Arvin Agah

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Arvin Agah is a prominent robotics and artificial intelligence researcher whose work spans human-robot interaction, neural network-based robot learning, and multi-robot systems. His research has significantly advanced our understanding of how humans psychologically and socially engage with intelligent machines, most notably demonstrated in his highly cited 2001 study on the psychological effects of mobile personal robot behavior, which has garnered 159 citations and remains a foundational reference in social robotics. Agah has made substantial technical contributions to robotic learning, particularly in solving the complex problem of inverse kinematics using modular neural network architectures — work that addresses the inherent discontinuities and multi-valued nature of robotic arm motion, accumulated across multiple influential publications. His 2000 taxonomy of human-intelligent systems interactions helped establish a theoretical framework that continues to guide researchers in the field. Beyond individual robots, Agah explored collective intelligence through evolutionary and phylogenetic learning in robot colonies, autonomous soccer-playing strategies, and distributed search teams. His 2016 work on social robotics reflects a career-long commitment to bridging machine capability with human experience. With contributions spanning nearly three decades, Agah's research has shaped both the technical foundations and human-centered dimensions of modern robotics.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Psychological Effects of Behavior Patterns of a Mobile Personal Robot

   159 citations · 2001
2. 2
   Inverse kinematics learning by modular architecture neural networks with performance prediction networks

   77 citations · 2002
3. 3
   Human interactions with intelligent systems: research taxonomy

   60 citations · 2000
4. 4
   Inverse kinematics learning for robotic arms with fewer degrees of freedom by modular neural network systems

   53 citations · 2005
5. 5
   Human interaction with a service robot: mobile-manipulator handing over an object to a human

   42 citations · 2002
6. 6
   Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Learning in a Colony of Interacting Robots

   39 citations · 1997
7. 7
   Social Robotics

   34 citations · 2016
8. 8
   Human Robot Interaction Through Semantic Integration of Multiple Modalities, Dialog Management, and Contexts

   26 citations · 2009
9. 9
   Simulation and control of distributed robot search teams

   25 citations · 2003
10. 10
    Robots playing to win: evolutionary soccer strategies

    24 citations · 2002

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