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Petros Voulgaris

School Head, School of Mechanical, Aerospace, Industrial and Material Science Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Open to new collaborations

Research interests

Before joining the University of Nevada, Reno in 2020 and since 1991, Professor Petros G. Voulgaris was a faculty member in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), holding appointments with the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in the general area of robust and optimal control and coordination of autonomous systems. Voulgaris is a recipient of several awards including the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Initiation Award, the Office of Naval Research Young (ONR) Investigator Award and the UIUC Xerox Award for research. He has also been a Visiting Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Company (ADGAS) Chair Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE and a Visiting Gaungbiao Chair at Zhejiang University, China. His research has been supported by several agencies including NSF, ONR, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and NASA. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Recent publications

The ten most recent from their Google Scholar profile, newest first.

  1. Guided sampling-based motion planning algorithm for dynamic and obstacle cluttered environments

    C Tao, H Kim, HJ Yoon, P Voulgaris, N Hovakimyan. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 49 (1), 22-39 , 2026. 2026

    5 citations

  2. Distributionally Robust Adaptive Iterative Covariance Steering for Small-Body Proximity Operations

    V Khatana, A Gahlawat, N Hovakimyan, P Voulgaris. arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.12774 , 2026. 2026

  3. Verifier-Mediated Multi-LLM Coordination for Multi-Robot Path Planning

    V Khatana, Z Song, N Hovakimyan, P Voulgaris. arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.12761 , 2026. 2026

  4. Networked Control and Mean Field Problems Under Diagonal Dominance: Decentralized and Social Optimality

    V Khatana, D Wang, P Voulgaris, N Elia, N Hovakimyan. 2026 American Control Conference (ACC), 2727-2732 , 2026. 2026

  5. Model-Based Human Systems Integration for Evaluating Pilot Performance in Simulated Engine Malfunction Emergencies

    JM Peterson, P Voulgaris, MT Taranto. AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, 1159 , 2026. 2026

  6. Uncertainty-Aware Vision-Based Autonomous Aerial Refueling

    M Jang, T Nguyen, V Khatana, S Banik, N Hovakimyan, PG Voulgaris. arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.07501 , 2026. 2026

  7. Bayesian data augmentation and training for perception dnn in autonomous aerial vehicles

    A Rasul, H Tasnim, HJ Yoon, A Bansal, D Wang, N Hovakimyan, L Sha, .... AIAA SciTech 2025 Forum, 0933 , 2025. 2025

    7 citations

  8. Real-time adversarial image perturbations for autonomous vehicles using reinforcement learning

    HJ Yoon, R Holmes, H Jafarnejadsani, P Voulgaris. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems 9 (2), 1-24 , 2025. 2025

    6 citations

  9. AirTaxiSim: A Simulator for Autonomous Air Taxis

    A Bansal, M Yeghiazaryan, HJ Yoon, D Wang, AE Rasul, C Tao, Y Zhao, .... AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND 2025, 3349 , 2025. 2025

    5 citations

  10. An information-theoretic analysis of discrete-time control and filtering limitations by the I-MMSE relationships

    N Wan, D Li, N Hovakimyan, PG Voulgaris. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 70 (9), 5926-5940 , 2025. 2025

    4 citations

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