List of Graduated PhD Students

 

University of South Florida PHD Graduates

1. Ioannis Raptis  (Advisor, Kimon Valavanis, Co-Advisor, Wilfrido Moreno) 
   Dissertation Title: Nonlinear and Linear Controller Design for Unmanned Rotorcraft. 
   
   
2. Kostas Dalamagkidis  (Advisor, Kimon Valavanis, Co-Advisor, Les Piegl) 
   Dissertation Title: Autonomous Vertical Autorotation for Unmanned Rotorcraft. 
   
   
3. Michael Kontitsis  (Advisor, Kimon Valavanis, Co-Advisor, Sudeep Sarkar) 
   Dissertation Title: Design and Implementation of an Integrated Dynamic Vision System for Autonomous Systems Operating in Uncertain Domains.
   
   
4. Stelios Ioannou  (Co-Advisors, Elias Stefanakos, Kimon Valavanis) 
   Dissertation Title: Discrete Linear Constrained Multivariate Optimization for Power Sources of Mobile Systems. 
   
   
5. Carlos Castillo  (Co-Advisors, Wilfrido Moreno, Kimon Valavanis) 
   Dissertation Title: Fault-Tolerant Adaptive Model Predictive Control Using Joint Estimation Kalman Filters for Small-Scale Helicopters.
   
   
6. Athanasios (Sakis) Tsalatsanis  (Co-advisors, Ali Yalcin, Kimon Valavanis) 
   Dissertation Title: Control of Autonomous Robot Teams in Industrial Applications. 
   
   
7. Anuj Puri 
   Dissertation Title: Statistical Profile Generation of Real-Time UAV-based Traffic Data. 
   
   
8. Namir Aldawoodi  (Co-advisors, Kimon Valavanis, Rafael Perez) 
   Dissertation Title: An Approach to Designing an Unmanned Helicopter Autopilot Using Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing. 
   
   
9. Wendy Alvis  (Co-advisors, Wilfrido Moreno, Kimon Valavanis) 
   Dissertation Title: Development of an FPGA Based Autopilot Hardware Platform for Research and Development of Autonomous Systems. 
   
   
10. Laura Barnes  
    Dissertation Title: A Potential Field Based Formation Control Methodology for Robot Swarms. 
    
    
11. Richard Garcia  
    Dissertation Title: Designing an Autonomous Helicopter Testbed: From Conception through Implementation. 
    
    
12. Mauricio Castillo-Effen  (Co-advisors, Wilfrido Moreno, Kimon Valavanis) 
    Dissertation Title: Cooperative Localization in Wireless Networked Systems. 

 

 1999-2003, Advisor / Co-Advisor of Graduated PHD Students - TUC Greece

1. George Atsalakis : 
   Stock Market Forecasting Techniques – A Neuro-Fuzzy Perspective. 
   
   
2. George Tsinarakis : 
   Supervisory Control and Performance Evaluation of Random Topology Manufacturing Systems with Hybrid Petri Nets. 
   
   
3. Vangelis Kanakakis : 
   Fuzzy Logic Based navigation of Underwater Vehicles.
   
   

 1986-1998 University of Louisiana At Lafayette & Northeastern University

1. Maja Matijasevic  (In collaboration with the University of Zagreb) 
   Dissertation Title: Distributed Networked Multimedia and Virtual Reality Applications for Multi-User Environments
   
   
2.   Timothy M. Hebert 
   Dissertation Title: Navigation of an Autonomous Vehicle Using a Combined Electrostatic Potential Field / Fuzzy Inference Approach 
   
   
3.   Christophe Veltsos  
   Dissertation Title: Automated Petri Net Synthesis for the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Dynamic Systems
   
   
4.   Georgios A. Demetriou  
   Dissertation Title: A State Configured Hierarchical Architecture for the Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
    
5.   Ramesh Kolluru  
   Dissertation Title: Modeling, Design, Prototyping and Performance Evaluation of a Sensor-Based Robotic Gripper System for Automated Limp Material Handling 
   
   
6.   George Paschos 
   Dissertation Title: Color and Texture Based Image Analysis: Segmentation and Classification
   
   
7.   Yanjun Zhang  
   Dissertation Title: Potential Based Panel Method for Robot Motion Planning 
   
   
8.   Angelika I. Kokkinaki  
   Dissertation Title: A Dynamic Planning System for Automated Manufacturing Environments 
   
   
9.   Denis Gracanin  
   Dissertation Title: Fundamentals of Parameterized Petri Nets 
   
   
10.   Srinivasan Ramaswamy 
    Dissertation Title: Hierarchical Time Extended Petri Nets (H EPNs) for Integrated Control and Diagnostics of Multi Level Systems 
    
    
11.   Srinivasa R. Malladi 
    Dissertation Title: A Sensor-Based Path Planning Algorithm for Control and Coordination of Multi-jointed Robotic Appendages 
    
    
12.   Jue Zheng  
    Dissertation Title: Smoothing and Segmentation of Color Images in Computer Vision 
    
    
13.   Barry Gold  
    Eng. Deg. Thesis: Aspects of Trajectory Tracking Control of a Robot Arm 
    
    
14. Stefan Surka 
    Eng. Deg. Thesis: Extracting Linear Image Features Using Directional Neighborhood Operators