ELIE SHAMMAS
P.O.Box: 11-0236 Riad El Solh
Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon
tel: (961) 1-350000x3546
fax: (961) 1-744462
es34@aub.edu.lb
EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Defended March 20, 2006)
Thesis topic: Generalized Motion Planning for Underactuated Mechanical System
Thesis advisors: Prof. Howie Choset and Prof. Alfred Rizzi
Carnegie Mellon University
M.S. (Project work) in Mechanical Engineering (May 2001)
Project: Construction of a 12 degrees of freedom hyper-redundant snake-like robot
American University of Beirut
B.E. in Mechanical Engineering (June 1999)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Romer - Hexagon Metrology
July 2007 - August 2010, Carlsbad CA, U.S.A.
Research and Development Engineer: Kinematic calibration of portable Coordinate Measuring Machines
University of California, San Diego
February 2007 July 2007, San Diego CA, U.S.A.
Postdoc in the Radiology Department: Robotic workstation for Breast Cancer Tomography
Dynamic Systems Research
July 2006 February 2007, San Diego CA, U.S.A.
Project Scientist: Deployable robotic tensegrity structures
Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
January 2006 July 2006, Pittsburgh PA, U.S.A.
Project Scientist: Surgical snake robot
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
American University of Beirut, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant professor: Fall 2012 - present
• MECH 420: Mechanical Design 1
• MECH 430: Instrumentation and Measurement
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• MECH 432: Dynamic System Analysis
• MECH 641: Robotics (Graduate course)
San Diego State University, Mechanical Engineering Department
Lecturer: Fall 2008 - Spring 2010
• ME 330: Control Systems
• ME 596: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Geometric Control (Graduate course)
PUBLICATIONS
Journal papers
1. E. Shammas, M. de Oliviera, Motion Planning for the Snakeboard. International
Journal of Robotics Research, 2012, 31 (7)
2. E. Shammas, H. Choset, A. Rizzi, Motion planning for variable inertia mechanical
systems, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics: Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics
VII, 2008, 47 STAR, pp. 375-390
3. E. Shammas, H. Choset, A. Rizzi, Geometric motion planning analysis for two classes
of underactuated mechanical systems. International Journal of Robotics Research,
2007, 26 (10), pp. 1043- 1073
4. E. Shammas, H. Choset, A. Rizzi, Towards a unified approach to motion planning
for dynamic underactuated mechanical systems with non-holonomic constraints. International Journal of Robotics Research, 2007, 26 (10), pp. 1075- 1124
5. E. Shammas, A. Wolf, H. Choset, Three degrees-of-freedom joint for spatial hyperredundant robots. Journal of Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2006, 41(2), 170-190
Patents
1. E. Shammas, H. Choset, Orientation Preserving Angular Swivel Joint, US6871563
(Issue date Mar 29, 2005)
2. P. Ferrari, T. Duportal, E. Shammas, J. Gerent, D. Hong, and D. Roux, Articulated
Arm, US8112896 (Issue date Feb 14, 2012)
Conference papers: Accepted based on double-blind full-paper review
1. E. Shammas, M. de Oliviera, An Analytic Motion Planning Solution for the Snakeboard, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Los Angeles, U.S.A., June
2011
2. E. Shammas, H. Choset, A. Rizzi, Natural Gait Generation Techniques for Principally Kinematic Systems, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Cambridge,
U.S.A., June 2005
Conference papers: Accepted based on full-paper review
3. S. Bazzi, E. Shammas, and D. C. Asmar. Novel Modeling of Skidding Effects on
the Nonholonomic Motion of a Vertical Rolling Disk. In Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on Advanced Robotics, (ICAR 2013), Montevideo, Uruguay,
November 25-29th, 2013.
4. F. Abi Farraj, D. C. Asmar, E. Shammas, and I. ElHajj. Non-Iterative Planar Visual
Odometry using a Monocular Camera. In Proceedings of the IEEE International
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Conference on Advanced Robotics, (ICAR 2013), Montevideo, Uruguay, November
25-29th, 2013.
5. C. Mansour, E. Shammas, I. ElHajj, and D. C. Asmar. Dynamic Bandwidth Management for Teleoperation of Collaborative Robots . In Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2012), Guangzhou,
China, December 11-14, 2012
6. B. Jalgha, D. C. Asmar, E. Shammas, and I. Elhajj. Hierarchical fall avoidance
strategy for small-scale humanoid robots. In Proceedings of the IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2012), Guangzhou, China, December 11-14, 2012,
7. E. Shammas and D. C. Asmar. Kinematic analysis of an active swivel steering mechanism for robotic mobile bases. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference
on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Guangzhou, China, December 11-14, 2012
8. S. Babikian, E. Shammas, and D. C. Asmar: Motion planning for a two-link planar
robot in a viscous environment. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference
on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October,
2012 (45% acceptance rate)
9. E. Shammas, M. de Oliviera, Exact Motion Planning Solution for Principally Kinematic Systems, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent
Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2011,
10. C. Mansour, I. Elhajj, E. Shammas, D. C. Asmar: Event-based dynamic bandwidth
management for teleoperation. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference
on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO) 2011: 229-233
11. J. C. McKenna, D.J. Anhalt, F.M. Bronson, H.B. Brown, M. Schwerin, E. Shammas, H. Choset, Toroidal skin drive for snake robot locomotion, Proceedings - IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008, pp. 1150-1155
12. H. B. Brown, M. Schwerin, E. Shammas, H. Choset, Design and Control of a SecondGeneration Hyper-Redundant Mechanism, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2008, art. no. 4399504, pp. 2603-2608
13. E. Shammas, H. Choset, A. Rizzi, Towards automated gait generation for dynamic
systems with non-holonomic constraints, Proceedings - IEEE International Conference
on Robotics and Automation, 2006, art. no. 1641940, pp. 1630-1636
14. E. Shammas, K. Schmidt, H. Choset, Natural Gait Generation Techniques for Purely
Mechanical Systems, Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation, 2005, art. no. 1570678, pp. 3664-3669
15. E. Shammas, A. Wolf, H.B. Brown, and H. Choset, New Joint Design for Threedimensional Hyper Redundant Robots, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent
Robots and Systems, 2003, 4, pp. 3594-3599
16. A. Wolf, H.B. Brown, R. Casciola, A. Costa, M. Schwerin, E. Shammas, H. Choset,
A mobile hyper redundant mechanism for search and rescue tasks, Proceedings - IEEE
International Robots and Systems, 2003, 3, pp. 2889- 2895
17. H. Choset, D. Hull, J. Luntz, E. Shammas, T. Rached, D. Hull, C.C. Dent, Search
and rescue with serpentine robots, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society
for Optical Engineering, 2000, 4024, pp. 283- 291
18. H. Choset, J. Luntz, E. Shammas, T. Rached, C.C. Dent, Search and rescue with
serpentine robots, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2000, 43990, pp. 148- 155