Ehsan Noohi
Papers
13
Total Citations
288
H-Index
8
About
Ehsan Noohi is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction, with a particular focus on physical collaboration and object handover. His work bridges the gap between understanding human-human coordination and translating those insights into robotic systems. Noohi's most influential contribution is his model for human-human collaborative object manipulation, which has garnered 84 citations and provides a framework for robots to engage in safe, intuitive physical collaboration. He has also made significant strides in robot-to-human object handover, developing models for the reaching phase (44 citations) and fail-safe controllers (19 citations) that reduce failure rates and ensure comfortable transfers. Beyond handover, Noohi has contributed to grasp taxonomy, analyzing force distribution patterns across 22 cited grasp types, and to nonholonomic climbing robots, with foundational work on the UT-PCR pole climber (39 citations). His research is characterized by a systematic approach to modeling complex physical interactions, from kinematic modeling of wheeled-tip manipulation to path planning for climbing robots. With over 250 total citations, Noohi's work is essential reading for anyone interested in making robots capable of seamless, human-like physical cooperation.
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Top Papers
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- 3Wheel-Based Climbing Robot: Modeling and Control39 citations · 2010
- 4Failure Recovery in Robot–Human Object Handover23 citations · 2018
- 5Grasp taxonomy based on force distribution22 citations · 2016
- 6Basic movements of a nonholonomic wheel- based pole climbing robot20 citations · 2007
- 7A fail-safe object handover controller19 citations · 2016
- 8Path planning of the Nonholonomic Pole Climbing Robot UT-PCR13 citations · 2006
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