O.M. Ismaeil

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Total Citations

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About

O.M. Ismaeil is a pioneering researcher in robotics and haptics, best known for advancing the design and control of high-performance haptic interfaces. Their seminal 1996 work, "Design and evaluation of a high-performance haptic interface," which has garnered 123 citations, established foundational principles for creating computer-controlled mechanisms that detect human motion and deliver realistic force feedback from virtual or remote environments—a critical contribution to teleoperation and virtual reality systems. Ismaeil also made significant contributions to robotic manipulation, developing methods for stable grasping using whole-finger contact (2002, 16 citations), which accounts for rigid-body dynamics and friction to enable more dexterous robotic hands. Their research further extends to the numerical stability of forward-dynamics algorithms (2003, 7 citations), ensuring efficient and reliable simulation of complex robotic linkages, and to the effects of non-tip external forces and impulses on robot dynamics (2003, 4 citations), where they modified linear-time algorithms to handle arbitrary forces and torques. Through these works, Ismaeil has profoundly impacted both theoretical and applied robotics, offering essential tools for engineers and researchers designing safer, more responsive robotic systems.