Nikolaos Tsiogkas

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Nikolaos Tsiogkas is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), multi-robot cooperation, motion planning, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). He is perhaps best known for his foundational contributions to the ARROWS (ARchaeological RObot systems for the World's Seas) EU project, which sought to adapt low-cost AUV technologies to revolutionize underwater archaeological operations — work that has accumulated over 75 citations and remains a landmark in marine robotics. His research on multi-AUV cooperation, including semantic knowledge representation and distributed coordination frameworks, demonstrated how robotic teams could outperform single-vehicle deployments in complex, bandwidth-constrained underwater environments, garnering nearly 60 additional citations across multiple publications. Beyond marine robotics, Tsiogkas has made notable contributions to motion planning, including timed-elastic band approaches for manipulation (28 citations) and guided stochastic optimization through Learning from Demonstration methods. His 2021 work on B-Spline surface-based range SLAM offers elegant alternatives to conventional occupancy-grid representations. Collectively, his research reflects a career dedicated to making autonomous robotic systems more capable, collaborative, and deployable in challenging real-world environments, from ocean floors to manipulation workspaces.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   The ARROWS project: adapting and developing robotics technologies for underwater archaeology

   75 citations · 2015
2. 2
   Timed-Elastic Bands for Manipulation Motion Planning

   28 citations · 2019
3. 3
   Efficient multi-AUV cooperation using semantic knowledge representation for underwater archaeology missions

   27 citations · 2014
4. 4
   Distributed multi-AUV cooperation methods for underwater archaeology

   19 citations · 2015
5. 5
   The ARROWS Project: robotic technologies for underwater archaeology

   18 citations · 2018
6. 6
   Online Range-Based SLAM Using B-Spline Surfaces

   15 citations · 2021
7. 7
   DCOP: Dubins Correlated Orienteering Problem Optimizing Sensing Missions of a Nonholonomic Vehicle Under Budget Constraints

   14 citations · 2018
8. 8
   Guided Stochastic Optimization for Motion Planning

   12 citations · 2019
9. 9
   Facilitating multi-AUV collaboration for marine archaeology

   12 citations · 2015
10. 10
    Facilitating cooperative AUV missions: experimental results with an acoustic knowledge-sharing framework

    10 citations · 2013

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