George C. Karras

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2008-2024
Publications (10 Years): 38

Top Topics

Predictive Control

Control Strategy

Visual Servoing

Top Venues

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.

Publications

Sotirios N. Aspragkathos, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Ensuring Safety for UAVs Through Event-Triggered Predictive Control. MED (2024)
Fotis Panetsos, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
An NMPC Framework for Tracking and Releasing a Cable-suspended Load to a Ground Target Using a Multirotor UAV. ICRA (2024)
Sotirios N. Aspragkathos, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Event-Triggered Image Moments Predictive Control for Tracking Evolving Features Using UAVs. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 9 (2) (2024)
Fotis Panetsos, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Robust Deep RL-Based Aerial Transportation of Suspended Loads. MED (2024)
Fotis Panetsos, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Aerial Transportation of Cable-Suspended Loads With an Event Camera. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 9 (1) (2024)
Fotis Panetsos, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, Odysseas Oikonomides, Panayiotis Kolios, Demetrios G. Eliades, Christos G. Panayiotou
A motion control framework for autonomous water sampling and swing-free transportation of a multirotor UAV with a cable-suspended mechanism. J. Field Robotics 40 (5) (2023)
Sotirios N. Aspragkathos, Evangelos Ntouros, George C. Karras, Bernabé Linares-Barranco, Teresa Serrano-Gotarredona, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
An Event-Based Tracking Control Framework for Multirotor Aerial Vehicles Using a Dynamic Vision Sensor and Neuromorphic Hardware. IROS (2023)
Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, George C. Karras, Maryam Sharifi, George K. Fourlas
Control Barrier Function Based Visual Servoing for Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems under Operational Constraints. MED (2023)
Andreas Mitakidis, Sotirios N. Aspragkathos, Fotis Panetsos, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A Deep Reinforcement Learning Visual Servoing Control Strategy for Target Tracking Using a Multirotor UAV. ICARA (2023)
Fotis Panetsos, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, Odysseas Oikonomides, Panayiotis Kolios, Demetrios G. Eliades, Christos G. Panayiotou
A Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Strategy for Water Sampling Using a UAV with a Slung Mechanism. MED (2023)
Sotirios N. Aspragkathos, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A Visual Servoing Strategy for Coastline Tracking using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. MED (2022)
Panagiotis Rousseas, George C. Karras, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Indoor Visual Exploration with Multi-Rotor Aerial Robotic Vehicles. Sensors 22 (14) (2022)
Fotis Panetsos, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A Deep Reinforcement Learning Motion Control Strategy of a Multi-rotor UAV for Payload Transportation with Minimum Swing. MED (2022)
Sotirios N. Aspragkathos, Mario Sinani, George C. Karras, Fotis Panetsos, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
An Event-triggered Visual Servoing Predictive Control Strategy for the Surveillance of Contour-based Areas using Multirotor Aerial Vehicles. IROS (2022)
Fotis Panetsos, George C. Karras, Sotirios N. Aspragkathos, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Precise Position Control of a Multi-rotor UAV with a Cable-suspended Mechanism During Water Sampling. IROS (2022)
Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A Predictive Control Approach for Cooperative Transportation by Multiple Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems. IEEE Trans. Control. Syst. Technol. 30 (3) (2022)
Panagiotis Vartholomeos, Panos Marantos, George C. Karras, Elisabeth Menendez, Marcos Rodriguez, Santiago Martínez de la Casa Díaz, Carlos Balaguer
Modeling, Gait Sequence Design, and Control Architecture of BADGER Underground Robot. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 6 (2) (2021)
Georgios Zogopoulos-Papaliakos, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A Fault-Tolerant Control Scheme for Fixed-Wing UAVs with Flight Envelope Awareness. J. Intell. Robotic Syst. 102 (2) (2021)
George C. Karras, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, George K. Fourlas, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A Mixed-Initiative Formation Control Strategy for Multiple Quadrotors. Robotics 10 (4) (2021)
Michalis Logothetis, George C. Karras, Konstantinos Alevizos, Christos K. Verginis, Pedro Roque, Konstantinos Roditakis, Alexandros Makris, Sergio García, Philipp Schillinger, Alessandro Di Fava, Patrizio Pelliccione, Antonis A. Argyros, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, Dimos V. Dimarogonas
Efficient Cooperation of Heterogeneous Robotic Agents: A Decentralized Framework. IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 28 (2) (2021)
Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, George C. Karras, Panos Marantos, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A Robust Predictive Control Approach for Underwater Robotic Vehicles. IEEE Trans. Control. Syst. Technol. 28 (6) (2020)
Michalis Logothetis, George C. Karras, Konstantinos Alevizos, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A Variable Impedance Control Strategy for Object Manipulation Considering Non-Rigid Grasp. IROS (2020)
George C. Karras, George K. Fourlas
Model Predictive Fault Tolerant Control for Omni-directional Mobile Robots. J. Intell. Robotic Syst. 97 (3) (2020)
Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Decentralized Impedance Control for Cooperative Manipulation of Multiple Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems under Lean Communication. CoRR (2019)
Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, Fotis Giagkas, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Robust Formation Control for Multiple Underwater Vehicles. Frontiers Robotics AI 6 (2019)
Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A Distributed Predictive Control Approach for Cooperative Manipulation of Multiple Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems. ICRA (2019)
Michalis Logothetis, Panagiotis Vlantis, Constantinos Vrohidis, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A Motion Planning Scheme for Cooperative Loading Using Heterogeneous Robotic Agents. ICRA (2019)
Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A Distributed Predictive Control Approach for Cooperative Manipulation of Multiple Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems. CoRR (2019)
Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Robust Image-Based Visual Servoing With Prescribed Performance Under Field of View Constraints. IEEE Trans. Robotics 35 (4) (2019)
Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, George C. Karras, Alexandros Nikou, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A robust interaction control approach for underwater vehicle manipulator systems. Annu. Rev. Control. 46 (2018)
Michalis Logothetis, George C. Karras, Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, Panagiotis Vlantis, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A Model Predictive Control Approach for Vision-Based Object Grasping via Mobile Manipulator. IROS (2018)
Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, George C. Karras, Panos Marantos, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A Robust Model Predictive Control Approach for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Operating in a Constrained Workspace. ICRA (2018)
Panos Marantos, George C. Karras, Panagiotis Vlantis, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Vision-based Autonomous Landing Control for Unmanned Helicopters. J. Intell. Robotic Syst. 92 (1) (2018)
Andreas Nioras, George C. Karras, George K. Fourlas, Georges Stamoulis
Survey of Fault Diagnosis and Accommodation of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. DX (2018)
Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, George C. Karras, Panos Marantos, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A Robust Model Predictive Control Approach for Underwater Robotic Vehicles Operating in a Constrained workspace. CoRR (2017)
Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, George C. Karras, Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Trajectory Tracking With Prescribed Performance for Underactuated Underwater Vehicles Under Model Uncertainties and External Disturbances. IEEE Trans. Control. Syst. Technol. 25 (2) (2017)
Narcís Palomeras, Arnau Carrera, Natàlia Hurtós, George C. Karras, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, Michael Cashmore, Daniele Magazzeni, Derek Long, Maria Fox, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, Petar Kormushev, Joaquim Salvi, Marc Carreras
Toward persistent autonomous intervention in a subsea panel. Auton. Robots 40 (7) (2016)
Panagiotis Vlantis, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, George C. Karras, George K. Fourlas, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Fault tolerant control for omni-directional mobile platforms with 4 mecanum wheels. ICRA (2016)
Anastasios Tsiamis, Jana Tumova, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, George C. Karras, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Decentralized leader-follower control under high level goals without explicit communication. IROS (2015)
George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, George K. Karavas
Towards cooperation of underwater vehicles: A Leader-Follower scheme using vision-based implicit communications. IROS (2015)
Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, George C. Karras, Alina Eqtami, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A robust self triggered Image Based Visual Servoing Model Predictive Control scheme for small autonomous robots. IROS (2015)
Christos Stentoumis, E. Karkalou, George C. Karras
A review and evaluation of penalty functions for Semi-Global Matching. ICCP (2015)
George K. Fourlas, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Fault Tolerant Control for a 4-Wheel Skid Steering Mobile Robot. DX (2015)
Anastasios Tsiamis, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Decentralized object transportation by two nonholonomic mobile robots exploiting only implicit communication. ICRA (2015)
Panos Marantos, George C. Karras, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Autonomous model-free landing control of small-scale flybarless helicopters. ICRA (2015)
Christos Stentoumis, Aggelos Amditis, George C. Karras
Census-Based Cost on Gradients for Matching under Illumination Differences. 3DV (2015)
Natàlia Hurtós, Narcís Palomeras, Arnau Carrera, Marc Carreras, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, George C. Karras, Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Sonar-based chain following using an autonomous underwater vehicle. IROS (2014)
Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari, Alina Eqtami, George C. Karras, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A self-triggered visual servoing model predictive control scheme for under-actuated underwater robotic vehicles. ICRA (2014)
George C. Karras, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, Sharad Nagappa, Narcís Palomeras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, Marc Carreras
Motion control for autonomous underwater vehicles: A robust model - Free approach. ICRA (2014)
George C. Karras, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, Matteo Leonetti, Narcís Palomeras, Petar Kormushev, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, Darwin G. Caldwell
On-line identification of autonomous underwater vehicles through global derivative-free optimization. IROS (2013)
Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, George C. Karras, Sharad Nagappa, Narcís Palomeras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, Marc Carreras
A robust visual servo control scheme with prescribed performance for an autonomous underwater vehicle. IROS (2013)
George C. Karras, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, Hashim Kemal Abdella, Tom Larkworthy, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, David Lane
A robust sonar servo control scheme for wall-following using an autonomous underwater vehicle. IROS (2013)
George C. Karras, Savvas G. Loizou, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Towards semi-autonomous operation of under-actuated underwater vehicles: sensor fusion, on-line identification and visual servo control. Auton. Robots 31 (1) (2011)
George C. Karras, Savvas G. Loizou, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
On-line state and parameter estimation of an under-actuated underwater vehicle using a modified Dual Unscented Kalman Filter. IROS (2010)
George C. Karras, Savvas G. Loizou, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
A visual-servoing scheme for semi-autonomous operation of an underwater robotic vehicle using an IMU and a Laser Vision System. ICRA (2010)
George C. Karras, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Visual servo control of an underwater vehicle using a Laser Vision System. IROS (2008)