Aristides Gogoussis / Αριστείδης Γωγούσης: Curriculum Vitae

Education

• University Degrees

  • Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (5-year program), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki  (1981 – with highest honors, GPA: 9).

• Μ.Sc. Degrees

  • M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (major: Design & Automatic Control, minor: Physics - Analog & Digital Electronics), University of Minnesota, USA.
  • M.Sc. in Electrical  Engineering (major: Automatic Control, minor: Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics), University of Minnesota, USA. 

• Ph.D. Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (major: Robotics, Design & Automation, minor: Control Sciences), University of Minnesota, USA.
  • Ph.D. in Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Professional Experience

• Professor Emeritus of Robotics, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, International Hellenic University (2025 - today).
• Professor of Robotics, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, International Hellenic University (2019 - 2024).
• Director of MSc Program in Strategic Product Design, International Hellenic University (2019 - 2021).
• Professor of Robotics, Department of Automation Engineering, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki (1992 - 2019). 
• Head of the Department of Automation Engineering (2000-03, 2006-10).
• Vice Dean of the School of Technological Applications (2001-03, 2008-10); acting Dean 2003.
• Visiting Scholar at Stanford University (1997-98, California, USA).
• Adjunct Professor; Taught Automatic Control Systems at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2001-03).
• MSc Program Director; Taught Robotics and supervised many MSc theses in the MSc program "Design of interactive industrial products and systems" as the Institutional Coordinator of Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki in collaboration with the Department of Design of Industrial Products and Systems of the Aegean University (2003-11).
• Departmental Coordinator; taught robotics and CNC to graduate students from Northern Ireland (Queen’s University of Belfast) and supervised their MSc thesis projects within the ENATT / Euroform collaboration program (1994).


• 1985-1988: As a graduate R.A. conceived and developed an original-general purpose automatic control method, named Reciprocal Variable Feedback, for design and control of complicated nonlinear dynamical systems. The method was implemented successfully on an MTS electrohydraylic robot.
• 1984-1985:  Developed an interactive and modular program for MTS Systems Corp. to simulate the complicated dynamic effects (including the highly nonlinear Coulomb friction), the electromechanical and sensor characteristics as well as the nonlinear actuator attributes and control protocols for LARS (Laser Articulated Robot System), a Gantry-type big-scale Robot for automated welding of ship side-shells and other steel parts of the vessels. 
  Also contributed an original approach to the resolution of some difficult singularity issues associated with the inverse kinematics problem of the Robot configuration.
• Proposed and developed a novel approach, named Active Plant Model Reduction, for improving the dynamic performance of robot manipulators. The efficiency of the approach was demonstrated via a simulated implementation involving a Puma 560 robot arm performing various trajectory tracking tasks.
• Developed an innovative recursive method for the general direct robot dynamics problem, and based on that studied the effectiveness of various automatic control strategies for guiding a Puma 560 robot manipulator with the aid of computer animations implemented on an Evans & Sutherland 200.
• 1982-1983:  Designed and implemented a three-fingered robot hand for assembling a laser interferometer gyroscopic system for automatic navigation (Production Technology Lab, Honeywell Inc.).  Subsequently, developed and implemented a novel robotic-vision approach for handling  overlapped variably-shaped electronic components for robot assembly of circuit boards.  Since then there are numerous U.S.A. patents referring to this method.
• 1981-1982: Scientific collaborator-Research Associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chair of Theoretical Mechanical Engineering: Kinematic Analysis and Synthesis of Mechanisms, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.


• Courses taught at the Department of Automation Engineering:
  • Robotics (Theory & Lab)
  • Methodology of Engineering Design and CAD/CAM/CAE (Theory & Lab)
  • Elements of Manufacturing Engineering and CNC Machine Tools (Theory & Lab)
  • Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems of Automatic Control (Theory & Lab)
  • Applied Mechanics and General Mechanical Engineering (Theory: Statics, Dynamics, Analysis and Synthesis of Mechanisms, General Mech. Eng.)
  • Non-linear Dynamical Systems and Design & Implementation of Automatic Systems (Theory & Lab)
  • Philosophy of Science & Technology (Theory)
  • History of Automatic Control (Theory)
• Courses taught at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki:
  • Automatic Control Systems (Theory)
  • Kinematic Analysis and Synthesis of Mechanisms (Project Supervision)
• Established, equipped and developed the course structure of the Robotics Lab, the CAD/CAM/CAE Lab, and the CNC Machine Tools Lab.
• Proposed and supervised over 70 degree theses, and more than 100 design, construction, and implementation projects.

Scholarships, Distinctions

• Fulbright scholarship
• ASME scholarship
• Rice Cullimore scholarship
• Lewis Smith of Philadelphia scholarship
• IKY scholarship


• Award-Winning Publication: Distinguished paper (ASME USA-Japan Conference on Flexible Manufacturing, 1988) designated “Meritorious” and selected for permanent inclusion in the Archives of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.


• Former President of Association of Fulbright Scholars of Northern Greece.


• Member of: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE), Association of Mechanical Engineers of Northern Greece, Society for the Study of Ancient Greek Technology (EMAET), Greek Philosophical Society (EΦE).

Patents, Publications

• Patents:
  • “Σύστημα περιτυλισσόμενου μανδύα για την αφαίρεση αποφρακτικών στοιχείων σε σωληνοειδή περιβάλλοντα” · 3111510 · Issued Nov 21, 2022.
    A new approach for thrombectomies which is highly efficient, cost-effective, and overcomes problems that are associated with state-of-the-art devices.
  • “管状環境におけるブロッキングアイテムの除去のための包装ケープシステム - JP” · JP7038970 · Issued Apr 2, 2020.
    
  • “Wrapping cape system for retrieval of blocking items in tubular environments - EU” · EP3595547 · Issued Mar 19, 2020.
  • Additional patents in: Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland.
  • “WCS - USA” · US20200085454 · Issued Jan 22, 2020.
    The invention is referred to a wrapping system which displays favorable grasping characteristics in operations requiring the entrapment and removal of blocking items in tubular geometries.
  • “Rigid Telescopic Mechanism” · EU 1919817 · Issued Oct 13, 2010.
    A novel design for robot arms and hands. One of its applications involves a rigid telescopic bridge that expands and contracts. It regards a light-weight, collapsible, high strength and portable bridge of adjustable span.
  • “Δυσπαραμόρφωτος τηλεσκοπικός μηχανισμός” · 1005221 · Issued May 18, 2006.
    Also patented in: France, Germany, Great Britain.
• Theses, Dissertations:
  • Computer-based calculation of the intensity of radiation at a random point in space after reflection of the sunlight from a planar mirror (Mech. Eng. Diploma Thesis - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
  • Active control synthesis for robots based on the exact solution of the direct and inverse dynamics problems (MSc Thesis - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA).
  • Parameter identification of Van Der Pol systems (MSc Thesis - Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA).
  • Solutions to the frictional dynamics problem and the reciprocal variable feedback methodology for design and control of robot mechanisms (PhD Dissertation - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA).
  • The problem of the design of operation in the philosophy of technology and contributions to its resolution (PhD Dissertation - Department of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
  
  
• Selected publications:
  • Gogoussis A., “Aristotle as a self-fulfilling case: Aristotle’s name as his own entelechy”, World Congress Aristotle 2400 Years, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2016.
  • Gogoussis A., “Technological Design and Teleology in view of the δυνάμει”, Interdisciplinary Center for Aristotle Studies, Aristotle university of Thessaloniki, 2015.
  • Gogoussis A., “Robotics & Philosophy”, 2nd Symposium on New Technologies in the Service of Archaeognostic Research, Academy of Institutions & Cultures, Thessaloniki, 2015.
  • Gogoussis A., “The Elixir of Humanity: Philosophy, Science & Technology”, Keynote Speaker, ACSTAC, Anatolia College Science and Technology Annual Conference, Thessaloniki, 2014.
  • Moustakas Ν., A. Athanasiou, P. Bamidis, A. Kalfas, A. Astaras and A. Gogoussis, “ A Hybrid Body-Machine & Brain-Computer Interface for A 6-DOF Robotic Arm, Journal of Advances in Human-Computer Interaction - Special issue on Using Brain Waves to Control Computers and Machines, 2013.
  • Gogoussis A., “How is Engineering Design of Operation possible?-The role of Causal Unilateralization & the conception of Praxiological methodologies”, (a.f.p.) Proceedings of  the 23d World Congress of Philosophy, Athens, 2013.
  • Gogoussis A., “The relation between Technology and Science” in D. Sfendoni-Mentzou (ed.) Philosophy of Science, Thessaloniki: Ziti, pp. 323-337, 2008.
  • Gogoussis A., “The problem of philosophical justification of technological design” in K. Voudouris (ed.) Philosophy, Competition and Good Life, Athens: Ionia, pp. 25-55, 2005.
  • Gogoussis A., "Unexpected collision effects in robot mechanisms with revolute joints due to friction", Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Technology & Automation, (Applied Research Review on Technology and Automation, vol. I, no. 1, ISSN-1109-2262), 2000.
  • Gogoussis A., M. Donath, "Reciprocal Variable Feedback: Induced sensing for nonlinear systems design and control", ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 1998.
  • Gogoussis A., "A symptotic parameter identification approach for Van Der Pol systems", Proceedings of  the 4th Mediterranean IEEE Symposium on New Directions in Control & Automation, 1996.
  • Gogoussis A., M. Donath, "Determining the effects of Coulomb friction on the dynamics of bearings and transmissions in robot mechanisms", ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 1993.
  • Gogoussis A., M. Donath, "A method for the real time solution of the forward Dynamics problem for robots incorporating friction", ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 1990.
  • Gogoussis A., M. Donath, "Vision-based sensing of position and orientation of overlapped variably-shaped components for robot manipulation", Proceedings of the SPIE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision, 1984.

Additional info & Interests

• Academic interests span the areas of:
  • Robot Design & Automatic Control
  • Theory of Functional Design
  • Synthesis of Engineering Systems
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Technology


• Military service:  Greek Army Ordnance Corps (Ammunition: 1990-91).  Promoted to corporal due to exemplary service (during guard duty prohibited unwarned external tactical invasion).

• Proposed the establishment of the “Archimedes” prize, during sabbatical at Stanford University.  This award would constitute an international prize for Engineering achievements analogous to the Nobel prize for scientists (which excludes mathematicians and engineers for reasons well known).  The proposition was officially endorsed by the assembly of professors of CDR (Center for Design Research, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering).

• Hobbies:  piano performance, music composition, sketching, athletics.

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