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Laboratory of Robotics, Embedded & Integrated Systems

The ROBIS Lab fulfills core educational and cutting-edge research needs at the University of Western Macedonia. We pioneer advances in embedded cyber-physical systems, autonomous robotics, reconfigurable FPGA accelerators, hardware-software co-design, and high-performance parallel computing.

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89+
Graduated Theses
85+
Scientific Publications
6
PhD Candidates & Researchers
30+
FPGA & Robotic Kits
100%
Open Research & Education

Core Research & Educational Focus

Our laboratory drives interdisciplinary research across embedded architectures, robotics, and high-performance computing.

Robotics

Robotics & Autonomous Systems

Design and realization of autonomous ground vehicles, robotic arms, obstacle-avoidance algorithms, and sensory guidance systems. Proud mentors of the Hyperion Robotics team (ranked 19th worldwide in the World Robotics Olympiad).
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Hardware

Embedded Systems & FPGA Design

Synthesizable VHDL IP cores, hardware acceleration, System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures on Xilinx & Altera FPGAs, Residue Number System (RNS) arithmetic units, and low-power memory hierarchies.
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HPC & AI

Parallel Computing & Computer Vision

Massively parallel architectures using NVIDIA CUDA GPUs, multi-socket FUJITSU PRIMERGY Xeon cluster with OpenMPI, real-time OpenCV computer vision, object tracking, and embedded edge AI inference.
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Security

Cyber-Physical Security & Logic Locking

Hardware trojan detection, logic locking methodologies (ProbLock), embedded cryptographic security tokens, and secure IoT communication protocols across edge nodes.
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Prof. Minas Dasygenis
Laboratory Director

Prof. Minas Dasygenis, PhD

Professor | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | University of Western Macedonia

Dr. Minas Dasygenis is a systems architect and researcher in embedded systems, computer architecture, and autonomous cyber-physical platforms. With over 16 years of academic leadership, he has supervised over 89 diploma theses, 5 doctoral dissertations, published 85+ papers, and authored 3 textbooks.

🎓 Google Scholar 📄 Scopus 💻 GitHub 📥 Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
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Recent Achievements & Distinctions

Our students and laboratory teams consistently excel in regional, national, and worldwide robotics and engineering competitions.

World Competition

World Robotics Olympiad (WRO)

The Hyperion Robotics team, supervised by Dr. Dasygenis, achieved 19th rank in the world (out of 37 international teams) at the prestigious World Robotics Olympiad in Doha, Qatar.
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National Award

iFest National Thesis Distinction

Laboratory graduate Nikos Giannopoulos received the 3rd Best Thesis Award at the Panhellenic IT Festival (iFest) for his innovative embedded systems graduation project.
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Academic Excellence

National Open Courses Distinction

The Computer Architecture open course developed by Dr. Dasygenis received an official national award of distinction for excellence in open educational resources in Greece.
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Interested in Joining or Doing a Thesis with Us?

We offer exciting diploma thesis topics across Robotics, FPGAs, Machine Learning, IoT, and System Programming. Review our available topics or schedule an office hour meeting.

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