Papers
15
Total Citations
166
H-Index
8
About
Vasileios Vasilopoulos is a leading researcher in legged robotics, focusing on the intersection of locomotion, manipulation, and autonomous navigation in complex, unstructured environments. His work addresses fundamental challenges in foot-terrain interaction, particularly on deformable ground, where he introduced a viscoplastic approach to model compliant terrain—a contribution that underpins his most-cited paper (31 citations). Vasilopoulos has pioneered reactive, sensor-based planning frameworks that enable legged robots to operate in partially known, non-convex spaces without relying on GPS or pre-built maps. His hierarchical architecture for mobile manipulation, demonstrated by a quadruped robot rearranging furniture in cluttered indoor settings (17 citations), showcases his ability to bridge low-level control with high-level symbolic planning. More recently, he developed RAMP (Reactive Action and Motion Planner, 15 citations), which integrates sampling-based and reactive motion planning using implicit signed distance functions, and HIO-SDF (9 citations), a space-efficient method for incremental online mapping of large workspaces. With over 150 total citations across his portfolio, Vasilopoulos’s work is distinguished by its practical, sensor-driven approach to making legged robots truly autonomous in real-world environments.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Compliant terrain legged locomotion using a viscoplastic approach31 citations · 2014
- 2Reactive Navigation in Partially Known Non-convex Environments19 citations · 2020
- 3Monopod hopping on compliant terrains17 citations · 2018
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- 6Composition of Templates for Transitional Pedipulation Behaviors15 citations · 2022
- 7Sensor-based legged robot homing using range-only target localization11 citations · 2017
- 8HIO-SDF: Hierarchical Incremental Online Signed Distance Fields9 citations · 2024
- 9Quadruped pronking on compliant terrains using a reaction wheel8 citations · 2016
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