home page of  Theocharis Kyriacou

(last updated on October 8th, 2009)

 

 

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contact details

 

Office CR103

School of Computing and Mathematics
Keele University
Keele
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG

United Kingdom

 

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office tel. +44 (1782) 733080

 

 

education     employment     publications

 

 

 

 

 

education

 

2000 - 2004

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Thesis title: Vision-Based Urban Navigation Procedures for Verbally Instructed Robots

University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom.

1998 - 2000

B.Eng. (Hons) in Electronic Engineering (Systems)
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.

1996 - 1998

Military Service

1993 - 1996

Diploma of Technician Engineer in Electrical Engineering

Higher Technical Institute (H.T.I.), Nicosia, Cyprus.

 

 

employment

 

March 2007 - Present

Lecturer

School of Computing and Mathematics, Keele University, Keele, Staffortshire, United Kingdom.

 

January 2004 - March 2007

Senior Research Officer (Post Doctoral position)

Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom.

 

 

publications

 

 

2009

Kyriacou Theocharis, Nehmzow Ulrich, Melhuish Chris, Witkowski Mark, editors. TAROS 2009 Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, 2009. ISSN 2041-6407. 

 

2008

Kyriacou T., Styles P., Toon S., Robot Localization Using Seismic Signals, In Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems (TAROS), Edinburgh, UK, September 2008.

 

Kyriacou T., Nehmzow U.,Iglesias R., and Billings S.A., Accurate Robot Simulation Through System Identification, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2008, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 56, 12, pp 1082-1093, 2008.

 

2007

Akanyeti O., Kyriacou T., Nehmzow U., Iglesias R., Billings S., Visual Task Identification and Characterisation using Polynomial Models, International Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol 5, Issue 9, September 2007.

Nehmzow U., Akanyeti O., Weinrich C., Kyriacou T., Billings S., Robot Programming by Demonstration through System Identification, In Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Diego, USA, 2007.

Akanyeti O., Nehmzow U., Weinrich C., Kyriacou T., Billings S., Programming Mobile Robots by Demonstration through System Identification, In Proceedings of European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Freiburg, Germany, 2007.

Nehmzow U., Akanyeti O., Weinrich C., Kyriacou T., Billings S., Learning by Observation through System Identification, In Proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems (TAROS), Aberystwyth, Wales, 2007.

Iglesias, R., Kyriacou, T., Nehmzow, U. and Billings, S., Task Identification and Characterisation in Mobile Robotics through Non-Linear Modelling, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), Volume 55 ,  Issue 4 (ISSN:0921-8890), pp 267-275, April 2007.

 

2006

Iglesias, R., Kyriacou, T., Nehmzow, U., Billings, S. Route training in mobile robotics through system identification, ICCI 2006, Enformatika Journal, Vol.15, ISSN 1305-5313, 2006.

 

Kyriacou, T., Akanyeti, O., Nehmzow, U., Iglesias R., Billings S.A., Visual Task Identification Using Polynomial Models, Proceedings of TAROS 2006, Guildford, UK, 2006.

 

Iglesias R., Nehmzow U., Kyriacou T., Billings S.A., Training and Analysis of Mobile Robot Behaviour Through System Identification, Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 4177, Roque Marín, Eva Onaindía, Alberto Bugarin and José Santos (Eds.), ISBN: 3-540-45914-6, pp 470-479, 2006.

 

Ulrich Nehmzow, Otar Akanyeti, Roberto Iglesias, Theocharis Kyriacou and Steve Billings, Comparing Robot Controllers Through System Identification, The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviours (SAB’06), Proceedings of Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, “From Animals to Animats”, MIT Press, 2006.

 

Nehmzow, U., Iglesias R., Kyriacou, T. and Billings S., Robot Learning Through Task Identification, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), Volume 54, Issue 9 , 30 September 2006, Pages 766-778.

 

 

2005

Kyriacou, T., Nehmzow, U., Iglesias R. and Billings S., Cross-Platform Programming Through System Identification, Proceedings of TAROS 2005, London 2005.

 

Nehmzow, U., Kyriacou, T., Iglesias R. and Billings, S., Self-Localisation Through System Identification, Proceedings of the European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR), Ancona, Italy, 2005.

 

Iglesias, R., Kyriacou, T., Nehmzow, U. and Billings, S., Robot Programming Through a Combination of Manual Training and System Identification, Proceedings of the European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR), Ancona, Italy, 2005.

 

Iglesias, R., Nehmzow, U., Kyriacou, T. and Billings, S., Modelling and characterisation of a mobile robot's operation, Proceedings of CAEPIA 2005, 11th conference of the Spanish association for Artififcial Intelligence, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, November 2005.

 

Kyriacou, T., Nehmzow, U., Iglesias, R., Billings, S., Task Characterisation and Cross-Platform Programming Through System Identification, (International Journal of Advanced Robotics Systems (ARS), Volume 2, pp. 317-324, 2005.

 

Kyriacou, T., Bugmann, G., Lauria, S., Vision-Based Urban Navigation Procedures for Verbally Instructed Robots, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), Volume 51, Issue 1, pp69-80, 2005.

 

 

2004

Kyriacou, T., Vision-Based Urban Navigation Procedures for Verbally Instructed Robots, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Plymouth, School of Computing, Communications and Electronics, Faculty of Technology, 2004.

 

Nehmzow, U., Kyriacou, T., Iglesias, R., Billings, S., RobotMODIC: Modeling, Identification and Characterisation of Mobile Robots, Proceedings of TAROS 2004 (Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems), Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, ISSN 1744-8050, Report Number: CSM-415.

 

Iglesias, R., Kyriacou, T., Nehmzow, U., Billings, S., Task Identification and Characterisation in Mobile Robotics, Proceedings of TAROS 2004 (Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems), Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, ISSN 1744-8050, Report Number: CSM-415.

 

 

2003

Kyriacou, T., Bugmann, G., Lauria, S., Vision-Based Urban Navigation Procedures for Verbally Instructed Robots, Proceedings of TIMR 2003 (Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots), Bristol, 2003.

 

 

2002

Lauria, S., Bugmann, G., Kyriacou, T., Bos, J., Klein, E., Converting Natural Language Route Instructions into Robot Executable Procedures, Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN ’02), Berlin, Germany, 2002, pp. 223-228.

 

Lauria, S., Bugmann, G., Kyriacou, T., Klein, E., Mobile Robot Programming Using Natural Language, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 38 (3-4), 2002, pp. 171-181 (ISSN 0921-8890).

 

Kyriacou, T., Bugmann, G., Lauria, S., Vision-Based Urban Navigation Procedures for Verbally Instructed Robots, Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/RSJ International Conference in Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2002) EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 2002, pp. 1326-1331.

 

Robinson, P., Bugmann, G., Kyriacou, T., Culverhouse, P., Norman, M., MIROSOT: A teaching and learning tool, Proceedings of the 2002 FIRA Robot World Congress, edited by Korea Robot Soccer Association, 2002, pp. 309-314 (ISBN: 89-86522-47-0-93560).

 

 

2001

Lauria S., Bugmann G., Kyriacou T., Bos J., Klein E., Training Personal Robots Using Natural Language Instruction, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 16, 2001, pp. 38-45.

 Bugmann, G., Lauria, S., Kyriacou, T., Klein, E., Bos, J., Coventry, K., Using Verbal Instructions for Route Learning: Instruction Analysis, Proceedings of TIMR 2001 (Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots), Manchester, 2001. Technical Report Series, Department of Computer Science, Manchester University, ISSN 1361-6161. Report number UMC-01-4-1.

 

Lauria, S., Bugmann, G., Kyriacou, T., Klein, E., Instruction Based Learning: how to instruct a personal robot to find HAL, Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Learning Robots, EWLR-9, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2001, pp. 15-24.

 

 

 

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