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Saleh Alarabi is a researcher focused on the critical challenge of autonomous robot navigation and path planning. His work centers on developing efficient algorithms that enable robots—from single automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to multi-robot teams—to navigate complex environments while avoiding obstacles and optimizing their routes. Alarabi’s most influential contribution is his 2022 paper on a Probabilistic Roadmap (PRM) approach for obstacle avoidance, which has garnered 43 citations and addresses the difficulty of finding optimal paths in known environments. He has further advanced the field by exploring hybrid techniques, such as combining potential fields with simulated annealing for multi-robot systems, and applying a Max-Min Ant System to solve multi-goal navigation problems for applications like search and rescue and agricultural harvesting. His 2024 comprehensive review of AGV path planning techniques, which categorizes methods into sample-based, graph-based, numerical optimization, and machine learning approaches, serves as a valuable resource for the community. Through these contributions, Alarabi is helping to make autonomous navigation more reliable and efficient for real-world deployment.