Kostas E. Bekris

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
123 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Kostas E. Bekris is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Control and Systems Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kostas E. Bekris has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 46 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 35 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kostas E. Bekris's work include Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (74 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (35 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (31 papers). Kostas E. Bekris is often cited by papers focused on Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (74 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (35 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (31 papers). Kostas E. Bekris collaborates with scholars based in United States, Greece and Netherlands. Kostas E. Bekris's co-authors include Lydia E. Kavraki, Andrew M. Ladd, Algis Rudys, Dan S. Wallach, Ryan Luna, Athanasios Krontiris, Zakary Littlefield, Bowen Wen, Andrew Dobson and Yanbo Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The International Journal of Robotics Research and IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation.

In The Last Decade

Kostas E. Bekris

118 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kostas E. Bekris United States 34 2.0k 1.2k 1.2k 875 759 123 3.9k
A. Howard United States 17 1.7k 0.8× 914 0.8× 1.4k 1.2× 504 0.6× 685 0.9× 28 3.6k
Weihua Sheng United States 35 1.6k 0.8× 759 0.6× 531 0.5× 635 0.7× 1.2k 1.6× 249 4.4k
Chaomin Luo United States 29 1.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 948 0.8× 298 0.3× 598 0.8× 172 3.5k
Dongbing Gu United Kingdom 36 1.6k 0.8× 1.4k 1.2× 1.6k 1.4× 523 0.6× 1.5k 1.9× 231 4.5k
Hung Manh La United States 36 927 0.5× 722 0.6× 895 0.8× 451 0.5× 938 1.2× 131 4.1k
Morgan Quigley United States 18 2.7k 1.3× 2.1k 1.7× 2.4k 2.1× 670 0.8× 956 1.3× 28 6.6k
Edwin Olson United States 28 2.2k 1.1× 697 0.6× 2.2k 1.9× 726 0.8× 299 0.4× 72 4.2k
Dirk Hähnel Germany 25 2.8k 1.4× 834 0.7× 2.3k 2.0× 1.1k 1.2× 555 0.7× 34 4.9k
Javier Alonso–Mora Netherlands 35 2.1k 1.0× 1.5k 1.2× 954 0.8× 235 0.3× 1.0k 1.3× 138 5.2k
Camillo J. Taylor United States 31 2.3k 1.2× 1.1k 0.9× 1.9k 1.7× 457 0.5× 1.4k 1.9× 104 4.6k

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All Works

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Chen, Muhao, et al.. (2025). Modular shape-changing tensegrity-blocks enable self-assembling robotic structures. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5888–5888.
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Solovey, Kiril, et al.. (2023). Corrections to “Probabilistic Completeness of RRT for Geometric and Kinodynamic Planning With Forward Propagation”. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(2). 1149–1150.
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Wang, Rui, et al.. (2022). Efficient and High-quality Prehensile Rearrangement in Cluttered and Confined Spaces. 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 1968–1975. 20 indexed citations
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Shah, Dylan, Joran Booth, Robert Baines, et al.. (2021). Tensegrity Robotics. Soft Robotics. 9(4). 639–656. 82 indexed citations
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Aanjaneya, Mridul, et al.. (2021). Sim2Sim Evaluation of a Novel Data-Efficient Differentiable Physics Engine for Tensegrity Robots. 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 1694–1701. 11 indexed citations
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Sintov, Avishai, Andrew Kimmel, Bowen Wen, Abdeslam Boularias, & Kostas E. Bekris. (2020). Tools for Data-driven Modeling of Within-Hand Manipulation with Underactuated Adaptive Hands.. 771–780. 2 indexed citations
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Wen, Bowen, et al.. (2019). Scene-level Pose Estimation for Multiple Instances of Densely Packed Objects. arXiv (Cornell University). 1133–1145. 4 indexed citations
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Shome, Rahul, et al.. (2019). Exploring the utility of robots in exposure studies. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 31(4). 784–794. 3 indexed citations
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Bekris, Kostas E., et al.. (2018). Discovering a Library of Rhythmic Gaits for Spherical Tensegrity Locomotion. View. 7. 2290–2295. 3 indexed citations
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Zhu, Shaojun, Andrew Kimmel, Kostas E. Bekris, & Abdeslam Boularias. (2017). Model Identification via Physics Engines for Improved Policy Search.. arXiv (Cornell University). 6 indexed citations
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Dobson, Andrew & Kostas E. Bekris. (2013). Improving sparse roadmap spanners. View. 4106–4111. 34 indexed citations
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Kimmel, Andrew, Andrew Dobson, & Kostas E. Bekris. (2012). Maintaining team coherence under the velocity obstacle framework. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 247–256. 11 indexed citations
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Krontiris, Athanasios, et al.. (2012). Towards using discrete multiagent pathfinding to address continuous problems. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 4 indexed citations
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Navkar, Nikhil V., Zhigang Deng, Dipan J. Shah, Kostas E. Bekris, & Nikolaos V. Tsekos. (2012). Visual and force-feedback guidance for robot-assisted interventions in the beating heart with real-time MRI. View. 689–694. 33 indexed citations
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Luna, Ryan & Kostas E. Bekris. (2011). Push and swap: fast cooperative path-finding with completeness guarantees. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 294–300. 130 indexed citations
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Li, Yanbo & Kostas E. Bekris. (2011). Learning approximate cost-to-go metrics to improve sampling-based motion planning. View. 4196–4201. 18 indexed citations
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Bekris, Kostas E., et al.. (2010). Fragile Watermarking of 3D Motion Data.. 111–116. 1 indexed citations
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Bekris, Kostas E. & Lydia E. Kavraki. (2008). Informed and probabilistically complete search for motion planning under differential constraints. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 12 indexed citations
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Bekris, Kostas E., Konstantinos I. Tsianos, & Lydia E. Kavraki. (2007). A distributed protocol for safe real-time planning of communicating vehicles with second-order dynamics. 9. 8 indexed citations
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Bekris, Kostas E., et al.. (2002). PYTHEAS: an Integrated Robotic System with Autonomous Navigation Capabilities. 8(2). 81–92. 1 indexed citations

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