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.
“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
Academicinterests 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.