Prof. Mohammed A. H. Ali
Faculty of Engineering/University of Malaya, Malaysia
Title: Autonomous Robotics System for Road Marks Painting in Smart Cities: Challenges, Current and Future Solutions
Abstarct: Road Marks play an important role to highlight the road driving zones, non-driving zones and the directions of driving to the vehicles’ drivers at both day and night times. The current road-marks painting systems are working manually worldwide, using two machines, namely, pre-marker and thermoplastic/cold painting machines. Such machines are led to labor intensive, Zigzag road-marks painting, blocking of the roads during the painting process, frequent adjusting from time to time, and unsafety to the operators. With the proposed autonomous painting system in this paper, it deemed possible to replace the two manual machines by a small vehicular robotic system that uses autonomous navigation system for online road’s features detection, Google maps for determining the type of line marks, deep learning-based expert system for decision making and automatic control system for airless-spray road-marks painting, all without human interference.
Bio: Dr. Mohammed Abdo Hashem is currently working as Assistant Professor with the department of Mechanical Engineering at Faculty of Engineering in University of Malaya starting from April 2021-Onwards. He served as a senior lecturer and leader of control, software and automation teaching & research groups, in the Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering- Universiti Malaysia Pahang, on 2015-2021. In the research, a total of 63 papers in high indexed ISI journals, Scopus, chapters and conferences.
His research interests include, but are not limited to the following areas: Autonomous-Mobile Robot-Navigation, Artificial Intelligence, Robot Path Planning, SLAM, Sensors Fusion, Mechatronics Systems, and Intelligent Active Force Control.