First Name
Georgios
Last Name
Bolanakis
Email
gbolanakis@hotmail.com
Position
PhD Candidate
Lab
Soft Robotics - Mobile Robotics - Piezoelectric energy harvesting
Website
Bio
Georgios Bolanakis received his Diploma in Computer and Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2018. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of NTUA since 2022 and, recently, joined “Athena” Research Center as a Junior Researcher. His research interests are in the areas of soft robotics, mobile robotics, modelling and control of dynamic systems, and piezoelectric energy harvesting. Georgios has participated in several EU co-funded programs in the past, including INTELLICONT, EROSS, ENAYSI and, currently, he is involved in the project SoftGrip.
Publications
- Bolanakis, G., and Papadopoulos, E., “Introducing Mag-Nets: Rapidly Bending Electromagnetic Actuators for Self-contained Soft Robots,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), April 2024.
- Plagianakos, Th., Leventakis, N., Chrysochoidis, N., Kardarakos, G., Margelis, N., Bolanakis, G., Papadopoulos, E, and Saravanos, D., “Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Based on Bistable Response of a Composite Beam in Post-Buckling,” Smart Materials and Structures, accepted, June 2024.
- Plagianakos, Th., Chrysochoidis, N., Bolanakis, G., Leventakis, N., Margelis, N., Sotiropoulos, M., Giannopoulos, F., Kardarakos, G.-C., Spandonidis, C., Papadopoulos, E., and Saravanos, D., “The Design and Ground Test Verification of an Energy-Efficient Wireless System for the Fatigue Monitoring of Wind Turbine Blades Based on Bistable Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting,” Sensors, 2024, 24, 2480.
- Plagianakos, Th., Margelis, N., Leventakis, N., Bolanakis, G., Vartholomeos, P., and Papadopoulos, E. “Finite element-based assessment of energy harvesting in composite beams with piezoelectric transducers,” Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, accepted August 2021.
- Kardarakos, G. C., Varelis, D., Chrysochoidis, N. A., Margelis, N., Leventakis, N., Plagianakos, T. S., Bolanakis, G., Saravanos, D. A., Papadopoulos, E., “Computational and Experimental Efficiency Investigation of Nonlinear Energy Harvesting Systems Based on Monostable and Bistable Piezoelectric Beams,” ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, SMASIS 2021-68209, September 14-15, 2021.
- Bolanakis, G., Nanos, K, and Papadopoulos, E., “A QR Code-based High-Precision Docking System for Mobile Robots Exhibiting Submillimeter Accuracy,” Proc. 2021 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2021), Delft, The Netherlands, July 12 – 16, 2021
- Saravanos, D. A., N. A. Chrysochoidis, G. C. Kardarakos, T.S. Plagianakos, P. Vartholomeos, N. Leventakis, G. Bolanakis, N. Margelis, E. Papadopoulos, “Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting from Composite Beams in Geometric Nonlinear Regime: Numerical and Experimental Approach,” Proc. SPIE SmartStructures and NDE Conference, 7 - 10 March 2021, Long Beach, California, USA.
- Bolanakis G., Machairas, K., Koutsoukis, K., Mastrogeorgiou, A., Loupis, M., and Papadopoulos, E., “Automating Loading and Locking of New Generation Air-cargo Containers,” Proc. 9th EASN International Conference on “Innovation in Aviation & Space”, Sept. 3-6 2019, Athens, Greece. doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201930404019.
