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Research Interests

• Safe physical human robot interaction
• Benchmarking
• Standardization

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Contact

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Selected Publications

• Cesare Tonola, Marco Faroni, Saeed Abdolshah, Mazin Hamad, Sami Haddadin, Nicola Pedrocchi, Manuel Beschi, Reactive and Safety-Aware Path Replanning for Collaborative Applications, 2025. [Project Page]
• Sergi Molina Mellado, Anna Mannucci, Martin Magnusson, Daniel Adolfsson, Henrik Andreasson, Mazin Hamad, Saeed Abdolshah, Ravi Teja Chadalavada, Luigi Palmieri, Timm Linder, Chittaranjan Srinivas Swaminathan, Tomasz Piotr Kucner, Marc Hanheide, Manuel Fernández-Carmona, Grzegorz Cielniak, Tom Duckett, Federico Pecora, Simon Bokesand, Kai O. Arras, Sami Haddadin, Achim J. Lilienthal, The ILIAD Safety Stack: Human-Aware Infrastructure-Free Navigation of Industrial Mobile Robots, 2024. [Project Page]
• Benn Proper, Alexander Kurdas, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Alessandro Saccon, Aim-Aware Collision Monitoring: Discriminating Between Expected and Unexpected Post-Impact Behaviors, 2023. [Project Page]
• Juan Heredia, Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Christian Schlette, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Labelling Lightweight Robot Energy Consumption: A Mechatronics-Based Benchmarking Metric Set, 2023. [Project Page]
• Edmundo Pozo Fortunic, Mehmet Can Yildirim, Dennis Ossadnik, Abdalla Swikir, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Optimally Controlling the Timing of Energy Transfer in Elastic Joints: Experimental Validation of the Bi-Stiffness Actuation Concept, 2023. [Project Page]
• Mazin Hamad, Alexander Kurdas, Nico Mansfeld, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Modularize-and-Conquer: A Generalized Impact Dynamics and Safe Precollision Control Framework for Floating-Base Tree-Like Robots, 2023. [Project Page]
• Simone Nertinger, Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Saeed Abdolshah, Abdeldjallil Naceri, Sami Haddadin, Influence of robot motion and human factors on users' perceived safety in HRI, 2023. [Project Page]
• Juan Heredia, Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Christian Schlette, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Labelling Lightweight Robot Energy Consumption: A Mechatronics-Based Benchmarking Metric Set, 2023. [Project Page]
• Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Henning Mayer, Lisa Burr, Nico Mansfeld, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Expectable Motion Unit: Avoiding Hazards From Human Involuntary Motions in Human-Robot Interaction, 2022. [Project Page]
• Nico Mansfeld, Guillermo Gómez Peña, Mazin Hamad, Alexander Kurdas, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Global Safety Characteristics of Wheeled Mobile Manipulators, 2022. [Project Page]
• Nico Mansfeld, Guillermo Gómez Peña, Mazin Hamad, Alexander Kurdas, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Global Safety Characteristics of Wheeled Mobile Manipulators, 2022. [Project Page]
• Petr Svarný, Mazin Hamad, Alexander Kurdas, Matej Hoffmann, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Functional Mode Switching for Safe and Efficient Human-Robot Interaction, 2022. [Project Page]
• Moritz Eckhoff, Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Elena Kern, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, An MPC Framework For Planning Safe \& Trustworthy Robot Motions, 2022. [Project Page]
• Alexander Kurdas, Mazin Hamad, Jonathan Vorndamme, Nico Mansfeld, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Online Payload Identification for Tactile Robots Using the Momentum Observer, 2022. [Project Page]
• Thomas Steinecker, Alexander Kurdas, Nico Mansfeld, Mazin Hamad, Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Mean Reflected Mass: A Physically Interpretable Metric for Safety Assessment and Posture Optimization in Human-Robot Interaction, 2022. [Project Page]
• Carlos Magno C. O. Valle, Alexander Kurdas, Edmundo Pozo Fortunic, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Real-time IMU-Based Learning: a Classification of Contact Materials, 2022. [Project Page]
• Dennis Ossadnik, Mehmet Can Yildirim, Fan Wu, Abdalla Swikir, Hugo T. M. Kussaba, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, BSA - Bi-Stiffness Actuation for optimally exploiting intrinsic compliance and inertial coupling effects in elastic joint robots, 2022. [Project Page]
• Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Florian Martineau, Nico Mansfeld, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Manual Maneuverability: Metrics for Analysing and Benchmarking Kinesthetic Robot Guidance, 2022. [Project Page]
• Alessandro Palleschi, Mazin Hamad, Saeed Abdolshah, Manolo Garabini, Sami Haddadin, Lucia Pallottino, Fast and Safe Trajectory Planning: Solving the Cobot Performance/Safety Trade-Off in Human-Robot Shared Environments, 2021. [Project Page]
• Mihael Simonic, Rok Pahic, Timotej Gaspar, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Manuel G. Catalano, Florentin Wörgötter, Ales Ude, Modular ROS-based software architecture for reconfigurable, Industry 4.0 compatible robotic workcells, 2021. [Project Page]
• Robin Jeanne Kirschner, João Jantalia, Nico Mansfeld, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, CSM: Contact Sensitivity Maps for Benchmarking Robot Collision Handling Systems, 2021. [Project Page]
• Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Alexander Kurdas, Kübra Karacan, Philipp Junge, Seyed Ali Baradaran Birjandi, Nico Mansfeld, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Towards a Reference Framework for Tactile Robot Performance and Safety Benchmarking, 2021. [Project Page]
• Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Nico Mansfeld, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Experimental Analysis of Impact Forces in Constrained Collisions According to ISO/TS 15066, 2021. [Project Page]
• Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Nico Mansfeld, Guillermo Gómez Peña, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Notion on the Correct Use of the Robot Effective Mass in the Safety Context and Comments on ISO/TS 15066, 2021. [Project Page]
• Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Lisa Burr, Melanie Porzenheim, Henning Mayer, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Involuntary Motion in Human-Robot Interaction: Effect of Interactive User Training on the Occurrence of Human Startle-Surprise Motion, 2021. [Project Page]
• Mazin Hamad, Alexander Kurdas, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Experimental Injury Biomechanics of Human Body Upper Extremities: Anatomy, Injury Severity Classification, and Impact Testing Setups, 2021. [Project Page]
• Mazin Hamad, Alexander Kurdas, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, A Robotics Perspective on Experimental Injury Biomechanics of Human Body Upper Extremities, 2021. [Project Page]
• Mazin Hamad, Nico Mansfeld, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, The Role of Robot Payload in the Safety Map Framework, 2019. [Project Page]