Papers
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Total Citations
492
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About
Christos K. Verginis is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work sits at the intersection of multi-robot coordination, formal methods, and nonlinear control theory. He has made significant contributions to the fields of cooperative manipulation, vehicular platoon control, and autonomous robot navigation under complex task specifications. Verginis is perhaps best known for his foundational work on robust distributed control for large vehicular platoons (2017, 117 citations), where he developed protocols guaranteeing prescribed transient and steady-state performance under unknown nonlinear dynamics. His pioneering research on cooperative manipulation — spanning implicit communication strategies, rolling contacts, and rigidity theory — has redefined how multi-robot systems coordinate physical tasks without explicit information exchange. His work integrating Signal Temporal Logic with prescribed performance control (51 citations) bridges the gap between formal verification and practical nonlinear systems, enabling robots to satisfy rich, time-sensitive behavioral specifications. Beyond ground robotics, Verginis has extended these ideas to underwater vehicle-manipulator systems and heterogeneous aerial-ground robot teams, demonstrating remarkable breadth. His more recent contributions on kinodynamic motion planning via funnel control reflect a continued drive to unify sampling-based planning with formal guarantees. With over 350 cumulative citations, his research offers both theoretical rigor and practical impact across modern autonomous systems.
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- 2Cooperative manipulation exploiting only implicit communication56 citations · 2015
- 3Prescribed performance control for signal temporal logic specifications51 citations · 2017
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- 8Timed abstractions for distributed cooperative manipulation20 citations · 2017
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