Mounir Ghogho

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Mounir Ghogho is a prominent researcher whose work sits at the dynamic intersection of wireless communications, robotics, and artificial intelligence. His most significant contributions lie in the emerging field of communications-aware robotics — a discipline exploring how mobile robots and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can optimize their behavior in response to wireless channel conditions. Ghogho's pioneering work on mobility diversity, introduced around 2016, demonstrated how robots could intelligently exploit controlled movement to combat wireless fading and maximize energy harvesting, a concept he has since extended to trajectory planning under real-world channel uncertainty. His research has garnered substantial recognition, with a survey on deep learning techniques for Visual SLAM alone accumulating 71 citations, reflecting its value to the robotics and computer vision communities. Beyond communications-aware navigation, Ghogho has explored physical layer security using omnidirectional aerial vehicles and, most recently, personalized vision-language models for human-robot interaction. His tutorial and survey contributions serve as essential entry points for researchers entering these fields. Collectively, his work bridges theoretical wireless communications with practical autonomous systems, making him a distinctive and influential voice shaping the future of intelligent, communication-enabled robotics.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Deep Learning Techniques for Visual SLAM: A Survey

   71 citations · 2023
2. 2
   Communication-Aware Energy Efficient Trajectory Planning With Limited Channel Knowledge

   32 citations · 2019
3. 3
   Improving Radio Energy Harvesting in Robots Using Mobility Diversity

   20 citations · 2016
4. 4
   Mobility Diversity-Assisted Wireless Communication for Mobile Robots

   15 citations · 2016
5. 5
   When Robotics Meets Wireless Communications: An Introductory Tutorial

   13 citations · 2024
6. 6
   Mobile Robot Path Planners With Memory for Mobility Diversity Algorithms

   11 citations · 2017
7. 7
   Omnidirectional Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicle Pose Optimization: A Novel Approach to Physical Layer Security

   9 citations · 2024
8. 8
   Communications-Aware Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities

   7 citations · 2023
9. 9
   Robust Trajectory Planning for Robotic Communications Under Fading Channels

   6 citations · 2017
10. 10
    USER-VLM 360: Personalized Vision Language Models with User-aware Tuning for Social Human-Robot Interactions

    5 citations · 2025

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