Current Projects (under construction)
part of " AI CRAFT: Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Readiness and Future Training", US DoD, DARPA. 24-26
Robots are now ubiquitously employed across various settings, ranging from autonomous vehicles and warehouse logistics to challenging rescue missions, performing myriad tasks with minimal human guidance to no human intervention at all. Fundamental to these robotic operations is scene perception - the capability to perceive and understand the surrounding environment, mainly reliant on vision sensors such as cameras and LiDAR systems. This aspect is paramount for decision-making, navigation, and, eventually, successful task execution.
However, in complex environments, such as uncontrolled road intersections or multi-robot coordination scenarios, distributed agent reasoning, such as semantic segmentation, can sometimes falter, lacking situational awareness. We aim to investigate the influence of centralized and ad hoc coordination in multi-agent robotic perception under the dual challenges of maintaining situational awareness.
M. Elgouhary, and A. S. El-Wakeel, "Learning to Tune Pure Pursuit in Autonomous Racing: Joint Lookahead and Steering-Gain Control with PPO " IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2026.
R. Prajapati, and A. S. El-Wakeel "Sim2Real Dynamic Road Intersection Monitoring via Adaptive Vehicle BEV Transformation Model for the Internet of Vehicles", IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 2026
O. Agbo, M. Hefeida, and A. S. El-Wakeel "Hybrid-CNN Intrusion Detection Framework for CAN Networks in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2025.
S. Saleh, A. S. El-Wakeel, and A. Noureldin "5G-Enabled Vehicle Positioning using EKF With Dynamic Covariance Matrix Tuning,", IEEE CJECE, 2022.
A. Aboutaleb, A. S. El-Wakeel, H. Elghamrawy, and A. Noureldin "LiDAR/RISS/GNSS Dynamic Integration for Land Vehicle Robust Positioning in Challenging GNSS Environments" Remote Sensing, 2020.
A. S. E-Wakeel*, A. Abdelrahman*, A. Noureldin, and H. S. Hassanein "Crowdsensing-Based Personalized Dynamic Route Planning for Smart Vehicles" IEEE Network, 2020.
M. Elgouhary, and A. S. El-Wakeel, "Robust Global-Local Behavior Arbitration via Continuous Command Fusion Under LiDAR Errors" IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2026.
M. Elgouhary, and A. S. El-Wakeel, "Dynamic Lookahead Distance via Reinforcement Learning-Based Pure Pursuit for Autonomous Racing" IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2026.
D. Babalola, R. Prajapati and A. S. El-Wakeel "Real-Time Analysis of YOLOv12 and RT-DETR for Object Detection in Autonomous Driving" IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility, Dubai, UAE, 2026.
M. Al Islam and A. S. El-Wakeel "Towards Context-Aware Autonomous Driving in Degraded Urban Environments Using LaneNet" IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility, Dubai, UAE, 2026.
M. Al Islam and A. S. El-Wakeel "Adversarial Robustness Analysis of Cloud-Assisted Autonomous Driving Systems" IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility, Dubai, UAE, 2026.
O. Agbo, M. Hefeida, and A. S. El-Wakeel "Optimized Deep Learning-based Intrusion Detection System for Connected Vehicles", SaT-CPS '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-physical Systems, ACM CODASPY, Pittsburgh, PA, 2025.
R. Prajapati, and A. S. El-Wakeel "Camera Perspective Transformation to Bird's Eye View via Spatial Transformer Model for Road Intersection Monitoring" , IEEE Smart Mobility Conference, Niagara Falls, ON, 2024.
R. Prajapati, and A. S. El-Wakeel "Cloud-based Federated Learning Framework for MRI Segmentation", IEEE International Conference on Communication, Denver, CO, 2024.
A. S. El-Wakeel, A. Noureldin, H. S. Hassanein and N. Zorba "Utilization of Wavelet Packet Sensor De-noising for Accurate Positioning in Intelligent Road Services", 14th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Limassol, CY., 2018. "Best Paper Award"
* Authors contributed equally.
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