Kapoutsis Athanasios

RANK:	Assistant Professor
SECTOR:	Electronics and Information Technology Systems
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EXPERTISE:	Robotics

CONTACT DETAILS

ADDRESS:	University Campus Kimmeria, Building B, 1st Floor
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PERSONAL WEBSITE:	https://aura-lab.org/
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SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

Multi-robot/agent systems
Collaborative Robots
Emergent Behaviors
Adaptive Systems
Autonomous Vehicles
Reinforcement Learning
Continual Learning

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

• Robotics
• Computational Intelligence
• Large-Scale Systems
• Signal Detection and Estimation

POSTGRADUATE COURSES

SHORT CV

Athanasios Kapoutsis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH) and the head of the AUtonomous Robotics Agents (AURA) Lab. His research interests include, i) inducing autonomy in real-world multi-robot systems, ii) spanning coverage/exploration path planning for UAVs/UGVs/AUVs, iii) reinforcement learning and multi-agent RL, and iv) large-scale distributed/adaptive control. During the past years, he has contributed to a broad portfolio of competitively funded R&D projects spanning EU FP7, H2020 and Horizon Europe programmes, as well as Greek national initiatives—taking on responsibilities ranging from key technical roles to project leadership. Across his work in competitively funded R&D, he has served through three institutional affiliations: the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) of the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), and the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research and Innovation Center (ARC).

RESEARCH PROJECTS

OPUS: Overcome the Long-Standing Problems of UAVs via the Efficient Utilization of Swarming Technologies (28918) [09/02/2026 → 09/02/2028], Funding Organization: HFRI

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Kapoutsis, A.C., Chatzichristofis, S.A. and Kosmatopoulos, E.B., 2017. DARP: Divide areas algorithm for optimal multi-robot coverage path planning. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 86(3), pp.663-680.
Kapoutsis, A.C., Chatzichristofis, S.A. and Kosmatopoulos, E.B., 2019. A distributed, plug-n-play algorithm for multi-robot applications with a priori non-computable objective functions. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 38(7), pp.813-832.
Kapoutsis, A.C., Koutras, D.I., Korkas, C.D. and Kosmatopoulos, E.B., 2023. ACRE: actor-critic with reward-preserving exploration. Neural Computing and Applications, 35(30), pp.22563-22576.
Krestenitis, M., Raptis, E.K., Kapoutsis, A.C., Ioannidis, K., Kosmatopoulos, E.B. and Vrochidis, S., 2024. Overcome the Fear Of Missing Out: Active sensing UAV scanning for precision agriculture. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 172, p.104581.
Gkelios, S., Apostolidis, S.D., Kapoutsis, P.C., Kosmatopoulos, E.B. and Kapoutsis, A.C., 2025. Beyond coverage path planning: Can UAV swarms perfect scattered regions inspections?. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, p.105297.
Koutras, D.I., Kapoutsis, A.C. and Kosmatopoulos, E.B., 2020. Autonomous and cooperative design of the monitor positions for a team of uavs to maximize the quantity and quality of detected objects. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(3), pp.4986-4993.