Papers
9
Total Citations
187
H-Index
6
About
Samir Nabulsi is a pioneering roboticist whose work bridges the gap between heavy-duty industrial automation and agile legged locomotion. His research focuses on three core areas: climbing and walking robots for extreme environments, high-accuracy force sensing for hydraulic systems, and automated construction processes. Nabulsi’s most influential contribution is the development of a climbing cleaning robot for vertical surfaces (97 citations), which addressed critical productivity and reliability challenges in high-rise maintenance. He is also the driving force behind the ROBOCLIMBER project, a bulky quadruped machine designed for heavy-duty drilling and climbing tasks, where he developed control architectures and built-in force sensors that enable stable, terrain-adaptive locomotion. His work on high-resolution indirect force measurement for hydraulic-legged robots (33 citations) and reliable force sensing for legged systems (21 citations) has provided foundational methods for researchers seeking robust, built-in sensing without external load cells. Beyond legged robotics, Nabulsi has innovated in construction automation, creating a robotic machine for high-quality shotcreting in tunneling (7 citations). His combined expertise in force sensing, terrain adaptation, and climbing mechanisms makes him a key figure in advancing robots that operate safely and efficiently in hazardous, unstructured environments.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Climbing cleaning robot for vertical surfaces97 citations · 2009
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- 3Reliable, Built-in, High-Accuracy Force Sensing for Legged Robots21 citations · 2006
- 4ROBOCLIMBER: Control System Architecture10 citations · 2005
- 5Robotic Machine for High-Quality Shotcreting Process7 citations · 2010
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- 7Design and Implementation of Force Sensor for ROBOCLIMBER5 citations · 2005
- 8Detecting Zero-Moment Point in Legged Robot4 citations · 2005
- 9Indirect Force Measurement for Hydraulic Walking Robot3 citations · 2007