Efstathios Bakolas received
the Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of
Athens, Greece, in 2004 and the MS. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 2007. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at
the Georgia Institute of Technology working with Dr. Panagiotis Tsiotras.
His main research interests are optimal control and differential game theory,
controllability/reachability theory, path planning,
guidance and navigation, task assignment, planning, and control problems of
spatially distributed autonomous vehicles, and computational geometry. Other
areas of interests include reliability and system safety of complex engineering
systems.
I.EDUCATION
1. Ph.D.
in Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Inst. Technology, December 2011 (GPA 4.0/4.0)
Advisor: Dr. Panagiotis Tsiotras
PhD Dissertation: "Optimal steering
for kinematic vehicles with applications to spatially distributed agents,"
2.
M.Sc. in
Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Inst. Technology, May 2007 (GPA 4.0/4.0)
Advisor: Dr Panagiotis Tsiotras
Master Thesis: "A hierarchical
on-line path planning scheme using wavelets,"
3.
Diploma
in Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A),
2004 (with honors)
II.EMPLOYMENT
1. School
of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Research
Assistant, August 2005- December 2011
2. School
of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Post-doctoral
Fellow, January 2012- present
III.SCHOLARLY
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
A.
Journal Publications
1. Bakolas, E. and Tsiotras, P., ''The Zermelo-Voronoi diagram: a dynamic partition problem,''
Automatica, vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 2059--2067, 2010.
doi:10.1016/j.automatica.2010.09.003
2. Saleh, J. H., Marais, K. B., Bakolas, E. and Cowlagi R. V. ''Highlights from the literature on accident
causation and system safety: Review of major ideas, recent contributions, and
challenges,'' Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 95, no. 11, pp.
1105--1116, 2010. doi:10.1016/j.ress.2010.07.004
3.
Bakolas, E. and Saleh, J. H., ''Augmenting
defense-in-depth with the concepts of observability
and diagnosability from Control Theory and Discrete
Event Systems,'' Reliability Engineering &
System Safety, vol. 96,
no.1, pp.184--193, 2011. doi:10.1016/j.ress.2010.09.002
4. Bakolas, E.
and Tsiotras, P., ''Optimal synthesis of the asymmetric sinistral/dextral
Markov-Dubins problem,'' Journal of Optimization
Theory and Applications, vol. 150, no. 2, pp. 233--250, 2011.
doi: 10.1007/s10957-011-9841-3
5. Tsiotras, P., Jung, D. and Bakolas, E., ''Multiresolution
hierarchical path-planning using wavelet decompositions,'' Journal of
Intelligent & Robotic Systems, doi:10.1007/s10846-011-9631-z
6. Bakolas, E. and Tsiotras, P., ''Feedback navigation
in an uncertain flow-field and connections with pursuit strategies'' (Note:
Accepted, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, August 2011)
B.
Conference Proceedings
1. Tsiotras, P. and Bakolas, E., ''A
Hierarchical On-Line Path-Planning Scheme Using Wavelets,'' in Proceedings
of European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, pp. 2807--2812, July 2--5, 2007.
2. Bakolas, E. and Tsiotras, P., ''Multiresolution Path-Planning Using Sector Based
Decompositions from Sensor Data,'' in Proceedings of AIAA Guidance and
Control Conference and Exhibit, Honolulu, HW, August 18--21, 2008.
3. Bakolas, E. and Tsiotras, P., ''On-Line, Kinodynamic Trajectory Generation through Rectangular
Channels Using Path and Motion Primitives,'' in Proceedings of the 47th
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, pp. 3725--3730, December
9--11, 2008.
4. Bakolas, E. and Tsiotras, P., ''On the
Generation of Nearly Optimal, Planar Paths of Bounded Curvature and Bounded
Curvature Gradient,'' in Proceedings of American Control Conference, St.
Louis, Missouri, USA, pp. 385--390, June 10--12, 2009.
5. Bakolas, E. and Saleh, J. H., ''Augmenting the
Traditional Defense-in-Depth Strategy with the Concept of a Diagnosable Safety
Architecture,'' in Proceedings of ESREL Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, pp.
2113--2122, September 7--10, 2009.
6. Bakolas, E. and Tsiotras, P., ''The
Asymmetric Sinistral/Dextral Markov-Dubins Problem,'' in Proceedings of 48th IEEE Conference
on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, pp. 5649--5654, December 15--18,
2009.
7. Bakolas, E. and Tsiotras, P., ''Minimum-Time
Paths for a Light Aircraft in the Presence of Regionally-Varying Strong Winds,''
in Proceedings of AIAA Infotech ''AT'' Aerospace,
Atlanta, Georgia, AIAA 2010--3380, 2010.
8. Bakolas, E. and Tsiotras, P., ''Time-Optimal Synthesis
for the Zermelo-Markov-Dubins
Problem: The Constant Wind Case,'' in Proceedings of 2010 American Control
Conference, Baltimore, MD, pp. 6163--6163, June 30--July 2, 2010.
9. Bakolas, E. and Tsiotras, P., ''The Zermelo-Voronoi Diagram: a Dynamic Partition Problem,''
in Proceedings of 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, pp.
1320--1325, June 30--July 2, 2010.
10. Bakolas, E. and Tsiotras, P., ''Optimal
Pursuit of Moving Targets using Dynamic Voronoi
Diagrams,'' in Proceedings of 49th IEEE Decision and Control Conference,
Atlanta, GA, pp. 7431--7436, December 15--17, 2010.
11. Bakolas, E. and Tsiotras, P., ''Optimal Pursuer and
Moving Target Assignment using Dynamic Voronoi
Diagrams,'' in Proceedings of 2011 American Control Conference, San Francisco,
CA, pp. 5444--5449 June 29--July 1, 2011.
12. Bakolas,
E. and Zhao, Y.
and Tsiotras, P., ''Initial Guess Generation for Aircraft Landing Trajectory
Optimization," in Proceedings of AIAA Guidance and Control Conference and
Exhibit, Portland, OR, August 8--11, 2011.
13. Bakolas,
E. and
Tsiotras, P., "Relay Pursuit of a Maneuvering Target by a Group of
Pursuers," in Proceedings of 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
Orlando, FL, December 12--15, 2011.
IV. HONORS AND AWARDS
1. Excellent Reviewer for AIAA Journal of
Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2011
2. Scholarship for Greeks studying abroad from
A. Onassis Public Benefit, Foundation, 2008-2011.
3. Scholarship for Greeks studying abroad
from Gerondelis Foundation, 2007-2008.
4. Scholarship for Greeks studying abroad
from A. Onassis Public Benefit, Foundation, 2005-2007.
5. Yearly Fellowship for Academic Excellence,
Greek National Fellowship Institute, 1999-2004.
6. Yearly Fellowship for Academic Excellence,
Technical Chamber of Greece, 1999-2004.
7. Academic Award D. Thomaidi,
N.T.U.A, awarded to the top ranked student among all undergraduate students of
the School of Mechanical Engineering, 2002-2003.
8.
Annual
Academic Award C. Papakyriakopoulou, N.T.U.A., for
Excellence in Mathematics, 1999-2001.
9. Fellowship N. I. Kritikou,
N.T.U.A., for Excellence in Mathematics, 1999-2000.