Vasiliki Balaska
Papers
9
Total Citations
287
H-Index
8
About
Vasiliki Balaska is a researcher working at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems, with particular expertise in semantic understanding, robot localization, and smart agriculture. Her most influential work, "Sustainable Crop Protection via Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Solutions" (2023, 152 citations), has rapidly established her as a key voice in Agriculture 5.0, exploring how intelligent robotic systems can make farming more efficient and ecologically responsible. Beyond agriculture, Balaska has made significant contributions to mobile robotics through her development of unsupervised semantic clustering and multi-layer mapping techniques, enabling robots to better interpret and navigate human environments. Her research also addresses real-world logistics challenges, including driverless last-mile delivery and autonomous warehouse inspection frameworks, reflecting a consistent focus on bridging theoretical robotics with practical industrial applications. Her work on graph-based semantic segmentation and satellite-terrestrial localization further demonstrates her breadth across perception and spatial reasoning. With a growing body of work spanning Industry 4.0 through 5.0 paradigms, Balaska is emerging as a versatile and impactful researcher helping to define how autonomous systems will operate within future smart industries.
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Top Papers
- 1Sustainable Crop Protection via Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Solutions152 citations · 2023
- 2Unsupervised semantic clustering and localization for mobile robotics tasks33 citations · 2020
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- 4Multi-layer map: Augmenting semantic visual memory22 citations · 2020
- 5Self-localization based on terrestrial and satellite semantics15 citations · 2022
- 6Graph-Based Semantic Segmentation13 citations · 2018
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- 9Towards Warehouse 5.0: A Framework of Human-Centered Technologies7 citations · 2024