Publications & Resources
We are committed to sharing our research through high-quality academic and professional channels, including peer-reviewed journals, international conferences, and publicly accessible MSc theses. We place particular emphasis on supporting MSc thesis work that meets the standards for international publication, encouraging our students to turn their research into contributions that advance the state of the art in mechatronics and robot design.
Affiliation: Robot Design Lab, Mechatronics Unit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Academic Year: 2024 – 2025
Status: Completed
Student(s): David Johansson, Tobias Pekola
Supervisor: Georgios Andrikopoulos
Examiner: Georgios Andrikopoulos
URL: Pending publication
Affiliation: Robot Design Lab, Mechatronics Unit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Academic Year: 2024 – 2025
Status: Completed
Student(s): Agnes Agåker Karlsson, Iris Jönsson
Supervisor: Georgios Andrikopoulos
Examiner: Georgios Andrikopoulos
URL: Pending publication
Affiliation: Robot Design Lab, Mechatronics Unit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Academic Year: 2024 – 2025
Status: Completed
Student(s): Erik Edström, Marcus Saläng
Supervisor: Georgios Andrikopoulos
Examiner: Georgios Andrikopoulos
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Affiliation: Robot Design Lab, Mechatronics Unit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Academic Year: 2023 – 2024
Status: Completed
Student(s): Johannes Toma
Supervisor: Georgios Andrikopoulos
Examiner: Fredrik Asplund
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Affiliation: Robot Design Lab, Mechatronics Unit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Academic Year: 2023 – 2024
Status: Completed
Student(s): Xiaojing Tan, Ji Yang
Supervisor: Georgios Andrikopoulos
Examiner: Georgios Andrikopoulos
URL: Pending publication
Affiliation: Robot Design Lab, Mechatronics Unit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Academic Year: 2023 – 2024
Status: Completed
Student(s): Pak Chuen Hau
Supervisor: Seshagopalan Thorapalli Muralidharan, Georgios Andrikopoulos
Examiner: Georgios Andrikopoulos
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Affiliation: Robot Design Lab, Mechatronics Unit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Academic Year: 2022 – 2023
Status: Completed
Student(s): Marcel Brummer
Supervisor: Seshagopalan Thorapalli Muralidharan, Georgios Andrikopoulos
Examiner: Georgios Andrikopoulos
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Affiliation: Robot Design Lab, Mechatronics Unit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Academic Year: 2022 – 2023
Status: Completed
Student(s): Seshagopalan Thorapalli Muralidharan, Algot Lindestam
Supervisor: Georgios Andrikopoulos
Examiner: Georgios Andrikopoulos
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Affiliation: Robot Design Lab, Mechatronics Unit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Academic Year: 2022 – 2023
Status: Completed
Student(s): Tess Antonsson
Supervisor: Qinglei Ji, Georgios Andrikopoulos
Examiner: Georgios Andrikopoulos
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Affiliation: Hosted by Robot Design Lab, Mechatronics Unit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Presented in Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering Department, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Academic Year: 2022 – 2023
Status: Completed
Student(s): Simon Johansson Sandberg
Supervisor: Georgios Andrikopoulos
Examiner: Andreas Johansson
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Affiliation: Robot Design Lab, Mechatronics Unit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Academic Year: 2022 – 2023
Status: Completed
Student(s): Ho Ming Kong
Supervisor: Seshagopalan Thorapalli Muralidharan, Israel Luis Peña
Examiner: Georgios Andrikopoulos
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Development of a Compact Drive System for Total Artificial Heart
Affiliation: Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health School, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Academic Year: 2022 – 2023
Status: Completed
Student(s): Hossein Bakhtiari
Supervisor: Thomas Finocchiaro, Georgios Andrikopoulos
Examiner: Seraina Dual
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Affiliation: Hosted by Robot Design Lab, Mechatronics Unit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Presented in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras (UPATRAS), Greece
Academic Year: 2022 – 2023
Status: Completed
Student(s): Konstantinos Kottas
Supervisor: Georgios Andrikopoulos
Examiner: Dimosthenis Kazakos
Affiliation: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras (UPATRAS), Greece
Academic Year: 2021 – 2022
Status: Completed
Student(s): Vasiliki Nikolaidi
Supervisor: Georgios Andrikopoulos
Examiner: Dimosthenis Kazakos
Development, Control and Investigation of a Robotic Exoskeleton for Astronaut Back Support
Affiliation: Hosted by Robot Design Lab, Mechatronics Unit, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Presented in Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering Department, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Academic Year: 2020 – 2021
Status: Completed
Student(s): Evert Häggmann
Supervisor: Georgios Andrikopoulos
Examiner: Andreas Johansson
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Towards Robot and Technologies that Touch Well - Shaping an Experience-driven Design Paradigm
C. Y. Zheng, G. Andrikopoulos, M. Paterson, N. Berthouze, M. O. Nygren, Y. Luft, and M. Balaam
in Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24) , Copenhagen, Denmark, Jul. 1–5, 2024
DOI: 10.1145/3656156.3658401
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Towards Caring Touch From Technologies: Knowledge From Healthcare Practitioners
C. Y. Zheng, Y. Chen, A. Latupeirissa, G. Andrikopoulos, A. Ståhl, and M. Balaam
in Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025) , Yokohama, Japan, 26 Apr.–1 May 2025
DOI: 10.1145/3706598.3713736
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On the Design of a Soft Robotic Neck for the Social Robot HARU
G. Andrikopoulos, L. Hässler and R. Gomez
in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM) ,
Boston, MA, USA, 15 – 19 July 2024, pp. 428-433
DOI: 10.1109/AIM55361.2024.10636989
Model Identification of a Soft Robotic Eye Actuator for Safe Social Interactions
A. Lindestam, S. T. Muralidharan, G. Andrikopoulos and R. Gomez
in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM)
Boston, MA, USA, 15 – 19 July 2024, pp. 211-216
DOI: 10.1109/AIM55361.2024.10637028
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A Survey on the Current Trends and Applications of Design Optimization for Compliant and Soft Robotics
S. T. Muralidharan, G. Andrikopoulos and L. Feng
in IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM)
Seattle, WA, USA, 28 – 30 June 2023, pp. 47-53
DOI: 10.1109/AIM46323.2023.10196108
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On the Design and Development of a Tabletop Robot for Interaction with Children
C. Andreanidis, J. Bergsten, M. Brummer, J. Froberg, A. Lindestam, A. Persson, F. Pirmohamed, M. Sandahi, S. T. Muralidharan, G. Andrikopoulos
in IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM)
Seattle, WA, USA, 28 – 30 June 2023, pp. 1232-1237
DOI: 10.1109/AIM46323.2023.10196188
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Omnidirectional Walking of a Quadruped Robot Enabled by Compressible Tendon-Driven Soft Actuators
Q. Ji, S. Fu, L. Feng, G. Andrikopoulos, X. V. Wang, L. Wang
in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 2022
DOI: 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981314
Development of a 3D Printed Multi-Axial Force Sensor
Q. Ji, S. Fu, L. Feng, G. Andrikopoulos, X. V. Wang, L. Wang
in 10th Swedish Production Symposium (SPS), Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering, April 2022, Skövde, Sweden
EMG Onset and Offset Detection via a Modified Threshold Crossings Algorithms
V. Nikolaidi, G. Andrikopoulos, D. Tsipianitis, D. Kazakos
in 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 28 June – 1 July 2022, Athens, Greece
DOI: 10.1109/MED54222.2022.9837229
A Wearable E-Textile Force-Sensing Garment for Characterizing Caring Touch
Caroline Yan Zheng, Adrian Latupeirissa, Yuting Chen, Kieran Woodward, Madeline Balaam, and Georgios Andrikopoulos
Under revision in IEEE Sensors
Designing Active Assistance for Gait with Hip Abductors Weakness Using Predictive Simulation
Linghui Xu, Georgios Andrikopoulos, and Elena M. Gutierrez-Farewik
Submitted in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering
A Kirigami-Inspired Stretchable Pressure Sensor for Conformal and Decoupled Human–Machine Touch Mapping
Yuting Chen, Linghui Xu, Madeline Balaam, and Georgios Andrikopoulos
Under revision in IEEE Sensors
Synthesizing the optimal gait of a quadruped robot with soft actuators using deep reinforcement learning
Q. Ji, S. Fu, K. Tan, S. Thorapalli Muralidharan, K. Lagrelius, D. Danelia, G. Andrikopoulos, X. V. Wang, L. Wang, L. Feng
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manfufacturing , vol. 78, December 2022,
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2022.102382
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Towards Essential Hand Tremor Suppression via Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
V. Skaramagkas, G. Andrikopoulos, and Stamatis Manesis
MDPI Actuators , Special Issue on Soft Actuators for Artificial Muscles , 26 August 2021,
DOI: 10.3390/act10090206
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On the Optimal Adhesion Control of a Vortex Climbing Robot
A. Papadimitriou, G. Andrikopoulos, and G. Nikolakopoulos
in Springer’s Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (JINT), 3 June 2021,
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-021-01420-3
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A Study on the Essential and Parkinson’s Arm Tremor Classification
V. Skaramagkas, G. Andrikopoulos, Z. Kefalopoulou and P. Polychronopoulos
MDPI Signals , Special Issue on Biosignals Processing and Analysis in Biomedicine , vol. 2, no. 2, April 2021
DOI: 10.3390/signals2020016
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Mechatronics Design Methodologies: New Frontiers in Design and Technology
Martin Törngren, Georgios Andrikopoulos, Fredrik Asplund, Dejiu Chen, Lei Feng, and Martin Edin Grimheden
in Mechatronic Futures: Further Challenges and Solutions for Mechatronic Systems and their Designers ,
2nd ed., P. Hehenberger and D. Bradley, Eds. Cham: Springer, 2025, pp. 207–229
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-83571-1_11
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Development of a 3D Printed Multi-Axial Force Sensor
Qinglei Ji, Shuo Fu, Lei Feng, Georgios Andrikopoulos, Xi Vincent Wang, and Lihui Wang
in Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering , vol. 21: SPS2022, IOS Press, 2022, pp. 604–614
DOI: 10.3233/ATDE220178
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Towards an Experience-Driven Touch-Based Paradigm for Robots and Technologies in Assistive and Intimate Interactions
Madeline Balaam, Caroline Yan Zheng, Georgios Andrikopoulos, Nadia Berthouze, Mark Paterson, Minna Nygren, Yoav Luft
EuroHaptics, June 30th, 2024, Lille, France
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Towards Robot and Technologies that Touch Well – Shaping an Experience-driven Design Paradigm
Madeline Balaam, Caroline Yan Zheng, Georgios Andrikopoulos, Nadia Berthouze, Mark Paterson, Minna Nygren, Yoav Luft
ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, July 1st, 2024, Copenhagen
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Towards a Balanced Cyberphysical Society: A Focus on Group Social Dynamics
Randy Gomez,Selma Sabanovic, Vicky Charisi,Georgios Andrikopoulos, Deborah Szapiro, Angelo Cangelosi, Nawid Jamali, Natasha Randall, Luis Merino
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), London, UK, May 29, 2023
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