Amin Khorasani
Papers
7
Total Citations
29
H-Index
3
About
Amin Khorasani is a robotics researcher focused on the critical intersection of safety, performance, and energy efficiency in human-robot collaboration. His work addresses a fundamental challenge: enabling collaborative robots (cobots) to move quickly and powerfully while remaining safe for human interaction. Khorasani’s key contributions center on novel actuator designs, particularly dual-motor and kinematically redundant actuators that can reduce collision forces and improve response performance. His most cited work (2024, 8 citations) introduces a dual-motor actuator in impedance control mode to mitigate collision forces, while related research explores flexible shafts and spring-embedded planetary actuators to reduce energy losses and moving mass. Khorasani also investigates flexible link manipulators and challenges conventional design wisdom—his 2025 paper “Cobots Designed for Strength, Not Stiffness” (3 citations) questions the traditional emphasis on stiffness in industrial robots, arguing that reducing stiffness can lead to lighter, more energy-efficient designs. His methodology for designing lightweight, energy-efficient kinematically redundant actuators (2022, 3 citations) provides a systematic approach for selecting optimal motor-gearbox combinations. With a growing citation record and a clear trajectory toward safer, more efficient collaborative robotics, Khorasani is establishing himself as an important voice in the next generation of human-robot interaction design.
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- 2Modeling of flexible shaft for robotics applications7 citations · 2024
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- 5Cobots Designed for Strength, Not Stiffness3 citations · 2025
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