Dr Georgios Salavasidis

Biography

Georgios is a Delivery Lead and Senior Robotics Researcher specialising in marine robotic autonomy, with expertise in robot navigation and decision-making. His work focuses on long-range AUV/glider navigation in complex GPS-denied environments (e.g., the Arctic and Antarctic), networked robot operations, and adaptive mission planning, while exploring emerging technologies such as quantum sensing to advance robot autonomy. He has contributed as both PI and Co-I in multiple R&D projects within Horizon Europe and national initiatives.

Roles Provided

Delivery Lead and Senior Robotics Researcher, Marine Autonomous Robotic Systems (MARS) Group

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Publications

Authors

Wang, Yaomei; Salavasidis, Georgios; Allsup, Benjamin; Matterson, Daniel; Woodward, Stephen; Garabato, Alberto C Naveira; Phillips, Alexander. 2025 Enhancing slocum gliders for extended polar science. In: OCEANS 2025 Brest, BREST, France, 16th - 19th June 2025. IEEE, 1-6.

Publication year

2025

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Conference item

Authors

Grande, Davide; Peruffo, Andrea; Salavasidis, Georgios; Anderlini, Enrico; Fenucci, Davide; Phillips, Alexander B.; Kosmatopoulos, Elias B.; Thomas, Giles. 2024 Passive Fault-Tolerant Augmented Neural Lyapunov Control: A method to synthesise control functions for marine vehicles affected by actuators faults. Control Engineering Practice, 148, 105935. 10.1016/j.conengprac.2024.105935

Publication year

2024

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Article

Authors

Fenucci, Davide; Fanelli, Francesco; Consensi, Alberto; Salavasidis, Georgios; Pebody, Miles; Phillips, Alexander B.. 2024 A multi-platform guidance, navigation and control system for the autosub family of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. Control Engineering Practice, 146, 105902. 10.1016/j.conengprac.2024.105902

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2024

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Article

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Grande, Davide; Peruffo, Andrea; Anderlini, Enrico; Salavasidis, Georgios. 2023 Augmented Neural Lyapunov Control. IEEE Access, 11. 67979-67986. 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3291349

Publication year

2023

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Article

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Phillips, Alexander B.; Templeton, Robert; Roper, Daniel; Morrison, Richard; Pebody, Miles; Bagley, Philip M.; Marlow, Rachel; Chaney, Ed; Burris, James; Consensi, Alberto; Fenucci, Davide; Fanelli, Francesco; Martin, Achille; Salavasidis, Georgios; Jones, Owain; Morris, Ashley; Harris, Catherine A.; Lorenzo Lopez, Alvaro; Furlong, Maaten. 2023 Autosub Long Range 1500: A continuous 2000 km field trial. Ocean Engineering, 280, 114626. 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.114626

Publication year

2023

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Article

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Budd, Matthew; Salavasidis, Georgios; Karnarudzaman, Izzat; Harris, Catherine A.; Phillips, Alexander B.; Duckworth, Paul; Hawes, Nick; Lacerda, Bruno. 2022 Probabilistic planning for AUV data harvesting from smart underwater sensor networks. In: 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 23-27 October 2022. 12051-12057.

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2022

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Conference item

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Wu, Peng; Harris, Catherine A.; Salavasidis, Georgios; Kamarudzaman, Izzat; Phillips, Alexander B.; Thomas, Giles; Anderlini, Enrico. 2022 Anomaly detection and fault diagnostics for underwater gliders using deep learning. In: Oceans 2021: San Diego - Porto, San Diego, 20 - 23 September 2021. 1-6.

Publication year

2022

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Conference item

Authors

Salavasidis, Georgios; Munafo, Andrea; Fenucci, Davide; Harris, Catherine A.; Prampart, Thomas; Templeton, Robert; Smart, Michael; Roper, Daniel T.; Pebody, Miles; Abrahamsen, E. Povl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5924-5350; McPhail, Stephen D.; Rogers, Eric; Phillips, Alexander B.. 2021 Terrain-aided navigation for long-range AUVs in dynamic under-mapped environments. Journal of Field Robotics, 38 (3). 402-428. 10.1002/rob.21994

Publication year

2021

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Article

Authors

Roper, Daniel; Harris, Catherine; Salavasidis, Georgios; Pebody, Miles; Templeton, Robert; Prampart, Thomas; Kingsland, Matthew; Morrison, Richard; Furlong, Maaten; Phillips, Alexander; McPhail, Stephen. 2021 Autosub long range 6000: A multiple-month endurance AUV for deep-ocean monitoring and survey. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 1-13. 10.1109/JOE.2021.3058416 (In Press)

Publication year

2021

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Article

Authors

Anderlini, Enrico; Harris, Catherine A.; Salavasidis, Georgios; Lorenzo Lopez, Alvaro; Phillips, Alexander B.; Thomas, Giles. 2020 Autonomous detection of the loss of a wing for underwater gliders. In: IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Symposium (AUV) 2020, St Johns, NL, Canada, 30 Sep - 2 Oct 2020. 1-6.

Publication year

2020

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Conference item

Authors

Salavasidis, Georgios; Kapoutsis, Athanasios Ch.; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Michailidis, Panagiotis; Kosmatopoulos, Elias B.. 2018 Autonomous trajectory design system for mapping of unknown sea-floors using a team of AUVs. In: European Control Conference (ECC), Limassol, Cyprus, 12-15 June 2018. European Control Association (EUCA).

Publication year

2018

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Conference item

Authors

Salavasidis, Georgios; Munafo, Andrea; Harris, Catherine A.; McPhail, Stephen D.; Rogers, Eric; Phillips, Alexander B.. 2018 Towards Arctic AUV Navigation. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 51 (29). 287-292. 10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.09.517

Publication year

2018

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Article

Authors

Salavasidis, Georgios; Munafo, Andrea; Harris, Catherine A.; Prampart, Thomas; Templeton, Robert; Smart, Michael; Roper, Daniel T.; Pebody, Miles; McPhail, Stephen D.; Rogers, Eric; Phillips, Alexander B.. 2018 Terrain‐aided navigation for long‐endurance and deep‐rated autonomous underwater vehicles. Journal of Field Robotics, 36 (2). 447-474. 10.1002/rob.21832

Publication year

2018

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Article

Authors

Roper, Daniel; Phillips, Alexander; Harris, Catherine; Salavasidis, Georgios; Pebody, Miles; Templeton, Robert; Vikraman Sithalakshmi Amma, Sriram; Smart, Michael; McPhail, Stephen. 2017 Autosub long range 1500: An ultra-endurance AUV with 6000 Km range. In: OCEANS 2017, Aberdeen, 19-22 June 2017. 1-5.

Publication year

2017

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Conference item

Authors

Salavasidis, Georgios; Harris, Catherine A.; McPhail, Stephen; Phillips, Alexander B.; Rogers, Eric. 2016 Terrain Aided Navigation for Long Range AUV operations at arctic latitudes. In: 2016 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: AUV 2016. Richardson, TX, IEEE, 115-123.

Publication year

2016

Publication type

Book section

Authors

Salavasidis, Georgios; Harris, Catherine A.; Rogers, Eric; Phillips, Alexander B.. 2016 Co-operative use of marine autonomous systems to enhance navigational accuracy of autonomous underwater vehicles. In: Alboul, Lyuba; Damian, Dana; Aitken, Jonathan M., (eds.) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems: 17th Annual Conference, TAROS 2016, Sheffield, UK, June 26--July 1, 2016, Proceedings. Cham, CH, Springer International, 275-281. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence).

Publication year

2016

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Book section