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Mohamed Elobaid

Mohamed Elobaid

Research Scientist
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE)
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

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📢 News

  • [Dec 2025] 📄 Paper accepted to IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS): "Data-fused Model Predictive Control with Guarantees: Application to Flying Humanoid Robots".
  • [Sept 2025] 🏛️ Joined KAUST (Saudi Arabia) as a Research Scientist in the CEMSE Division.
  • [May 2025] 📄 Co-authored paper presented at ICRA 2025: "Online Nonlinear MPC for Multimodal Locomotion"
  • [Feb 2025] 🏁 Successfully concluded the Honda-AMI joint research project on avatar robots (2022–2025).
  • [Jan 2024] 📄 Paper published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L): "Online Non-linear Centroidal MPC with Stability Guarantees for Robust Locomotion of Legged Robots".
  • [Nov 2024] 🏆 Co-authored paper winner of the IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Whole-Body Control best paper award of previous year at the IEEE Humanoids 2024 (Nancy).
  • [Nov 2024] 📄 Co-Authored paper published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L): "XBG: End-to-end Imitation Learning for Autonomous Behaviour in HRI".
  • [Nov 2024] 📄 Paper presented at IEEE Telepresence: "Remote telepresence over large distances via robot avatars: case studies".
  • [June 2024] 🚀 Finalized a technology transfer project for the full-stack teleoperation and control of Workfar's Syntro robot.
  • [Jan 2024] 📄 Co-Authored Article published in Science Robotics: "iCub3 avatar system: Enabling remote fully immersive embodiment of humanoid robots".
  • [June 2023] 🏅 Co-authored paper finalist for the Outstanding Paper on Human-Robot Interaction at IEEE ICRA 2023 (London).
  • [May 2023] 📄 Co-Authored paper presented "A control approach for human-robot ergonomic payload lifting" at ICRA 2023.
  • [May 2023] 📄 Presented "Online Non-linear Centroidal MPC for Humanoid Robots Payload Carrying" at ICRA 2023.
  • [July 2023] 🎤 Invited talk at Honda R&D (Saitama, Japan) on "Robust locomotion via online Nonlinear MPC".
  • [March 2022] 🎤 Delivered a tutorial series on "Feedback Linearization via digital Control" at IIT.
  • [Feb 2022] 🎓 Defended Ph.D. thesis with Cum Laude distinction from Sapienza University of Rome and University of Paris Saclay.
  • [Feb 2022] 🤖 Joined the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) as a Postdoctoral Researcher.
  • [Feb 2022] 🚀 Appointed responsible for the joint research initiative with Honda R&D on their newly designed avatar robot.
  • [2022] 📄 Paper published in Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics: "Station-Keeping of L2 Halo Orbits Under Sampled-Data Model Predictive Control".
  • [June 2022] 📄 Presented "Virtual Holonomic Constraints for Euler-Lagrange systems under sampling" at the European Control Conference (ECC).
  • [2021] 🎤 Invited talk: "Path following problem under digital control" at the annual meeting of SIDRA (Italian Society of Control Researchers), Ancona.
  • [2021] 🎤 Presented "Transverse feedback linearization under digital control" at the American Control Conference (ACC).
  • [2021] 📄 Presented "Digital path-following for a car-like robot" at the IFAC Control Conference Africa (CCA).
  • [2020] 📄 Paper published in IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS): "Approximate transverse feedback linearization under digital control".
  • [Dec 2020] 📄 Presented "On stable right-inversion of non-minimum-phase systems" at IEEE CDC.
  • [July 2020] 📄 Presented "Sampled-data tracking under model predictive control" at the IFAC World Congress.
  • [Sept 2019] 🏅 Best Paper Finalist at the IntelliSys Conference 2019 for "Telexistence and teleoperation for walking humanoid robots".
  • [Sept 2019] 📄 Presented "On unconstrained MPC through multirate sampling" at IFAC NOLCOS (Vienna).
  • [June 2019] 💰 Awarded the Université Franco Italienne - Program Vinci funding grant.
  • [Nov 2018] 🎓 Started Ph.D. in Control Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome.
  • [Jan 2018] 💼 Joined IIT as a Robotics Engineer Fellow; developed the first walking-teleoperation software suite for the iCub.