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Born: 10 February 1971
Citizenship: Palestinian
Email: sam@math.birzeit.edu HTTP://www.laas.fr/~sam
Academic Background:
PhD thesis in robotics from Paul Sabatier University (UPS):A Generic Scheme for Cooperative
Navigation of Autonomous Mobile Robots. Defended at Toulouse/France. Toulouse December 1998.
Advanced Graduate Degree (DEA)in Automatic Control and Computer Controlled systems from Paul
Sabatier University. Toulouse, June 1995.
Engineering Degree in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Object Recognition from Paul Sabatier
University. Toulouse June 1995.
B.S. Degree in Automatic Control and Telecommunication from Paul Sabatier University. Toulouse
June 1994.
Professional Experience:
Feb. 99 : Professor at the computer department of Birzeit University. My main field of interest turns
around deduction and inference for Goal-Based Agents.
Nov. 94 - Nov. 98: Graduate Student at LAAS-CNRS, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group (RIA),
Toulouse - France.
Dec. 93 - June 95: Participation in the European MARTHA project (Mobile Autonomous Robots for
Transportation and Handling plications).
The project objectives are to study and to develop the systems necessary for planning and executing
tasks for a fleet of cargo transport robots. The purpose of my thesis is to enable several robots to plan
and coordinate their activities in a distributed way. The proposed approach is based on a generic and
incremental process, called the Plan Merging Paradigm, that allows a large number of mobile robots to
plan and execute simultaneously several kinds of tasks while sharing the same workspace.
The paradigm involves a deliberative and a reactive aspect. The deliberation allows plan construction,
detection and reasoning on plan interactions while reactivity ensures their synchronization and
execution failure treatment.
The implementation of the proposed approach has lead to a realistic coordination scheme and a great
number of experiments has reinforced our conviction about the validity of the operational performance of
our system. About thirty simulated robots and three real ones in a partially structured environments
have shown the efficiency in terms of autonomy and robustness of our system.
Publications:
S. Qutub, R. Alami,F. Ingrand
How to Solve DeadLock Situations within the Plan Merging Paradigm for Multi-Robot Cooperation.
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IEEE-IROS'97), Grenoble (France) (7-11
September 1997).
R. Alami, F. Ingrand and S. Qutub
A Scheme for Coordinating Multi-Robot Planning Activities and Plans Execution European
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'98)Brighton (UK), (August 1998).
R. Alami,F. Ingrand, S. Qutub
Plan Coordination in Multi-agent Systemes: Experiments with a large fleet of Mobile Robots.
International Joint Conference on Artificielle Intelligence (IJCAI'97), Poster Session Nagoya
(Japan),(23-29 August 1997).
R. Alami, S. Fleury, M. Herrb, F. Ingrand, and S. Qutub
Operating a Large Fleet of Mobile Robots Using the Plan-Merging Paradigm. IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE-ICRA'97), Albuquerque New Mexico (USA)(April 1997).
R. Alami, F. Ingrand, and S. Qutub
Planning Coordination and Execution in Multi-Robot environment. IEEE International Conference on
Automatics and Robotics (IEEE-ICAR'97) Montereye, California (USA), (April 1997).
Professional Competence:
Robotics, Mobile Robots, Multi-Robot Cooperation, Potential Fields, Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance.
Programming Languages:
C, C++, Turbo-Pascal, Lisp, Prologue, PRS, 68000 Assembly language.
Systems:
VxWorks Real-time system, Unix, Solaris, MsDos.
Environments:
Xview (graphics interfaces)
Software:
Text Processing Software: Latex, Framemaker, Word.
Miscellaneous:
Written and spoken languages:French,English,-Arabic. |
