Savvas Papaioannou
Senior Research Scientist @ KIOS CoE
I am a Senior Research Scientist at the KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence, University of Cyprus. I have obtained my DPhil (PhD) degree in Computer Science from the University of Oxford, where I was a member of Kellogg College. Prior to that, I completed my graduate studies at Yale University, where I earned my MSc degree in Electrical Engineering. I received my BSc degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete.
My research endeavors are centered around the development of innovative estimation, decision, and control techniques that will pave the way for the creation of intelligent autonomous systems. Recently, my research is focused on building the necessary mathematical frameworks for the design of intelligent multi-agent UAV systems that can be utilized in disaster response missions.
Fascinated about: Multi-target Tracking, State Estimation, Trajectory Planning, Mathematical Programming and Optimization, Optimal and Model Predictive Control, and Artificial Intelligence.
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| Mar 28, 2025 | Our paper entitled “VLM-RRT: Vision Language Model Guided RRT Search for Autonomous UAV Navigation“ has been accepted for presentation in the 2025 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS 2025), to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 2025. |
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| Mar 07, 2025 | Three papers have been accepted for presentation and publication in the proceedings of the 23rd European Control Conference (ECC 2025), June 24-27, 2025. 1) “Data-Driven Predictive Planning and Control for Aerial 3D Inspection with Back-face Elimination“, 2) Multiple Target Tracking Using a UAV Swarm in Maritime Environments, and 3) “Adaptive Out-of-Control Point Pattern Detection in Sequential Random Finite Set Observations“ |
| Mar 05, 2025 | Our journal paper “Jointly-optimized Trajectory Generation and Camera Control for 3D Coverage Planning“ has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of the “IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)”, 2025. |
| Oct 22, 2024 | Our manuscript, entitled “Rolling Horizon Coverage Control with Collaborative Autonomous Agents,“ has been accepted for publication in the upcoming theme issue, “The Road Forward with Swarm Systems,” of “Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences”, Volume 383, Issue 2289, 2025. |
| Oct 14, 2024 | We have won the Second Prize in the “Multi-Robot Perception and Navigation Challenges in Logistics and Inspection Tasks” Competition, held as part of the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024) in Abu Dhabi, October 14-18, 2024. |
| Apr 06, 2024 | Our paper “Automated Real-Time Inspection in Indoor and Outdoor 3D Environments with Cooperative Aerial Robots“ has been accepted at the 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS 2024) |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Our paper “Synergising Human-Like Responses and Machine Intelligence for Planning in Disaster Response“ has been accepted at the 2024 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) - 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) ! |
| Mar 07, 2024 | Our paper entitled “Hierarchical Fault-Tolerant Coverage Control for an Autonomous Aerial Agent“ has been accepted at the 12th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision, and Safety of Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS 2024). |
| Dec 14, 2023 | I am thrilled to announce that our KIOS CoE team has won the First Prize in the competition Cooperative Aerial Robots Inspection Challenge (CARIC), that took place during the flagship 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2023), on 13-15 December 2023, in Singapore. |
| Jul 12, 2023 | Our paper “Cooperative Receding Horizon 3D Coverage Control with a Team of Networked Aerial Agents“ has been accepted at the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2023 ! |
| Apr 16, 2023 | Our papers “Joint Estimation and Control for Multi-Target Passive Monitoring with an Autonomous UAV Agent“, and “Distributed Control for 3D Inspection using Multi-UAV Systems“ have been accepted at the 31st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2023 ! |
| Apr 01, 2023 | Our paper “Unscented Optimal Control for 3D Coverage Planning with an Autonomous UAV Agent“ has been accepted at the 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2023 ! |
| Mar 10, 2023 | Our paper on “Model Predictive Control For Multiple Castaway Tracking with an Autonomous Aerial Agent“ has been accepted at the 2023 European Control Conference (ECC 2023) ! |
| Feb 14, 2023 | Our journal paper on “Distributed Search Planning in 3-D Environments With a Dynamically Varying Number of Agents“ has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, (TSMC), 2023 ! |