Konstantinos Giannousakis
Papers
10
Total Citations
100
H-Index
6
About
Konstantinos Giannousakis is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work spans multi-robot coordination, autonomous navigation, and aerial manipulation. His most significant contributions address two interrelated challenges: distributed area coverage control and mobile robot navigation under uncertainty. In the domain of multi-robot systems, Giannousakis has made notable advances in coverage control when robots suffer from imprecise localization — a critical real-world limitation often overlooked in theoretical work. His development of the Guaranteed Voronoi partitioning scheme, explored across both simulation and experimental studies, has earned particular recognition, with his 2018 coverage control paper accumulating 23 citations. Complementing this, his experimental validation work demonstrates a rare commitment to bridging theoretical algorithms with physical deployment. His navigation research tackles the demanding problem of autonomous robot operation in unknown environments under pose uncertainty, producing a series of increasingly refined methods across multiple publications from 2016 to 2021. Additionally, Giannousakis has contributed to UAV-manipulator systems, addressing the complex dynamics of aerial robots carrying robotic arms. With over 100 cumulative citations across his body of work, Giannousakis represents a thoughtful contributor to practical robotics, consistently grounding theoretical frameworks in experimental reality and real-world constraints.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Distributed area coverage control with imprecise robot localization23 citations · 2018
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- 3Modeling and control aspects of a UAV with an attached manipulator13 citations · 2016
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- 6Mobile Robot Navigation Under Pose Uncertainty in Unknown Environments8 citations · 2017
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- 10Mobile robot position control in environment with static obstacles2 citations · 2020