Maram Sakr

Personal Website: https://maram-sakr.github.io/

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Faculty of Science - Computing Science

Email: msakr1@ualberta.ca

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FLAIR: Feeding via Long-horizon AcquIsition of Realistic dishes

Arxiv. 2024 January; 10.48550/arXiv.2407.07561

Consistency Matters: Defining Demonstration Data Quality Metrics in Robot Learning from Demonstration

Arxiv. 2024 January; 10.48550/arXiv.2412.14309

How Can Everyday Users Efficiently Teach Robots by Demonstrations?

Arxiv. 2023 January; 10.48550/arXiv.2310.13083

Design and Evaluation of an Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Display Interface for Human Robot Teams Collaborating in Physically Shared Manufacturing Tasks

Arxiv. 2022 January; 10.48550/arxiv.2203.08343

Orientation Matters: 6-DoF Autonomous Camera Movement for Video-based Skill Assessment in Robot-Assisted Surgery*

Proceedings of the IEEE Ras and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics. 2022 January; 10.1109/BioRob52689.2022.9925374

Quantifying Demonstration Quality for Robot Learning and Generalization

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2022 January; 10.1109/LRA.2022.3191950

Learning from Demonstration for Real-Time User Goal Prediction and Shared Assistive Control

Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2021 January; 10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9560758

Objective learning from human demonstrations

Annual Reviews in Control. 2021 January; 10.1016/j.arcontrol.2021.04.003

What makes a good demonstration for robot learning generalization?

ACM IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction. 2021 January; 10.1145/3434074.3446362

Towards a Multimodal System combining Augmented Reality and Electromyography for Robot Trajectory Programming and Execution

29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication Ro Man 2020. 2020 January; 10.1109/RO-MAN47096.2020.9223526

Training Human Teacher to Improve Robot Learning from Demonstration: A Pilot Study on Kinesthetic Teaching

29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication Ro Man 2020. 2020 January; 10.1109/RO-MAN47096.2020.9223430

Orthographic vision-based interface with motion-tracking system for robot arm teleoperation: A comparative study

ACM IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction. 2020 January; 10.1145/3371382.3378311

An augmented reality human-robot physical collaboration interface design for shared, large-scale, labour-intensive manufacturing tasks

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2020 January; 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341119

Estimation of User-Applied Isometric Force/Torque Using Upper Extremity Force Myography

Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 2019 January; 10.3389/frobt.2019.00120

Play Me Back: A Unified Training Platform for Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgery

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2019 January; 10.1109/LRA.2018.2890209

Exploratory Evaluation of the Force Myography (FMG) Signals Usage for Admittance Control of a Linear Actuator

Proceedings of the IEEE Ras and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics. 2018 January; 10.1109/BIOROB.2018.8488028

Investigation into the Potential to Create a Force Myography-based Smart-home Controller for Aging Populations

Proceedings of the IEEE Ras and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics. 2018 January; 10.1109/BIOROB.2018.8488087

LOST Highway: A Multiple-Lane Ant-Trail Algorithm to Reduce Congestion in Large-Population Multi-robot Systems

Proceedings 2017 14th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision Crv 2017. 2017 January; 10.1109/CRV.2017.24

Study on the force myography sensors placement for robust hand force estimation

2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics Smc 2017. 2017 January; 10.1109/SMC.2017.8122807

On the estimation of isometric wrist/forearm torque about three axes using Force Myography

Proceedings of the IEEE Ras and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics. 2016 January; 10.1109/BIOROB.2016.7523730

Pilot study on strategies in sensor placement for robust hand/wrist gesture classification based on movement related changes in forearm volume

2016 IEEE Healthcare Innovation Point of Care Technologies Conference Hi Poct 2016. 2016 January; 10.1109/HIC.2016.7797693

Regressing force-myographic signals collected by an armband to estimate torque exerted by the wrist: A preliminary investigation

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. 2016 January; 10.1109/CCECE.2016.7726852

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