Mr Abu Bakar Dawood
PhD Student
School of Engineering and Material Sciences
Supervisor: Prof. Kaspar Althoefer
a.dawood@qmul.ac.ukSupervisor: Prof. Kaspar Althoefer
www.dawoodabubakar.com/
Research
Soft Robotics, Soft Sensing, Proprioception, Exteroception
Interests
I am interested in Soft Robotics in general and precisely, the Sensing capabilities in soft robots. Currently, I'm working on the proprioception of soft actuators and multimodality of the soft sensors.Publications
Publications of specific relevance to Advanced Robotics2022
Dawood AB, Denoun B and Althoefer K (2022). Real-Time Pressure Estimation and Localisation with Optical Tomography-inspired Soft Skin Sensors. 2022 IEEE 5th International Conference on Soft Robotics, RoboSoft 2022 831-836. Conference: 2022 IEEE 5th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) 10.1109/RoboSoft54090.2022.97620662021
Dawood AB, Fras J, Aljaber F, Mintz Y, Arezzo A, Godaba H and Althoefer K (2021). Fusing dexterity and perception for soft robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery: What we learnt from stiff-flop. Applied Sciences vol. 11, (14) 10.3390/app111465862020
Dawood AB, Godaba H, Ataka A and Althoefer K (2020). Silicone-based Capacitive E-skin for Exteroception and
Proprioception. Conference: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (Las Vegas, NV, USA (Virtual)) 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9340945Dawood AB, Godaba H and Althoefer K (2020). Silicone Based Capacitive E-Skin Sensor for Soft Surgical Robots. 10.1007/978-3-030-63486-5_82019
Dawood AB, Godaba H and Althoefer K (2019). Modelling of a soft sensor for exteroception and proprioception in a pneumatically actuated soft robot. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformat vol. 11650 LNAI, 99-110. Conference: Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 10.1007/978-3-030-25332-5_92017
Abu Bakar Dawood , Butt SI, Hussain G, Siddiqui MA, Maqsood A and Zhang F (2017). Thermal Model of Rotary Friction Welding for Similar and Dissimilar Metals. Metals vol. 7, (6) 10.3390/met7060224