Mahdi Tavakoli, PhD, PEng, MIEEE
Professor
Telerobotic and Biorobotic Systems Group
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
University of Alberta
Associate Editor
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
Journal of Medical Robotics Research
Control Engineering Practice
Mechatronics
Research Interests
- Robotics and Telerobotics
- Haptics and Teleoperation Control
- Surgical and Therapeutic Robotics
- Image-Guided Surgery
Current Research Projects
- Design and control of robotic systems for image-guided surgeries (e.g., on the beating heart)
- Design and control of robotic systems for needle steering in prostate and breast brachytherapies
- Design and control of robotic and haptic telerobotic systems for in-home telerehabilitation of stroke patients
- Design and control of robotic wearable systems for injury prevention
- Design and control of bilateral and multilateral teleoperation systems under delays, uncertainties, nonlinearities, sampling, and switching
- Studying the human task performance during haptic teleoperation and tele-cooperation
- Developing machine intelligence based solutions for medicine