Recent Research Papers

1. Nabih Pico, Estrella Montero, Alisher Amirbek, Eugene Auh, Jeongmin Jeon, Manuel S. Alvarez-Alvarado, Babar Jamil, Redhwan Algabri and Hyungpil Moon, "Human and Environmental Feature-driven Neural Network for Path-constrained Robot Navigation using Deep Reinforcement Learning," Engineering Science and Technology-An International Journal (JESTECH), (Accepted), 2025.

Published Research Papers

1. Babar Jamil, Hugo Rodrigue, "Ultra-stretchable Segmented Sensors for Functional Human-machine Interfaces," ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 16, no. 25, pp. 32784-32793, Jun 11, 2024.

2. Vaqas Arshad, Babar Jamil, and Hugo Rodrigue, "FlexiStiff: A Tunable Tensile Element for Adjustable Behavior of Tensegrity Robots," Advanced Material Technologies,  26: 2400497, 2024.

3. Babar Jamil, Wei Dawid Wang, and Hugo Rodrigue, "Recent Advances Towards Soft Household Robots," JMST Advances (Online) 2024.

4. Jiseong Shin, Babar Jamil, Hyungpil Moon, Ja Choon Koo, Hyouk Ryeol Choi, and Hugo Rodrigue, "Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscle: Air-Based Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Pumpless Pneumatic Actuation," Soft Robotics, 2023.

5. Babar Jamil, Namsoo Oh, Jingu Lee, Haneol Lee, and Hugo Rodrigue "A Review and Comparison of Linear Pneumatic Artificial Muscles," International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology, 2023.

6. Altair Coutinho, Jae Hyung Park, Babar Jamil, Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Hugo Rodrigue, "Hyperbaric Vacuum-Based Artificial Muscles for High-Performance Actuation," Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023.

7. Babar Jamil, Hugo Rodrigue, and Youngjin Choi “Design of a Novel Sensing Method For a Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Actuator-driven 2-DOF Parallel Joint ”, Soft Robotics, vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 187-196, Feb., 2023.

8. Babar Jamil and Hugo Rodrigue, "Low-Powered and Resilient IR-Based Pigmented Soft Optoelectronic Sensors", ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol.14, no.33, pp.38144-38152, Aug. 2022. 

9. Babar Jamil, Gyeongjae Yoo, Youngjin Choi and Hugo Rodrigue, “Hybrid Robotic Manipulator using Sensorized Articulated Segment Joints with Soft Inflatable Rubber Bellows”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 69, No. 10, pp. 10259-10269, Oct., 2022.

10. Young Jae Park, Myung Gook Ko, Babar Jamil, Jisung Shin and Hugo Rodrigue, "Simple and Scalable Soft Actuation Through Coupled Inflatable Tubes," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 41993-42003, 2022.

11. Babar Jamil, and Youngjin Choi, “Modified Stiffness based Soft Optical Waveguide Integrated Pneumatic Artificial Muscle (PAM) Actuators for Contraction and Force Sensing”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 26, No.6, pp. 3243-3253, Dec., 2021.

12. Babar Jamil, Gyeongjae Yoo, Youngjin Choi and Hugo Rodrigue, “Proprioceptive Soft Pneumatic Gripper for Extreme Environments using Hybrid Optical Fibers”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 8694-8701, Oct., 2021.

13. Seulah Lee, Babar Jamil, Sunhong Kim, and Youngjin Choi, “Fabric vest socket with embroidered electrodes for control of myoelectric prosthesis”, Sensors, vol. 20, No.4, Article No. 1196, 17pages, Feb., 2020.

14. Babar Jamil, Seulah Lee, and Youngjin Choi, “Fabrication, Characterization and Control of Knit-covered Pneumatic Artificial Muscle”, IEEE Access Journal, vol. 7, pp. 84770-84783, Jun., 2019.

1. Vaqas Arshad, Babar Jamil, and Hugo Rodrigue, "A Tunable Tensile Element for Variable Compliance of Tensegrity Robots, " IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2023, Busan.

2. Babar Jamil, Gyeongjae Yoo, Youngjin Choi and Hugo Rodrigue, “Proprioceptive Soft Pneumatic Gripper for Extreme Environments using Hybrid Optical Fibers”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automations (ICRA), 2023, London, (Oral Presentation).  

3. Jaehyun Kim, Wanju Kim, Babar Jamil, Junho Park, Seulah Lee, and Youngjin Choi, “Approximate Linear Modeling of Pneumatic Artificial Muscle”, 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR2019), Work-in-Progress Paper, pp. 373-374, June 2019.

4. Babar Jamil, Seulah Lee and Youngjin Choi, “Conductive Knit-covered Pneumatic Artificial Muscle (k-PAM) Actuator”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS], pp. 1476-1481 , Oct., 2018.

5. Babar Jamil, Jaehyun Kim and Youngjin Choi, “Force Sensing Fingertip with Soft Optical Waveguides for Robotic Hands and Grippers”, IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics [RoboSoft], pp. 146-151, Apr., 2018 

6. Babar Jamil and Youngjin Choi, “Soft Pneumatic Glove for Grasping Power Improvement”, 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence [URAI], pp. 690-691, Jun., 2017.

1.  Patent Application No. 10-2023-0012325, “Resilient Stretchable Optoelectronic Sensors” (SUBMITTED) (U.S. Patent)

2. Patent No. 2021-0008461, “Combined Stiffness Sensor with measurement capability of 300% strain”. (Registered in South Korea)

3. Patent No 10-2265155, Patent Application No. 2020-0025739, “Sensing Gripper with Manufacturing Method”. (Registered in South Korea)

4.  Patent No 10-2195048, Patent Application No. 2018-0163667, “Sensorized Artificial Muscle Actuator, k-PAM actuator”. (Registered in South Korea)

5.  Patent No 10-203384, Patent Application No. 2018-0011827, “Contact Force Sensing Robotic Finger”. (Registered in South Korea)