Valiallah Monajjemi
Papers
7
Total Citations
203
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6
About
Valiallah Monajjemi is a pioneering researcher in human-robot interaction (HRI), with a focus on enabling intuitive, multi-modal control of multi-robot systems, particularly unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). His major contributions include developing the first vision-mediated gestural interface for creating and commanding teams of UAVs without instrumentation, a breakthrough published in his most-cited paper (86 citations). He also advanced group robot control through face engagement and indirect speech commands (44 citations), allowing users to dynamically form and address robot teams using natural language. Monajjemi’s work integrates voice, touch, gestures, and haptic feedback, as demonstrated in his “You are green” system (9 citations), where robots are named and commanded via tactile stimuli. Beyond HRI, he contributed to robotics infrastructure with grSim, a widely used simulator for RoboCup Small Size League soccer (24 citations), and Drums, a middleware-aware monitoring tool for distributed robot systems (13 citations). His robust, multimodal interaction systems have set benchmarks for scalable, user-friendly multi-robot command, earning recognition for bridging human intent and autonomous robot coordination.
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- 3grSim – RoboCup Small Size Robot Soccer Simulator24 citations · 2012
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- 5Drums: A Middleware-Aware Distributed Robot Monitoring System13 citations · 2014
- 6"You are green"9 citations · 2014
- 7Integrating multi-modal interfaces to command UAVs6 citations · 2014