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Dr Wasif Naeem

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Dr Wasif Naeem

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dr Naeem has significant expertise in the development of advanced navigation, guidance and control algorithms for unmanned mobile vehicles. His current research is focused on developing collision avoidance, path planning, formation control systems and simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) algorithms for marine, land and aerial vehicles. Additionally, cooperative control of dual arm systems such as a humanoid in the context of advanced manufacturing is an active area of research.

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  • w.naeem@ee.qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 4066
  • @wnaeem76

Research Interests

Open to PhD applicants in the fields of;

  • Path planning and collision avoidance for mobile robots
  • Collaborative robotics and cooperative control of dual arm manipulator systems

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • New algorithms help autonomous vessels avoid collisions at sea, in TheEngineer 

Research students

PhD area Human-robot and robot-robot collaboration in unstructured environments
Name Mr Shane Trimble
Years of study 2016 -
Country Republic of Ireland
   
PhD area Advancing the Agent Based Approach in Socio-Technical Complex Adaptive Systems for Energy Intensive Production
Name Mr Ché Cameron
Years of study 2017-
Country Northern Ireland

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD area Novel Decentralised Formation Control Strategy for Unmanned Vehicles
Name Dr Aolei Yang
Years of study 2009 - 2012
Country China
Current Position Assistant Professor, Shanghai University
   
PhD area An Advanced Obstacle Avoidance System for Autonomous Maritime Vehicles
Name Dr Sable Campbell de Oliveira Henrique
Years of study 2010 - 2014
Country Northern Ireland
Current Position Airfield Strategy, Dubai Airport
   
PhD area Tensegrity-based Formation Control Algorithms for Unmanned Vehicles
Name Dr Sookyen Lau
Years of study 2010 - 2014
Country Malaysia
Current Position Electrical Design Engineer/Product Manager at Camlin Group, UK

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  • Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science
  • School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Centre for Intelligent Autonomous Manufacturing Systems 
  • Energy, Power and Intelligent Control Research Group 

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