Karam Almaghout
Papers
7
Total Citations
81
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5
About
Karam Almaghout is a robotics researcher whose work spans rehabilitation engineering, aerial manipulation, and deformable object control. His primary contributions lie in developing robotic systems for healthcare and industrial automation. In rehabilitation robotics, Almaghout designed a novel lower-limb exoskeleton for post-stroke therapy, addressing undesirable patient torques, and later enhanced it with RBF neural network-based admittance PD control for precise knee rehabilitation (cumulatively ~43 citations). He has also advanced aerial robotics by modeling and stabilizing a hexacopter equipped with a robotic arm—a configuration previously unexplored in literature. More recently, Almaghout has focused on the challenging domain of deformable linear object manipulation, introducing novel approaches for cable shape control using dual robotic arms and planar shape control strategies (over 20 citations combined). His work on robotic pick-and-assembly integrates deep learning with hybrid vision/force control for industrial tasks. With publications spanning 2017 to 2024, Almaghout demonstrates a trajectory from foundational rehabilitation and aerial systems to cutting-edge deformable object manipulation, establishing himself as a versatile roboticist tackling real-world manipulation challenges.
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- 5Manipulation Planning for Cable Shape Control5 citations · 2024
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- 7Planar Shape Control of Deformable Linear Objects4 citations · 2022