Mallios Angelos

Education Profile
• Ph.D. candidate, Underwater Robotics, University of Girona, Spain, 2009
• M.Sc., Underwater Robotics, University of Girona, Spain, 2009
• B.Sc., Computer Science, Hellenic Open University, Greece, 2006
Professional Profile
• 1999 – current day: Electronic Engineer – Diver, Institute of Oceanography, HCMR, Greece
• 2007 – current day: Research Assistant, Underwater Robotics Lab, University of Girona, Spain
• 2006 – current day: Guest Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
• 2003 – 2007: Remote Operating Vehicles (ROVs) Supervisor, Diving Operations Supervisor, Maintenance and support for the “THETIS” manned submersible, HCMR, Greece
• 1999 – 2007: Maintenance and R&D for the POSEIDON project, Institute of Oceanography, HCMR, Greece
Scientific and Professional Memberships
• Society for Underwater Technology (SUT)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ΙΕΕΕ)
Awards and Recognition
• 2011: First Place Award, Student Poster Program, OCEANS 2011 MTS/IEEE KONA
• 2010: Marie Curie Actions—European Re-integration Grants (ERG) Award, Underwater Robotics Lab, University of Girona, Spain
• 2010: Member of the winning team in the 5th Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge – Europe (SAUC-E), NATO Underwater Research Centre, Italy
• 2007: Marie Curie Initial Training Network, Early State Research Fellow Award, Underwater Robotics Lab, University of Girona, Spain
• 2007: Ericsson Awards of Excellence in Telecommunications, for the best undergraduate project of the Hellenic Open University, Athens, Greece
Research Interests
Angelos Mallios research interests include the development and integration of underwater data-loggers, sensors and positioning systems, and the design of underwater vehicles and their sensor technology. For his Ph.D., is focusing to the navigation problem of the autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and more specific to the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques, based on acoustic sensors.

Journals
• Bingham, B.; Foley, B.; Singh, H.; Camilli, R.; Dellaporta, K.; Eustice, R.; Mallios, A.; Mindell, D.; Roman, C. & Sakellariou, D., “Robotic Tools for Deep Water Archaeology: Surveying an Ancient Shipwreck with an Autonomous Underwater VehicleI”, Journal of Field Robotics, 2010, 27, 702-714

• Petillot, Y.; Maurelli, F.; Valeyrie, N.; Mallios, A.; Ridao, P.; Aulinas, J. & Salvi, J.,”Acoustic-based techniques for autonomous underwater vehicle localization”, Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment, 2010, 224, 293-307

• Foley, B.; Sakellariou, D.; Dellaporta, K.; Bingham, B.; Camilli, R.; Eustice, R.; Evagelistis, D.; Ferrini, V.; Hansson, M.; Katsaros, K.; Kourkoumelis, D.; Mallios, A.; Micha, P.; Mindell, D.; Roman, C.; Singh, H.; Switzer, D. & Theodoulou, T., “New Methods for Underwater Archaeology: The 2005 Chios Ancient Shipwreck Survey”, HESPERIA – Journal of the American Archaeological School at Athens, 2009, 78, 269-305

• Tsabaris C., Mallios A., Papathanassiou E., “Instrumentation of Gamma ray spectrometry for Underwater in-situ radon analysis: Design, Implementation and Application of an Underwater In-Situ Gamma Ray Spectrometer With a Remotely Operated Vehicle”, Sea Technology, March 2008: 21 – 26.

• D. Sakellariou, D. Kourkoumelis, P. Georgiou, P. Micha, A. Mallios, T. Theodoulou, V. Kapsimalis & K. Dellaporta, Searching for ancient shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea: The discovery of Chios and Kythnos Hellenistic wrecks with the use of marine geological-geophysical methods”, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 2007, 36, 365 – 381

Conferences (selected)
• Mallios, A.; Ridao, P.; Carreras, M. & Hernandez, E., “Navigating and Mapping with the SPARUS AUV in a Natural and Unstructured Underwater Environment”, Oceans 2011 IEEE – Kona, 2011

• Zandara, S.; Ridao, P.; Ribas, D.; Campos, R. & Mallios, A. “Kornati, Bathymetry Survey Data-Set for Navigation and Mapping”, The 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 2011

• Mallios, A.; Ridao, P.; Garcia, R.; Maurelli, F. & Petillot, Y., “EKF-SLAM for AUV navigation under Probabilistic Sonar Scan-Matching”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010, invited session, 2010, 4404 – 4411

• Mallios, A.; Ridao, P.; Garcia, R.; Maurelli, F. & Petillot, Y., “On the closed-form covariance estimation for the pIC algorithm”, 7th Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, 2010, 7

• Mallios, A.; Ridao, P.; Ribas, D. & Hernandez, E., “Probabilistic Sonar Scan Matching SLAM for Underwater Environment”, Oceans IEEE – Australia, 2010, 1-8

• Hernandez, E.; Ridao, P.; Ribas, D. & Mallios, A., “Probabilistic sonar scan matching for an AUV”, Intelligent Robots and Systems. IROS 2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, 2009, 255-260

• A. Mallios, Pere Ridao, E. Hernàndez, D. Ribas, F. Maurelli, Y. Petillot, “Pose-Based SLAM with Probabilistic Scan Matching Algorithm using a Mechanical Scanned Imaging Sonar”, IEEE Oceans’09, May 2009, Bremen, Germany.

• F. Maurelli, A Mallios, Y. Petillot, R. Haraksim, S. Krupinski, P. Sotiropoulos, “Portability Investigation of Space Docking Techniques for AUV Docking”, IEEE Oceans’09, May 2009, Bremen, Germany.

• Camilli R., Mallios A., Sakellariou D., Bingham B., Eustice R., Goudreau J., “Real-time In-Situ Chemical and Localization Sensors Integration in Human Occupied Submersible for studying Hydrothermal Vents”, In: Proceedings of the 9th Hellenic Symposium of Oceanography and Fishery Patra, May 13-16 2009, 1:123-127

• Mallios A., Ribas D. and Ridao P., “Localization Advances in the Unstructured Underwater Environment”, In: Proceedings of the 9th Hellenic Symposium of Oceanography and Fishery Patra, May 13-16 2009, 1:111-116