Stergios I. Roumeliotis
California Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, University of Southern California, Southern California University for Professional Studies, Robotics Research (United States), Engineering Systems (United States), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Land Stewardship Project, University of Minnesota System, United States Naval Research Laboratory
Papers
88
Total Citations
6,097
H-Index
40
About
Stergios I. Roumeliotis is a leading researcher in robotics and autonomous systems, with deep expertise in mobile robot localization, multi-robot coordination, and state estimation. His work has fundamentally shaped how teams of robots perceive and navigate their environments, earning him thousands of citations across a body of research that bridges rigorous probabilistic theory with real-world robotics applications. Roumeliotis's most celebrated contributions center on cooperative and distributed localization for multi-robot systems. His seminal 2002 paper on distributed multirobot localization (694 citations) introduced a foundational framework enabling robots to share motion data and jointly refine their position estimates — a cornerstone of modern swarm robotics. He extended this work through performance analysis, MAP estimation, and covariance intersection techniques, collectively demonstrating both the theoretical limits and practical scalability of cooperative localization. His multi-robot SLAM research further tackled the challenge of merging maps without prior knowledge of relative poses, enabling more flexible deployment of robot teams. Beyond multi-robot systems, Roumeliotis contributed influential methods in Kalman filtering for localization, line-based map building, active target tracking, and vision-aided inertial navigation. His 2017 VINS on wheels paper notably revealed previously unrecognized unobservable directions in ground vehicle navigation. Across domains, his research consistently combines mathematical rigor with practical innovation, making him an essential reference for any student or researcher in autonomous robotics and state estimation.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Distributed multirobot localization694 citations · 2002
- 2Performance analysis of multirobot Cooperative localization234 citations · 2006
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- 4Multirobot Active Target Tracking With Combinations of Relative Observations222 citations · 2011
- 5Multi-robot SLAM with Unknown Initial Correspondence: The Robot Rendezvous Case215 citations · 2006
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- 8Decentralized multi-robot cooperative localization using covariance intersection173 citations · 2013
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- 10VINS on wheels170 citations · 2017