Mahmood Karimi
Qualcomm (United States), K.N.Toosi University of Technology
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191
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About
Mahmood Karimi is a robotics researcher whose work spans soft robotics, mobile robot locomotion, and the control of underactuated manipulator systems. He is perhaps best known for his 2017 contribution to soft robotics, in which he and his collaborators demonstrated the use of 3D printing techniques to fabricate soft actuators for legged robots capable of navigating unstructured terrain — a paper that has garnered an impressive 174 citations and helped advance the field by offering a practical alternative to the labor-intensive molding processes that had previously limited soft robot design. By expanding the actuated degrees of freedom available to mobile soft robots, this work opened new avenues for adaptive, low-sensing locomotion in complex environments. Alongside this, Karimi has made meaningful contributions to manipulator control theory, developing modified transpose effective Jacobian methods tailored for underactuated systems — robots with both active and passive joints that present significant control challenges. His 2010 and 2008 publications in this area introduced model-independent control strategies that reduce reliance on full dynamic models, making them more robust in uncertain real-world conditions. Collectively, his research reflects a commitment to bridging theoretical control methods with practical, innovative robotic hardware design.
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