Robotics and Intelligent Machine Engineering: Recent submissions

  • Detection and Tracking of Bubbles in Two Phase Flow 
    Altaf ur Rahman, Supervised By Dr Muhammad Sajid (SMME-NUST, 2017)
    Bubble detection and tracking is an important and complex part of motion analysis of two phase air-water flow in non linear wavy channels in which bubble speed and size varies and sometimes bubble occludes with the ...
  • Modelling of a Bidirectional Network 
    Maham Haroon, Supervised By Dr Yasar Ayaz (SMME-NUST, 2017)
    Visual place and object categorization has been an important aspect of research for a number of years now. One reason for its popularity is the wide number of applications in Mobile Robotics and HRI. Some of these include, ...
  • An Intelligent Hand Gesture Recognition System 
    Muhammad Baber Sial, Supervised By Dr Yasar Ayaz (SMME-NUST, 2017)
    Gesture and emotion recognition plays an important role in the judgement of human behavior. The field of engineering has adopted this science in recent years for development of intelligent and companion systems. Various ...
  • PEOPLE COUNTING IN DENSE CROWD IMAGES 
    MAMOONA BIRKHEZ SHAMI, Supervised By Dr Hasan Sajid (SMME-NUST, 2017)
    People counting in extremely dense crowds is a challenging problem due to severe occlusions, few pixels per head, cluttered environments and skewed camera perspectives. In this thesis, we present a novel algorithm for ...
  • Development of an fNIRS Equipment for Monitoring Human Brain Activity in the Pre-frontal Region 
    EHTISHAM UL HASAN, Supervised By Dr Yasar Ayaz (SMME-NUST, 2016)
    This research presents the development of a cost effective functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) equipment for monitoring human brain activity in the pre frontal cortex region. Combination of three dual wavelength ...
  • Biometric embedded system architecture for hand vein Identification system on FPGA 
    TALHA QAYYUM, Supervised By Dr Syed Omer Gilani (SMME-NUST, 2016)
    Biometric authentication is using world widely for different applications in security, attendance metering and for surveillance. Hand vein biometric system is mostly not used widely due to limited resources of machine. In ...
  • Incorporation of Proximally Actuated Elastically Loaded Scissors Mechanism for the Leg Design of a Quadruped Robot 
    Muhammad Hamza Asif Nizami, Supervised By Dr Yasar Ayaz (SMME-NUST, 2016)
    Spring Loaded Pantographs (SLPs) are mechanisms that are often incorporated in the design of lightweight legs for multi-legged robots. This is due to the fact that natural quadruped (Four-Legged organisms) tend to keep ...
  • Eye Pupil Based Control of Electric Wheelchair 
    Muhammad Affan Zia, Supervised By Dr Yasar Ayaz (SMME-NUST, 2016)
    This project is aimed to developed a technique for such disabled people, who suffer with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or quadriplegia and are not able to use a manual or even a motorized wheelchair. As ALS patients ...
  • Implementation of Human Detection on Hardware 
    Mobeen Ahmad, Supervised By Dr Syed Omer Gilani (SMME-NUST, 2016)
    This thesis presents a methodology to design an embedded vision system to detect upright humans in images and video feed from camera. Our goal is to develop an algorithm that can extract high dimensional feature vectors ...
  • Multi-Robot Cooperation in RoboCup-SPL 
    Zain Murtaza, Supervised By Dr Yasar Ayaz (SMME-NUST, 2016)
    RoboCup Standard Platform League (SPL) is an international robotics soccer competition with an aim to foster research in artificial intelligence and its application in advance robotics. It involves multi-robot cooperation ...
  • Development of EEG-Based Re-configurable Semi-Autonomous Steering Framework for Electric Wheelchair 
    Ali bin Wahid, Supervised By Dr Yasar Ayaz (SMME-NUST, 2016)
  • 3D Vision for Indoor Robotic Manipulation using Kinect V2 Sensor with Point Cloud Library (PCL 
    Noaman Mehmood, Supervised By Dr Yasar Ayaz (SMME-NUST, 2016)
    In order to perform any robotic task object recognition plays a very vital role. In this research we propose a real time recognition system that is able to recognize single object using the latest Kinect v2 depth sensor. ...
  • AUTOMATIC PAKISTANI SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM 
    Habib Ahmed, Supervised By Syed Irtiza Ali Shah (SMME-NUST, 2016)
    Gesture recognition and sign language recognition have remained a considerably important research area. However, Pakistani Sign Language (PSL) failed to gather interest within the academia with respect to the other regional ...
  • Real-time Stereo Visual Odometry and its application to Semi-Autonomous Wheelchair 
    Usama Siraj, Supervised By Dr Yasar Ayaz (SMME-NUST, 2016)
    The ability to localize is amongst the most important traits of any mobile robot. In outdoor environment, GPS is usually used for localization, but to correctly localize in indoor environments, is a challenging task for ...
  • DEVELOPMENT OF ALGORITHM FOR DOOR DETECTION AND MANIPULATION BY MOBILE MANIPULATOR MOUNTED ON WHEELCHAIR 
    Muhammad Huzaifa Bin Qamer, Supervised By Dr Yasar Ayaz (SMME-NUST, 2017)
    There has been an increase in the number of people with disabilities either due to old age, disease or accident. These patients can be paraplegic (impairment in motor or sensory function of lower extremities), can have ...
  • Text Detection and Recognition for Semantic Mapping in Indoor Navigation 
    MUHAMMAD SAMI SIDDIQUI, Supervised By Dr Yasar Ayaz (SMME-NUST, 2016)
    Detection and recognition of nameplates is used to increase the map of the robot built with locations of objects. This is very useful in service robots applications where many tasks will be the type to wear reading. The ...
  • Proportional Resonant Control of Power Electronic Interface for Integrating Renewable Energy Sources 
    Rizwan Arshad, Supervised By Dr Mohsin Jamil (SMME-NUST, 2016)
    Power electronic converters are commonly used to interface renewable energy sources. There exist several topologies of these converters such as two level with LCL filter, multilevel, matrix and interleaved. This thesis ...
  • MODELING AND CONTROL OF 5DOF ROBOTIC ARM USING NEURO-FUZZY CONTROLLER 
    ABDUL WAHAB NADEEM BUTT, Supervised By Dr Mohsin Jamil (SMME-NUST, 2016)
    Robotic Arms are considered essential components of any automation system. They present considerably complicated electromechanical systems with mutual interactions of robot mechanics and drives, at design of which the ...
  • A Novel Feature Set for Illumination Invariant Human Detection 
    Hassan Manzoor, Supervised By Dr Mohsin Jamil (SMME-NUST, 2016)
    We, as human beings, are very good at extracting features that allow us to differentiate between different types of objects in our surroundings. This is because we are well aware of certain unique features that describe ...
  • A New Robust Model Predictive Control Strategy For Balancing Of An Inverted Pendulum 
    Arbab Aimal Khan, Supervised By Dr Mohsin Jamil (SMME-NUST, 2016)
    In this thesis, we presents a methodology to design a controller for the balancing of an inverted pendulum. The inverted pendulum is one of the most difficult control problem in which the pendulum needs to be balanced ...

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