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 Elie Shammas Page 2 • 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 Elie Shammas Page 3 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