Publications

Book Chapters

B1. 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", In "Human-Robot Collaboration in Industrial Automation", edited by Anne Schmitz, pp 41- 58, Switzerland, MDPI, 2022.

Journal Papers

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 Process Lett (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11063-023-11390-2.

J5.  (Q1, Impact Factor: 4.6) Batool, S., Gilani, S.O., Waris, A., Iqbal, K.F., Khan, N.B., Khan, M.I., Eldin, S.M., Awwad, F.A., Deploying efficient net batch normalizations (BNs) for grading diabetic retinopathy severity levels from fundus images. Sci Rep 13, 14462 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41797-9 

J4.  (Q1, Impact Factor: 4.562) Idrees, H.; Ali, S.; Sajid, M.; Rashid, M.; Khawaja, F.I.; Ali, Z.; Anwar, M.N., "Techno-Economic Analysis of Vacuum Membrane Distillation for Seawater Desalination", Membranes, 2023, 13, 339.  https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes1303033

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: 10.3390/s21248229 

J2. Iqbal, K.F.; Kanazawa, A.; Ottaviani, S.R.; Kinugawa, J.; Kosuge, K. A real-time motion planning scheme for collaborative robots using HRI-based cost function. Int. J. Mechatr. Autom. 2021, 8, 42–52, doi:10.1504/IJMA.2021.113727.

J1. Shehryar Ali Khan, Yasar Ayaz, Mohsin Jamil, Syed Omer Gillani, Muhammad Naveed, Ahmed Hussain Qureshi and Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, "Collaborative Optimal Reciprocal Collision Avoidance for Mobile Robots", International Journal of Control and Automation (IJCA), Vol 8, No 8, pp 203-212, 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/ijca.2015.8.8.21.

Conference Papers

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. Syeda Madiha Qamar, Fahad Iqbal Khawaja, Sara Ali, Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad Naveed and Abdul Ghafoor 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. Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Saba Mumtaz, Abdul Ahad Ashfaque Sheikh, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Yasar Ayaz, and Osman 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. Shahwar Yaseen, Yasar Ayaz, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Naveed Muhammad, Syed Omer Gilani, Mohsin Jamil, and Syed Iritza 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. Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Saba Mumtaz, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Yasar Ayaz, Mannan Saeed Muhammad and Osman 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. Badar Ali, Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Yasar Ayaz, Syed Omer Gilani, Mohsin Jamil, Naveed Muhammad, Faizan Ahmed, Mannan Saeed Muhammad, Whoi-Yul Kim, and Moonsoo Ra , "Human Tracking by a Mobile Robot using 3D Features", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (RoBio), December, 2013.

C5. Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal , Saba Mumtaz , Syeda Madiha Qamar , Fahad Islam , Yasar Ayaz, Naveed Muhammad , Mannan Saeed Muhammad, Osman Hasan, Whoi Yul Kim and Moonsoo Ra, "Adaptive Potential Guided Directional-RRT*", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (RoBio), December, 2013.

C4. Badar Ali, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Yasar Ayaz, Muhammad 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. Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Syeda Madiha Qamar, Fahad Islam, Yasar Ayaz, and Muhammad 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. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2013.6617971

C2. Syeda Madiha Qamar, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Naveed Muhammad, Yasar Ayaz, and Abdul Ghafoor 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. Syed Usman Ahmed, Usman Ali Malik, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Yasar Ayaz and Kunwar 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.