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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
UAE
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
59
Citations
18360
World Ranking
1702
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United Arab Emirates Leader Award
  • 2021 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Engineering Sciences

Overview

Sami Haddadin is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields within engineering and computer science, with a particular focus on robotics and related disciplines.

The primary fields of study in their work are:

  • Engineering
  • Computer Science

Within these broad fields, the main subfields of their research include:

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence

The key topics covered in their research outputs are:

  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics
  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Teleoperation and Haptic Systems
  • Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics

Some of the more frequent venues for publication include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine

Frequent co-authors in their works are:

  • Luis Figueredo
  • Abdeldjallil Naceri
  • Johannes Kühn
  • Tingli Hu
  • Abdalla Swikir

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Sami Haddadin include:

  • Dentronics: Towards robotics and artificial intelligence in dentistry (2020, Dental Materials)
  • Embedded ethics: a proposal for integrating ethics into the development of medical AI (2022, BMC Medical Ethics)
  • The Franka Emika Robot: A Reference Platform for Robotics Research and Education (2022, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine)
  • An embedded ethics approach for AI development (2020, Nature Machine Intelligence)
  • Introducing GARMI - A Service Robotics Platform to Support the Elderly at Home: Design Philosophy, System Overview and First Results (2021, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters)

In 2021, Sami Haddadin received recognition from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the field of Engineering Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Reach and grasp by people with tetraplegia using a neurally controlled robotic arm

    Leigh Robert Hochberg;Daniel Bacher;Beata Jarosiewicz;Beata Jarosiewicz;Nicolas Y. Masse

  • Variable impedance actuators: A review

    B. Vanderborght;A. Albu-Schaeffer;A. Bicchi;A. Bicchi;E. Burdet

  • Collision Detection and Safe Reaction with the DLR-III Lightweight Manipulator Arm

    A. De Luca;A. Albu-Schaffer;S. Haddadin;G. Hirzinger

  • The DLR lightweight robot : design and control concepts for robots in human environments

    Alin Albu-Schäffer;Sami Haddadin;Christian Ott;Andreas Stemmer

  • Robot Collisions: A Survey on Detection, Isolation, and Identification

    Sami Haddadin;Alessandro De Luca;Alin Albu-Schaffer

  • Collision detection and reaction: A contribution to safe physical Human-Robot Interaction

    S. Haddadin;A. Albu-Schaffer;A. De Luca;G. Hirzinger

  • Soft robotics

    A. Albu-Schaffer;O. Eiberger;M. Grebenstein;S. Haddadin

  • Requirements for Safe Robots: Measurements, Analysis and New Insights

    Sami Haddadin;Alin Albu-Schäffer;Gerd Hirzinger

  • The DLR hand arm system

    Markus Grebenstein;Alin Albu-Schaffer;Thomas Bahls;Maxime Chalon

  • The KUKA-DLR Lightweight Robot arm - a new reference platform for robotics research and manufacturing

    Rainer Bischoff;Johannes Kurth;Guenter Schreiber;Ralf Koeppe

  • Human-Like Adaptation of Force and Impedance in Stable and Unstable Interactions

    Chenguang Yang;G. Ganesh;S. Haddadin;S. Parusel

  • Safety Evaluation of Physical Human-Robot Interaction via Crash-Testing

    Sami Haddadin;Alin Albu-Schäffer;Gerd Hirzinger

  • The hand of the DLR Hand Arm System: Designed for interaction

    Markus Grebenstein;Maxime Chalon;Werner Friedl;Sami Haddadin

  • Physical Human–Robot Interaction

    Sami Haddadin;Elizabeth A. Croft

  • The role of the robot mass and velocity in physical human-robot interaction - Part I: Non-constrained blunt impacts

    S. Haddadin;A. Albu-Schaffer;M. Frommberger;G. Hirzinger

  • Rigid 3D geometry matching for grasping of known objects in cluttered scenes

    Chavdar Papazov;Sami Haddadin;Sven Parusel;Kai Krieger

  • On making robots understand safety: Embedding injury knowledge into control

    Sami Haddadin;Simon Haddadin;Augusto Khoury;Tim Rokahr

  • The Franka Emika Robot: A Reference Platform for Robotics Research and Education

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  • Unified passivity-based Cartesian force/impedance control for rigid and flexible joint robots via task-energy tanks

    Christopher Schindlbeck;Sami Haddadin

  • Robots Driven by Compliant Actuators: Optimal Control Under Actuation Constraints

    David J. Braun;Florian Petit;Felix Huber;Sami Haddadin

  • Dentronics: Towards robotics and artificial intelligence in dentistry

    Jasmin Grischke;Lars Johannsmeier;Lukas Eich;Leif Griga

  • A Hierarchical Human-Robot Interaction-Planning Framework for Task Allocation in Collaborative Industrial Assembly Processes

    Lars Johannsmeier;Sami Haddadin

  • Safety Evaluation of Physical Human-Robot Interaction via Crash-Testing, Robotics

    Sami Haddadin;Alin Albu-Schäffer;Gerd Hirzinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Alin Albu-Schaffer
Alin Albu-Schaffer German Aerospace Center
Gerd Hirzinger
Gerd Hirzinger German Aerospace Center
Antonio Bicchi
Antonio Bicchi Italian Institute of Technology
Etienne Burdet
Etienne Burdet Imperial College London
Markus Grebenstein
Markus Grebenstein German Aerospace Center
Jae-Bok Song
Jae-Bok Song Korea University
Chenguang Yang
Chenguang Yang University of Liverpool
Darwin G. Caldwell
Darwin G. Caldwell Italian Institute of Technology
Domenico Prattichizzo
Domenico Prattichizzo University of Siena

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