Panagiotis Vlantis
National Technical University of Athens, University of Patras, Duke University
Papers
13
Total Citations
230
H-Index
8
About
Panagiotis Vlantis is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous robot navigation, aerial-ground vehicle coordination, and multi-robot systems. His research is particularly distinguished by sophisticated approaches to motion planning in complex, obstacle-cluttered environments, where he has made significant contributions to the development of harmonic potential fields as a practical alternative to classical artificial potential field methods — a body of work that has collectively attracted over 200 citations. Among his most recognized contributions is his 2015 study on quadrotor landing on inclined moving platforms (68 citations), demonstrating elegant solutions to challenging aerial-ground robot coordination problems. His 2018 work on harmonic map-based robot navigation (42 citations) addressed the long-standing local minima problem in autonomous navigation, while his research on prescribed time-scale navigation introduced innovative time-varying control schemes with guaranteed convergence properties. Vlantis has also tackled fault-tolerant control for omni-directional mecanum-wheel platforms and multi-robot cooperative object transportation, reflecting a broad commitment to robust, real-world robotic deployment. His sustained focus on provably safe navigation, configuration space decomposition, and computationally efficient exploration algorithms positions him as a meaningful contributor to the theoretical and applied foundations of modern autonomous robotics.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Quadrotor landing on an inclined platform of a moving ground vehicle68 citations · 2015
- 2Robot Navigation in Complex Workspaces Using Harmonic Maps42 citations · 2018
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- 4Prescribed Time Scale Robot Navigation24 citations · 2018
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- 8Computationally Efficient Harmonic-Based Reactive Exploration8 citations · 2020
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