Souhila Kahlouche

Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées

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Souhila Kahlouche has made pioneering contributions to the field of autonomous mobile robotics, with a particular focus on vision-based navigation and human-robot interaction. Her most influential work, "Optical Flow Based Robot Obstacle Avoidance" (2007), has garnered 144 citations, establishing her as a key figure in the application of optical flow techniques for real-time robot navigation. In this seminal paper, she developed an algorithm that extracts motion information from image sequences captured by an onboard camera on the B21r robot, enabling autonomous obstacle avoidance without the need for expensive range sensors. This work laid the foundation for her continued exploration of optical flow in robot navigation, as detailed in her 2007 companion paper. Kahlouche has also addressed the critical challenge of social robotics, proposing a social planning and navigation framework for tour-guide robots in human environments (2016). Her most recent work (2024) demonstrates the practical application of these principles through a ROS-based indoor surveillance robot, showcasing her enduring commitment to bridging theoretical advances with deployable robotic systems.