Publications
Our contributions to the scientific community
Journals
Abdulla Tammam, Nabil Aouf, “Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning for cubesat guidance and control”, IFAC Control Engineering Practice Journal, Volume 156, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2024.106213Song, Jianing; Aouf, Nabil; Rondao, Duarte; Mansilla, Luis; Honvault, Christophe; Yang, Qingxiang, “XAttDnet: Explainable Deep Convolutional Network for Crater Detection and Pose Estimation during Lunar Landing”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (Accepted with Minor Revision)
Z. Chekakta and N. Aouf, “CaDNET: An End-to-End Plenoptic Camera-Based Deep Learning Pose Estimation Approach for Space Orbital Rendezvous”, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 24, no. 18, pp. 29441-29451, 2024
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2024.3435748Ziwei Wang, Jianing Song, Duarte Rondao, Nabil Aouf, “Multispectral Vision-based Relative Pose Estimation for Spacecraft Proximity Operation”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (Under Review)
Chuyao Wang, Ziwei Wang, Nabil Aouf, “Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement learning Against Adversarial Attacks for Cooperative Self-Driving Vehicles”, IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation (Accepted)
Ziwei Wang, Nabil Aouf, Jose Pizarro, Christophe Honvault, “Robust adversarial attacks detection for deep learning based relative pose estimation for space rendezvous”, Advances in Space Research 75.1, pp. 560-575, 2025
Ziwei Wang, and Nabil Aouf, “Efficient adversarial attacks detection for deep reinforcement learning-based autonomous planetary landing GNC”, Acta Astronautica 224, pp. 37-47, 2024
Hogan, M., Aouf, N., “DetDSHAP: Explainable Object Detection for Uncrewed and Autonomous Drones with Shapley Values”, IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation Sp. Issue on Trust through XAI, 2025 (in press)
T. Hickling, M. Hogan, A. Tammam, and N. Aouf, “Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Autonomous Decision Making for Cooperative UAVs: A Search and Rescue Real-World Application”, Wiley Journal of Field Robotics, 2025 (under revision)
C. Wang and N. Aouf, “Depth-Enhanced Deep Learning Approach For Monocular Camera Based 3D Object Detection”, Springer, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (Accepted)
C. Wang and N. Aouf, “Explainable Deep Adversarial Reinforcement Learning Approach for Robust Autonomous Driving”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2024
DOI: 10.1109/TIV.2024.3379367D Rondao, L He, N Aouf, “AI-based monocular pose estimation for autonomous space refuelling”, Elsevier, Acta Astronautica, 2024
Courtois, N. Aouf, K. Ahiska and M. Cecotti, “NDT RC: Normal Distribution Transform Occupancy 3D Mapping With Recentering”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 2999-3009, 2024
DOI: 10.1109/TIV.2023.3250326Thomas Hickling, Abdelhafid Zenati, Nabil Aouf, Phillippa Spencer, “Explainability in Deep Reinforcement Learning, a Review into Current Methods and Applications”, ACM Computing Surveys, 2023
Thomas Hickling, Nabil Aouf, and Phillippa Spencer, “Robust Adversarial Attacks Detection based on Explainable Deep Reinforcement Learning For UAV Guidance and Planning”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2023
Abdelhafid Zenati, Nabil Aouf and David Sanchez de la Llana, “Validation of Neural Network Controllers for Uncertain Systems Through Keep-Close Approach: Robustness Analysis and Safety Verification”, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (under second revision)
Abdulsalam Mahmoud, Kenan Ahiska and Nabil Aouf, “Novel UAV Integrated Deep Network Detection and Relative Position Estimation Approach for Weeds”, IMECHE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, SAGE, Volume 237, Issue 10, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09544100221150284Abdelhafid Zenati, Mohamed Tadjine, Nabil Aouf, and Taous, Meriem Laleg, “On the Admissibility and Stability of Multi-Agent Nonlinear Interconnected Positive Systems with Heterogeneous Delays”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Early access, 2023
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2023.3281514Duarte Rondao, Nabil Aouf and Mark Richardson, “ChiNet: Deep Recurrent Convolutional Learning for Multimodal Spacecraft Pose Estimation”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Volume: 59, Issue: 2, 2023
Zakaria Chekakta, Abdelhafid Zenati, Nabil Aouf and Olivier Dubois-Matra, “Robust Deep Learning LiDAR-based Pose Estimation for Autonomous Space Landers”, Elsevier Acta Astronautica, Volume 201, p. 59-74, 2022
Hugo Courtois, Nabil Aouf, Kenan Ahiska and Marco Cecotti, “OAST: Obstacle Avoidance System for Teleoperation of UAVs”, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Volume: 52, Issue: 2, 2022
Jianing Song, Duarte Rondao and Nabil Aouf, “Deep Learning-based Spacecraft Relative Navigation Methods: A Survey”, Acta Astronautica Volume 191, Pages 22-40, 2022
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.10.025Lei He, Nabil Aouf and Bifeng Song, “Explainable Deep Reinforcement Learning for UAV autonomous path planning”, Aerospace Science and Technology, Elsevier, Vol 118, 2021
DOI: 107052Axel Beauvisage, Kenan Ahiska, and Nabil Aouf, “Robust multispectral visual-inertial navigation with visual odometry failure recovery”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), 2021
Viana, I.B., Kanchwala, H., Ahiska, K. and Aouf, N., “A Comparison of Trajectory Planning and Control Frameworks for Cooperative Autonomous Driving”, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 143(7), 2021
DOI: 10.1115/1.4049554Kechagias-Stamatis O, Aouf N, Koukos JA, “Deep Learning Fusion for COVID-19 Diagnosis”, medRxiv, 2020
DOI: 10.1101/2020.12.11.20246546D Rondao, N Aouf, MA Richardson, V Dubanchet, “Robust on-manifold optimization for uncooperative space relative navigation with a single camera”, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 44 (6), 1157-1182, 2021
O Kechagias-Stamatis, N Aouf, “Automatic Target Recognition on Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery: A Survey”, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine 36 (3), 2020
Carole Belloni, Alessio Balleri, Nabil Aouf, Jean-Marc Le Caillec, and Thomas Merlet, “Explainability of Deep SAR ATR Through Feature Analysis”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2020
Carole Belloni; Nabil Aouf; Alessio Balleri; Jean-Marc Le Caillec; Thomas Merlet, “Pose-informed deep learning method for SAR ATR”, IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation Volume 14, Issue 11, pp. 1649-1658, 2020
Kechagias-Stamatis, O., Aouf, N., Dubanchet, V. and Richardson, M.A., “DeepLO: Multi-projection deep LIDAR odometry for space orbital robotics rendezvous relative navigation”, Acta Astronautica, 177, pp. 270-285, 2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2020.07.034Kanchwala, H., Bezerra Viana, I. and Aouf, N., “Cooperative path-planning and tracking controller evaluation using vehicle models of varying complexities”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 2020
DOI: 10.1177/0954406220945468Kechagias-Stamatis, O., Aouf, N. and Dubanchet, V., “Evaluating 3D local descriptors and recursive filtering schemes for LIDAR-based uncooperative relative space navigation”, Journal of Field Robotics, 37(5), pp. 848-888, 2020
DOI: 10.1002/rob.21904Rondao, D., Aouf, N., Richardson, M.A. and Dubois-Matra, O., “Benchmarking of local feature detectors and descriptors for multispectral relative navigation in space”, Acta Astronautica, 172, pp. 100-122, 2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2020.03.049H. Isakhani, N. Aouf, O. Kechagias-Stamatis, and J.F. Whidborne, “A Furcated Visual Collision Avoidance System for an Autonomous Micro Robot”, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, 2020
Kechagias-Stamatis, O., Aouf, N. and Richardson, M.A., “High-speed multi-dimensional relative navigation for uncooperative space objects”, Acta Astronautica, 160, pp. 388-400, 2019
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2019.04.050Kechaigias-Stamatis and Nabil Aouf, “Hinfinity Lidar Odometry for Spacecraft Relative Navigation”, IET Radar and Navigation Journal, 2019
O. Kechagias-Stamatis and N. Aouf, “Fusing Deep Learning and Sparse Coding for SAR ATR”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, 2019
O. Kechagias-Stamatis and N. Aouf, “A New Passive 3D Automatic Target Recognition Architecture for Aerial Platforms”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2019
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2018.2855065Aouf, N., Kharbat, M. and Chun Liang, L., “Video detection, tracking and path planning for ground autonomous systems”, International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Control, 11(1), pp. 15-24, 2019
T. Mouats, N. Aouf, D. Nam, and S. Vidas, “Performance Evaluation of Feature Detectors and Descriptors Beyond the Visible”, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-017-0762-8O. Kechagias-Stamatis, N. Aouf and M. Richardson, “3D Automatic Target Recognition for Future LIDAR Missiles”, IEEE Transactions of Aerospace Electronic Systems
O. Kechagias-Stamatis, N. Aouf, “Evaluating 3D local descriptors for future LIDAR missiles with automatic target recognition capabilities”, Imaging Science Journal, Pages 428-437, 2017
M. Boulekchour, N. Aouf, and M. Richardson, “Robust Linfinity convex optimisation for UAVs cooperative motion estimation”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol 231, Issue 11, 2017
DOI: 10.1177/0954410016675889S. Almutairi and N. Aouf, “Reconfigurable dynamic control allocation for aircraft with actuator failure”, The Aeronautical Journal, Cambridge University Press, Vol 121, Issue 1237, pp. 341-371, 2017
O. Araar, N. Aouf and M. Richardson, “Vision Based Autonomous Landing of Multirotor UAV on Moving Platform”, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Springer, Volume 85, Issue 2, pp 369-384, 2017
O. Kechagias-Stamatis, N. Aouf, G. Gray, M. Richardson, and F. Oudyi, “Local feature based automatic target recognition for future 3D active homing seeker missiles”, Aerospace Science and Technology, 2018
O. Yilmaz, N. Aouf, E. Checa, L. Majewski, and M. Sanchez-Gestido, “Thermal Analysis of Space Debris for Infrared Based Active Debris Removal”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2017
L. Chermak, N. Aouf and M. Richardson, “Scale Robust IMU-assisted KLT for Stereo Visual Odometry Solution”, Robotica, 35(9), pp. 1864-1887, 2017
L. Chermak and N. Aouf, M. Richardson and G. Visentin, “Real Time Smart and Standalone Vision-IMU Navigation Sensor”, Springer, Journal of Real Time imaging, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-016-0613-zR. Azzam, M.S. Kemouche, N. Aouf and M. Richardson, “Efficient Visual Object Detection with Spatially Global Gaussian Mixture Models With Uncertainties”, Elsevier, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2015.11.009Amamra, N. Aouf, S. Dowling and M. Richardson, “A Recursive Robust Filtering Approach for 3D Registration”, Springer Journal, Signal, Image and Video Processing, 2015
Araar O and Aouf N, “Practical Servoing of VTOL UAVs From Object of Unknown 3D Geometry: a New Hybrid Approach”, Imaging Science Journal, 2015
T. Mouats, N. Aouf, L. Chermak, and M.A. Richardson, “Thermal Stereo Odometry for UAVs”, Sensors Journal, IEEE, 2015
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2456337Mouats T, Aouf N & Richardson MA, “A Novel image representation via local frequency analysis for illumination invariant stereo matching”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2015
Araar O, Aouf N & Vallejo JL, “Power pylon detection and monocular depth estimation from inspection UAVs”, Industrial Robot-An International Journal, 42 (3), 2015
Amamra and N. Aouf, “Real-Time Multiview Data Fusion For Object Tracking With RGBD Sensors”, Robotica, Cambridge Journals, 2014
M. Boulekchour, N. Aouf and M. Richardson, “Robust L infinity convex pose-graph optimization for monocular localization solution for UAVs”, Imeche Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2014
T. Mouats, N. Aouf, A. Sappa, C. Aguilera, and R. Toledo, “Multi-Spectral Stereo Odometry”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2014
Amamra and N. Aouf, “GPU-based real-time RGBD data filtering”, Springer, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 2014
DOI: 10.1007/s11554-014-0453-7Almutairi, Saif H., and Nabil Aouf, “Design and Non-Linear Simulations of a Fault-Tolerant Flight Control”, Advanced Materials Research; Vol.1016; pp. 671-77, 2014
Mohammed Boulekchour, Nabil Aouf and Mark Richardson, “Robust L infinity Convex Optimisation for Monocular Visual Odometry Trajectory Estimation”, ROBOTICA, Cambridge Journals, 2014
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0263574714001829B. Djamaa, M. Richardson, N. Aouf and B. Walters, “Towards Efficient Distributed Service Discovery in Low-Power and Lossy Networks”, Springer Wireless Networks Journal, 2014
Luke Feetham, Nabil Aouf, Clement Boudarias and Thomas Voirin, “Single Camera Absolute Motion Based Digital Elevation Mapping for a Next Generation Planetary Lander”, Acta Astronautica 98C, pp. 169-188, 2014
Lounis Chermak and Nabil Aouf, “HDR Imaging for Feature Tracking in Challenging Visibility Scenes”, Kybernetes Vol. 43 Iss: 8, pp.1129-1149, 2014
Xiaodong Li, Nabil Aouf and Mark Richardson, “Comparative Analysis on SIFT Features in Visible and Infrared Aerial Imaging”, International Journal of Applied Pattern Recognition, Vol.1, No.3 pp.273-297, 2014
Greer J. Gray; Nabil Aouf; Mark A. Richardson; Brian Butters and Roy Walmsley, “An Intelligent Tracking Algorithm For an Imaging Infrared Anti-Ship Missile”, SPIE Optical Engineering Journal, 2012
Saad Imran and Nabil Aouf, “Robust L infinity Homography Estimation using Reduced Image Feature Covariances from an RGB Image”, Journal of Electronic Imaging, SPIE, Vol:21, Issue:4, 2012
DOI: 10.1117/1.JEI.21.4.043022D Rodriguez; N Aouf and M Richardson, “Moments-based stereo camera egomotion analysis and results for long-range trajectories”, The Imaging Science Journal, 2012
DOI: 10.1179/1743131X12Y.0000000034K. Nemra and N. Aouf, “Cooperative Visual SLAM with Experimental Validation”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2012
DOI: 10.1177/0954410012466006M. Kharbat and N. Aouf, “Recursive Estimation of 3-D UAV Motion and Structure Based on the Linfinity-Norm”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, vol. 226, no. 7, pp:751-762, 2012
DOI: 10.1177/0954410011415765N. Aouf and B. Boulet, “LFT Gain Scheduling Control Preserving Robust Performance”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, vol. 226, no. 7, pp:763-773, 2012
DOI: 10.1177/0954410011415767G. J. Gray; N. Aouf; M. A. Richardson; B. Butters; R. Walmsley; E. Nicholls, “Feature-based recognition approaches for infrared anti-ship missile seekers”, The Imaging Science Journal, 2012
DOI: 10.1179/1743131X12Y.0000000012Y. Morsly and N. Aouf, “Particle Swarm Optimization Inspired Probability Algorithm for Optimal Visual Sensor Network Placement”, IEEE Sensors Journal, VOL. 12, NO. 5, 2012
M.S. Kemouche and N. Aouf, “A Gaussian mixture based optical flow modelling for object detection”, The Imaging Science Journal, 2011
DOI: 10.1179/1743131X11Y.0000000050Greer J. Gray; Nabil Aouf; Mark A. Richardson; Brian Butters; Roy Walmsley; Edgar Nicholls, “Feature-Based Target Recognition in Infrared Images for Future Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, Journal of Battlefield Technology, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp: 27-36, 2011
K. Nemra and N. Aouf, “Experimental Airborne 3D Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Unknown Environments”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2010
K. Nemra and N. Aouf, “INS/GPS Self-Localisation of a UAV using SDRE Nonlinear Filtering”, IEEE Sensor Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2010
M. Kharbat and N. Aouf, “Dense locally-optimised optical flow using robust data fusion”, Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer Journal, 2010
DOI: 10.1007/s11760-010-0155-yC.L. Lin, T.C. Kao, Y.H. Li and N. Aouf, “Potential-Field-Based Evolutionary Route Planner for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2010
N. Aouf and M. Kharbat, “Vision Based Detection, Tracking and Planning for Autonomous Vehicles”, International Journal of Intelligent Control and Computational Intelligence, 2010
K. Nemra and N. Aouf, “Robust Airborne 3D Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Observability and Consistency analysis”, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (Springer) Volume 55, Issue 4-5, 2009
Nabil Aouf, Anibal Ollero, Jurek Z. Sasiadek, “Editorial for a: Special Issue on: Airborne Simultaneous Localisation and Map Building (A-SLAM)”, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (Springer) Volume 55, Issue 4-5 pp 247-248, 2009
M.S Kemouche and N. Aouf, “Hinfinity Filter Based Turn Prediction Algorithm for Manoeuvring Target Tracking”, Journal of Battlefield Technology, 2009
M.W. Hong, C.L. Lin, B.M. Shiu and N. Aouf, “Stabilizing Networked Pneumatic Control Systems With Time Delays”, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications Vol. 8, No. 2, pp:209-223, 2009
N. Aouf and B. Boulet, “Uncertainty-based model-order reduction of flexible systems preserving robust closed-loop performance”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Volume 222, Number 2, p: 291-295, 2008
Lazarus, S B., Ashokaraj, I., Tsourdos, A., Zbikowski, R., Silson, Peter M G., Aouf, N., White, B, “Vehicle Localization Using Sensors Data Fusion Via Integration of Covariance Intersection and Interval Analysis”, IEEE Sensors Journal, Volume 7, Issue 12, pp.1775-1808, 2007
M. C. Turner, N. Aouf, D. G. Bates, I. Postlethwaite and B. Boulet, “Switched control of a V/STOL aircraft: an application of LQ bumpless transfer”, Proceedings of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part I, Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, Vol. 220, pp. 157-170, 2006
C.A. Rabbath, N. Aouf, N. Hori, M. Lauzon, “Combined Hinfinity Model-Matching Control and Dual-rate Digital Redesign for Missile Acceleration Autopilots”, Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 73-87, 2004
N. Aouf H. Molhem, and C.A. Rabbath, “Model following control of BTT Missile with switching procedure”, International Journal of Nonlinear studies, 2003
N. Aouf and B. Boulet, “Uncertainty models for flexible structures”, AIAA Journal of Guidance, dynamics and Control, 2003
N. Aouf, D. Bates, I. Postlethwait and B. Boulet, “Scheduling of integrated flight and propulsion control laws for a V/STOL aircraft from in the acceleration from hover”, Control engineering practice. IFAC Journal, 2002
N. Aouf, B. Boulet, R. Botez, “Model-Controller Reduction for Flexible Aircraft Achieving Robust Performance”, IEEE Control and systems technology, Vol10, no2, pp 1-9, 2002
N. Aouf, B. Boulet, R. Botez, “Robust gust alleviation for flexible aircraft”, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal (CASJ) Vol46, no 3, pp 131-141, 2000
Conference Proceedings
Z. Chekakta, A. Zenati and N. Aouf, “Enhancing Cooperative Visual SLAM with a Self-Supervised Deep Learning Model for Efficient Keypoint-Based Inter-Map Loop Closure Detection”, 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Bari, Italy, pp. 2401-2408
Z. Chekakta, N. Aouf, S. Govindaraj, F. Polisano and G. De Cubber, “Towards Learning-Based Distributed Task Allocation Approach for Multi-Robot System”, 2024 10th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA), Athens, Greece, pp. 34-39
Z. Zhu, Z. Chekakta and N. Aouf, “Collaborative SLAM with Convolutional Neural Network-based Descriptor for Inter-Map Loop Closure Detection”, 2024 10th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA), Athens, Greece, pp. 352-357
A. Afaneh and N. Aouf, “Introducing Residual Life-Long Learning with the RAVisionLLL Dataset”, 2024 12th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA), London, UK, pp. 148-153
T. Hickling and N. Aouf, “Real-Time Detection of White and Black Box Adversarial Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning UAV Guidance”, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 420-425
Hogan, M., Dae, Y., Wang, C., Aouf, N., “Explainable Dataset for Ground-Based Drones in Urban Environments”, Proc. IEEE ROBIO, pp. 2043-2048, 2024
B. A. Inan and N. Aouf, “Transformers for Enhanced Multi-Object Tracking with Sensor Fusion”, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 2119-2124
A. Tammam, A. Zenati and N. Aouf, “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Rendezvous and Attitude Control of CubeSat Class Satellite”, 2023 7th International Conference on Automation, Control and Robots (ICACR), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 140-146
A. A. N. Khan and N. Aouf, “Towards Robust Modality Agnostic Pose Estimation via Unbiased Data Fusion”, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Koh Samui, Thailand, pp. 1-7
Abdulsalam, M., Chekakta, Z., Aouf, N., Hogan, M., “Fruity: A Multi-modal Dataset for Fruit Recognition and 6D-Pose Estimation in Precision Agriculture”, Proc. IEEE MED, pp. 144-149, 2023
B. A. Inan, D. Rondao and N. Aouf, “Harnessing Vision Transformers for LiDAR Point Cloud Segmentation”, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Koh Samui, Thailand, pp. 1-6
B. A. Inan, D. Rondao and N. Aouf, “Enhancing LiDAR Point Cloud Segmentation with Synthetic Data”, 2023 31st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Limassol, Cyprus, pp. 370-375
Hogan, M., Aouf, N., Spencer, P., Almond, J., “Explainable Object Detection for Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles Using KernelSHAP”, Proc. IEEE ICARSC, pp. 136-141, 2022
C. Wang and N. Aouf, “Fusion Attention Network for Autonomous Cars Semantic Segmentation”, 2022 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Aachen, Germany, pp. 1525-1530
A. A. N. Khan and N. Aouf, “Backpropagation Based Deep Multispectral VO Drift Elimination”, 2022 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-6
Hogan, M., Rondao, D., Aouf, N., Dubois-Matra, O., “Using Convolutional Neural Networks for Relative Pose Estimation of a Non-Co-operative Spacecraft with Thermal Infrared Imagery”, European Space Agency Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, 2021
Lei He, Duarte Rondao, Nabil Aouf, “A Novel Mechanism for Orbital AI-based Autonomous Refuelling”, AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, 2211
Abdelhafid Zenati, Nabil Aouf, and Odysseus Kechagias-Stamatis, “Distributed Fuzzy Semi-Infinite Auction Based Optimization for Cooperative Robots Tasks Allocation”, 2022 American Control Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2022
Amara Khan and Nabil Aouf, “Encoding A Mathematically Faithful DeepVIO Solution”, ICCAS 2021, Korea, 2021
Chuyao Wang and Nabil Aouf, “Deep Reinforcement Learning based Planning for Urban Self-driving with Demonstration and Depth Completion”, ICCAS 2021, Korea, 2021
Abdelhafid Zenati and Nabil Aouf, “Sequential and Distributed Auction Based Robots Task Allocation for Objects Assembly”, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), China, 2021
Maxwell Hogan and Nabil Aouf, “Towards Real Time Interpretable Object Detection for UAV Platform by Saliency Maps”, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), China, 2021
Masoud S. Bahraini, Abdelhafid Zenati and Nabil Aouf, “Autonomous Cooperative Visual Navigation for Planetary Exploration Robots”, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, 2021
Alejandro Dena, Kenan Ahiska and Nabil Aouf, “Image Based Visual Servoing for Landmine Detection using Quadrotors”, 2020 15th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA)
Lei He, Nabil Aouf, James F. Whidborne, Bifeng Song, “Integrated moment-based LGMD and deep reinforcement learning for UAV obstacle avoidance”, ICRA 2020, pp. 7491-7497
Rondao, D., Aouf, N., Richardson, M., Dubranchet, V., and Dubois-Matra, O., “Thermal Infrared Relative Navigation in Space Using Histograms of Oriented Phase Congruency Features”, 11th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems, 2020
Maxwell Hogan, Duarte Rondao, Prof. Nabil Aouf, Olivier Dubois-Matra, “Using Convolutional Neural Networks for Relative Pose Estimation of a Non-Cooperative Spacecraft with Thermal Infrared Imagery”, 11th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems, 2020
Masoud Sotoodeh-Bahraini, Nabil Aouf, Axel Beauvisage, and Shashank Govindara, “Distributed Cooperative Visual Odometry for Planetary Exploration Rovers”, 11th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems, 2020
Axel Beauvisage, Kenan Ahiska, Nabil Aouf, “Multimodal tracking framework for visual odometry in challenging illumination conditions”, ICRA 2020, pp. 11133-11139
Abdulsalam, M. and Aouf, N., “Deep Weed Detector/Classifier Network for Precision Agriculture”, 2020 28th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Saint-Raphael, France
Belloni, C., Aouf, N., Caillec, J.M.L. and Merlet, T., “Comparison of descriptors for SAR ATR”, 2019 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf)
Kanchwala, H., Viana, I.B., Ceccoti, M. and Aouf, N., “Model predictive tracking controller for a high fidelity vehicle dynamics model”, 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC)
Cecotti, M., Kanchwala, H. and Aouf, N., “Autonomous Navigation for Mobility Scooters: a Complete Framework Based on Open-Source Software”, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2019
Viana, I.B., Kanchwala, H. and Aouf, N., “Cooperative trajectory planning for autonomous driving using nonlinear model predictive control”, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE)
Belloni, C., Aouf, N., Caillec, J.M.L. and Merlet, T., “SAR Specific Noise Based Data Augmentation for Deep Learning”, 2019 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf)
Rondao, D. and Aouf, N., “Multi-View Monocular Pose Estimation for Spacecraft Relative Navigation”, 2018 AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference
Camarena, M.E., Feetham, L.M., Scannapieco, A.F. and Aouf, N., “FPGA-based multi-sensor relative navigation in space: Preliminary analysis in the framework of the I3DS H2020 project”, 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Bremen, Germany, 2018
Rondao, D., Aouf, N. and Dubois-Matra, O., “Multispectral image processing for navigation using low performance computing”, 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Bremen, Germany, 2018
Scannapieco, A.F., Feetham, L.M., Camarena, M.E. and Aouf, N., “Space-oriented Navigation Solutions with Integrated Sensor-Suite: The I3DS H2020 project”, 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Bremen, Germany, 2018
Viana, I.B. and Aouf, N., “Distributed Cooperative Path-Planning for Autonomous Vehicles Integrating Human Driver Trajectories”, 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS)
Yilmaz, O., Aouf, N., Majewski, L., Sanchez-Gestido, M. and Ortega, G., “Using infrared based relative navigation for active debris removal”, 10th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems, Salzburg, Austria, 2017
Junoh S, Aouf N, “Person Classification Leveraging Convolutional Neural Network for Obstacle Avoidance via Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, 2017 International Workshop on Research, Education and Development on Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS), Linkoping, Sweden
H. Courtois and N. Aouf, “Fusion of Stereo and Lidar Data for Dense Depth Map Computation”, 2017 International Workshop on Research, Education and Development on Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS), Linkoping, Sweden
A. Beauvisage and N. Aouf, “Multimodal visual-inertial odometry for navigation in cold and low contrast environment”, European Conference on Mobile Robots, ECMR, 2017
Kechagias-Stamatis, O., Aouf, N., Nam, D, “Multi-Modal Automatic Target Recognition for Anti-Ship Missiles with Imaging Infrared Capabilities”, Conference on Sensor Signal Processing for Defence (SSPD2017)
Kechagias-Stamatis, O., Aouf, N., Nam, D, “3D Automatic Target Recognition for UAV Platforms”, Conference on Sensor Signal Processing for Defence (SSPD2017)
Nam, D., Aouf, N., “Automated mosaicing for improving vehicle situational awareness in real time”, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2017
Courtois, H., Aouf, N., “Haptic feedback for obstacle avoidance applied to unmanned aerial vehicles”, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS, 2017
Beauvisage, A., Aouf, N., Courtois, H, “Multi-spectral visual odometry for unmanned air vehicles”, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC, 2016
Feetham, L., Aouf, N., Dubois-Matra, O., Bourdarias, C., “Image datasets for autonomous planetary landing algorithm development”, Proceedings of 2016 7th International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, ICMAE, pp. 627-637
Kechagias-Stamatis, O., Aouf, N., “Histogram of distances for local surface description”, Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2487-2493, 2016
Almutairi, S.H., Aouf, N., “Enhancing the aircraft's stability and controllability against actuator faults using robust flight control”, Proceedings of 2016 IEEE International Conference on Control and Robotics Engineering, ICCRE, 2016
O. Kechagias-Stamatis and N. Aouf, “Fast 3D object matching with Projection Density Energy”, 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2015
S. Almutairi and N. Aouf, “Aircraft Robust Flight Tracking Control against Actuator Efficiency Faults”, International Conference on System theory, Control, and Computing, Romania, 2015
S. Almutairi and N. Aouf, “Design and Non-Linear Simulations of a Fault-Tolerant Flight Control”, International Conference of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ICMAE, Madrid, Spain, 2014
S. Almutairi and N. Aouf, “Fault-Tolerant Flight Control Design against Actuator Impairments using Optimal Control and Fault Compensation”, 11th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation, Taichung, Taiwan, 2014
Vitanov and N. Aouf, “Fault diagnosis for MEMS INS using unscented Kalman filter enhanced by Gaussian process adaptation”, AHS 2014, pp. 120-126
Vitanov and N. Aouf, “Fault diagnosis and recovery in MEMS inertial navigation system using information filters and Gaussian processes”, IEEE Control and Automation (MED), 22nd Mediterranean Conference, pp. 115-120, 2014
A. Amamra and N. Aouf, “Robust and Sparse RGBD Data Registration of Scene Views”, 2013 17th International Conference on Information Visualisation, pp. 488-493, 2013
A. Amamra and N. Aouf, “Real-Time Robust Tracking with Commodity RGBD Camera”, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 2408-2413, 2013
Mohammed Boulekchour and Nabil Aouf, “L-infinity Norm Based Solution for Visual Odometry”, Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns - 15th International Conference, CAIP, York, UK, 2013
Mohammed Boulekchour and Nabil Aouf, “Robust Motion Estimation Using Covariance Intersection”, 22nd Mediterranean Conference on control and Automation, MED, Palermo, Italy, 2014
Mohammed Boulekchour and Nabil Aouf, “Efficient Real-Time Loop Closure Detection Using GMM and Tree Structure”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, Chicago, 2014
L. Chermak, N. Aouf, “Feature Enhanced feature detection and matching under extreme illumination conditions with a HDR imaging sensor”, 11th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetic Intelligent Systems (CIS), pp. 64-69, 2012
L. Chermak, N. Aouf, “A Minimax Solution for Stereo Based Motion Estimation”, 11th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetic Intelligent Systems (CIS), pp. 112-117, 2012
Luke Feetham, Nabil Aouf, Clement Bourdarias, and Thomas Voirin, “Single camera absolute structure from motion using H-infinity data fusion for a next generation planetary lander”, 5th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences (EUCASS), Munich, Germany, 2013
Mouats, T., and Aouf, N., “Multimodal stereo correspondence based on phase congruency and edge histogram descriptor”, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Information Fusion, pp. 1981-1987, 2013
Mouats, T., and Aouf, N., “Cross-Spectral Stereo Matching Based on Local Self-Similarities and Image Moments”, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 4048-4053, 2013
Oualid Araar and Nabil Aouf, “Full linear control of a quadrotor UAV, LQ vs H-infinity”, International Conference on Control (UKACC), 2014
Oualid Araar and Nabil Aouf, “Visual Servoing of a Quadrotor UAV for the Tracking of Linear Structured Infrastructures”, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2013
Xiaodong Li and Nabil Aouf, “Cooperative vSLAM Based on UAV Application”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), China, 2012
Xiaodong Li and Nabil Aouf, “Estimation Analysis in VSLAM Based on UAV Application”, IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Information Integration, Germany, 2012
Diego Rodriguez and Nabil Aouf, “Robust Ego-Motion for Large-Scale Trajectories”, IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Information Integration, Germany, 2012
Gray, Aouf, Richardson, Butters, Walmsley, Nicholls, Daya, “Feature Based Tracking Algorithms for Imaging Infrared Anti-Ship Missiles”, SPIE Security & Defence, Prague, Czech Republic, 2011
Karim Nemra and Nabil Aouf, “Adaptive Decentralised Cooperative Vision Based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Multiple UAVs”, IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Greece, 2011
N. Aouf, V. Sazdovski, A. Tsourdos and B. White, “Low Altitude Airborne SLAM with INS Aided Vision System”, AIAA Guidance, navigation and Control Conference, AIAA-2007-6790, 2007
N. Aouf, D. Bates, “Scheduling-partitioning technique for Harrier VSTOL aircraft”, American Control Conference ACC, 2002
N. Aouf, B. Boulet, R. Botez, “Gain Scheduling technique for B1 Flexible Aircraft”, American Control Conference ACC, 2002
N. Aouf, B. Boulet, “Uncertainty models for flexible structures”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, 2001
N. Aouf, D. Bates and I. Postlethwaite, “Observer form scheduling for an H-infinity loopshaping integrated flight and propulsion control law”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, 2001
N. Aouf, B. Boulet, R. Botez, “Model-Controller Reduction for Flexible Aircraft Achieving Robust Performance”, American Control Conference ACC, 2001
N. Aouf, B. Boulet, R. Botez, “H2 and H-infinity-Optimal Gust Load Alleviation for a Flexible Aircraft”, American Control Conference ACC, 2000