Munich, Germany
Inertial navigation drifts. Acoustic positioning infrastructure is not always available, and surfacing for a satellite fix is not always an option. I build the software that closes that gap — and the bench that proves how well it closes.
Services
A hardware-in-the-loop bench for quantifying underwater navigation performance before hardware is committed. Reproducible campaigns over real bathymetry, with instrumented results rather than vendor datasheets.
A GNSS-denied navigation engine that matches measured bathymetry against a prior map to arrest inertial drift, fused with inertial and Doppler velocity measurements and designed for mission profiles where conventional approaches are constrained.
Developed under the working name Styx, for integration as a subsystem in AUV and UUV platforms.
Background
My doctoral work at the National Technical University of Athens was on trajectory planning and tracking control for underactuated AUVs. The lead paper, in Ocean Engineering, remains cited in the field.
I then spent fifteen years in German industry taking autonomy from research into production: transmission and hybrid powertrain control at Continental, autonomous driving tooling and embedded optimisation at Intel and Mobileye, visual SLAM and fleet navigation at Siemens, and vehicle motion control architecture at VinFast as Principal Engineer. Earlier, at Intracom Defense Electronics, I worked on embedded Linux and networking for a General Dynamics UK programme.
This is a return to the problem I started on, with fifteen years of production
engineering discipline behind it.
Publications on Google Scholar →
Current work
A hardware-in-the-loop bench validating Terrain-Aided Navigation and inertial fusion against real Aegean bathymetry, using public EMODnet survey data. Campaigns are reproducible end to end, and every result traces back to a recorded configuration — which is a requirement for the evaluation work above.
Contact
I am open to conversations with integrators, shipyards, platform builders and research consortia working on subsea autonomy — whether that is evaluation work, a consortium role, or a navigation subsystem.