Papers

11

Total Citations

63

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5

About

Sotirios Spanogianopoulos is a robotics researcher whose work spans control theory, path planning, and intelligent systems for mobile and surgical robots. His major contributions include developing robust finite-time nonlinear controllers for exoskeleton robots that handle unknown friction and external disturbances, and pioneering non-holonomic path planning for car-like robots using RRT*FN—a method that incrementally steers vehicles toward configurations while respecting motion constraints. He has also advanced optimal mobile robot routing through neural networks and kernel-based dimensionality reduction, and addressed precise motion control for ear surgery robots using non-singular terminal sliding mode with perturbation observers. Spanogianopoulos’s work on adaptive partial linearization for tractor-trailer wheeled robots and his survey on particle swarm optimization in robotics demonstrate his breadth. With over 60 citations across his top papers, his research is gaining traction, particularly his 2025 works on exoskeleton control (12 citations) and mobile robot routing (10 citations). His recent explorations into deep neural frameworks for slip mitigation and neural imitation of model predictive control for agile micro air vehicles in film production signal a forward-looking trajectory, making him a rising figure in autonomous and medical robotics.

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H-Index
11
Papers
63
Total Citations
6
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Robust finite-time nonlinear control of exoskeleton robots in the presence of unknown friction force, parametric sectional number, and bounded external disturbance
12 citations · 2025
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2025 (4 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 19
🏛 Institutions: University of Portsmouth, University of Kent, Middlesex University Dubai, Cranfield University

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