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Mohammad Esmaeili’s research lies at the intersection of ergonomics, robotics, and human motor control, with a primary focus on designing wearable exoskeletons that harmonize with natural human movement. His most impactful work addresses a critical challenge in rehabilitation robotics: the misalignment between robotic joints and human anatomy. In his highly cited 2011 study (24 citations), Esmaeili pioneered simulation methods to quantify how joint misalignment in wrist exoskeletons affects user comfort and performance, establishing foundational ergonomic principles for anthropomorphic devices. He further advanced this field by introducing hyperstaticity as a design framework (13 citations), demonstrating how over-constrained mechanisms can be strategically employed to improve transparency—the degree to which a robot feels invisible to its wearer. His 2013 investigation into how exoskeleton design influences natural motor strategies during redundant tasks (6 citations) revealed critical insights into preserving the wrist’s intrinsic kinematic coordination. Beyond upper-limb robotics, Esmaeili has contributed to bipedal locomotion, generating symmetric running gaits for underactuated models (3 citations). His work is distinguished by its systematic approach to making assistive devices truly compatible with human biology, directly impacting the development of more intuitive rehabilitation and augmentation technologies.