Papers
9
Total Citations
273
H-Index
6
About
Stelios C. Orphanoudakis is a pioneering researcher in the field of autonomous mobile robotics, with a primary focus on vision-based navigation and spatial perception. His most significant contributions center on the development of robust robot homing behaviors—enabling robots to reliably return to a starting position after traversing arbitrary paths—by exploiting panoramic vision and corner tracking techniques. His landmark 2005 paper, "Robot Homing by Exploiting Panoramic Vision," has garnered over 100 citations, underscoring its foundational impact. Orphanoudakis also advanced obstacle detection and collision avoidance, notably through methods that assume a locally planar ground and estimate time-to-contact using planar parallax. His work extends to assistive robotics, where he combined vision and range sensors to provide navigational support for robotic wheelchair platforms, enhancing mobility for individuals with disabilities. With a career spanning the late 1990s to the mid-2000s, Orphanoudakis’ research has been instrumental in transitioning robotic navigation from unreliable odometry to more robust, vision-driven approaches, leaving a lasting imprint on the fields of computer vision and mobile robotics.
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Top Papers
- 1Robot Homing by Exploiting Panoramic Vision103 citations · 2005
- 2Visual detection of obstacles assuming a locally planar ground50 citations · 1997
- 3Robot homing based on corner tracking in a sequence of panoramic images47 citations · 2005
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- 5Using planar parallax to estimate the time-to-contact23 citations · 2003
- 6Visual Recognition of Workspace Landmarks for Topological Navigation18 citations · 1999
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- 8Vision-based assistive navigation for robotic wheelchair platforms2 citations · 1996
- 9Robot Homing based on Panoramic Vision2 citations · 2001