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About
Mohamed Fnadi is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous mobile robotics, advanced motion control, and legged locomotion systems. His research has made significant contributions to the field of off-road mobile robots, particularly in developing sophisticated control strategies that account for the complex realities of real-world terrain. His most cited work, a 2019 paper on Model Predictive Control for four-wheel steering mobile robots (35 citations), introduced a constrained dynamic path-tracking framework that explicitly incorporates wheel-ground lateral slippage and terrain geometry — a notable advancement over conventional approaches. A closely related 2020 study (29 citations) extended this framework to slippery ground conditions, demonstrating robustness across challenging environments. Fnadi has also pioneered estimation techniques, including a nonlinear tire cornering stiffness observer (21 citations) and terrain parameter estimators for road bank and grade angles. More recently, his research has expanded into quadrupedal and hybrid legged-wheeled robotics, developing whole-body motion controllers for quadruped-on-wheel platforms (24 citations) and prioritized impedance control frameworks for legged locomotion. Across his body of work, Fnadi has accumulated over 140 citations, establishing himself as an emerging voice in terrain-aware autonomous robot control.
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- 6Path Tracking Control for a Double Steering Off-Road Mobile Robot8 citations · 2018
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