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href=\"https:\/\/mjiit.utm.my\/ese\/\">Department of Electronic System Engineering<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwaterloo.ca\/\">\u200b<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utm.my\/\">Universiti Teknologi Malaysia<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u200bUniversiti Teknologi Malaysia<br>Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, 54100, Kuala Lumpur,&nbsp;Malaysia<br>Email: <em>zool@utm.my<\/em><br>Tel: +603-22031495<br>Office: Level 8, MJIIT Building<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zool Hilmi Ismail is a research member of Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology and Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. He was also appointed as a visiting researcher at Kyoto University and Jordan University of Science &amp; Technology in 2014 and 2016, respectively. He is a registered Professional Engineer with Practising Certificate\u00a0under the Board of Engineers Malaysia, a member of Society for Underwater Technology, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers &#8211; Oceanic Engineering Society, Asian Control Association, member and a registered chartered marine engineer of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology. He has received a number of awards from International RoboCup Competitions (Service Robot Category). In 2017, he was appointed as one of committee member for International RoboCup@Home Education.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5918-636X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u200bORCID<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scopus.com\/authid\/detail.uri?authorId=35932176500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SCOPUS<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.researcherid.com\/rid\/A-8481-2011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ResearcherID<\/a>&nbsp;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim has-custom-content-position is-position-bottom-center\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2284\/2020\/12\/agif2opt.gif);min-height:219px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Zool&#8217;s research interests are in the control of autonomous systems, robot motion planning and coordination, along with applied combinatorial optimization. The following are some current areas of focus<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Robot motion planning:<\/strong>\u00a0methods for planning robot motion to efficiently complete complex tasks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Planning under uncertainty:<\/strong>\u00a0planning and sensing for operation in unknown environments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Persistent monitoring and scene reconstruction:<\/strong>\u00a0monitoring and building real-time maps for complex 3D environments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Future transportation systems:<\/strong>\u00a0coordinating and dispatching vehicles for ride-sharing and urban transportation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Human-robot interaction:<\/strong>\u00a0coordinating robots to work with humans in task specification and collaborative assembly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Distributed and submodular optimization:<\/strong>\u00a0Collective decision making strategies for objectives that exhibit diminishing returns.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dynamic vehicle routing:<\/strong>\u00a0efficient dispatching robots to respond to task requests in real-time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other areas of interest include informative path planning, task allocation, formation control, consensus\/rendezvous and ocean sampling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To learn more, visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kl.utm.my\/cairo\/\"><strong>CAIRO UTM&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a>website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#0d1887\">Zool H. 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