Ioannis Tsikelis

Bio

Ioannis Tsikelis is a Doctoral Researcher at Inria Centre at Université de Lorraine under the supervision of Dr. Enrico Mingo-Hoffman. His research work focuses on combining model-based methods and machine learning for robotic motion planning and control.

He graduated with a Diploma (Integrated MSc) from the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department at the University of Patras, Greece in June 2024.

As a student, he was a member of the University of Patras Robotics Club, an interdisciplinary team of students aimed at designing and constructing small and medium size robots for various competitive scenarios.

Research Interests

Optimal Control
Machine Learning

In Brief

Topic: Optimal Control and Machine Learning for Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation.
Supervisors: Dr. Enrico Mingo-Hoffman
Funding: Inria

Publications

Publications HAL de Ioannis,Tsikelis

2025

Preprints, Working Papers, …

titre
AHMP: Agile Humanoid Motion Planning With Contact Sequence Discovery
auteur
Ioannis Tsikelis, Evangelos Tsiatsianas, Chairi Kiourt, Serena Ivaldi, Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis, Enrico Mingo Hoffman
article
2025
Accès au texte intégral et bibtex
https://hal.science/hal-05072261/file/2025_agile_whole_body.pdf BibTex

2024

Conference papers

titre
Gait Optimization for Legged Systems Through Mixed Distribution Cross-Entropy Optimization
auteur
Ioannis Tsikelis, Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis
article
Humanoids 2024 – IEEE-RAS 23rd International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Nov 2024, Nancy, France. pp.1011 – 1018, ⟨10.1109/Humanoids58906.2024.10769935⟩
Accès au texte intégral et bibtex
https://hal.science/hal-05036926/file/tsikelis24gait.pdf BibTex