Sonia Kefi

University of Kairouan, University of Sfax

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Sonia Kefi is a researcher in intelligent robotics and multi-agent systems, with a focus on motion planning for autonomous mobile robots. Her work addresses the critical challenge of enabling robots to navigate unknown and dynamic environments through distributed, cooperative planning. Kefi’s key contributions include the development of MARCoPlan (MultiAgent Remote Control for Robot Motion Planning), a framework that leverages multi-agent coordination to improve path planning efficiency. She later extended this into a hybrid system, Fuzzy-MARCoPlan, which integrates fuzzy logic to optimize robot trajectories by introducing sub-goals, enhancing robustness in unpredictable settings. Her research also explores hybrid planning approaches for multi-robot systems, including a proposed MultiAgent subsumption simulation architecture that addresses collision avoidance and distributed planning. While her citation counts (4–5 per paper) reflect a focused, early-stage impact, Kefi’s work is notable for bridging fuzzy logic and multi-agent coordination—a forward-looking approach that anticipates later trends in resilient, decentralized robotics. Her 2014 review of hybrid planning methods remains a useful reference for researchers entering the field of multi-robot coordination.