Dr Abu Bakar Dawood

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Publications

Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Advanced Robotics

2025

Efficient Manufacturing of Steerable Eversion Robots with Integrated Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
Mack T Suulker C Dawood AB Althoefer K
Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, Mdpi vol. 9 (7), 223-223.  

DOI 10.3390/jmmp9070223

QMRO

01-07-2025

Fiber Bragg grating-based tactile sensing tool for minimally invasive surgery
Zhang Z Violakis G Dawood AB Abdalwareth A Althoefer K Polygerinos P Angelmahr M Schade W
Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics, Treatment, and Environmental Applications XXV. vol. 13310 

DOI 10.1117/12.3039246

QMRO

20-03-2025

2024

Variable Stiffness & Dynamic Force Sensor for Tissue Palpation
Dawood AB Zhang Z Angelmahr M Arezzo A Althoefer K
In Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Springer Nature 296-301.  

DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-72059-8_25

QMRO

30-12-2024

Variable Stiffness & Dynamic Force Sensor for Tissue Palpation
Dawood AB Zhang Z Angelmahr M Arezzo A Althoefer K
In Arxiv 

DOI 10.48550/arxiv.2412.10239

QMRO

13-12-2024

Abraded optical fibre-based dynamic range force sensor for tissue palpation
Dawood AB Chavali VK Mack T Zhang Z Godaba H Angelmahr M Althoefer K
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Frontiers vol. 11 

DOI 10.3389/frobt.2024.1489884

QMRO

11-11-2024

2023

Learning Decoupled Multi-touch Force Estimation, Localization and Stretch for Soft Capacitive E-skin
Dawood AB Coppola C Althoefer K
2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). vol. 00, 614-619.  

DOI 10.1109/icra48891.2023.10160961

QMRO

02-06-2023

Learning Decoupled Multi-touch Force Estimation, Localization and Stretch for Soft Capacitive E-skin
Dawood AB Coppola C Althoefer K
In Arxiv 

DOI 10.48550/arxiv.2303.05936

10-03-2023

2022

Real-Time Pressure Estimation and Localisation with Optical Tomography-inspired Soft Skin Sensors
Dawood AB Denoun B Althoefer K
2022 IEEE 5th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft)., 831-836.  

DOI 10.1109/RoboSoft54090.2022.9762066

QMRO

28-04-2022

2021

Fusing dexterity and perception for soft robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery: What we learnt from stiff-flop
Dawood AB Fras J Aljaber F Mintz Y Arezzo A Godaba H Althoefer K
Applied Sciences, Mdpi vol. 11 (14) 

DOI 10.3390/app11146586

QMRO

17-07-2021

2020

Silicone-based Capacitive E-skin for Exteroception and Proprioception
Dawood AB Godaba H Ataka A Althoefer K
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Las Vegas, NV, USA (Virtual) 25 Oct 2020 - 29 Oct 2020. 

DOI 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9340945

QMRO

25-10-2020

Silicone Based Capacitive E-Skin Sensor for Soft Surgical Robots
Dawood AB Godaba H Althoefer K
In Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Springer Nature 62-65.  

DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-63486-5_8

QMRO

01-01-2020

2019

Modelling of a soft sensor for exteroception and proprioception in a pneumatically actuated soft robot
Dawood AB Godaba H Althoefer K
Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. vol. 11650 LNAI, 99-110.  

DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-25332-5_9

QMRO

17-07-2019

2017

Thermal Model of Rotary Friction Welding for Similar and Dissimilar Metals
Dawood AB Butt SI Hussain G Siddiqui MA Maqsood A Zhang F
Metals, Mdpi vol. 7 (6) 

DOI 10.3390/met7060224

QMRO

16-06-2017