Ahmed El-Shenawy

About

Ahmed El-Shenawy is a robotics engineer and researcher whose work spans mobile robotics, surgical robotics, and autonomous systems. He is best known for his foundational contributions to holonomic mobile robot design and control, having developed and analyzed the C3P platform — a three-caster-wheeled robot actuated solely through wheel angular velocities. His highly cited 2007 comparative study of holonomic mobile robots (19 citations) established practical evaluation frameworks still referenced in the field, while his complementary work on singularity resolution offered elegant control solutions that eliminate the need for additional steering actuators — a meaningful advance in mechanical simplicity and reliability. El-Shenawy's dynamic modeling using Lagrange formulations provided rigorous theoretical underpinnings for holonomic robot motion planning. Beyond wheeled robotics, he expanded into medical and industrial applications, contributing to handheld parallel robots for orthopedic surgery and a 5-DOF color-sorting manipulator for industrial automation. His 2012 work on an autonomous electric vehicle for landmine detection demonstrates a commitment to socially impactful engineering. With over 70 cumulative citations across diverse robotic platforms, El-Shenawy represents a versatile researcher bridging theoretical modeling, practical system design, and real-world deployment.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Comparing different holonomic mobile robots

   19 citations · 2007
2. 2
   Controlling a Holonomic Mobile Robot With Singularities

   10 citations · 2006
3. 3
   Practical evaluation for two different holonomic wheeled mobile robots

   8 citations · 2008
4. 4
   Dynamic Model of a Holonomic Mobile Robot with Actuated Caster Wheels

   7 citations · 2006
5. 5
   SOLVING THE SINGULARITY PROBLEM FOR A HOLONOMIC MOBILE ROBOT

   6 citations · 2006
6. 6
   KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS ANALYSIS FOR A HOLONOMIC WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT

   5 citations · 2007
7. 7
   Disturbance attenuation of a handheld parallel robot

   5 citations · 2013
8. 8
   Design And Development Of 5-Dof Color Sorting Manipulator For Industrial Applications

   5 citations · 2013
9. 9
   A Handheld Robot for Orthopedic Surgery - ITD

   4 citations · 2009
10. 10
    The construction of autonomous electric vehicle for Land mine detection and localization

    4 citations · 2012

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