Elias Kosmatopoulos

Elias Kosmatopoulos is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, with a focus on Applied Automatic Control. He has held academic positions at Technical University of Crete and University of Victoria (Canada), and served as Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California. His career spans over 25 years, with expertise in large-scale systems and control engineering.

• BEng, Production and Management Engineering, Technical University of Crete
• MEng, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete
• PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete

His research interests include robot swarms, intelligent transportation systems, and building energy consumption control. He has contributed to over 45 journal papers and 100 conference papers. Recent projects include PLUG-N-HARVEST (energy harvesting systems) and ROBORDER (autonomous border surveillance robots).

Publications highlight

• adaptive control of electric vehicle fleets
• smart thermostatic load zoning
• multi-robot path planning
• underwater system exploration
• co-simulation for nonlinear systems

He has received institutional recognition and collaborated with NASA, the European Commission, and defense agencies on advanced control systems applications.