I obtained my B. Sc. degree in  2017 from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT) in the field of mechanical engineering. I’m currently pursuing my M. Sc. degree in Mechatronics engineering at K.N.Toosi University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. Currently, I am a member of the Cable-Driven Robots(CDR) group in ARAS lab. My main research interest is design and analysis of cable robotic manipulators and currently, I work on Design, Implementation and analysis of a deployable and fast fully constrained planner cable-driven robot.

Hamed Sadeghi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1996. Hamed finished his B. Sc. in Control engineering at K.N Toosi University of Technology – Tehran in 2018 and started his M. Sc. program in the same major at K.N Toosi University of Technology – Tehran since September 2018 and he joined ARAS group since 2015. His thesis was on focused on Surgical Robotics, mainly design and implement the Electronic hardware of ARASH-ASiST: ARAS Haptic System for EYE Surgery Training and currently He is working as a researcher in the surgical robotics group.

Parisa Hasani received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Shariaty Technical College, Tehran, Iran, in 2018. She is currently pursuing the M.Sc. degree in control engineering from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. She joined the ARAS laboratory and Surgical Robotics group in October 2018. Her research interests include haptics, medical robotics, master-slave teleoperation, and evaluation in robotic-assisted systems for minimally invasive surgery.

Ali Hassani was born in Tehran, Iran in 1996. He received his B.Sc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Shahid Chamran University (Jundi Shapur), Ahvaz, Iran in 2018. He is currently an M.Sc student in Mechatronics Engineering at K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran.

He joined ARAS group under the supervision of Dr. Hamid D. Taghirad since October 2018. His current research interests include various aspects of Dynamics and Control of Parallel Robots.

Amin Mardani is a member of Autonomous Robotics research group in ARAS lab. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Qom University of Technology, Qom, Iran. Amin is currently pursuing his M.Sc. degree at K. N. Toosi University of technology, Tehran, Iran under supervision of Dr. Taghirad (KNTU, Tehran, Tehran, Iran) and advisement of Dr. Biglarbegian (University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada). His research interests lie in Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Trajectory Prediction, Deep Learning and Image Processing.

Mohammad Javad Ahmadi was born in Dec. 1996 in Sari in northern IRAN near the beautiful Caspian Sea. In 2011 he was accepted into the NODET (National Organization for Developement of Exceptional Talent) and spent four years in Shahid Beheshti high school and graduated with Diploma GPA of 4/4. In 2015 he entered Amirkabir University of Technology (Polytechnic of Tehran), Tehran, Iran and received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Control Engineering with a GPA of 4/4. Currently, He is a graduate student in Control Engineering at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran and he has joined the surgical robotics group in Advanced Robotics and Automated System (ARAS) Lab under the supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad. His main research interest includes medical robots, surgical robots, mobile robots, flying robots, etc. He is also interested in doing research in Control theory, Artificial intelligence & Neural network, IIoT & IoT, and Multi-agent system & Consensus algorithm. (Personal Website | ARAS Website)

Ashkan Rashvand was born in 26 June 1997 in Qazvin. He graduated from Shahid Babaii NODET (National Organization for Developement of Exceptional Talent) high school. He finished his B.Sc. in controls engineering at Imam Khomeini International University in 2019 with 3.78/4 total GPA. He has always believed that the most important factors to a person’s success in a specific field are their motivation and interest in that field. Believing this idea helped him to be ranked one of the top student during his bachelor position. He started his M. Sc. program in the same major at K.N Toosi University of Technology under supervision of Prof. Taghirad . Now he is a member of ARAS group. His main research interests is robotics (Robots motion planning ,Robots-Assisted Therapy) and Artificial Life.

Sodabe Bandali Was Born In Hamedan, Iran. She received her B.S.C Degree In Electrical Engineering From Hamedan University Of Technology, She Is currently pursuing M.Sc. in Control Engineering at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. She joined ARAS Lab Mixed Reality research group under the supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad on October 2019. Her research interests are Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence alongside Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

Alireza Montazeri received his B.Sc. degree in control engineering from K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2019. Currently, he is pursuing his M.Sc. degree in mechatronic engineering at K.N Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, since 2019. He joined the ARAS group since September 2019. His work is focused on Eye surgery training using Mixed Reality. Mainly he makes a 3D model of eye organs and implements physics that affecting them.

Ali Farajzadeh was born in November 1996 in Tabriz. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in Control Engineering from Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran. He is currently pursuing his M.Sc. degree in Control Engineering at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran under supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad. In line with his research interests in robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning he joined Advanced Robotics and Automated system (ARAS) group in October 2019.

Mohammad Sina Allahkaram received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology. He is currently pursuing his M.Sc. degree in Mechatronics Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad. His main research interest includes Artificial intelligence & Deep Learning in Autonomous Robotics.

Mohammad Ghaderzadeh was born in Saqqez, Kurdistan, Iran. He received his bachelor’s degree in Power Electrical Engineering from the University of Kurdistan. He is currently pursuing his M.Sc. degree in Control Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad and Dr. Amir Hossein Nikoofard at K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He is also an IEEE volunteer in the Iran section as a member of Student Activities and Young Professional committees. Furthermore, He is a corresponding member of the Humanitarian Activities Committee of IEEE R8 (Europe, Middle East, and Africa). His main research interest includes Control Theory, Distributed Optimal Control, Control of Connected Autonomous Vehicles, Artificial intelligence & Deep Learning.

Marzie Lafouti was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1998. She was graduated from Farzanegan high school (NODET), Tehran, Iran, in 2016. She has received her B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2020. Now, she is a master’s student of control engineering at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. She has joined the ARAS robotics team in 2020. She is interested in intelligent control, deep learning, image processing, detection, and tracking objects.

Hi there, my name is Mohammad Bajelani. I was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1998. I have been graduated in (Aerospace Engineering) from K.N Toosi University of Technology in 2020. My bachelor’s background involves designing and programming Autopilot and multirotor HIL test-bed. I’ve currently joined to (PACR ARAS group) as an M.Sc. student. I’m interested in implementing RL-based controllers in the Mechatronics system.

Sahar Salehi was born in Mashhad, Iran in 1995. She has been living in Tehran since she was a child. She received her B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Shariaty Technical College, Tehran, Iran, in 2017. She is currently pursuing her M.Sc. in mechatronic engineering at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. She joined Advanced Robotics & Automated Systems (ARAS) Lab as a member of the Mixed Reality research group under the supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad in October 2020. Her research interests are Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.

Mohammad Mahdi was born in Qom, Iran, in 1997. He has commenced microcontroller programming since primary school, then pursued robotics since guidance school (in Shahid Qoddusi-NODET). By starting high school, he succeeded in Instrumentation followed by AI. Then he performed his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering (Control Branch) at Shahed University where he fulfilled his thesis on RL. Presently he is pursuing his M.Sc. in Control Engineering at K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Applied science has always been his passion in every sense of the word.

Seyed Ahmad Khalilpour has received his B.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering from Shahed University, Tehran, Iran, in 2010, his M.Sc. in mechatronic engineering in 2013 from K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran. He is currently pursuing a PhD in control engineering at K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran. His current research interests include various aspects of dynamics and control of parallel robots with particular emphasis on cable-driven robots.

Mohammad Motaharifar received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2009, and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, in 2011. He was a Research Assistant at Real time Systems Laboratory, Electrical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology from 2011 to 2014. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran. His research interests include robotics, medical robotics, adaptive control of nonlinear systems, and robust control.

Amin is a mechatronics engineer who collaborates with ARAS group after graduation, and currently, he is working as a researcher and mechanical design expert at ARAS. His current activity at ARAS is working on a redesigned model of a haptic device which is part of the eye surgery robotics project. Amin’s Education background involves a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Babol University of Technology at 2013 and an MSc in Mechatronics Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology at 2016. Amin has implemented the KNTU Delta robot in his master thesis, and he invented a mechanism for the robotics eye surgery project.

Arash has finished his B. Sc. in Control engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology – Tehran Polytechnic in 2016, and started his M. Sc. program in the same major at K.N Toosi University of Technology – Tehran since October 2016 to 2018. His thesis was on  focused on Surgical Robotics, mainly  development of robotic systems that assists novice surgeons get more effective training. He is currently continuing his research in the group as a research assistance, working on the Version 3 of ARASH-ASiST: ARAS Haptic System for EYE Surgery Training.

Abbas is a graduate of Mechatronics Engineering from the department of Mechanical engineering at the K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Under the advisory of Prof. Taghirad, he is a member of Advanced Robotics and Automated Systems (ARAS). He received his BS degree in Robotics Engineering from Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran, where he worked under the supervision of Dr. Toosian Shandiz, in 2014.

Samim Khosravi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1990. He received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from the K.N.Toosi University, Tehran, Iran in 2012, and the Master degree in control field of electrical engineering in 2015. He joined to ARAS group under supervision Dr. Hamid D. Taghirad since 2011. He was interested in robotics, teleoperation systems and eye surgery robots. His current position is automation engineer in Control Pooyan Co.

I am Amir Mobarhani. I was born in Iran (1988). I have received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Dept. of Electrical and computer Engineering, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. I’m a member of Advanced Robotics & Automated Systems (ARAS) group since 2008. I have participated and contributed in various research projects in Advanced Robotics & Automated Systems (ARAS) group.

Hamid Didari has received his B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran, in 2015. He is currently pursuing a M.Sc. in control engineering at K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran. His current research interests include various aspects of SLAM algorithm, UAV autonomy and ROS.

Farnoosh was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1993. She obtained her B.Sc. degree in Aerospace Engineering and M.Sc. degree in Mechatronics, both from K. N. Toosi University of Technology. During her Master studies, she worked as a researcher in the advanced vehicle control systems laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Ali Ghaffari and graduated in 2019. After that, she joined ARAS group as a member of the autonomous robotics team. Her research interests are Machine Learning, Deep CNN, RNN, and applications in autonomous systems, self-driving cars, and image processing.

Golnaz Raja was born in Tehran, Iran in 1996, she received her Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering-Software from K. N. Toosi University of technology in 2019. Her current research includes Augmented Reality and Computer Vision and she joined ARAS Lab Mixed Reality research group under the supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad  on October 2019. Her research interests are Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence alongside Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

Parisa Forghani studied at K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, where she obtained a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (Control-Oriented) in 2020, her thesis being “Design and Construction of a Motor Asymmetry Assessment System to Monitor Patients with Parkinson’s Disease”.
Parisa joined the ARAS Lab, Autonomous Robotics research group, in December 2020. Her current project focuses on Artificial Intelligence ways to help Corneal Diseases like Keratoconus.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science and, Computer Vision are her research interests.

Arefe Rezaee has received her M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran in 2019. She joined to APAC group under supervision DR. Alireza Fatehi and DR. Behrooz Nasihatkon since 2016. She was a Researcher in Autonomous Driving Systems and Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) at Industrial Automation laboratory. Her thesis was a Traffic Sign Recognition System based on Hierarchical Convolutional Neural Networks and Using Geometric Features For Autonomous Driving. Now she joined ARAS group as a member of the autonomous robotics team and her current research interests are Self Driving, 3D pose estimation and action recognition.

He received his B. Sc. in 2017 from Tabriz University with a major in Mechanical Engineering. Currently, he’s pursuing his M. Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering in K. N. Toosi University of Technology under supervision of Prof. Taghirad and is currently a Masters Student in Parallel and Cable Robotics research group.

Javad has joined ARAS lab since 2017, a member of Autonomous Robotics research group, and has recently complicated his master degree in Mechatronic Engineering. His current research interests are about using AI and machine learning methods such as deep learning in daily life problems and Robotics applications like image processing, object detection & tracking, perception and multi agent as well as Decision Making and Planning under Uncertainty. In his thesis, he has proposed an innovative algorithm in which a global and a local motion planning have be combined together to have more effective exploration both in time and traveled distance. In order to obtain a reliable planning under uncertainty in continuous belief space, he used a new graph-based multi-query approach called FIRM (Feedback-based Information RoadMap).

Amin Kashi is a masters student in Autonomous Robotics team of ARAS group. His research interests include machine learning, computer vision, and robotics. His current project focuses on the perception of depth and semantics by DL methods. He loves testing his research results in 3D virtual environments (like PC games :)..

My name is Rooholla Khorrambakht and I’m a KNTU master’s degree student in the field of mechatronics engineering. I have obtained my B.Eng. in the field of Electrical Engineering from Hormozgan University in 2016. I have a passion for Controlling Dynamical Systems and Embedded System Design with the aim of Integrating these two in order to create beautiful creations. this passion led me to Dr.Taghirad and his robotic research groups. Under his supervision, I joined the ARAS CDRPM group in October 2016. my current role in the group is to cooperate at integrating, hardware designing, and system level programming of the suspended cable-driven parallel robot. Also, my current focus of the study is on Sensor Fusion, State estimation and Dynamical Control of the cable-driven parallel robot.

Reza received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT) in September 2017. He is currently pursuing his M.Sc. degree in Control Engineering at K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Reza has joined Surgical Robotics group in Advanced Robotics and Automated System (ARAS) Lab. His main research interests are Medical Robotics, including applications in surgical training; Haptics and Teleoperation. He is currently working on design and implementation of impedance control of dual haptic for eye surgery training system.

Mohammad Savadzadeh received his B.Sc. degree in control engineering from K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran, in 2017. He got Admitted to the graduate program as a talented student and he is currently pursuing his M.Sc degree in control engineering at K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran. Now he is a member of ARAS Parallel and Cable Robotics Research group.

I received my B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Shariaty Technical College, Tehran, Iran. I am currently working toward the M.Sc. degree at the K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran since October 2017. I joined Surgical Robotics team because of the interesting work done here such as implementation of a Haptic system for eye surgery training. I am working on novice skill assessment methods through this Haptic system.

Amirhossein Safari received his B.Sc. degree in control engineering from K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran, in 2017. He got Admitted to the graduate program as a talented student and he is currently pursuing his M.Sc degree in control engineering at K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran. He favors Instrumentation field and has a good experience in the field. Everyday he works very hard to learn new things and become an expert in his favorite fields.

Hi, my name is Mohammad Isaac, my friends and acquaintances call me Isaac. I was born in Uruzgan, Afghanistan in Dec 1995. My family migrated to Iran three years after my birth because of safety and economic problems. I spent my elementary schooling in Tehran from 2002 to 2013. and then in 2013, with the passage of the entrance exam of Iranian universities, I was able to obtain a bachelor’s degree in the field of electrical engineering at the Qom University of Technology, where I graduated as the top student (from 2013 to 2017). I have obtained my Master’s degree in field control engineering at K.N. Toosi University, and I am currently working in the ARAS lab as a freelancer in Parallel and Cable Robotics research group under the supervision of Dr. Taghirad.

Amirhossein Samii received his B.Sc. degree in control engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, in 2018, and his Master’s Degree in control engineering at the K.N.Toosi University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, in 2021. Amirhossein has joined as a member of the Electrical Vehicle (EV) group in ARAS since 2019, and worked on regenerative braking for electric motorcycles.