD candidate where he works on the hardware of the LAMPETRA project.

Contact Info:
Konstantinos Karakasiliotis
Biologically Inspired Robotics Group
EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
EPFL-IC-ISIM-GRIJ, INN 233, Station 14
CH 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Tel: ++41 21 693 6714

Publications:

2009

Kostas Karakasiliotis and A.J. Ijspeert, "Analysis of the terrestial locomotion of a salamander robot", In Proceeding of IEEE IROS09, St. Louis, USA, October 2009.
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2007

Konstantinos Karakasiliotis, Leonidas Kagkarakis, and Michail G. Lagoudakis, "Chlorochlamys Loop-like Locomotion: Combining Crawling and Climbing Robotics", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (RoBio 2007), Sanya, China, December 2007, pp. 978-983. [pdf]

M. Sfakiotakis, D. P. Tsakiris, and K. Karakasiliotis, "Polychaete-like pedundulatory robotic locomotion", in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom., Roma, Italy, 2007, pp. 269-274. [pdf]