Georgia Chalvatzaki 2021-07-20T22:33:34+00:00

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Research Interests

Human Detection & Tracking, Assistive Robotics, Motion Planning, Target Tracking, Pattern Recognition, Human-Robot Interaction, Trajectory Planning

Awards and Distinctions

Best Paper Award: Georgia Chalvatzaki, Xanthi S. Papageorgiou, Costas S. Tzafestas, “Gait Modelling for a Context-Aware User-Adaptive Robotic Assistant Platform”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Integrated Modeling and Analysis in Applied Control and Automation, Bergeggi, Italy, September 21 – 23, 2015.

Biosketch

Georgia Chalvatzaki received her Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA in June 2012. Since October 2012, she is a PhD Candidate, under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Costas Tzafestas at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of NTUA, and serves as a research assistant within the Intelligent Robotics and Automation Lab (IRAL) of ICCS. Her research interests and expertise include human detection and tracking with applications in the field of assistive robotics. She has especially worked in the development of algorithms for robust on-line human gait tracking and non-intrusive assessment from laser rangefinder data using stochastic estimation techniques for the control of an intelligent robotic walker device for the elderly, in the frames of the MOBOT EU research project. She is currently working as a research assistant in the BabyRobot (H2020) project. She is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece since 2013. She is, also, a member of IEEE, IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, IEEE Young Professionals, IEEE Women in Engineering, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.

Publications

Recent Research Projects

Publications

2019

Georgia Chalvatzaki, Xanthi S Papageorgiou, Petros Maragos, Costas S Tzafestas

Learn to adapt to human walking: A Model-based Reinforcement Learning Approach for a Robotic Assistant Rollator Journal Article

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (with IROS option), 4 (4), pp. 3774–3781, 2019.

BibTeX | Links: [PDF]

2018

X S Papageorgiou, G Chalvatzaki, A Dometios, C S Tzafestas

Human-Centered Service Robotic Systems for Assisted Living Conference

Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria Danube Region (RAAD 2018), 2018.

Abstract | BibTeX | Links: [PDF]

2017

G Chalvatzaki, X S Papageorgiou, C S Tzafestas, P Maragos

HMM-based Pathological Gait Analyzer for a User-Adaptive Intelligent Robotic Walker Conference

Proc. 25th European Conf.(EUSIPCO-17) Workshop: "MultiLearn 2017 - Multimodal processing, modeling and learning for human-computer/robot interaction applications", Kos, Greece, 2017.

Abstract | BibTeX | Links: [PDF]

G Chalvatzaki, X S Papageorgiou, C S Tzafestas

Towards a user-adaptive context-aware robotic walker with a pathological gait assessment system: First experimental study Conference

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017.

Abstract | BibTeX | Links: [PDF]

G Chalvatzaki, X S Papageorgiou, C S Tzafestas, P Maragos

Estimating double support in pathological gaits using an HMM-based analyzer for an intelligent robotic walker Conference

IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2017.

Abstract | BibTeX | Links: [PDF]

G Chalvatzaki, X S Papageorgiou, C S Tzafestas, P Maragos

Comparative experimental validation of human gait tracking algorithms for an intelligent robotic rollator Conference

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017.

Abstract | BibTeX | Links: [PDF]

X S Papageorgiou, G Chalvatzaki, A Dometios, C S Tzafestas, P Maragos

Intelligent Assistive Robotic Systems for the Elderly: Two Real-life Use Cases Conference

C_PETRA, ACM, Island of Rhodes, Greece, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-4503-5227-7.

Abstract | BibTeX | Links: [PDF]

2016

G Chalvatzaki, X S Papageorgiou, C Werner, K Hauer, C S Tzafestas, P Maragos

Experimental comparison of human gait tracking algorithms: Towards a context-aware mobility assistance robotic walker Conference

Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2016.

Abstract | BibTeX | Links: [PDF]

X S Papageorgiou, G Chalvatzaki, K N Lianos, C Werner, K Hauer, C S Tzafestas, P Maragos

Experimental validation of human pathological gait analysis for an assisted living intelligent robotic walker Conference

C_BIOROB, 2016.

Abstract | BibTeX | Links: [PDF]

2015

G Papageorgiou X.S. Moustris, G Pitsikalis V. Chalvatzaki, A Dometios, N Kardaris, C S Tzafestas, P Maragos

User-Oriented Cognitive Interaction and Control for an Intelligent Robotic Walker Conference

17th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2015), 2015.

Abstract | BibTeX | Links: [PDF]

G Chalvatzaki, X S Papageorgiou, C S Tzafestas

Gait Modelling for a Context-Aware User-Adaptive Robotic Assistant Platform Conference

2015, ISSN: 978-88-97999-63-8.

Abstract | BibTeX | Links: [PDF]

X S Papageorgiou, G Chalvatzaki, C S Tzafestas, P Maragos

Hidden markov modeling of human pathological gait using laser range finder for an assisted living intelligent robotic walker Conference

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015.

Abstract | BibTeX | Links: [PDF]

2014

X S Papageorgiou, G Chalvatzaki, C S Tzafestas, P Maragos

Hidden Markov modeling of human normal gait using laser range finder for a mobility assistance robot Conference

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014, ISSN: 1050-4729.

Abstract | BibTeX | Links: [PDF]

X S Papageorgiou, C S Tzafestas, P Maragos, G Pavlakos, G Chalvatzaki, G Moustris, I Kokkinos, A Peer, B Stanczyk, E -S Fotinea, E Efthimiou

Advances in Intelligent Mobility Assistance Robot Integrating Multimodal Sensory Processing Conference

J_HCII, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014, ISBN: 978-3-319-07446-7.

Abstract | BibTeX | Links: [PDF]