Hicham Hadj Abdelkader

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Hicham Hadj Abdelkader is a robotics and computer vision researcher whose work centers on visual servoing and omnidirectional imaging systems, with a particular focus on central catadioptric cameras. His research addresses one of the fundamental challenges in vision-based robot control: maintaining robust visual feedback across wide fields of view while satisfying visibility constraints during motion. Among his most notable contributions is the extension of the 2½D visual servoing framework to omnidirectional catadioptric sensors, a significant advancement that broadened the applicability of hybrid visual servoing to an entire class of imaging systems. Complementing this, his work on controlling robotic systems using projections of 3D straight lines in catadioptric image planes offered an important alternative to the point-feature paradigm that had dominated the field. His research on mobile robot control with panoramic sensors directly tackled the visibility constraint problem, demonstrating how wide-angle catadioptric cameras can be leveraged to keep visual features within the camera's field of view throughout task execution. With key publications from 2005 and 2006 each garnering around 24–28 citations, Hadj Abdelkader's contributions have meaningfully influenced the visual servoing community, providing foundational frameworks for researchers developing next-generation vision-guided robotic systems.