Dimitra Panagou. Nationality: Hellenic. Date of Birth: 6 th March 1983

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1 Dimitra Panagou Contact Information 142 Coordinated Science Laboratory College of Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1308 W. Main St., Urbana, 61801, IL, USA Date of Birth: 6 th March dpanagou@illinois.edu Nationality: Hellenic Research Interests Nonlinear systems and control Motion and path planning Multi-agent systems Robotics Decentralized/distributed systems and control Switched and hybrid systems Guidance, navigation and control of unmanned vehicles Marine vehicles and robotics Underactuated systems Geometric control Constrained control Set-theoretic methods in control Modeling and system identification My research interests mainly lie within the fields of motion planning, coordination and control of robotic networks and autonomous multi-vehicle systems (ground, marine, aerial, space), with emphasis on the multi-objective control synthesis for complex systems along with safety, performance and optimality guarantees. Education 11/2006 4/2012 National Technical University of Athens, School of Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Prof. Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos Doctoral thesis title: Viability control for nonholonomic systems. Application to the compensation of external disturbances for underwater robotic vehicles 10/2000 3/2006 National Technical University of Athens, School of Mechanical Engineering Diploma (BS and M.Sc.) in Mechanical Engineering Diploma thesis title: Development and implementation of a motion control scheme for UUV hovering (Supervisor: Prof. Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos) Academic Experience 8/2012 present Coordinated Science Laboratory, College of Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL, USA Postdoctoral Research Associate Supervised by Prof. Dusan M. Stipanovic and Prof. Petros G. Voulgaris Working on multi-objective control for multi-agent robotic networks (Research Project: Smart Systems for Field Monitoring and Surveillance. Funded by the Qatar National Research Fund) June 2013 GRASP Laboratory, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Visiting Scholar Invited by Prof. Vijay Kumar Working on distributed task assignment problems in multi-robot systems

2 10/2011 6/2012 Control Systems Lab, School of Mech. Eng., NTUA Research Associate Worked on Model Predictive Control methodologies for nonholonomic robots under field-of-view sensing constraints (Research Project: PANDORA: Persistent Autonomy through learning, adaptation, Observation and ReplAnning. Funded by the European Commission (FP7: Cognitive Systems and Robotics (STREP)) Fall semester 2010 Spring semester 2009 GRASP Laboratory, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Visiting Scholar Invited by Prof. Vijay Kumar Worked on the cooperative coordination and control of multiple nonholonomic robots under visibility and communication constraints in obstacle environments University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA Department of Mechanical Engineering Visiting Scholar Invited by Prof. Herbert G. Tanner Worked on the navigation and control for nonholonomic ground vehicles (Research Project: MAST CTA Micro Autonomous System Technologies. Funded by the ARL) 1/2009 ETH Zürich Automatic Control Laboratory (Institut für Automatik - IfA) Visiting Researcher Invited by Prof. John Lygeros Worked on viability control for underactuated robotic vehicles under sensing constraints and disturbances 2/2008 MIT Sea Grant s AUV Lab Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Visiting Researcher Worked on the development of a 3D Navigation System for marine robotic vehicles 9/2006 3/2008 Control Systems Lab, School of Mech. Eng., NTUA Research Associate Worked on guidance, navigation and path/motion planning for unmanned marine vehicles (Research Project: Underwater Telecommunication, Automatic Navigation and Acoustic Visualization Technologies for Undersea Vehicle Systems. Funded by the Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology) 7/2006 4/2008 Control Systems Lab, School of Mech. Eng., NTUA Research Associate Worked on the modeling, system identification and control design for underactuated marine vehicles, and on the estimation of environmental disturbances (Research Project: EPIPLEON: Underwater Inspection using Remotely Operated Vehicles. Funded by the Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology) Invited Talks June 19, 2013 Johns Hopkins University Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics Title: Coordination and Feedback Control Strategies for Underactuated Vehicles in Constrained Environments Host: Prof. Louis Whitcomb

3 January 30, 2013 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Coordinated Science Laboratory, Decision and Control Seminar Series Title: Feedback Control Design for Underactuated Systems subject to Constraints and Disturbances Teaching Experience Spring 2014 Spring 2012, 2011 Spring 2010 University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign Department of Aerospace Engineering Co-Instructor for AE 403: Spacecraft Attitude Control National Technical University of Athens Post-Graduate Program Automation Systems Teaching Assistant Course: Intelligent Control (Prof. Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos); responsibilities: teaching five (5) class lectures on Nonlinear Control and Adaptive Control National Technical University of Athens Post-Graduate Program Automation Systems Teaching Assistant Course: Intelligent Control (Prof. Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos); responsibilities: teaching two (2) class lectures on Nonlinear Control and Adaptive Control Professional Experience 10/ /2011 INNORA S.A. Robotics and Automation, Koropi, Attiki, Greece Research Engineer Designed and wrote a complete research project proposal, which was submitted to the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) Research for the Benefits of SMEs, funded by the European Commission 10/2007 3/2008 Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR) Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos, Attiki, Greece Research Engineer Worked on the development of a Graphical User Interface (GUI), which provides 3D terrain (bathymetry data) visualization and real-time display of navigation data for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles 9/2005 8/2006 National Technical University of Athens School of Mechanical Engineering - PC LAB PC LAB Administrator Field Deployment 10/2008 Ionian Sea, R/V Philia Installation and testing of a GUI enhanced Navigation System on HCMR MaxRover ROV, which uses bathymetry data, DVL and USBL measurements 3/2008 Heraklion Port, Crete, Greece Preliminary field experiments on the development and testing of a GUI enhanced Navigation System using GPS and DVL measurements

4 Foreign Languages English: Excellent knowledge (Certificate of Proficiency in English, University of Cambridge) Computer Skills Computer Languages: Software Platforms: C MATLAB, MATHEMATICA Awards 2009, 2010 National Tech. Univ. of Athens: Thomaidion Award for Scientific Publications 10/1996, 10/1997, 10/1999: Awarded by the Hellenic Mathematical Society for her distinction in the Greek Contest in Mathematics «THALES» 12/1997: Awarded by the Hellenic Mathematical Society for her distinction in the Greek Contest in Mathematics «EUCLID» 2/1998: Participation in the final phase of the Greek Contest in Mathematics «ARCHIMEDES» Additional Information Society Memberships: Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2008-present Member of IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES), IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Associate Editor: 2014 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014) Reviewer: IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control (CDC), American Control Conference (ACC), IEEE Mediterranean Conf. on Control and Automation (MED), IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control (MSC), European Control Conference (ECC), IFAC World Congress IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IFAC Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, Control Engineering Practice, IET Journal on Control Theory and Applications, International Journal on Advanced Robotic Systems Journal Publications 1. Dimitra Panagou, Dusan M. Stipanovic and Petros G. Voulgaris Distributed dynamic coverage control for multiple nonholonomic agents under vision-based sensing, submitted, under review 2. Dimitra Panagou Feedback motion planning and collision avoidance via a class of non-gradient navigation vector fields, under review (second round) 3. Dimitra Panagou, Dusan M. Stipanovic and Petros G. Voulgaris Distributed coordination control for multi-robot networks using Lyapunov-like barrier functions, under review (second round)

5 4. Dimitra Panagou and Vijay Kumar Cooperative visibility maintenance for Leader Follower formations in obstacle environments, accepted as Regular Paper in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, to appear 5. Dimitra Panagou, Herbert G. Tanner and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos Control design for a class of nonholonomic systems via reference vector fields and output regulation, provisionally accepted in the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, resubmitted 6. Dimitra Panagou and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos Dynamic positioning for an underactuated marine vehicle using hybrid control, International Journal on Control (2013), DOI: / Dimitra Panagou and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos Viability control for a class of underactuated systems, IFAC Automatica, 49 (2013), pp , DOI information: /j.automatica Conference Publications 1. Dimitra Panagou, Dusan M. Stipanovic and Petros G. Voulgaris Vision-based dynamic coverage control for nonholonomic agents, 53 rd IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, CA, December 2014 (CDC 2014) 2. Dimitra Panagou, Matthew Turpin and Vijay Kumar Decentralized Goal Assignment and Trajectory Generation for Multi-robot Networks: A Multiple Lyapunov Functions Approach, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, May 2014 (ICRA 2014) 3. Dimitra Panagou Motion planning and collision avoidance using navigation vector fields, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Hong Kong, China, May 2014 (ICRA 2014) 4. Dimitra Panagou, Dusan M. Stipanovic and Petros G. Voulgaris Multi-objective control for multi-agent systems using Lyapunov-like barrier functions, 52 nd IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Firenze, Italy, December 2013 (CDC 2013) 5. Spyros Maniatopoulos, Dimitra Panagou and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos A Model Predictive Control scheme for the navigation of a nonholonomic vehicle with field-of-view constraints, 2013 American Control Conference, Washington DC, June 2013 (ACC 2013) 6. Dimitra Panagou and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos Cooperative formation control of underactuated marine vehicles for target surveillance under sensing and communication constraints, 2013 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013 (ICRA 2013) 7. Dimitra Panagou and Vijay Kumar Maintaining visibility for Leader Follower formations in obstacle environments, 2012 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 2012 (ICRA 2012) 8. Dimitra Panagou, Spyros Maniatopoulos and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos Control of an underactuated underwater vehicle in 3D space under field-of-view constraints, IFAC Workshop on Navigation, Guidance and Control of Underwater Vehicles, Porto, Portugal, April 2012 (NGCUV 2012) 9. Dimitra Panagou and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos Control of underactuated systems with viability constraints, 50 th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control and European Control Conf., Orlando, FL, USA, December 2011 (CDC/ECC 2011) 10. Dimitra Panagou, Herbert G. Tanner and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos Control of nonholonomic systems using reference vector fields, 50 th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control and European Control Conf., Orlando, FL, USA, December 2011 (CDC/ECC 2011) 11. Dimitra Panagou and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos A switching control approach for the robust practical stabilization of a unicycle-like marine vehicle under non-vanishing perturbations, 2011 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, P.R. China, May 2011 (ICRA 2011) 12. Dimitra Panagou, Herbert G. Tanner and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos Dipole-like fields for stabilization of systems with Pfaffian constraints, 2010 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2010 (ICRA 2010) 13. Dimitra Panagou, Kostas Margellos, Sean Summers, John Lygeros and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos A viability approach for the stabilization of an underactuated underwater vehicle in the presence of current disturbances, 48 th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Shanghai, P.R. China, December 2009 (CDC 2009) 14. Nikolaos Papantonopoulos, Dimitra Panagou and Stamatina Alexandri A navigation system for underwater vehicles integrating DVL and USBL measurements", 9th Hellenic Symposium of Oceanography, Patras, Greece, May Dimitra Panagou, George C. Karras and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos Towards the stabilization of an underactuated underwater vehicle in the presence of unknown disturbances, MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2008 Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, September 2008 (OCEANS 2008)

6 16. George C. Karras, Dimitra Panagou and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos Target referenced localization of an underwater vehicle using a Laser based Vision System, MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2006 Conference, Boston, MA, USA, September 2006 (OCEANS 2006)