Alexandros Lioulemes

About

Alexandros Lioulemes is a robotics researcher whose work bridges human-robot interaction, rehabilitation engineering, and intelligent automation. His research spans three interconnected domains: robotic-assisted physical therapy, teleoperation and virtual reality interfaces, and autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles in human-occupied environments. Lioulemes is perhaps best known for his MAGNI system series, a suite of robot-aided rehabilitation platforms combining the Barrett WAM robotic arm with game-based therapy, vision-based kinematic modeling, and adaptive haptic feedback to support upper-limb motor recovery. These contributions, accumulating over 35 citations across multiple publications, represent a significant effort to make rehabilitation more personalized, data-driven, and accessible for home use. His 2017 VARM project (19 citations) demonstrated how virtual reality could democratize industrial robot programming, enabling users without robotics expertise to safely operate mechanical manipulators. Meanwhile, his early work on UAV safety in indoor environments (15 citations) tackled the critical challenge of autonomous drone navigation around human workers. Rounding out his portfolio, Lioulemes has explored interactive reinforcement learning for vocational robot training, further reflecting his commitment to intuitive, adaptive human-robot collaboration across both industrial and medical settings.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   VARM

   19 citations · 2017
2. 2
   Safety challenges in using AR.Drone to collaborate with humans in indoor environments

   15 citations · 2014
3. 3
   Guided physical therapy through the use of the Barrett WAM robotic arm

   15 citations · 2014
4. 4
   Self-managed patient-game interaction using the barrett WAM arm for motion analysis

   13 citations · 2015
5. 5
   A Motion and Force Analysis System for Human Upper-limb Exercises

   12 citations · 2016
6. 6
   An intelligent Interactive Learning and Adaptation framework for robot-based vocational training

   11 citations · 2016
7. 7
   Magni Dynamics: A Vision-Based Kinematic And Dynamic Upper-Limb Model For Intelligent Robotic Rehabilitation

   10 citations · 2017
8. 8
   MAGNI: A Real-Time Robot-Aided Game-Based Tele-Rehabilitation System

   8 citations · 2016
9. 9
   Robot-aided rehabilitation using force analysis

   7 citations · 2015
10. 10
    Quantitative analysis of the human upper-limp kinematic model for robot-based rehabilitation applications

    5 citations · 2016

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