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Novel design of a soft lightweight pneumatic continuum robot arm with decoupled variable stiffness and positioning (2017)
Journal Article
Giannaccini, M., Xiang, C., Atyabi, A., Theodoridis, T., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Davis, S. (2018). Novel design of a soft lightweight pneumatic continuum robot arm with decoupled variable stiffness and positioning. Soft Robotics, 5(1), 54-70. https://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2016.0066

Soft robot arms possess unique capabilities when it comes to adaptability, flexibility and dexterity. In addition, soft systems that are pneumatically actuated can claim high power to weight ratio. One of the main drawbacks of pneumatically actuated... Read More about Novel design of a soft lightweight pneumatic continuum robot arm with decoupled variable stiffness and positioning.

Applications of computational intelligence to robotics and autonomous systems (2016)
Book Chapter
autonomous systems. In P. Angelov (Ed.), Handbook on Computational Intelligence (821-863). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814675017_0025

This chapter discusses the application of computational intelligence in the field of autonomous mobile robotics. The chapter is focused on basic concepts of computational intelligence in robotic domain with an emphasis on essential aspects of navigat... Read More about Applications of computational intelligence to robotics and autonomous systems.

Predicting the valence of a scene from observers’ eye movements (2015)
Journal Article
observers’ eye movements. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0138198. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138198

Multimedia analysis benefits from understanding the emotional content of a scene in a variety of tasks such as video genre classification and content-based image retrieval. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in applying human bio-signals... Read More about Predicting the valence of a scene from observers’ eye movements.

A comprehensive review of swarm optimization algorithms (2015)
Journal Article
Ab Wahab, M., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Atyabi, A. (2015). A comprehensive review of swarm optimization algorithms. PLoS ONE, 10(5), e0122827. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122827

Many swarm optimization algorithms have been introduced since the early 60’s, Evolutionary Programming to the most recent, Grey Wolf Optimization. All of these algorithms have demonstrated their potential to solve many optimization problems. This pap... Read More about A comprehensive review of swarm optimization algorithms.

Application of distributed lighting control architecture in dementia-friendly smart homes (2015)
Journal Article
Zaeim, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Atyabi, A. (2015). Application of distributed lighting control architecture in dementia-friendly smart homes. International Journal of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence, 4(8), https://doi.org/10.14569/IJARAI.2015.040806

Dementia is a growing problem in societies with aging populations, not only for patients, but also for family members and for the society in terms of the associated costs of providing health care. Helping patients to maintain a degree of independence... Read More about Application of distributed lighting control architecture in dementia-friendly smart homes.