Mohammad I. Awad — accepted AI-conference papers

2022

Novel Supernumerary Robotic Limb based on Variable Stiffness Actuators for Hemiplegic Patients Assistance

Basma B. Hasanen, Mohammad I. Awad, Mohamed N. Boushaki, Zhenwei Niu, Mohammed A. Ramadan, Irfan Hussain

IROS 2022poster

Loss of upper extremity motor control and function is an unremitting symptom in post-stroke patients. This would impose hardships on accomplishing their daily life activities. Supernumerary robotic limbs (SRLs) were introduced as a solution to regain the lost Degrees of Freedom (DoFs) by introducing…

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2022

Towards Safe Physical Human-Robot Interaction by Exploring the Rapid Stiffness Switching Feature of Discrete Variable Stiffness Actuation

Zhenwei Niu, Mohammad I. Awad, Umer Hameed Shah, Mohamed Nassim Boushaki, Yahya H. Zweiri, Lakmal D. Seneviratne +1

RA-L 2022

Safety holds the prime importance in direct physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) tasks. Robots should have the ability to handle unexpected collisions in unstructured environments. Collision avoidance based on exteroceptive sensors can work in these scenarios. However, it may not be sufficient, e

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2016

Modeling, design & characterization of a novel Passive Variable Stiffness Joint (pVSJ)

Mohammad I. Awad, Dongming Gan, Marco Cempini, Mario Cortese, Nicola Vitiello, Jorge Dias +2

IROS 2016poster

In this paper we present the design and characterization of a novel Passive Variable Stiffness Joint (pVSJ). pVSJ is the proof of concept of a passive revolute joint with controllable variable stiffness. The current design is intended to be a bench-test for future development towards applications in…

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