Papers
16
Total Citations
141
H-Index
7
About
Panagiotis Chatzakos is a robotics researcher whose work spans legged locomotion, inspection robotics, and autonomous systems, with particular expertise in bio-inspired design and field robotics. His early contributions focused on establishing systematic frameworks for designing and scaling quadruped robots, most notably through parametric analysis of bounding gaits and the influence of DC electric drives on legged system sizing — work that garnered over 25 and 14 citations respectively and laid important groundwork for principled legged robot design. Alongside this, Chatzakos made significant contributions to pipe inspection robotics, developing a modular, omni-directional external-pipe crawling robot capable of navigating bends and branch connections — a practical advance for industrial non-destructive testing. His work on subsea robotics produced an innovative remotely operated crawler for inspecting flexible risers, addressing critical needs in the offshore oil industry. Later research extended into hexapod locomotion on rough terrain without terrain mapping, and more recently into agricultural automation, with a low-cost robotic mushroom harvesting system demonstrating his versatility across application domains. With a cumulative body of work exceeding 117 citations, Chatzakos represents a broad and impactful career bridging fundamental locomotion research and real-world robotic deployment.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
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- 2A Service Robot for Subsea Flexible Risers16 citations · 2010
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- 4Parametric analysis and design guidelines for a quadruped bounding robot14 citations · 2007
- 5The influence of DC electric drives on sizing quadruped robots10 citations · 2008
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- 8Low-cost, accurate robotic harvesting system for existing mushroom farms7 citations · 2023
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