Papers
70
Total Citations
1,963
H-Index
21
About
Ioannis Kostavelis is a prominent robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of autonomous navigation, semantic mapping, and human-robot interaction. Best known for his comprehensive survey on semantic mapping for mobile robotics (2014, 373 citations), he has fundamentally shaped how researchers understand the representation of environments for robotic tasks. His contributions extend to the critical domain of human safety, evidenced by his highly cited survey on safety bounds in human-robot interaction (2020, 283 citations) and his explorations of socially aware robot navigation (2017, 171 citations). Kostavelis has made notable practical contributions as well, including pioneering work on robot-guided crowd evacuation—addressing real-world public safety challenges—and developing spatially and temporally coherent semantic maps that enhance cognitive robot navigation. His more recent work integrates augmented reality displays to enable intuitive multi-user collaboration with robotic systems, reflecting his commitment to bridging the gap between advanced robotics and everyday human usability. With a cumulative citation count exceeding 1,200 across his top publications, Kostavelis has established himself as an authoritative voice in mobile robotics, offering researchers and students a rich foundation spanning perception, navigation, and safe human-robot coexistence.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Semantic mapping for mobile robotics tasks: A survey373 citations · 2014
- 2Safety bounds in human robot interaction: A survey283 citations · 2020
- 3Recent trends in social aware robot navigation: A survey171 citations · 2017
- 4Robot Guided Crowd Evacuation84 citations · 2014
- 5Robot navigation via spatial and temporal coherent semantic maps72 citations · 2015
- 6Learning spatially semantic representations for cognitive robot navigation65 citations · 2013
- 7Robot navigation in large-scale social maps: An action recognition approach63 citations · 2016
- 8Thorough robot navigation based on SVM local planning40 citations · 2015
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- 10Semantic maps from multiple visual cues36 citations · 2016