| 2025 | ICRA | Vision-Based Fuzzy Control System with Intention Detection for Smart Walkers: Enhancing Usability for Stroke Survivors with Unilateral Upper Limb Impairments. | Mahdi Chalaki, Amir Zakerimanesh, Abed Soleymani, Vivian Mushahwar, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2025 | IROS | Model Predictive Control for 3D Steerable Needles: A Hierarchical Approach to Reduce Tissue Trauma. | Sajjad Hussain, Mahdi Tavakoli, Bruno Siciliano, Fanny Ficuciello |
| 2025 | IROS | CRESSim-MPM: A Material Point Method Library for Surgical Soft Body Simulation with Cutting and Suturing. | Yafei Ou, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2024 | IROS | A Novel Approach for Precise Tissue Tracking in Breast Lumpectomy. | Yeganeh Aliyari, Mehrnoosh Afshar, Ericka Wiebe, Lashan Peiris, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2024 | IROS | Evaluating Gait Symmetry with a Smart Robotic Walker: A Novel Approach to Mobility Assessment. | Mahdi Chalaki, Abed Soleymani, Xingyu Li, Vivian Mushahwar, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2024 | IROS | Optimal Integration of Hybrid FES-Exoskeleton for Precise Knee Trajectory Control. | Masoud Jafaripour, Vivian Mushahwar, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2023 | ICRA | Deep Reinforcement Learning based Personalized Locomotion Planning for Lower-Limb Exoskeletons. | Javad Khodaei-Mehr, Eddie Guo, Mojtaba Akbari, Vivian K. Mushahwar, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2023 | IROS | Autonomous Ultrasound Scanning Towards Standard Plane Using Interval Interaction Probabilistic Movement Primitives. | Yi Hu, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2022 | IROS | Integrating Impedance Control and Nonlinear Disturbance Observer for Robot-Assisted Arthroscope Control in Elbow Arthroscopic Surgery. | Teng Li, Armin Badre, Hamid D. Taghirad, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2022 | IROS | EMG-based Hybrid Impedance-Force Control for Human-Robot Collaboration on Ultrasound Imaging. | Teng Li, Hongjun Xing, Hamid D. Taghirad, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2022 | IROS | An Observer-Based Responsive Variable Impedance Control for Dual-User Haptic Training System. | Ashkan Rashvand, R. Heidari, Mohammad Motaharifar, Ali Hassani, M. R. Dindarloo, Mohammad Javad Ahmadi, Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad, Mahdi Tavakoli, Hamid D. Taghirad |
| 2021 | IROS | Robot-assisted Breast Ultrasound Scanning Using Geometrical Analysis of the Seroma and Image Segmentation. | Mojtaba Akbari, Jay Carriere, Ron Sloboda, Tyler Meyer, Nawaid Usmani, Siraj Husain, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2021 | IROS | Deep Neural Skill Assessment and Transfer: Application to Robotic Surgery Training. | Abed Soleymani, Xingyu Li, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2021 | IROS | Human-Robot Collaboration for Heavy Object Manipulation: Kinesthetic Teaching of the Role of Wheeled Mobile Manipulator. | Hongjun Xing, Ali Torabi, Liang Ding, Haibo Gao, Weihua Li, Vivian K. Mushahwar, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2021 | ICRA | A Low-cost Intrinsically Safe Mechanism for Physical Distancing Between Clinicians and Patients. | Abed Soleymani, Ali Torabi, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2020 | IROS | Optimal Design of a Novel Spherical Scissor Linkage Remote Center of Motion Mechanism for Medical Robotics. | Mehrnoosh Afshar, Jay Carriere, Tyler Meyer, Ron Sloboda, Siraj Husain, Nawaid Usmani, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2020 | SMC | Adaptive tracking control for task-based robot trajectory planning. | Luis Trucios, Mahdi Tavakoli, Kim D. Adams |
| 2019 | ICRA | Ways to Learn a Therapist's Patient-specific Intervention: Robotics-vs Telerobotics-mediated Hands-on Teaching. | Jason Fong, Carlos Manuel Martinez, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2017 | SMC | Learning and robotic imitation of therapist's motion and force for post-disability rehabilitation. | Carlos Manuel Martinez, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2017 | SMC | Nonlinear workspace mapping for telerobotic assistance of upper limb in patients with severe movement disorders. | Carlos Rossa, Mohammad Najafi, Mahdi Tavakoli, Kim D. Adams |
| 2017 | SMC | Assistive technology design and preliminary testing of a robot platform based on movement intention using low-cost brain computer interface. | Isao Sakamaki, Camilo Ernesto Perafan del Campo, Sandra A. Wiebe, Mahdi Tavakoli, Kim D. Adams |
| 2017 | SMC | Position and velocity synchronization in bilateral teleoperation in presence of stochastic disturbances in control inputs. | Masoud Seyed Sakha, Farzad Hashemzadeh, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2016 | ICRA | User's task performance in two-handed complementary-motion teleoperation. | Maelle Agbale, Renz Ocampo, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2015 | ICRA | Needle shape estimation in soft tissue based on partial ultrasound image observation. | Jay Carriere, Carlos Rossa, Nawaid Usmani, Ronald Sloboda, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2015 | ICRA | A mechanics-based model for simulation and control of flexible needle insertion in soft tissue. | Mohsen Khadem, Bita Fallahi, Carlos Rossa, Ron S. Sloboda, Nawaid Usmani, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2015 | ICRA | A virtual sensor for needle deflection estimation during soft-tissue needle insertion. | Thomas Lehmann, Carlos Rossa, Nawaid Usmani, Ronald Sloboda, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2015 | IROS | A new passivity-based control technique for safe patient-robot interaction in haptics-enabled rehabilitation systems. | Seyed Farokh Atashzar, Mahya Shahbazi, Mahdi Tavakoli, Rajni V. Patel |
| 2015 | IROS | Extended bicycle model for needle steering in soft tissue. | Bita Fallahi, Mohsen Khadem, Carlos Rossa, Ronald Sloboda, Nawaid Usmani, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2015 | ICRA | Therapist-in-the-Loop robotics-assisted mirror rehabilitation therapy: An Assist-as-Needed framework. | Mahya Shahbazi, Seyed Farokh Atashzar, Mahdi Tavakoli, Rajni V. Patel |
| 2015 | ICRA | 3D shape visualization of curved needles in tissue from 2D ultrasound images using RANSAC. | Michael Waine, Carlos Rossa, Ronald Sloboda, Nawaid Usmani, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2014 | ICRA | GPC-based teleoperation for delay compensation and disturbance rejection in image-guided beating-heart surgery. | Meaghan Bowthorpe, Abril Alvarez Garcia, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2014 | ICRA | Dynamical model averaging and PWM based control for pneumatic actuators. | Sean Hodgson, Mahdi Tavakoli, Minh Tu Pham, Arnaud Lelev |
| 2013 | ICRA | Smith predictor based control in teleoperated image-guided beating-heart surgery. | Meaghan Bowthorpe, Mahdi Tavakoli, Harald Becher, Robert D. Howe |
| 2012 | IROS | Adaptive control of nonlinear teleoperation systems with varying asymmetric time delays. | Farzad Hashemzadeh, Iraj Hassanzadeh, Mahdi Tavakoli, Ghasem Alizadeh |
| 2012 | IROS | Control of a teleoperation system actuated by low-cost pneumatic on/off valves. | Sean Hodgson, Mahdi Tavakoli, Arnaud Lelev, Minh Tu Pham |
| 2012 | IROS | Revisiting Llewellyn's absolute stability criterion for bilateral teleoperation systems under non-passive operator or environment. | Ali Jazayeri, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2012 | IROS | Control of nonlinear teleoperation systems subject to disturbances and variable time delays. | Alireza Mohammadi, Mahdi Tavakoli, Horacio J. Marquez |
| 2011 | ICRA | Sliding mode control of a pneumatic haptic teleoperation system with on/off solenoid valves. | Minh-Quyen Le, Minh Tu Pham, Mahdi Tavakoli, Richard Moreau |
| 2011 | ICRA | Inverse dynamics-based adaptive control of nonlinear bilateral teleoperation systems. | Xia Liu, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2011 | ICRA | Adaptive control for linearly and nonlinearly parameterized dynamic uncertainties in bilateral teleoperation systems. | Xia Liu, Mahdi Tavakoli |
| 2011 | IROS | Sliding-mode control of nonlinear discrete-input pneumatic actuators. | Sean Hodgson, Minh-Quyen Le, Mahdi Tavakoli, Minh Tu Pham |
| 2011 | IROS | An enhanced sliding-mode control for a pneumatic-actuated teleoperation system. | Minh-Quyen Le, Minh Tu Pham, Mahdi Tavakoli, Richard Moreau |
| 2010 | IROS | Development of a hybrid control for a pneumatic teleoperation system using on/off solenoid valves. | Minh-Quyen Le, Minh Tu Pham, Mahdi Tavakoli, Richard Moreau |
| 2010 | IROS | Nonlinear adaptive bilateral control of teleoperation systems with uncertain dynamics and kinematics. | Xia Liu, Mahdi Tavakoli, Qi Huang |
| 2010 | IROS | Performance analysis of a manipulation task in time-delayed teleoperation. | Michael C. Yip, Mahdi Tavakoli, Robert D. Howe |
| 2007 | ACC | Wave-Based Time Delay Compensation in Bilateral Teleoperation: Two-Channel versus Four-Channel Architectures. | Arash Aziminejad, Mahdi Tavakoli, Rajni V. Patel, Mehrdad Moallem |
| 2007 | ACC | Enhanced Transparency in Haptics-Based Master-Slave Systems. | Mahdi Tavakoli, Arash Aziminejad, Rajni V. Patel, Mehrdad Moallem |
| 2007 | ICRA | Bilateral Delayed Teleoperation: The Effects of a Passivated Channel Model and Force Sensing. | Arash Aziminejad, Mahdi Tavakoli, Rajnikant V. Patel, Mehrdad Moallem |
| 2007 | IROS | Stability of discrete-time bilateral teleoperation control. | Mahdi Tavakoli, Arash Aziminejad, Rajni V. Patel, Mehrdad Moallem |
| 2007 | IROS | The effect of joint elasticity on bilateral teleoperation. | Mahdi Tavakoli, Robert D. Howe |
| 2006 | ICRA | Bilateral Control of a Teleoperator for Soft Tissue Palpation: Design and Experiments. | Mahdi Tavakoli, Rajnikant V. Patel, Mehrdad Moallem |
| 2005 | MICCAI | Effects of Latency on Telesurgery: An Experimental Study. | Reiza Rayman, Serguei Primak, Rajnikant V. Patel, Mehrdad Moallem, Roya Morady, Mahdi Tavakoli, Vanja Subotic, Natalie Galbraith, Aimee van Wynsberghe, Kris Croome |
| 2004 | ICRA | Design Issues in a Haptics-based Master-slave System for Minimally Invasive Surgery. | Mahdi Tavakoli, Rajnikant V. Patel, Mehrdad Moallem |
| 2003 | IROS | A force reflective master-slave system for minimally invasive surgery. | Mahdi Tavakoli, Rajni V. Patel, Mehrdad Moallem |