Publications

Dynamic Modeling of Bucket-Soil Interactions Using Koopman-DFL Lifting Linearization for Model Predictive Contouring Control of Autonomous Excavators
Filippos Sotiropoulos and Harry Asada
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7 (1), 151-158, 2022.
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Autonomous Excavation of Rocks Using a Gaussian Process Model and Unscented Kalman Filter
Filippos Sotiropoulos and Harry Asada
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5 (2), 2491-2497, 2020.
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Dual Faceted Linearization of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Based on Physical Modeling Theory
Harry Asada and Filippos Sotiropoulos
J. Dyn. Sys., Meas., Control. 141(2), 2019.
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Model-Free Extremum-Seeking Approach to Autonomous Excavator Control Based on Output Power Maximization
Filippos Sotiropoulos and Harry Asada
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 4 (2), 1005 - 1012, 2019.
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Causality in dual faceted linearization of nonlinear dynamical systems
Filippos Sotiropoulos and Harry Asada
2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC) 2018.
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Patents

Determining Soil State and Controlling Equipment Based on Captured Images.
H. H. Asada, and Filippos Sotiropoulous
U.S. Patent No. 10,867,377. Granted 2020

Automated control for excavators.
H. H. Asada, and Filippos Sotiropoulous
U.S. Patent No. 10,867,377. Granted 2022

Fun Projects

Rearranging blocks into densely packed configurations using PRM planner and Piece-wise linear Non-monotone Rearangement Search

Filippos Sotiropoulos and Ryan Sandzimier

Trajectory Optimization and Control for Ball Bouncing Quadrotors

Filippos Sotiropoulos, Ryan Sandzimier and Jerry Ng

Continuous Blood Glucose Prediction in Insulin dependent Type 1 Diabetics

Filippos Sotiropoulos

Awards

• Frederic Barnes Waldron Prize, Inst. of Mechanical Engineers, (2016);
  best mechanical engineering student
• Univ. of Bristol Best Project Award, Inst. of Mechanical Engineers, (2016);
  best individual project
• Bechtel Industrial Individual Prize, University of Bristol, (2016);
  greatest contribution to group research project
• Panhellenic Forensics Debate Competition, (2012);
  winning national debate competition

Teaching

Identification, Estimation, and Learning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2.160
Key Concepts: machine learning, Kalman filters, system identification
Median Student Evaluation: 7/7