Herdawatie Abdul Kadir

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Dr. Herdawatie Abdul Kadir is a leading researcher in robotics, specializing in autonomous navigation, inspection robotics, and multi-agent systems. Her most significant contribution is the development of an improved potential field method for robot path planning with path pruning, which has garnered 17 citations and addresses critical challenges in efficient and collision-free robot movement. She has also made substantial advances in infrastructure inspection, notably through the creation of an air conditioning route wireless inspection robot (13 citations), which automates the labor-intensive cleaning and inspection of modern building ventilation systems. Her work extends to localizing pipe inspection robots using visual odometry (9 citations), solving the problem of wheel slippage in low-texture environments like Malaysian culverts. Dr. Kadir has further contributed to visual simultaneous localization and mapping (VSLAM) through robust feature detection and matching techniques (6 citations), and has explored discrete-time terminal sliding mode control for autonomous underwater vehicles (3 citations). Her research on decentralized cooperative communication frameworks for heterogeneous multi-agent systems (2 citations) demonstrates her commitment to advancing resilient, hierarchy-free robot collaboration. With a portfolio spanning from autonomous metal detector robots with GPS-based monitoring to cutting-edge underwater vehicle control, Dr. Kadir’s work is instrumental in making robots more autonomous, reliable, and effective in complex, real-world environments.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Improved Potential Field Method for Robot Path Planning with Path Pruning

   17 citations · 2020
2. 2
   Development of Air Conditional Route Wireless Inspection Robot

   13 citations · 2012
3. 3
   Localizing Pipe inspection robot using visual odometry

   9 citations · 2014
4. 4
   Features detection and matching for visual simultaneous localization and mapping (VSLAM)

   6 citations · 2013
5. 5
   A discrete-time terminal sliding mode controller design for an autonomous underwater vehicle

   3 citations · 2021
6. 6
   MONOCULAR VISUAL ODOMETRY FOR IN-PIPE INSPECTION ROBOT

   2 citations · 2015
7. 7
   Decentralized Cooperative Communication Framework for Heterogeneous Multi Agent System

   2 citations · 2014
8. 8
   Autonomous metal detector robot with monitoring system

   2 citations · 2008

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