Tamer Abukhalil
Papers
11
Total Citations
124
H-Index
7
About
Tamer Abukhalil is a pioneering researcher in swarm robotics, with a focus on designing and implementing heterogeneous robot systems that are self-sufficient, fault-tolerant, and energy-aware. His work addresses grand challenges in robotics, including self-reconfigurability, self-reassembly, and self-replication, particularly for unstructured or hazardous environments. Abukhalil’s major contributions include the development of the Robot Utility-based Task Assignment (RUTA) framework, which enables rapid, task-oriented coordination among heterogeneous robot swarms in both centralized and decentralized modes. He also led the design and hardware implementation of the UB robot swarm at the University of Bridgeport’s RISC Lab, featuring integrated sensors, actuators, communication units, and power management systems. His work on power optimization using real-time heuristics reduces human intervention by coordinating energy resources across robot teams. With key papers accumulating over 20 citations each, Abukhalil’s research has been foundational for scalable, robust swarm architectures. His surveys and taxonomies of decentralized modular robots and control interfaces provide essential roadmaps for new researchers entering the field.
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Top Papers
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- 3UB robot swarm — Design, implementation, and power management19 citations · 2016
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- 6Power Optimization in Mobile Robots Using a Real-Time Heuristic8 citations · 2020
- 7Survey on Decentralized Modular Swarm Robots and Control Interfaces7 citations · 2013
- 8Survey on Decentralized Modular Robots and Control Platforms6 citations · 2014
- 9Design and Implementation of Heterogeneous Robot Swarm5 citations · 2025
- 10Deployment Environment for a Swarm of Heterogeneous Robots2 citations · 2016