News
- Our paper titled "Benchmarking off-policy deep reinforcement learning algorithms for UAV path planning" was accepted for presentation in the 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS2024) [April 6, 2024].
- Our paper titled "Visual servoing of continuum robots: Methods, challenges, and prospects" has been recognized as one of the most downloaded articles during its first 12 months of publication in the International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery [March 19, 2024].
- Our paper titled "Dynamic Manipulation and Stiffness Modulation of Cooperative Continuum Robots: Theory and Experiment" was published in Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics [February 19, 2024].
- Congratulations to Sina, who successfully defended his PhD thesis [April 14, 2023]!
- Congratulations to Sina and Jeremy for the acceptance of our paper entitled "A Robust and Adaptive Sensor Fusion Approach for Indoor UAV Localization" in the 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS2023) [April 14, 2023]!
- Our paper titled "A Hybrid Approach to 3D Shape Estimation of Catheters using Ultrasound Images" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters [February 3, 2023].
- Our paper titled "Multiple aspects grasp quality evaluation in underactuated grasp of continuum robots" has been accepted for publication in Intelligent Service Robotics [November 9, 2022].
- Our paper titled "Deep Direct Visual Servoing of Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots" was presented at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering [August 23, 2022].
- Our paper titled "Aerial Continuum Manipulation: A New Platform for Compliant Aerial Manipulation" has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Robotics and AI [August 5, 2022].
- Our paper titled "Extended Kalman Filter State Estimation for Aerial Continuum Manipulation Systems" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Sensors Letters [July 18, 2022].
- Our paper titled "A visual predictive control framework for robust and constrained multi-agent formation control" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems [June 3, 2022].
- Congratulations to Ali Nazari who won Dr. Jacob and Helen Friedman Graduate Award, the best graduate excellence award in the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department [May 31, 2022]!
- Our paper titled "A Cascaded and Adaptive Visual Predictive Control Approach for Real-Time Dynamic Visual Servoing" has been published in Drones [May 14, 2022].
- Congratulations to Ali Nazari and Shahab who won the 2022-2023 Ryerson Graduate Scholarship (RGS) [April 27, 2022]!
- Our paper titled "A hybrid approach for tracking borders in echocardiograms" has been accepted for publication in Signal, Image and Video Processing [April 19, 2022].
- Congratulations to Huzaifa Ali Zar who won the Summer 2022 URO Award of the University [April 12, 2022]!
- Our paper titled "Public opinion about the benefit, risk and acceptance of aerial manipulation systems" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems [March 16, 2022].
- Our paper titled "Visual Servoing of Continuum Robots: Methods, Challenges, and Prospects" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery (IJMRCAS) [January 29, 2022].
- Congratulations to Yasser Ali and Ali Mehrkish for completing their PhD requirements in December 2021.
- Our paper titled "Dynamic Modeling of Tendon-Driven Co-manipulative Continuum Robots" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) [December 23, 2021].
- Dr. Sharifi was selected for the 2022 Dean's Service Award at Toronto Metropolitan University [December 22, 2021].
- Dr. Sharifi was selected for the 2022 Dean's Scholarly, Research and Creative (SRC) Activity Award at Toronto Metropolitan University [December 22, 2021].
- Our paper titled "Consecutive hybrid spiking-convolutional (CHSC) neural controller for sequential decision making in robots" has been accepted for publication in Neurocomputing [November 27, 2021].
- Dr. Sharifi received RFA Career Achievement Award (2021).
- The new website is launched [October 18, 2021]!