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Nathir A. Rawashdeh, Jeremy P. Bos, and Nader J. Abu-Alrub "Camera–Lidar sensor fusion for drivable area detection in winter weather using convolutional neural networks," Optical Engineering 62(3), 031202 (14 October 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.62.3.031202


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Albara D. Abu-Shaqra, Nader J. Abu-Alrub, and Nathir A. Rawashdeh "Object detection in degraded LiDAR signals by synthetic snowfall noise for autonomous driving", Proc. SPIE 12115, Autonomous Systems: Sensors, Processing and Security for Ground, Air, Sea and Space Vehicles and Infrastructure 2022, 121150K (6 June 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2617569

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Alireza Mohammadi, Austin Kucharski, Nathir Rawashdeh, "UVC and far-UVC light disinfection ground robot design for sterilizing the Coronavirus on vertical surfaces," Proc. SPIE 12115, Autonomous Systems: Sensors, Processing and Security for Ground, Air, Sea and Space Vehicles and Infrastructure 2022, 1211509 (6 June 2022).


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Nader J. Abu-Alrub, Albara D. Abu-Shaqra, Nathir A. Rawashdeh, "Compact CNN-based road weather condition detection by grayscale image band for ADAS," Proc. SPIE 12115, Autonomous Systems: Sensors, Processing and Security for Ground, Air, Sea and Space Vehicles and Infrastructure 2022, 121150L (6 June 2022).

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Nathir A. Rawashdeh, Jeremy P. Bos, Nader J. Abu-Alrub, "Drivable path detection using CNN sensor fusion for autonomous driving in the snow," Proc. SPIE 11748, Autonomous Systems: Sensors, Processing, and Security for Vehicles and Infrastructure 2021, 1174806 (12 April 2021).

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N. A. Rawashdeh, H. Alwanni, N. S. Ali, B. Al Afghani, "Control Design of an Office Mail Delivery Robot Based on the Festo Robotino Platform", American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), North Central Section Spring Conference 2019, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, 2019/3

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M. H. Garibeh, M. A. K. Jaradat and N. A. Rawashdeh, "A Potential Field Simulation Study for Mobile Robot Path Planning in Dynamic Environments," 2019 20th International Conference on Research and Education in Mechatronics (REM), Wels, Austria, 2019, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/REM.2019.8744125.


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Abdo, A., Ibrahim, R., and Rawashdeh, N., "Mobile Robot Localization Evaluations with Visual Odometry in Varying Environments Using Festo-Robotino," SAE Technical Paper 2020-01-1022, 2020, https://doi.org/10.4271/2020-01-1022.


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Rawashdeh, N., Aladem, M., Baek, S., and Rawashdeh, S., "Scene Structure Classification as Preprocessing for Feature-Based Visual Odometry," SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars – Electron. Electr. Syst. 11(3):231-239, 2018, https://doi.org/10.4271/2018-01-0610.


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N. A. Rawashdeh, R. M. Haddad, O. A. Jadallah and A. E. To'ma, "A person-following robotic cart controlled via a smartphone application: design and evaluation," 2017 International Conference on Research and Education in Mechatronics (REM), Wolfenbuttel, 2017, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/REM.2017.8075245.



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Aladem, M., Rawashdeh, S., and Rawashdeh, N., "Evaluation of a Stereo Visual Odometry Algorithm for Passenger Vehicle Navigation," SAE Technical Paper 2017-01-0046, 2017, doi:10.4271/2017-01-0046.


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N. A. Rawashdeh and H. T. Jasim, "Multi-sensor input path planning for an autonomous ground vehicle," 2013 9th International Symposium on Mechatronics and its Applications (ISMA), Amman, 2013, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISMA.2013.6547399.


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N. A. Rawashdeh, L. M. Alkurdi and H. T. Jasim, "Development of a low cost differential drive Intelligent Ground Vehicle," 2012 8th International Symposium on Mechatronics and its Applications, Sharjah, 2012, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ISMA.2012.6215184.


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