Nikolaos Giakoumidis — robotics, AI, and autonomous systems portfolio. Contact: giakoumidis@nyu.edu. Full briefing: /llms.txt
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DEPOT — MULTIMODAL LOCOMOTIVE SCAN
Case File2024
NYU Abu Dhabi · CAIR with Etihad Rail
Led industry-facing translation of CAIR autonomous-systems research into a strategic collaboration with Etihad Rail — stakeholder engagement, lab visits, and depot inspection with Spot, which I operated to gather multimodal locomotive data for analysis and predictive maintenance, plus public demonstration of partnership intent.
Case File2021
NYU Abu Dhabi · RTA Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport
Designed and integrated the delivery octarotor mechatronics and supported competition deployment that won First Prize at the RTA Dubai World Challenge.
Case File2024
NYU Abu Dhabi · SMART Lab
Contributed to the multi-agent exploration system and its Journal of Field Robotics publication — cooperative mapping with human-in-the-loop teleoperation for construction-site data collection.
Case File2013–2016
NYU Abu Dhabi · with University of Ottawa
Designed and field-validated a gaze-driven wheelchair navigation stack with shared autonomy — the most-cited work in the publication record (170+ citations).
Case File2020–2022
NYU Abu Dhabi · CAIR
System integration and experimental development across the CAIR UAV perception thread — arena instrumentation, RGB-T PTZ pipelines, and field validation that underpins six peer-reviewed papers (2020–2022).
Case File2024
NYU Abu Dhabi · SMART Lab with Etihad Rail
Supported the Etihad Rail proposal and train-side sensing pilot — coordinating the industry engagement and the field installation of the rearward LiDAR and camera payload used to capture corridor evidence for the desert-environment monitoring concept.
Case File2023
NYU Abu Dhabi · Kinesis Lab / CTP · RISC Lab · ACCESS
Co-constructed the original hybrid platform and supported technical integration through the Kinesis Lab / Core Technology Platform — co-author on both IEEE publications documenting the mechatronic design, control architecture, and experimental validation.
DATE PLANTATION — FIELD CORRIDOR
Case File2020
NYU Abu Dhabi · with Imperial College London IDE
Built the multimodal field data collector and automated the inspection path on Clearpath Husky — sensor fusion, SLAM under canopy, and Gazebo simulation for plantation-scale monitoring.
Case File2019
NYU Abu Dhabi · with Abu Dhabi Airports (ADAC)
Supported the aerial-manipulation inspection collaboration with Abu Dhabi Airports — drone-based contact inspection of the terminal roof where human access is hazardous.
SOP-28 SOCKET — LOCKED PROCESSOR UNDER TEST
Case File2017
NYU Abu Dhabi · with Ozgur Sinanoglu's hardware-security group
Led electronics design and fabrication of the ASIC validation PCB — schematic, layout, in-house fabrication, and silicon bring-up for the ACM CCS 2017 logic-locking work.
Case File2016–2017
NYU Abu Dhabi · Panče Naumov research group / Design Studio
Designed and integrated the hardware, controller software, and automation for the ribbon-curling apparatus — motion-stage trade study, mechanical integration, fixture-alignment debugging, Newmark motion-control configuration, and operational handover so the group could run structured experiments and publication media.
Case File2012
NYU Abu Dhabi · Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML)
First-author development of the UAV–UGV hybrid pilot: aerial mapping into ground-robot path planning, published at FIT 2012.
Case File2010–2012
Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML)
Built the motion-capture teleoperation pipeline from optical tracking through kinematic retargeting to live industrial-arm control; published at IRIS 2010.
Case File2010–2011
Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML)
Maintained and upgraded the android telepresence actuation and wiring hardware — electromechanical support contributing to the HRI 2011 workshop paper.
Case File2010–2012
ΤΕΙ Piraeus · Department of Automation (BSc thesis)
Sole author of the BSc Automation Engineering thesis — designed, built, and demonstrated the AR.Drone sensing payload, ArduPilot firmware interfaces, and LabVIEW GCS for GPS path planning and automatic navigation.
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