Published 'Nonlinear In-situ Calibration of Strain-Gauge Force/Torque Sensors for Humanoid Robots' at the IEEE-RAS 22nd International Conference on Humanoid Robots in 2023; published 'Momentum-Based Extended Kalman Filter for Thrust Estimation on Flying Multibody Robots' in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters in 2022; participated in 'Nonlinear Model Identification and Observer Design for Thrust Estimation of Small-scale Turbojet Engines' in 2022; published 'Modeling, Identification and Control of Model Jet Engines for Jet Powered Robotics' in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters in 2020; participated in 'iRonCub: Towards Aerial Humanoid Robotics' in 2019.
Research Experience
Worked as a research fellow at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia with the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence research line (Dynamic Interaction Control until 2021), working on the Aerial Humanoid Robots project during 2018-2019. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate with Politecnico di Milano and the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence.
Education
Received a bachelor's degree with Honors in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Control and Instrumentation) from the University of Khartoum, Sudan in 2013; received a master's degree cum laude in Mechatronics Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy in 2018.
Background
Research interests include estimation and control of humanoid robots, focusing on aerial humanoid robots.