Zacharia Paraskevi

Paraskevi Th. Zacharia is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Design and Production Engineering at the University of West Attica. She holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics (2002), a Ph.D. from the Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics Department (2009) and a Ph.D. from the Business Administration Department (2016) (University of Patras, Greece).

Her research interests lie in the field of Production Planning and Control and its interface with Robotics, Automation Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Heuristics. Her work focuses on planning and scheduling of manufacturing and production systems where robots or human workers are employed aiming at the optimization of multi-criteria.

She has published 20 papers in scientific journals, 12 papers in conference proceedings and 2 book chapters with h-index=12 in Google Scholar She has been involved as a researcher in numerous European and National R&D projects. She is a reviewer for more than 10 international journals of high impact factor.

Research Interests

• Development of industrial robot control strategies in the production line of an industry through intelligent control systems combining Artificial Intelligence methods, optimization systems with heuristic algorithms and Visual Servoing.
• Robot task scheduling and motion planning considering obstacle avoidance in an industrial environment.
• Production planning with the aim to optimize criteria related to the production line, through heuristic algorithms.
• Optimization of robotic path planning for moving in an environment cluttered with obstacles with a basic criterion of cycle time taking into account the multiplicity of robot configurations.
• Development of intelligent transportation systems using Autonomous Vehicles and application in industrial environment and city logistics