Iason Sarantopoulos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)
Papers
11
Total Citations
204
H-Index
8
About
Iason Sarantopoulos is a leading researcher in robotic manipulation, with a focus on grasping unknown objects, surgical assistance, and assistive robotics. His work bridges geometry, reinforcement learning, and human-robot interaction to enable robots to operate safely and effectively in complex, cluttered, and sensitive environments. He is best known for developing a geometric approach for multifingered grasping of unknown objects from point cloud data (40 citations), and for pioneering guaranteed active constraints enforcement for surgical robots using barrier artificial potentials (34 citations). Sarantopoulos also introduced modular reinforcement learning for total singulation (25 citations) and a multi-fingered push-grasping policy for dense clutter (23 citations), both of which advance robotic autonomy in challenging settings. His contributions extend to healthcare, notably through the RAMCIP service robot for patients with Mild Cognitive Impairments (18 citations) and a complete pipeline for robotic medication intake assistance. With over 200 total citations, Sarantopoulos’s work is widely recognized for its practical impact on surgical safety, elderly care, and robust manipulation in unstructured environments.
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Top Papers
- 1A Geometric Approach for Grasping Unknown Objects With Multifingered Hands40 citations · 2020
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- 3Total Singulation With Modular Reinforcement Learning25 citations · 2021
- 4Learning Push-Grasping in Dense Clutter23 citations · 2022
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- 6Human-inspired robotic grasping of flat objects21 citations · 2018
- 7RAMCIP - A Service Robot for MCI Patients at Home18 citations · 2018
- 8Robotic Assistance in Medication Intake: A Complete Pipeline9 citations · 2022
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- 10Split Deep Q-Learning for Robust Object Singulation4 citations · 2020