Dhanya Menoth Mohan
Nanyang Technological University, Khalifa University of Science and Technology
Papers
8
Total Citations
169
H-Index
6
About
Dhanya Menoth Mohan is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of human-robot collaboration, impedance control, and robotic surface finishing. With a career spanning industrial automation and rehabilitative robotics, Mohan has made significant contributions to how robots can work alongside humans in physically demanding manipulation tasks. Her most impactful work focuses on impedance-controlled frameworks for edge chamfering and polishing, with her 2021 paper on human-robot collaborative tooling accumulating 63 citations and a 2020 companion study on adaptive robotic polishing earning 54 citations — establishing her as a leading voice in compliant robotic finishing systems. Notably, she has pioneered practical methods for estimating human wrist stiffness during tooling tasks, enabling more intuitive robot programming by demonstration. Her earlier reviews of force and position control strategies for industrial finishing operations helped lay conceptual groundwork for researchers entering the field. More recently, Mohan has broadened her scope to rehabilitation engineering, contributing a well-received review of lower-limb robotic assistance devices for drop foot correction. Across her body of work, she consistently bridges theoretical control frameworks with real-world human-centered applications, making her research especially valuable to students and engineers working in collaborative and assistive robotics.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1
- 2An adaptive framework for robotic polishing based on impedance control54 citations · 2020
- 3Estimating Human Wrist Stiffness during a Tooling Task16 citations · 2020
- 4Human-robot collaboration for tooling path guidance12 citations · 2016
- 5Lower-Limb Robotic Assistance Devices for Drop Foot: A Review11 citations · 2022
- 6Review of robotic control strategies for industrial finishing operations6 citations · 2015
- 7
- 8Robot-sensor calibration for a 3D vision assisted drawing robot2 citations · 2019