Papers
45
Total Citations
1,727
H-Index
20
About
Alaa Khamis is a distinguished robotics and artificial intelligence researcher whose work spans multi-robot systems, autonomous robotics, and human-robot interaction. Best known for his highly influential 2015 review of multi-robot task allocation — now cited nearly 480 times — Khamis has fundamentally shaped how researchers approach the coordination of robot teams, offering comprehensive frameworks comparing optimization and market-based strategies. His early work on the Maggie social robot platform, developed at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, pioneered multimodal human-robot interaction and laid groundwork for robots operating meaningfully in everyday human environments. Khamis has also made significant contributions to knowledge representation in robotics, co-authoring foundational work on ontology-based approaches to robot autonomy that has garnered over 180 combined citations. His research extends beyond the laboratory: during the COVID-19 pandemic, he examined how robotics and intelligent systems could serve frontline public health needs, while more recently he has explored robotics as both an enabler and inhibitor of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. With over 1,000 cumulative citations across his portfolio, Khamis represents a researcher who consistently connects technical innovation to real-world societal impact.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Multi-robot Task Allocation: A Review of the State-of-the-Art479 citations · 2015
- 2A review and comparison of ontology-based approaches to robot autonomy120 citations · 2019
- 3Robotics and Intelligent Systems Against a Pandemic115 citations · 2021
- 4Maggie: A Robotic Platform for Human-Robot Social Interaction111 citations · 2006
- 5Robotics: Enabler and inhibitor of the Sustainable Development Goals70 citations · 2023
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- 7Ontology for autonomous robotics62 citations · 2017
- 8Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction Framework for a Personal Robot62 citations · 2006
- 9Metaheuristic optimization approach to mobile robot path planning54 citations · 2012
- 10Complex Task Allocation in Mobile Surveillance Systems50 citations · 2011