Fatma Ellouze

Saudi Heart Association, National Engineering School of Tunis, University of Sfax

Papers

Total Citations

153

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About

Fatma Ellouze is a leading researcher at the intersection of robotics, cloud computing, and cyber-physical systems. Her work focuses on creating intelligent, modular, and service-oriented architectures that enable robots to operate seamlessly in human environments. Ellouze’s most impactful contribution is her highly cited survey, “Cyber-physical systems clouds: A survey” (2016), which has garnered 104 citations and established a foundational framework for integrating cloud resources with physical systems. She further advanced the field with her design of a service-oriented software architecture for personal assistant robots, demonstrated in “Turtlebot at Office” (2016, 38 citations). This work, which leverages the Robot Operating System (ROS), provides a modular, component-based approach to assistive robotics in office and home settings. Ellouze also pioneered the development of ROS Web services, as detailed in her tutorial (2016) and the more recent “MyBot: Cloud-Based Service Robot using Service-Oriented Architecture” (2022, 5 citations). Her research offers a practical, two-fold contribution: designing ROS Web services to create new abstraction layers and integrating cloud technologies to offload computational tasks, making service robots more accessible and efficient. Ellouze’s work is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of cloud-enabled, service-oriented robotics.