Robotics & Intelligent Systems Engineering(RISE)

Group Members

• Dr. Yasar Ayaz
• Dr. Sara Baber Sial
• Dr. Fahad Iqbal Khawaja (On Leave)
• Fatma Faruq
• Mr. Fahad Islam
• Mr. Fazal Ahmad Azad

External Members

• Dr. Mannan Saeed
• Umar Asif
• Ahmed Hussain Qureshi

Research Areas

• Cognitive robotics
• Machine intelligence
• Design, control, environment perception
• Motion planning for robotic systems
• Mobile robots
• Humanoid robots
• Multi-legged robots
• Intelligent prosthesis bionics
• Robotic manipulators

Industrial & Research Projects (In Progress)

• Humanoids and Legged Robots
  • RoboCup: Standard Platforms League
• First and Only Team which qualified for RoboCup Top / Standard Platforms League
• Covered by 6 TV Channels including: BBC, Samaa TV, Channel 92 News HD, Neo TV, Pakistan Television (PTV), Sach TV
  • ​​​Footstep Planning Among Obstacles for Humanoid Robots
• Cited by Top Universities of more than 12 countries
  • ​​​NUSTBOT-3 Humanoid Robot
• Third Humanoid Robot in NUSTBOT Robots Series
• Mobile Robotics
  • ​​​Intelligent Wheelchair Project
• Collaboration: Sakura Wheelchairs, JAPAN & Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Motion Planning for Mobile Robots
  • Environment Perception in Human Environments
  • Human Tracking and Following for Service Robots
  • Perceptual Aliasing for Service Robots
• Motion Planning
  • Sampling Based Optimal Motion Planning
•  Cited by top universities including Carnegie Mellon, KAIST etc
  • ​​Autowave Based Motion Planning
• Cybernetics and Bionics
• (Collaboration: Armed Forces Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (AFIRM) & SHIFA International Hospital)
  • Human-EEG based control of robots
  • Intelligent Robotic Prosthetic Hand.
  • Upper Limb Exoskeleton Device
  • Active Prosthetic Foot
  • Active Ankle-Foot Robotic Exoskeleton Device.
• Human-Robot Interaction
  • Communication through Expressive Emotions
  • Interactive Humanoid Robot

Publication

Students Registered With RISE