Book Chapters

Journal Papers

J21. W. Ali, M. Huzaifa, K.F. Iqbal, I. Ahmad, Y. Ayaz, H. Taimur, Y. Shirayama, M. Yuasa, "Physical Frailty Assessment for Older Adults: A Systematic Review", Geriatrics & Gerontology International, 2026 (Submitted). 

J20. S. Ahmed, K.F. Iqbal, M.T. Nasir, M. Safdar, K. Faraz, "Reinforcement Learning for Control of a Reaction Wheel Inverted Pendulum: Overcoming Model Imperfections for Real-World Deployment, International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, 2026 (Submitted).

J19. S. Jameel, K.F. Iqbal, U. Huzaifa, I. Naveed, and Y.Ayaz, "Modeling the Dynamics of Kicking Motion for Humanoid Robots", Advanced Robotics, 2026 (Submitted).

J18. M. Uzair, K.F. Iqbal, Y. Ayaz, S. Ali, S. Jameel, and I. Naveed,"On the Impact of Augmented Reality on Cognitive Load in Mobile Robot Teleoperation", Cognitive Systems Research, 2025 (Submitted).

J17. I. Naveed, K.F. Iqbal, Y. Ayaz, K.A. Ahmad. and K. Faraz, "Integration of Augmented Reality and Hector SLAM for Smooth Indoor Navigation of Mobile Robots", International Journal of Social Robotics, 2026 (Under Review).

J16. M.I. Khan, K.F. Iqbal, A. Hasan, M. Usama, M.S. Nadeem, and M.A. Ali, "Design of a Six Wheel Suspension and a Three-Axis Linear Actuation Mechanism for a Laser Weeding Robot", Unmanned Systems, 2026 (Under Review).

J15. Z. Khan, K.F. Iqbal, Y. Ayaz and M.T. Nasir, "A Map-Informed Dense Reward Function for Efficient Robot Motion Planning Using Deep Reinforcement Learning", Unmanned Systems, 2026 (Under Review).

J14. M.S. Sadiq, K.F. Iqbal, S. Ali, and Y. Ayaz, “Fast Marching Trees With Dual Tree Structure for Accelerated Motion Planning”, Intelligent Service Robots, 2025 (Under Review).

J13. M. A. Saleem, K.F. Iqbal, M. Sajid, M.T. Nasir, S.M. Hasan, M.Safdar, J. Brusey, “Energy-Efficient HVAC Control via Long-Term Indoor Environment Forecasting: A Data-Driven Approach with Weather Uncertainty”, Energy & Building, 2026 (Under Review).

J12. (Q1, Impact Factor: 7.5) K. Khalid, Y. Ayaz, S. Ali, K.F. Iqbal, Y. Li, K. Yang, M.A.B. Fayaz, and R. Nawaz, “Fast and Efficient Motion Planning: using Hybrid Sampling and Simulated Annealing”, Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 331, Part A, 2026, 133173, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.133173.

J11. (Q2, Impact Factor: 3.3) K. Khalid, Y. Ayaz, U. Asgher, V. Socha, S., and K.F. Iqbal. "Fast Convergence Adaptive Approach for Real-Time Motion Planning", Robotics, vol. 15, no. 4: 73, Apr. 2026, https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics15040073

J10. (Q1, Impact Factor: 10.9, 2/76 in Thermodynamics) M. Talha,  M. T. Nasir, K. F. Iqbal, W. Khalid, M. Safdar, and N. M. Malik, “Thermo-Economic Evaluation of Working Fluids for a Flue Gas Driven Organic Rankine Cycle Powered Vapor Compression Cycle for Cooling Air Conditioning using a Two-step Intermediate Performance Index”, Energy Conversion & Management, vol 347, 120541, 2026, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2025.120541.

J9. (Q1, Impact Factor: 5.0) M. Huzaifa, W, Ali, K.F. Iqbal, I.  Ahmad, Y. Ayaz, H.  Taimur, Y. Shirayama, M.  Yuasa, “A Markerless Vision-Based Physical Frailty Assessment System for the Older Adults,” AI, vol. 6, no. 9, p. 224, Sep. 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ai6090224.

J8. (Q2, Impact Factor: 3.0) S. Khan, S. Ali, K.F. Iqbal, Y. Ayaz, J.H. Brusay, M.A. Khan, J. Baili “Active interception of moving ball: a multi-player strategy for humanoid soccer robots,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 84, no. 27, pp. 32487–32503, Dec. 2024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-024-20491-6.

J7. (Q2, Impact Factor: 3.9) A. Jaffar, S. Ali, K.F. Iqbal,  Y. Ayaz, A.R. Ansari, M.A.B. Fayyaz,  R. Nawaz,  “A Comprehensive Multimodal Humanoid System for Personality Assessment Based on the Big Five Model,” IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 84261–84272, Jan. 2024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3412931.

J6. (Q2, Impact Factor: 3.1) M. Shahid, S. N. Khan, K. F. Iqbal, S. Ali,  Y. Ayaz, “Dynamic Goal Tracking for Differential Drive Robot Using Deep Reinforcement Learning,” Neural Processing Letters, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 11559–11576, Oct. 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11063-023-11390-2.

J5. (Q1, Impact Factor: 4.6) S. Batool, S.O. Gilani,A.  Waris, K.F. Iqbal, N.B. Khan, M.I. Khan, S.M. Eldin, F.A. Awwad, “Deploying efficient net batch normalizations (BNs) for grading diabetic retinopathy severity levels from fundus images,” Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, Sep. 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41797-9.

J4. (Q1, Impact Factor: 4.562) H. Idrees, S. Ali, M. Sajid, M. Rashid, F.I. Khawaja, Z. Ali, M.N. Anwar, “Techno-Economic Analysis of Vacuum Membrane Distillation for Seawater Desalination,” Membranes, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 339, Mar. 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes13030339.

J3. (Q1, Impact Factor: 3.576) F. I. Khawaja, A. Kanazawa, J. Kinugawa, and K. Kosuge, “A Human-Following Motion Planning and Control Scheme for Collaborative Robots Based on Human Motion Prediction,” Sensors, vol. 21, no. 24, p. 8229, Dec. 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/s21248229.

J2. K. F. Iqbal, A. Kanazawa, S. R. Ottaviani, Jun Kinugawa, and Kazuhiro Kosuge, “A real-time motion planning scheme for collaborative robots using HRI-based cost function,” International Journal of Mechatronics and Automation, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 42–42, Jan. 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1504/ijma.2021.113727.

J1. S.A. Khan, Y. Ayaz, M. Jamil, S.O. Gillani, M.Naveed, A.H. Qureshi and K.F. Iqbal, "Collaborative Optimal Reciprocal Collision Avoidance for Mobile Robots", International Journal of Control and Automation (IJCA), Vol 8, No 8, pp 203-212, 2015

Conference Papers

C23. Q. U. A. Fatima, S. H. Butt, M. A. e. Yar, A. Iqbal and K. F. Iqbal, "ConvoCrop Vision Language Model for Rice Disease Detection," 2026 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI), Islamabad, Pakistan, 2026, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICRAI70912.2026.11551934.

C22. M.F. Zia, S. Ali, S.H. Gilani, K.F. Iqbal, A. Jaffar, Y. Ayaz, and Z. Jahan, "Optimizing Real-Time Visual Emotion Perception Using Influential Landmark-Based Spatial Feature Extraction for Edge Devices," 2026 IEEE 15th International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT), Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, 2026, pp. 870-877, doi: 10.1109/CSNT69054.2026.11502381.

C21. Kainat, S. Ali, A. Jaffar, K.F. Iqbal, S.H. Gilani, Y. Ayaz, and Z. Jahan, "A Multimodal Architecture for Real-Time Automated Attention Monitoring Using Computer Vision," 2026 IEEE 15th International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT), Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, 2026, pp. 753-760, doi: 10.1109/CSNT69054.2026.11502363.

C20. N. Umbreen, S. Ali, H. Sajid, K.F. Iqbal, Y. Ayaz, M.A.B. Fayyaz, and M.B. Sial, "Weakly-Supervised Chromosome Segmentation via SAM and Uncertainty-Guided Pseudo-Labeling," 2025 10th International Conference on Biomedical Signal and Image Processing (ICBIP), Chengdu, China, 2025, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/ICBIP66535.2025.11284451. 

C19. J9. M. Talha, N. M. Malik, M. T. Nasir, W. Khalid, M. Safdar, and K. F. Iqbal, “Working Fluid Selection for Biogas-Powered Organic Rankine Cycle-Vapor Compression Cycle,” pp. 1–1, Jul. 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/materproc2025023001.

C18. U. Asgher, S. Ali, T. Ali, Y. Ayaz, S. Scataglini, S. Nazir, U. Rashed, E. Abdi, F. Khawaja, R. Taiar, J. Arzola-Ruiz, (2023). Socio-Cultural Factors of Industrial Workers in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMIC): Pilot Study. In: Lucas Paletta, Hasan Ayaz and Umer Asgher (eds) Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things. AHFE (2023) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 73. AHFE International, USA. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1003296

C17. S. M. Nashit Arshad, Y. Ayaz, S. Ali, K.F. Iqbal and N. Naseer, "Modeling and Control of Liquid Carrying Aerial Vehicle's Endurance and Performance Based on LQR And PID Control Strategies," 2023 7th International Multi-Topic ICT Conference (IMTIC), Jamshoro, Pakistan, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/IMTIC58887.2023.10178472.

C16. (Won best paper award) S. Ali, F. Mehmood, K.F. Iqbal, Y. Ayaz, M. Sajid, M.B. Sial, M.F. Malik, K. Javed., "Human Robot Interaction: Identifying Resembling Emotions Using Dynamic Body Gestures of Robot," 2023 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), Islamabad, Pakistan, 2023, pp. 39-44, doi: 10.1109/ICAI58407.2023.10136649.

C15. S. Iqbal, S.N. Khan, M. Sajid, S. Ali, F.I. Khawaja, U. Asgher, Y. Ayaz, Y.  (2022). Novel Approach for Sensing the Humanoid Hand Finger Position Using Non-contact TMR Sensor. In: Umer Asgher (eds) Industrial Cognitive Ergonomics and Engineering Psychology. AHFE (2022) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 35. AHFE International, USA. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001599

C14. M. Ammar, M.M. Ahmed, M.A. Younas, K. Qayyum, F.I. Khawaja, U. Asgher, S. Ali, Y. Ayaz, Y.  (2022). A Chain-Driven Live Roller Mechanism for Loading and Unloading Packages on Autonomous Mobile Robots in Warehouses. In: Umer Asgher (eds) Industrial Cognitive Ergonomics and Engineering Psychology. AHFE (2022) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 35. AHFE International, USA. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001600

C13. A. Jaffer, S. Ali, F.I. Khawaja, Y. Ayaz, M. Sajid, U. Asgher, (2022). Personality Prediction in Human-Robot-Interaction (HRI). In: Umer Asgher (eds) Industrial Cognitive Ergonomics and Engineering Psychology. AHFE (2022) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 35. AHFE International, USA. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001601

C12. Z. Khan, F. Naseer, K.F. Iqbal, S. Ali, M. Sajid and Y. Ayaz, "Smooth Gait Generation for Quadrupedal Robots Based on Genetic Algorithm Optimization," 2022 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), 2022, pp. 122-126, doi: 10.1109/ICAI55435.2022.9773617.

C11. Kainat, S. Ali, K.F. Iqbal, Y. Ayaz and M. Sajid, "A Review on Different Approaches for Assessing Student Attentiveness in Classroom using Behavioural Elements," 2022 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), 2022, pp. 152-158, doi: 10.1109/ICAI55435.2022.9773418.

C10. S.M. Qamar, F.I. Khawaja, S. Ali, A.H. Qureshi, Y. Ayaz, M. Naveed and A.G. Abbasi, “An Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System to Solve Perceptual Aliasing for Autonomous Mobile Robots”, The Twenty-Seventh International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2022 (AROB 27th 2022), pp 1207-1212, Beppu, Japan, 2022.

C9. A.H. Qureshi, S. Mumtaz, A.A.A. Sheikh, K.F. Iqbal, Y. Ayaz, and O.Hasan, "Augmenting RRT* with Local Trees for Real Time Motion Planning in Complex Cluttered Environments", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (MMAR), pp. 657-662, Miedzydroje, Poland, 2014.

C8. S. Yaseen, Y. Ayaz, K.F. Iqbal, N. Muhammad, S.O. Gilani, M. Jamil, and S.I. Ali, "Centre of Mass Avoidance Planner using Radius of Gyration for Reciprocal Velocity Obstacles", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (iCreate), pp. 118-124, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2014.

C7. A.H. Qureshi, S. Mumtaz, K.F. Iqbal, Y. Ayaz, M.S. Muhammad and O. Hasan , "Triangular Geometry based Optimal Motion Planning using RRT*", In Proceedings of International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC), pp. 380-385, Yokohama, Japan , March 2014.

C6. B. Ali, A.H. Qureshi, K.F. Iqbal, Y. Ayaz, S.O. Gilani, M. Jamil, N. Muhammad, F. Ahmed, M.S. Muhammad, W.Y. Kim, and M. Ra , "Human Tracking by a Mobile Robot using 3D Features", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (RoBio), December, 2013.

C5. A.H. Qureshi, K.F. Iqbal, S. Mumtaz , S.M. Qamar, F. Islam , Y. Ayaz, N. Muhammad , M.S. Muhammad, O. Hasan, W.Y. Kim and M. Ra, "Adaptive Potential Guided Directional-RRT*", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (RoBio), December, 2013.

C4. B. Ali, K.F. Iqbal, Y. Ayaz, M. Naveed, "Human detection and following by a mobile robot using 3D features", Proceedings of International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), pp. 1714-1719, Takamatsu, Japan, 2013.

C3. A.H. Qureshi, K.F. Iqbal, S.M. Qamar, F. Islam, Y. Ayaz, and M. Naveed, "Potential guided directional-RRT* for fast optimal motion planning", Proceedings of International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), pp. 519-524, Takamatsu, Japan, 2013.

C2. S.M. Qamar, K.F. Iqbal, A.H. Qureshi, N. Muhammad, Y. Ayaz, and A.G. Abbasi, "A solution to perceptual aliasing through probabilistic fuzzy logic and SIFT", Proceedings of IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Wollongong, Australia, pp. 1393-1398, 2013.

C1. S.U. Ahmed, U.A. Malik, K.F. Iqbal, Y. Ayaz and K. Faraz, "Sparsed Potential-PCNN for Real Time Path Planning and Indoor Navigation Scheme for Mobile Robots", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), pp. 1729-1734, Beijing, August 2011.