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Dr Seyed Amir Tafrishi ( セイエド  アミル  タフリシ ) was born and grew up in Tabriz, Iran. Currently, Amir is a Lecturer on Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the Engineering School of Cardiff University, UK. He is the director and founder of Geometric Mechanics and Mechatronics in Robotics (gm²R) Lab. Also, He is part of the Robotics and Autonomous Intelligent Machines (RAIM) group.

  Amir was a Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at Smart Robots Design Lab in Robotics Department, Tohoku University between 2021-2022, working on Moonshot R & D project under the Adaptable AI-enabled Robots to Create Vibrant Societies group.

Since 2015, he has been a visiting researcher at Autonomous Systems and Robotics Research Group, Sheffield, UK, the Mechatronic Lab. at Middle East Technical University, Turkey, the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at the University of Tabriz, and the Control Engineering Lab at Kyushu University. 

Prospective Graduate Students (including Postdocs):

   First, I would like to thank you for your interest in our research and lab. Please refer to the following page for details about  Prospective Students.
I will make the calls on here in the near future. 

Available Positions:

• PhD Candidate, Design and Control of Agile Fingertips for Dexterous Manipulation (closing as soon as a suitable candidate is found)

• PhD Candidate, Designing Compliant Hybrid Actuators for Versatile Use in Mobile Robotics (closing as soon as a suitable candidate is found)

• Prospective Chinese students interested in pursuing a PhD in Robotics under my supervision at Cardiff University are encouraged to reach out for a CSC Scholarship.  (Deadline is Nov. 30th 2024). Refer to Prospective Students for more details about how to contact me.  

Research interests:

 Robotics, mechanism design, underactuated systems, dexterous manipulation, motion planning, geometric mechanics, assistive robots, nonlinear control

*Please refer to my university page for more details about mainstream research topics. 

Latest news:

• We are going to present four of our works at the incoming ICRA@40, 2024 at Rotterdam  — September 1, 2024

• We got the Best Paper Award at TAROS2024 for "Design and Motion Analysis of a Reconfigurable Pendulum-Based Rolling Disk Robot with Magnetic Coupling" — August 1, 2024

• Three of our papers got accepted to TAROS2024 — May 1, 2024

• Our new paper got accepted to IEEE RA-L on Geometric Laplacian-based Skeletonisation Framework  with a presentation at (ICRA@40, Rotterdam) — April 1, 2024

• One of our works got accepted to ASME/IEEE TMECH  — Jan 12, 2024

• I give an interview to "Meet the Researcher"  at Cardiff University — Jan 12, 2024

• One of our works got accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters with a presentation at (ICRA2024, Tokyo) — Nov 15, 2023

• One of our works got accepted for presentation at The IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2023), London! — Jan 31, 2023

• I have started a new position as a Tenured Lecturer at Cardiff University, UK. — Dec 1, 2022

• Our work about a prediction model on the safety of human-upper body motion using a single IMU sensor, presented in IROS2022, is covered in a Japanese technology newspaper (Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun ) — Nov 22, 2022

• One of our works related to an introduced CARE concept for multi-robot cooperation in future welfare facilities got accepted in IEEE Robotics and Autonomous Magazine (RAM) — Oct 18, 2022

• Two of our papers got accepted to SII2023 — Oct 2, 2022

• I have been selected as Associate Editor for International Symposium on System Integrations IEEE/SICE (SII) Conference 2023, which will be held in Atlanta, US — Aug 1, 2022

• We are organising a special session at SII IEEE/SICE Conference on Robotics and AI for Home Automation, Healthcare, and Ambient Assistive Living. Check it out here    — Aug 1, 2022

• One of my works got accepted to International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022) that will take place in Kyoto, Japan — Jul 5, 2022

• One of our works got accepted to the 2022 American Control Conference (ACC 2022) — Feb 7, 2022
  ▲ S.A. Tafrishi, X. Dai, Y. Hirata and A. Burns, “Discretization and Stabilization of Energy-based Controller for Period Switching Control and Flexible Scheduling ”,

• Two of our papers got accepted to The IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022) — Feb 1, 2022
  ▲ S.A. Tafrishi, A. A. Ravankar, J. Salazar and Y. Hirata “A Novel Assistive Controller Based on Differential Geometry for Users of the Differential-Drive Wheeled Mobile Robots”,
  ▲ K. Promsutipong, J. Salazar, A. A. Ravankar, S.A. Tafrishi and Y. Hirata, “Immersive Virtual Walking System using an Avatar Robot”,