Yasmina Bestaoui
Informatique, Biologie Intégrative et Systèmes Complexes, Université d'Évry Val-d'Essonne, University of Abou Bekr Belkaïd, École Centrale de Nantes, Université Paris-Saclay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Laboratoire d'informatique de Nantes Atlantique, Nantes Université
Papers
24
Total Citations
233
H-Index
9
About
Yasmina Bestaoui is a prominent researcher whose work spans unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), motion planning, and autonomous robotics. With contributions spanning over three decades, she has established herself as a leading authority in aerial robotics and intelligent autonomy systems. Her landmark 2017 paper on aerial robot coverage path planning for precision agriculture, garnering 41 citations, demonstrates her ability to translate complex robotic theory into real-world agricultural applications. Bestaoui is perhaps best known for authoring "Intelligent Autonomy of UAVs: Advanced Missions and Future Use" (2018), a systems engineering-oriented volume that has become a key reference for researchers tackling mission formulation and robotic problem-solving in aerial platforms. Her early foundational work in the late 1980s and early 1990s on online motion generation with velocity, acceleration, and torque constraints laid important groundwork for modern manipulator planning. More recently, she has advanced UAV autopilot design using genetic algorithms and explored aerial manipulation through sliding mode control approaches. Across her career, Bestaoui's research consistently bridges theoretical rigor with practical innovation, making her contributions essential reading for students and practitioners in autonomous aerial systems and trajectory planning.
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Top Papers
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- 2Evolutionary Autopilot Design Approach for UAV Quadrotor by Using GA19 citations · 2019
- 3Intelligent Autonomy of UAVs: Advanced Missions and Future Use17 citations · 2018
- 4On line motion generation with velocity and acceleration constraints16 citations · 1989
- 5Intelligent Autonomy of Uavs15 citations · 2018
- 6Planning and Decision Making for Aerial Robots14 citations · 2014
- 7Missile trajectory shaping using sampling-based path planning11 citations · 2013
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- 9PD Sliding Mode Controller based Decoupled Aerial Manipulation9 citations · 2020
- 10Actuator constraints in point to point motion planning of manipulators9 citations · 2002