George Nikolakopoulos
is a professor of robotics and automation in the Department of Computer
Science, Electrical and Space Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. His
work focuses in the area of robotics, control applications, and cyberphysical systems, while he has
extensive experience in creating and managing European and national research projects. Previously,
he has worked as a project manager and principal investigator in several R&D&I projects funded
by the European Union (EU), European Space Agency (ESA), and Swedish and the Greek National
Ministry of Research, on projects such as: (a) EU-funded projects: AEROWORKS, DISIRE,
Compinnova, FLEXA (IP), C@R (IP), NANOMA (STREP), SYMBIOSIS-EU (STREP),
CONFIDENCE (STREP), PROMOVEO (STREP), and CommRob (STREP); (b) ARTEMIS-
funded projects: R5-COP; and (c) Swedish-funded projects: Mine Patrolling Rovers, Pneumatic
Muscle Dancer, etc. In 2014, he was the coordinator of the H2020-ICT AEROWORKS proj-
ect in the field of collaborative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and the H2020-SPIRE project
DISIRE in the field of integrated process control with a total budget of 12M Euros. In 2013, he
has received a grant of 220K Euros for establishing the largest outdoor motion capture system in
Sweden and most probably in Europe as part of the FROST Field Robotics Lab at Luleå University
of Technology. In 2014, Prof. Nikolakopoulos was nominated as Luleå University of Technology
(LTU’s) Wallenberg candidate, one of three nominees from the university and 16 in total engi-
neering nominees in Sweden. In 2003, he received the Information Societies Technologies (IST)
Prize Award for best paper that promotes the scope of the European IST (currently known as
Information and Communication Technologies [ICT]) sector. Prof. Nikolakopoulos’ publications
in the field of UAVs have received top recognition from the related scientific community, and these
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publications have been listed several times in the TOP 25 most popular publications in control
engineering practice from Elsevier. In 2014, he has received the 2014 Premium Award for Best
Paper in IET Control Theory and Applications, Elsevier for research work in the area of UAVs. This
premium award recognizes the best research papers published during the past two years in this
journal. Finally, his published scientific work includes more than 150 published international
journals and conferences in the fields of his interest.
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