Ioannis Tortopidis

Background

Tortopidis, Ioannis Son of Stylianos I. Tortopidis and Olympia L. Akalmazoglou.

Education

Graduate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, 1994. Postgraduate in Control and Robotic Systems, National Technology University, Athens, 2001. Doctor of Philosophy in Space Robotics, National Technology University, Athens, since 2003.

Career

Research and teaching assistant Alexander Technological Educational Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1997—1998. Employee Hellenic Civil Aviation authority, Athens, since 2000. Private signal corps (HERMES), 1995-1997, Greece.

Achievements

• Achievements include development of an innovative method which uses high order polynomials as arguments in cosine functions to underactuated systems exhibiting non-holonomic behavior, leading to drastic extension of final system's configurations.
  
  The innovative method, developed in 2004, and the corresponding key idea, led to solutions for a whole family of unresolved problems, relevant to "Non-holonomic, under-actuating systems".
  
  

Religion

Christian Orthodox

Interests

• Referring to past life:
  
  Maths, Physics, Electrical Circuits, Electronics, S/W, Automatic Control Systems, Self Learning Systems, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Music, Cinema, Theater, Traveling, Driving, Bicycling, Walking, ...

Connections

Father:

Stylianos I. Tortopidis

Mother:

Olympia L. Akalmazoglou