Habib Youssef
Papers
13
Total Citations
415
H-Index
10
About
Habib Youssef is a distinguished researcher whose work spans autonomous robotics, multi-robot systems, combinatorial optimization, and cloud-cyber-physical computing. His most celebrated contribution, a 2016 survey on cyber-physical systems clouds (104 citations), established a foundational reference for researchers bridging cloud computing and embedded physical systems. Youssef has made particularly significant strides in autonomous mobile robot navigation, leading the two-year iRoboApp project that produced highly practical path planning algorithms for large-scale grid environments — work that attracted 81 citations and demonstrated both exact and heuristic approaches capable of near-optimal performance at dramatically reduced computation times. His expertise in multi-robot coordination is equally impressive. Through fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, tabu search, and market-based distributed algorithms, Youssef has tackled challenging problems including multi-robot task assignment and the multiple traveling salesman problem, collectively accumulating hundreds of citations. More recently, his research has evolved toward cloud robotics and dynamic computation offloading, addressing the growing need for resource-constrained robots to leverage cloud infrastructure. Together, his publications reflect a cohesive, forward-looking research agenda that meaningfully advances both the theoretical and practical dimensions of intelligent autonomous systems.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Cyber-physical systems clouds: A survey104 citations · 2016
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- 4A Distributed Market-based Algorithm for the Multi-robot Assignment Problem46 citations · 2014
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- 9Towards a Distributed Computation Offloading Architecture for Cloud Robotics12 citations · 2019
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