Angelos Zacharia
About
Angelos Zacharia received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus in 2019. He then pursued his M.Sc. degree in Automatic Control Systems and Robotics from the National Technical University of Athens in 2022. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His main research interests encompass automatic control, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and multi-agent systems.
Research
Publications
Conference Publications
A. Anastasiou, A. Zacharia, S. Papaioannou, P. Kolios, C. G. Panayiotou and M. M. Polycarpou, "Automated Real-Time Inspection in Indoor and Outdoor 3D Environments with Cooperative Aerial Robots," 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Chania - Crete, Greece, 2024, pp. 496-504.
A. Zacharia, S. Papaioannou, P. Kolios and C. Panayiotou, "Distributed Control for 3D Inspection using Multi-UAV Systems," 2023 31st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Limassol, Cyprus, 2023, pp. 164-169.
A. Savva, A. Zacharia, R. Makrigiorgis, A. Anastasiou, C. Kyrkou, P. Kolios, C. Panayiotou, and T. Theocharides, "ICARUS: Automatic Autonomous Power Infrastructure Inspection with UAVs," 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Athens, Greece, 2021, pp. 918-926.
N. Souli, R. Makrigiorgis, A. Anastasiou, A. Zacharia, P. Petrides, A. Lazanas, P. Valianti, P. Kolios, and G. Ellinas, "HorizonBlock: Implementation of an Autonomous Counter-Drone System," 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Athens, Greece, 2020, pp. 398-404.
2026
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Zacharia, Angelos;
Dharmadhikari, Mihir Rahul;
Alexis, Konstantinos.
(2026)
Collaborative Exploration With a Marsupial Ground-Aerial Robot Team Through Task-Driven Map Compression.
Film
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Zacharia, Angelos;
Dharmadhikari, Mihir Rahul;
Mohit Singh;
Alexis, Konstantinos.
(2026)
Source Code: OmniPlanner: Universal Exploration and Inspection Path Planning Across Robot Morphologies.
Angelos Zacharia
Source code
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Zacharia, Angelos;
Dharmadhikari, Mihir Rahul;
Mohit Singh;
Alexis, Konstantinos.
(2026)
OmniPlanner: Universal Exploration and Inspection Path Planning Across Robot Morphologies.
IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (T-FR)
Academic article
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Puigjaner, Albert Gassol;
Zacharia, Angelos;
Alexis, Konstantinos.
(2026)
Relationship-aware hierarchical 3d scene graph for task reasoning.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Academic article
2025
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Zacharia, Angelos;
Dharmadhikari, Mihir Rahul;
Alexis, Konstantinos.
(2025)
Collaborative Exploration with a Marsupial Ground-Aerial Robot Team through Task-Driven Map Compression.
Angelos Zacharia
Source code
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Zacharia, Angelos;
Dharmadhikari, Mihir Rahul;
Alexis, Konstantinos.
(2025)
Collaborative Exploration With a Marsupial Ground-Aerial Robot Team Through Task-Driven Map Compression.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Academic article
Journal publications
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Zacharia, Angelos;
Dharmadhikari, Mihir Rahul;
Mohit Singh;
Alexis, Konstantinos.
(2026)
OmniPlanner: Universal Exploration and Inspection Path Planning Across Robot Morphologies.
IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (T-FR)
Academic article
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Puigjaner, Albert Gassol;
Zacharia, Angelos;
Alexis, Konstantinos.
(2026)
Relationship-aware hierarchical 3d scene graph for task reasoning.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Academic article
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Zacharia, Angelos;
Dharmadhikari, Mihir Rahul;
Alexis, Konstantinos.
(2025)
Collaborative Exploration With a Marsupial Ground-Aerial Robot Team Through Task-Driven Map Compression.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Academic article
Artistic productions
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Zacharia, Angelos;
Dharmadhikari, Mihir Rahul;
Alexis, Konstantinos.
(2026)
Collaborative Exploration With a Marsupial Ground-Aerial Robot Team Through Task-Driven Map Compression.
Film
Outreach
2026
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Conference posterZacharia, Angelos; Dharmadhikari, Mihir Rahul; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2026) Collaborative Exploration With a Marsupial Ground-Aerial Robot Team Through Task-Driven Map Compression. 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation
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Conference posterPuigjaner, Albert Gassol; Zacharia, Angelos; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2026) Relationship-aware hierarchical 3d scene graph for task reasoning. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2026
2025
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Other presentationOlsen, Jørgen Anker; Zacharia, Angelos; Benetou, Smaragdi. (2025) Møt en robothund - Researchers’ Night 2025. Researchers’ Night 2025