Mahdi Tavakoli

Mahdi Tavakoli

University of Alberta

H-index: 42

North America-Canada

About Mahdi Tavakoli

Mahdi Tavakoli, With an exceptional h-index of 42 and a recent h-index of 33 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Alberta, specializes in the field of Robotics, Haptics, Medical Robotics, Surgical Robotics, Rehabilitation Robotics.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

A Realistic Surgical Simulator for Non-Rigid and Contact-Rich Manipulation in Surgeries with the da Vinci Research Kit

Estimation of lower back muscle force in a lifting task using wearable IMUs

Kinematic Alignment Technique Outperforms Mechanical Alignment in Simultaneous Bilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Stability and Intervehicle Distance Analysis of Vehicular Platoons: Highlighting the Impact of Bidirectional Communication Topologies

North America and Caribbean region: Canada

Iterative Learning for Gravity Compensation in Impedance Control

Motion smoothness-based assessment of surgical expertise: the importance of selecting proper metrics

Deep Reinforcement Learning based Personalized Locomotion Planning for Lower-Limb Exoskeletons

Mahdi Tavakoli Information

University

Position

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Citations(all)

8073

Citations(since 2020)

4897

Cited By

4773

hIndex(all)

42

hIndex(since 2020)

33

i10Index(all)

187

i10Index(since 2020)

136

Email

University Profile Page

University of Alberta

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Mahdi Tavakoli Skills & Research Interests

Robotics

Haptics

Medical Robotics

Surgical Robotics

Rehabilitation Robotics

Top articles of Mahdi Tavakoli

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

A Realistic Surgical Simulator for Non-Rigid and Contact-Rich Manipulation in Surgeries with the da Vinci Research Kit

arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.05888

Yafei Ou

Sadra Zargarzadeh

Paniz Sedighi

Mahdi Tavakoli

2024/4/8

Estimation of lower back muscle force in a lifting task using wearable IMUs

Journal of Biomechanics

Maryam Shakourisalim

Karla Beltran Martinez

Ali Golabchi

Mahdi Tavakoli

Hossein Rouhani

2024/4/4

Kinematic Alignment Technique Outperforms Mechanical Alignment in Simultaneous Bilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized Controlled Trial

The Journal of Arthroplasty

Mohammad Mahdi Sarzaeem

Mohammad Movahedinia

Alireza Mirahmadi

Mansour Abolghasemian

Mahdi Tavakoli

...

2024/3/25

Stability and Intervehicle Distance Analysis of Vehicular Platoons: Highlighting the Impact of Bidirectional Communication Topologies

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Amir Zakerimanesh

Tony Z Qiu

Mahdi Tavakoli

2024/1/10

North America and Caribbean region: Canada

Amanda McIntyre

Javad K Mehr

Marcus Saikaley

Mahdi Tavakoli

Dalton L Wolfe

...

2024/1/1

Iterative Learning for Gravity Compensation in Impedance Control

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Teng Li

Amir Zakerimanesh

Yafei Ou

Armin Badre

Mahdi Tavakoli

2024/4/23

Motion smoothness-based assessment of surgical expertise: the importance of selecting proper metrics

Sensors

Farzad Aghazadeh

Bin Zheng

Mahdi Tavakoli

Hossein Rouhani

2023/3/15

Deep Reinforcement Learning based Personalized Locomotion Planning for Lower-Limb Exoskeletons

Javad K Mehr

Eddie Guo

Mojtaba Akbari

Vivian K Mushahwar

Mahdi Tavakoli

2023/5/29

Robotic Systems and Navigation Techniques in Orthopedics: A Historical Review

Teng Li

Armin Badre

Farshid Alambeigi

Mahdi Tavakoli

2023/8/29

Uncertainty-aware safe adaptable motion planning of lower-limb exoskeletons using random forest regression

Mechatronics

Mojtaba Akbari

Javad K Mehr

Lei Ma

Mahdi Tavakoli

2023/11/1

Robot Learning Incorporating Human Interventions in the Real World for Autonomous Surgical Endoscopic Camera Control

Journal of Medical Robotics Research

Yafei Ou

Sadra Zargarzadeh

Mahdi Tavakoli

2023/12/15

Sim-to-real surgical robot learning and autonomous planning for internal tissue points manipulation using reinforcement learning

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Yafei Ou

Mahdi Tavakoli

2023/3/10

A Dynamic Procedure to Detect Maximum Voluntary Contractions in Low Back

Sensors

Xun Wang

Karla Beltran Martinez

Ali Golabchi

Mahdi Tavakoli

Hossein Rouhani

2023/5/23

Point-Based 3D Virtual Fixture Generating for Image-Guided and Robot-Assisted Surgery in Orthopedics

Teng Li

Armin Badre

Hamid D Taghirad

Mahdi Tavakoli

2023/6/28

A framework for evaluation and adoption of industrial exoskeletons

Applied Ergonomics

Ali Golabchi

Negar Riahi

Mackenzie Fix

Linda Miller

Hossein Rouhani

...

2023/11/1

A brief survey of observers for disturbance estimation and compensation

Teng Li

Hongjun Xing

Ehsan Hashemi

Hamid D Taghirad

Mahdi Tavakoli

2023/12/1

Examination of effectiveness of kinaesthetic haptic feedback for motor imagery-based brain-computer interface training

Brain-Computer Interfaces

Isao Sakamaki

Mahdi Tavakoli

Sandra Wiebe

Kim Adams

2023/1/2

Performance and effectiveness of a passive back-support exoskeleton in manual material handling tasks in the construction industry

Construction Robotics

Ali Golabchi

Niromand Jasimi Zindashti

Linda Miller

Hossein Rouhani

Mahdi Tavakoli

2023/5

Neural Network Learning of Robot Dynamic Uncertainties and Observer-based External Disturbance Estimation for Impedance Control *

Teng Li

Armin Badre

Hamid D Taghirad

Mahdi Tavakoli

2023/6/28

Vision-based work zone safety alert system in a connected vehicle environment

Transportation research record

Haibo Cui

Kaizhe Hou

Jiarui Zhang

Siqi Yan

Mudasser Seraj

...

2023/11

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Co-Authors

H-index: 65
Rajni V Patel

Rajni V Patel

Western University

H-index: 47
Mehrdad Moallem

Mehrdad Moallem

Simon Fraser University

H-index: 44
Horacio J Marquez

Horacio J Marquez

University of Alberta

H-index: 34
Hassan Salarieh

Hassan Salarieh

Sharif University of Technology

H-index: 28
S. Farokh Atashzar

S. Farokh Atashzar

New York University

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