Andreas Papadimitriou
Papers
8
Total Citations
80
H-Index
5
About
Andreas Papadimitriou is a robotics researcher whose work centers on the design, control, and autonomous navigation of climbing and aerial robots for infrastructure inspection and maintenance. His primary contributions lie in vortex adhesion technology, where he has pioneered the modeling and optimal control of Vortex Climbing Robots (VCRs) that use Electric Ducted Fans to generate negative pressure for adhering to surfaces of variable orientations and curvature. His most cited paper, "On Model-based Adhesion Control of a Vortex Climbing Robot" (20 citations), establishes the critical adhesion force dynamics for such systems. He has also developed novel platforms like the differential drive Vortex Robot and a thrust-vectoring variant, demonstrating high payload capacity and robust locomotion. Beyond climbing robots, Papadimitriou has advanced multi-robot systems with work on range-aided collaborative pose estimation (9 citations) and soft pneumatic morphing quadrotors (8 citations), as well as collision-free navigation under communication delays using multi-stage NMPC. His research, with over 80 total citations, directly addresses real-world challenges in autonomous inspection of large-scale infrastructure.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1On Model-based Adhesion Control of a Vortex Climbing Robot20 citations · 2019
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- 3On the Optimal Adhesion Control of a Vortex Climbing Robot12 citations · 2021
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- 5Soft Pneumatic Actuated Morphing Quadrotor: Design and Development8 citations · 2022
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- 8On Path Following Evaluation for a Tethered Climbing Robot4 citations · 2020