Papers
70
Total Citations
1,108
H-Index
17
About
Konstantinos Karydis is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous aerial systems, energy-efficient robot navigation, soft robotics, and data-driven control. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to autonomous flight in challenging environments, exemplified by his highly cited 2017 paper on fast, GPS-denied navigation in cluttered spaces, which has garnered nearly 200 citations and remains a landmark contribution to the field. His research consistently tackles practical constraints on robotic systems — from optimizing energy efficiency in small-scale aerial robots to developing smooth trajectory generation methods that minimize power consumption during flight. Karydis has also made notable strides in coverage planning for unknown environments, collision-resilient quadrotor design, and Koopman operator-based frameworks for data-driven nonlinear control. Beyond aerial robotics, his work demonstrates impressive breadth: he has contributed to pneumatic soft robot control using memory-based architectures, assistive wearable devices for infants with motor impairments, and adaptive LiDAR-based mapping for agricultural robots. With a cumulative citation record reflecting wide-ranging influence, Karydis stands out as a versatile roboticist whose research bridges fundamental theory and real-world impact across multiple robotic platforms and application domains.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Fast, autonomous flight in GPS‐denied and cluttered environments196 citations · 2017
- 2Energetics in robotic flight at small scales78 citations · 2016
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- 4A pneumatic random-access memory for controlling soft robots42 citations · 2021
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- 10Development of a Soft Robotic Wearable Device to Assist Infant Reaching31 citations · 2020