George Nikolakopoulos

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
281 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

George Nikolakopoulos is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, George Nikolakopoulos has authored 281 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 104 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 91 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in George Nikolakopoulos's work include Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (74 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (64 papers) and Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (38 papers). George Nikolakopoulos is often cited by papers focused on Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (74 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (64 papers) and Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems (38 papers). George Nikolakopoulos collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Greece and United States. George Nikolakopoulos's co-authors include Anthony Tzes, Kostas Alexis, Christoforos Kanellakis, George Andrikopoulos, Emil Fresk, Sina Sharif Mansouri, Stamatis Manesis, Thomas Gustafsson, George Georgoulas and Dariusz Kominiak and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

George Nikolakopoulos

268 papers receiving 4.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Model predictive quadrotor control: attitude, altitude and position experimental studies

2012 288 citations Kostas Alexis, George Nikolakopoulos et al. profile →
Switching model predictive attitude control for a quadrotor helicopter subject to atmospheric disturbances

2011 263 citations Kostas Alexis, George Nikolakopoulos et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Fully autonomous chunk-based aerial additive manufacturing with Offset-free Predictive Control 2025 ·Automation in Construction ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), George Nikolakopoulos	1
2	Hierarchical Reactive Task Allocation with Dynamic Conflict Resolution Framework for Collaborative Aerial 3D Printing 2025 ·Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), George Nikolakopoulos	0
3	SPADE: Towards Scalable Path Planning Architecture on Actionable Multi-Domain 3D ScenE Graphs 2025 ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Christoforos Kanellakis, George Nikolakopoulos	0
4	Safety-Aware Optimal Scheduling for Autonomous Masonry Construction using Collaborative Heterogeneous Aerial Robots 2025 ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), George Nikolakopoulos	0
5	RecNet: An Invertible Point Cloud Encoding through Range Image Embeddings for Multi-Robot Map Sharing and Reconstruction 2024 ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), George Nikolakopoulos	1
6	A CBF-Adaptive Control Architecture for Visual Navigation for UAV in the Presence of Uncertainties 2024 ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), George Nikolakopoulos	1
7	A Tree-Based Next-Best-Trajectory Method for 3-D UAV Exploration 2024 ·IEEE Transactions on Robotics ·Björn Lindqvist, (unknown), (unknown), George Nikolakopoulos	8
8	STAGE: Scalable and Traversability-Aware Graph based Exploration Planner for Dynamically Varying Environments 2024 ·(unknown), (unknown), Christoforos Kanellakis, George Nikolakopoulos	2
9	Artificial Intelligence for Safety-Critical Systems in Industrial and Transportation Domains: A Survey 2023 ·ACM Computing Surveys ·Jon Pérez, Jaume Abella, Markus Borg, (unknown), Jesús Cerquides, Francisco J. Cazorla, Cristofer Englund, Markus Tauber, George Nikolakopoulos, José Luis Flores	49
10	An Edge Architecture Oriented Model Predictive Control Scheme for an Autonomous UAV Mission 2022 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·(unknown), (unknown), Björn Lindqvist, George Nikolakopoulos	3
11	Range-aided ego-centric collaborative pose estimation for multiple robots 2022 ·Expert Systems with Applications ·(unknown), Sina Sharif Mansouri, George Nikolakopoulos	5
12	Dataset collection from a SubT environment 2022 ·Robotics and Autonomous Systems ·(unknown), (unknown), Sina Sharif Mansouri, Christoforos Kanellakis, (unknown), (unknown), Ali‐akbar Agha‐mohammadi, George Nikolakopoulos	13
13	External force estimation and disturbance rejection for Micro Aerial Vehicles 2022 ·Expert Systems with Applications ·(unknown), (unknown), Sina Sharif Mansouri, George Nikolakopoulos	16
14	A Decentralized Sensor Fusion Scheme for Multi Sensorial Fault Resilient Pose Estimation 2021 ·Sensors ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sina Sharif Mansouri, George Nikolakopoulos	12
15	Towards Visual Inspection of Wind Turbines: A Case of Visual Data Acquisition Using Autonomous Aerial Robots 2020 ·IEEE Access ·Christoforos Kanellakis, Emil Fresk, Sina Sharif Mansouri, Dariusz Kominiak, George Nikolakopoulos	15
16	A Unified NMPC Scheme for MAVs Navigation With 3D Collision Avoidance Under Position Uncertainty 2020 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·Sina Sharif Mansouri, Christoforos Kanellakis, Björn Lindqvist, Farhad Pourkamali‐Anaraki, Ali‐akbar Agha‐mohammadi, Joel W. Burdick, George Nikolakopoulos	13
17	Multi-Agent Collaborative Path Planning Based on Staying Alive Policy 2020 ·Robotics ·(unknown), Sina Sharif Mansouri, George Nikolakopoulos	6
18	A Practical Survey on Wireless Sensor Network Platforms 2017 ·(unknown), (unknown), George Nikolakopoulos	0
19	Constrained optimal attitude control of a quadrotor helicopter subject to wind-gusts: Experimental studies 2010 ·Kostas Alexis, George Nikolakopoulos, Anthony Tzes	26
20	Design and experimental verification of a Constrained Finite Time Optimal control scheme for the attitude control of a Quadrotor Helicopter subject to wind gusts 2010 ·Kostas Alexis, George Nikolakopoulos, Anthony Tzes	35

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