Giorgos Kontes

Kontes Giorgos Phd Student Department of Production Engineering and Management Technical University of Crete

Contact Information

Giorgos Kontes
Department of Production Engineering and Management
Technical University of Crete
Kounoupidiana, 73100, Chania

Phone: (+30) 28210 37363

Email: gkontes at isc dot tuc dot gr

Url: http://sites.google.com/site/giorgoskontes

Education

• October 2010: MSc Degree , Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete

  • Thesis, Presentation, Video (in greek)

• Engineering Diploma (5 years), 2007, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete

Research Interests

• Control for positive-energy buildings

• Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Control

• Machine Learning

Research Projects

I am currently involved in the following research projects:

• PEBBLE Positive-energy buildings is attained thru better control decisions (FP7-ICT-2009.6.3: ICT for Energy Efficiency)

• AGILE Rapidly-deployable, self-tuning, self-reconfigurable, nearly-optimal control design for large-scale nonlinear systems (FP7-ICT-2009.3.5: Engineering of Networked Monitoring and Control Systems)

Past projects:

Distributed Algorithms for Multi-Robot Learning, Technical University of Crete

Awards and Honors

• Research Scholarship, Technical University of Crete, September 2008 - September 2009

• 2 place (among 9 teams) in the RoboCup 2007, Atlanta, USA, in the MS Robotics Studio soccer challenge, with the team 'Kouretes’ of the Technical University of Crete

• 7 place (among 10 teams) in the RoboCup Open 2007, Hannover, Germany, in the Standard Platform League, with the team 'Kouretes’ of the Technical University of Crete

Publications

Journal

1. Nikos Vlassis, Marc Toussaint, Georgios Kontes and Savas Piperidis, ”Learning Model-free Robot Control by a Monte Carlo EM Algorithm”, Autonomous Robots, 27(1-B), 2009. (pdf)

Conference

1. G.D. Kontes, G.I. Giannakis, E.B. Kosmatopoulos and D.V. Rovas, “A model-assisted controller parameter fine-tuning methodology to improve building energy performance”, Submitted to the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC), 2011 (under review)

2. G.I. Giannakis, G.D. Kontes, E.B. Kosmatopoulos and D.V. Rovas, “A model-assisted adaptive controller fine-tuning methodology for efficient energy use in buildings”, Submitted to the 19th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2011 (under review)

3. Nikos Vlassis, Georgios Kontes and Savas Piperidis, “Reinforcement Learning of Robot Control via Probabilistic Inference”, 1st Hellenic Robotics Conference (HEROC), February 23-24, Athens, 2009 (in greek)

4. Georgios Kontes and Michail G. Lagoudakis, “Coordinated Team Play in the RoboCup Four-Legged League”, Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-07), Patras, Greece, October 2007

Technical Report

1. Georgios Kontes and Michail G. Lagoudakis, “Petri-Net Plan Coordination for RoboCup Teams”, Technical Report TR-2008-01, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, January 2008