Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Name: Mahmoud Tavakoli, Ph.D.
    Position: Associate Professor
    Website: http://lse.isr.uc.pt/people/mahmoud-tavakoli
    Office: LSE
    Internal Phone: 421104
    Email: mahmoud@isr.uc.pt




    Mahmoud Tavakoli Received his PhD in Automation and Instrumentation from University of Coimbra, Portugal in 2010, and his MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran. Currently he is a Post-Doc researcher in ISR-UC. He is leading a project for development of several mobile platforms for inspection and maintenance of piping in petrochemical plants, ship hull grooming and ship superstructure maintenance.

    Supervisor of:
    Davide Vaz Gomes, Research Engineer
    Daniel Fernandes, Research Engineer
    Manuel Carneiro, External Collaborator
    Abdollah Hajalilou, Senior Researcher
    Afsaneh LalSanati, Research Engineer
    Elahe Parvini, Postdoctoral Fellow
    Marta Freitas, Research Engineer
    Denis Rocha, Research Engineer
    Rafael Molter, M.Sc. Student
    Manuel Reis Carneiro, Ph.D. Student




    Journals

    M. Reis Carneiro, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, C. Majidi, Recyclable Thin‐Film Soft Electronics for Smart Packaging and E‐Skins, Advanced Science, 2023
    https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202301673
    A. Hajalilou, E. Parvini, J. Marques Pereira, P. Lopes, A. F. Silva, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Digitally Printable Magnetic Liquid Metal Composite for Recyclable Soft-Matter Electronics, Advanced Materials Technologies, 2023
    https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202201621
    M. Maranha Soares, A. F. Silva, P. Lopes, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Digitally Printed Liquid Metal Composite Antenna for Energy Harvesting: Toward Energy‐Autonomous Battery‐Free Wearable Bioelectronics, Advanced Sensor Research, 2023
    E. Parvini, A. Hajalilou, P. Lopes, A. F. Silva, M. Maranha Soares, Pedro Miguel Patrí, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, 3R Batteries: Resilient, Repairable, and Recyclable Based on Liquid Gallium Electrode, Advanced Materials Technologies, 2023
    Kar, Epsita, Ghosh, M. Tavakoli, Puja, SiO2 Nanoparticles Incorporated Poly (Vinylidene) Fluoride Composite for Efficient Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting and Dual-Mode Sensing, Energy Technology, 11(2), 2023
    M. Reis Carneiro, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, C. Majidi, Recyclable Thin-Film Soft Electronics for Smart Packaging and E-Skins, Adv. Sci., 10, 2023
    Sgotti Veiga, M. Reis Carneiro, R. Molter, Vinciguerra, Michael , C. Majidi, M. Tavakoli, Toward Fully Printed Soft Actuators: UV-Assisted Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Biphasic Liquid Metal Conductors, Adv. Mater. Technol. , 8, 2023
    Kar, Epsita, Ghosh, M. Tavakoli, Puja, Nature-Driven Biocompatible Epidermal Electronic Skin for Real-Time Wireless Monitoring of Human Physiological Signals, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15(16), 20372--20384, 2023
    Vinciguerra, Michael R, Patel, M. Tavakoli, C. Majidi, Dinesh K , Multimaterial Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Integrated Stretchable Electronics, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023

    Conferences

    Gharibi, M. Tavakoli, A., M., Costa, S. Radiofrequency System for Localizing a Robotic Hand on a Surface Tagged with Passive Resonators, in 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2023, 2023

    Journals

    Guilherme Costa, P. Lopes, A. LalSanati, André, , M. Freitas, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, 3D Printed Stretchable Liquid Gallium Battery, Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 32, Issue 27, 2022
    A. Cunha Chambel, A. LalSanati, P. Lopes, Timur Nikitin, , A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, , , Laser Writing of Eutectic Gallium–Indium Alloy Graphene-Oxide Electrodes and Semitransparent Conductors., Advanced Materials Technologies, Volume 7, Issue 5, 2022
    https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202101238
    C. Majidi, Kaveh Alizadeh, Y. Ohm, A. Marques Silva, M. Tavakoli, Liquid metal polymer composites: from printed stretchable circuits to soft actuators, Flexible and Printed Electronics, 2022
    https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-8585/ac515a

    Conferences

    M. Carneiro, L. P. Rosa, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Tailor-made smart glove for robot teleoperation, using printed stretchable sensors, 2022 IEEE 5th International Conference on Soft Robotics, RoboSoft 2022, pp. 722–728, 2022

    Journals

    E Kar, M Barman, S Das, A Das, P Datta, S Mukherjee, M. Tavakoli, Chicken feather fiber-based bio-piezoelectric energy harvester: an efficient green energy source for flexible electronics, , Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2021
    P. Lopes, D. Fernandes, A. Pires Miranda Ferreira da Silva, D. Green Marques, A. de Almeida, C. Majidi, M. Tavakoli, Bi-Phasic Ag-In-Ga-Embedded Elastomer Inks for Digitally Printed, Ultra-Stretchable, Multi-layer Electronics, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2021
    https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c22206
    P. Lopes, Santos, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Reversible polymer-gel transition for ultra-stretchable chip-integrated circuits through self-soldering and self-coating and self-healing, Nature Communications, 12(1), 1–10, 2021
    P. Lopes, D. Fernandes, A. Marques Silva, D. Green Marques, A. de Almeida, C. Majidi, M. Tavakoli, Bi-phasic Ag–In–Ga-embedded elastomer inks for digitally printed, ultra-stretchable, multi-layer electronics, ACS Applied Materials e Interfaces, 13(12), 14552–14561, 2021
    Carneiro, M. Tavakoli, Wearable Pressure Mapping Through Piezoresistive C-PU Foam and Tailor-Made Stretchable e-Textile, IEEE Sensors Journal, 21(24), 27374–27384, 2021
    A. Cunha Chambel, Sanati, P. Lopes, A. L., Nikitin, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Laser Writing of Eutectic Gallium–Indium Alloy Graphene-Oxide Electrodes and Semitransparent Conductors, Advanced Materials Technologies, 2101238, 2021
    Manuel Reis Carneiro, C. Majidi, M. Tavakoli, Dielectric Elastomer Actuators with Biphasic Ag–EGaIn Electrodes, Advanced Engineering Materials, 2021
    https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202100953
    A. Cunha Chambel, A. LalSanati, P. Lopes, Timur Nikitin, Rui Fausto, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Laser Writing of Eutectic Gallium–Indium Alloy Graphene‐Oxide Electrodes and Semitransparent Conductors, Advanced Materials Technologies, 2021
    https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202101238

    Conferences

    Matteo Virone, P. Lopes, Rui Pedro Rocha, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Dynamic hand gesture recognition using a stretchable multi-layer capacitive array, proximity sensing, and a SVM classifier, IROS 2021, IEEE, 2021
    10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636744

    Journals

    M. Carneiro, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Wearable and Comfortable e-Textile Headband for Long-Term Acquisition of Forehead EEG Signals, IEEE Sensors Journal, 20, 24, 2020
    https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2020.3009629
    Francisca Carvalho, P. Lopes, M. Carneiro, A. Serra, J. F. J. Coelho, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Nondrying, sticky hydrogels for the next generation of high-resolution conformable bioelectronics, ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2, 10, 3390–3401, 2020
    https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.0c00653
    A. Pires Miranda Ferreira da Silva, M. Tavakoli, Domiciliary Hospitalization through Wearable Biomonitoring Patches: Recent Advances, Technical Challenges, and the Relation to Covid-19, Sensors, 20 (23), 6835, 2020
    A. Pires Miranda Ferreira da Silva, Hugo Paisana, Tâ, J. Góis, A. Serra, J. F. J. Coelho, A. de Almeida, C. Majidi, M. Tavakoli, High Resolution Soft and Stretchable Circuits with PVA/Liquid‐Metal Mediated Printing, Advanced Materials Technologies, 2020
    https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202000343
    C. Leal, P. Lopes, A. Serra, J. F. J. Coelho, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Untethered Disposable Health Monitoring Electronic Patches with an Integrated Ag2O–Zn Battery, a AgInGa Current Collector, and Hydrogel Electrodes, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12, 3, 3407–3414, 2020
    https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b18462
    J. Alberto, C. Leal, Clá, P. Lopes, Hugo Paisana, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Fully Untethered Battery-free Biomonitoring Electronic Tattoo with Wireless Energy Harvesting, Scientific Reports, 5539, 2020
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62097-6

    Conferences

    R. P. Rocha, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Water based magnification of capacitive proximity sensors: Water containers as passive human detectors, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020
    https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9340877

    Journals

    C. Leal, P. Lopes, A. Serra, J. F. J. Coelho, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Untethered Disposable Health Monitoring Electronic Patches with Integrated Ag2O-Zn Battery, AgInGa Current Collector and Hydrogel Electrodes, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2019
    D. Fernandes, C. Majidi, M. Tavakoli, Digitally printed stretchable electronics: a review, Journal of Material Chemistry C , 7(45), 14035-14068, 2019
    P. Lopes, C. Majidi, M. Tavakoli, D. Vaz Gomes, D. Green Marques, P. Faia, J. Góis, T. F. Patrício, J. F. J. Coelho, P. Serra, A. de Almeida, Soft Bioelectronic Stickers: Selection and Evaluation of Skin-Interfacing Electrodes, Advanced Healthcare Materials, 8(15),, 2019
    P. Lopes, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Reliable interfaces for EGaIn multi-layer stretchable circuits and microelectronics, Lab on a Chip, 19(5), 897-906, 2019
    S. Maragliulo, P. Lopes, L. Osorio, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Foot Gesture Recognition through Dual Channel Wearable EMG System, IEEE Sensors Journal, 19(22), 10187-10197, 2019

    Journals

    H. Paisana, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Hydroprinted Electronics: Ultrathin Stretchable Ag-In-Ga E-Skin for Bioelectronics & Human-Machine Interaction, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10 (45), , 38760-38768, 2018
    M. Tavakoli, C. Benussi, P. Lopes, L. Osório, A. de Almeida, Robust hand gesture recognition with a double channel surface EMG wearable armband and SVM classifier, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 46, 121-130, 2018
    M. Tavakoli, M. Malakooti, H. Paisana, Y. Ohm, D. Green Marques, P. Lopes, A. Piedade, A. de Almeida, C. Majidi, EGaIn-Assisted Room-Temperature Sintering of Silver Nanoparticles for Stretchable, Inkjet-Printed, Thin-Film Electronics, Advanced Materials, 30(29), 2018
    P. Lopes, H. Paisana, A. de Almeida, C. Majidi, M. Tavakoli, Hydroprinted Electronics: Ultrathin Stretchable Ag-In-Ga E-Skin for Bioelectronics and Human-Machine Interaction , ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10(45), pp. 38760-38768 , 2018
    M. Tavakoli, M. Malakooti, H. Paisana, Y. Ohm, D. Marques, P. Lopes, A. Piedade, A. de Almeida, C. Majidi, EGaIn‐Assisted Room‐Temperature Sintering of Silver Nanoparticles for Stretchable, Inkjet‐Printed, Thin‐Film Electronics, Advanced Materials, 30 (29), 2018
    R. Rocha, P. Lopes, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, C. Majidi, Fabrication and Characterization of Bending and Pressure Sensors for a Soft Prosthetic Hand, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 28 (3), 034001, 2018
    M. Tavakoli, C. Viegas, L. Sprigna, A. de Almeida, SCALA: Scalable Modular Rail based Multi-agent Robotic System for Fine Manipulation over Large Workspaces., Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 421-438, 2018

    Conferences

    M. Tavakoli, M. Malakooti, H. Paisana, Y. Ohm, D. Marques, P. Lopes, A. Piedade, A. de Almeida, Fabrication of Soft and Stretchable Electronics Through Integration of Printed Silver Nanoparticles and Liquid Metal Alloy, ASME 2018 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Texas, USA, 2018

    Journals

    M. Tavakoli, P. Lopes, J. Lourenço, R. Rocha, L. Giliberto, A. de Almeida, C. Majidi, Autonomous selection of closing posture of a robotic hand through embodied soft matter capacitive sensors, IEEE Sensors Journal, 17, 17, 5669-5677, 2017
    M. Tavakoli, C. Benussi, J. Ministro Lourenço, Single channel surface EMG control of advanced prosthetic hands: A simple, low cost and efficient approach, Expert Systems with Applications, 79, 322-332, 2017
    M. Tavakoli, R. Rocha, L. Osorio, M. Almeida, A. de Almeida, V. Ramachandran, A. Tabatabai, T. Lu, C. Majidi, Carbon doped PDMS: conductance stability over time and implications for additive manufacturing of stretchable electronics, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering , 27 (3), 2017
    M. Tavakoli, A. Sayuk, J. Ministro Lourenço, P. Neto, Anthropomorphic finger for grasping applications: 3D printed endoskeleton in a soft skin, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 1-14, 2017
    C. Viegas, D. Daney, M. Tavakoli, A. de Almeida, Performance analysis and design of parallel kinematic machines using interval analysis, Mechanism and Machine Theory , 115, 218-236, 2017
    C. Viegas, M. Tavakoli, P. Lopes, R. Dessi, A. de Almeida, SCALA—A Scalable Rail-based Multirobot System for Large Space Automation: Design and Development, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 5, 22, 2208-2217, 2017
    C. Viegas, M. Tavakoli, A. de Almeida, A novel grid-based reconfigurable spatial parallel mechanism with large workspace, Mechanism and Machine Theory , 115, 149-167, 2017

    Book Sections

    M. Tavakoli, R. Rocha, J. Ministro Lourenço, T. Lu, C. Majidi, Soft bionics hands with a sense of touch through an electronic skin, Soft Robotics: Trends, Applications and Challenges, 5-10, Springer International Publishing, 2017

    Conferences

    R. Rocha, P. Lopes, A. de Almeida, M. Tavakoli, Soft-matter sensor for proximity, tactile and pressure detection, Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 3734-3738, Vancouver, CA, 2017
    C. Viegas, M. Tavakoli, A. de Almeida, SCALA-A Scalable Rail-based Multirobot System for Large Space Automation: Design and Development , IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 22(5), pp. 2208-2217 , 2017
    M. Tavakoli, J. Gomes dos Santos, J. Lourenço, A. de Almeida, Hydrogel-silicone conjunction as epidermal and dermal layers of bio-inspired soft finger skin , ENBENG 2017 - 5th Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering, Proceedings , 2017
    M. Tavakoli, J. Ministro Lourenço, A. de Almeida, 3D printed endoskeleton with a soft skin for upper-limb body actuated prosthesis, 2017 IEEE 5th Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering (ENBENG), 1-5, 2017

    Journals

    M. Tavakoli, R. Batista, P. Neto, A Compact Two-Phase Twisted String Actuation System: Modeling and Validation, Mechanism and Machine Theory , 11, 23-25, 2016
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094114X16000550
    M. Tavakoli, B. Enes, L. Marques, T. Feix, Actuation Strategies of Bionic Hands for a Better Anthropomorphism, Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 8(4), 2016
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4032405
    M. Tavakoli, J. Ministro Lourenço, C. Viegas, P. Neto, A. de Almeida, The hybrid OmniClimber robot: Wheel based climbing, arm based plane transition, and switchable magnet adhesion, Mechatronics, 36, Pages 136–146, 2016
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2016.03.007
    M. Tavakoli, B. Enes, T. Feix, L. Marques, Actuation Configurations of Bionic Hands for a Better Anthropomorphism Index, ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 8 (4), 2016
    https://mechanismsrobotics.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleID=2480534

    Journals

    M. Tavakoli, R. Batista, L. Sprigna, The UC Softhand: Light Weight Adaptive Bionic Hand with a Compact Twisted String Actuation System, Actuators, 5(1), 2015
    http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/act5010001
    M. Tavakoli, B. Enes, J. Santos, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, Underactuated anthropomorphic hands: Actuation strategies for a better functionality, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 74(Part A), 267-282, 2015
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2015.08.011
    M. Tavakoli, P. Lopes, L. Sprigna, C. Viegas, Motion control of an omnidirectional climbing robot based on dead reckoning method, Mechatronics, 30, 94-106, 2015
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2015.06.003

    Conferences

    M. Tavakoli, C. Viegas, J. Romão, A. de Almeida, InchwormClimber: A Light-Weight Single DOF Biped Climbing Robot with a Switchable Magnet Adhesion Unit, 2015 IEEE/RSJ IROS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, 2015
    M. Tavakoli, L. Sprigna, C. Viegas, A. de Almeida, State Estimation and Path Following on Curved and Flat Vertical Surfaces with Omniclimber Robots: Kinematics and Control, 2015 IEEE/RSJ IROS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, 2015
    M. Tavakoli, C. Viegas, J. Romão, P. Neto, A. de Almeida, Switchable Magnets for Robotics Applications, 2015 IEEE/RSJ IROS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, 2015
    M. Tavakoli, L. Sprigna, C. Viegas, A. de Almeida, InchwormClimber: A light-weight biped climbing robot with a switchable magnet adhesion unit: Kinematics and control, Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Gemany, 2015

    Journals

    V. Silva, M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, Optimization of a three degrees of freedom DELTA manipulator for well-conditioned workspace with a floating point genetic algorithm, International Journal of Natural Computing Research (IJNCR) , IGI Global, 2014
    http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijncr.2014100101
    M. Tavakoli, C. Viegas, Analysis and application of dual-row omnidirectional wheels for climbing robots, Mechatronics , 2014
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2014.04.003
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957415814000671

    Conferences

    M. Tavakoli, B. Enes, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, Actuation strategy for underactuated anthropomorphic hands, in IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2014) , Chicago, Illinois, 2014
    M. Tavakoli, A. de Almeida, Adaptive under-actuated anthropomorphic hand: ISR-SoftHand, IROS 2014,IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems, Chicago, EUA, 2014
    V. Gaspar, M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, Dexterity optimization of a three degrees of freedom DELTA parallel manipulator, In Armada, M.A., Sanfeliu, A., Ferre, M., eds.: ROBOT2013: First Iberian Robotics Conference, Volume 253, pp. 719-726, Springer, 2014
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03653-3_51

    Journals

    M. Tavakoli, C. Viegas, L. Marques, J. Pires, A. de Almeida, OmniClimbers: Omni-directional magnetic wheeled climbing robots for inspection of ferromagnetic structures, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 61 (9), pp. 997-1007, 2013
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2013.05.005
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921889013001024

    Conferences

    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, Flexirigid, a novel two phase gripper, in IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2013), Tokyo Big Sight, Japan, 2013
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2013.6697086
    M. Tavakoli, C. Viegas, L. Marques, J. Pires, Magnetic Omnidirectional Wheels for Climbing Robots, in IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2013), Tokyo Big Sight, Japan, 2013
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2013.6696363
    M. Tavakoli, C. Viegas, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, OmniClimber-II: An omnidirectional climbing robot with high maneuverability and flexibility to adapt to non-flat surfaces, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), art. no. 6630746, pp. 1349- 1354, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630746

    Journals

    M. Tavakoli, G. Cabrita, R. Faria, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, Cooperative multi-agent mapping of three-dimensional structures for pipeline inspection applications, The International Journal of Robotics Research, 31 (12), pp. 1489-1503, SAGE Pub, 2012
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0278364912461536
    WOS: 000311643300009

    Conferences

    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, OmniClimber: An Omnidirectional Light Weight Climbing Robot with Flexibility to Adapt to Non-Flat Surfaces, IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2012), art. no. 6385454, pp. 280-285, Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2012.6385454
    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6385454
    WOS:000317042700043

    Journals

    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, A low-cost approach for self-calibration of climbing robots, Robotica, vol. 29, issue 1, pp. 23-34, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0263574710000676
    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, 3DCLIMBER: Climbing and Manipulation over 3D Structures, Mechatronics, vol. 21, pp. 48-62, Elsevier, 2011
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2010.08.006

    Conferences

    M. Tavakoli, R. Faria, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, Autonomous Mapping for Inspection of 3D Structures, in IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2011), art. no. 6048135, pp. 4277- 4283, San Francisco, USA, 2011
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2011.6094494
    WOS:000297477504095

    Journals

    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, Development of an Industrial Pipeline Inspection Robot, Journal of Industrial Robots, Vol. 37, No. 3, Emerald Group Pub., 2010
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01439911011037721

    Conferences

    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, F. Bonsignorio, Biomimetic robotic climbers, in Proc. of the 13th Intl. Conf. on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Supporting Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR2010), Nagoya, Japan, 2010

    Thesis

    M. Tavakoli, Design, Implementation, Path Planning and Control of a Pole Climbing Robot, Ph.D. Thesis, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, 2010, Supervised by Lino Forte Marques and Aníbal Traça de Almeida

    Conferences

    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, Self Calibration of Step-by-Step Based Climbing Robots, in Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2009), art. no. 5354746 , pp. 3297-3303, St. Louis, MO, USA, 2009
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2009.5354746
    WOS:000285372901224
    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, A Comparison Study on Pneumatic Muscles and Electrical Motors, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (RoBio2008), pp. 1590-1594, Bangkok, Thailand, 2009
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4913238
    WOS:000271966900269

    Journals

    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, Propose of a benchmark for pole climbing robots, 8 Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics , 44 , pp. 215-222, 2008

    Book Sections

    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, Benchmarks for Pole Climbing Robots, European Robotics Symposium 2008, Herman Bruyninckx; Libor Preucil; Miroslav Kulich (Eds.), Vol. 44, pp. 215-222, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 2008
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78317-6_22

    Conferences

    M. Tavakoli, A. Marjovi, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, 3DCLIMBER: A climbing robot for inspection of 3D human made structures, in Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2008), pp. 4130-4135, Nice, France, 2008
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2008.4651024
    WOS:000259998202212
    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, A Comparison Study on Pneumatic Muscles and Electrical Motors, Using the 3DClimber as a Case Study, in Proc. of the 11th Intl. Conf. on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Supporting Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR2008), pp. 255-262, Coimbra, Portugal, 2008
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812835772_0031
    M. Tavakoli, A. Marjovi, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, A Step Toward Autonomous Pole Climbing Robots, in Proc. of the 11th Intl. Conf. on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Supporting Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR2008), pp. 1114-1121, Coimbra, Portugal, 2008
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812835772_0133

    Book Sections

    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, Path Planning for the 3DCLIMBER, Advances in Climbing and Walking Robots, Ming Xie, Steven Dubowsky, Jean-guy Fontaine, M. Osman Tokhi, Gurvinder S. Virk (Eds.), pp. 193-202, World Scientific Pub., 2007
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812770189_0024

    Conferences

    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, Path Planning for the 3DCLIMBER, Proc. of the 10th Intl. Conf. on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR2007), Singapore, 2007

    Conferences

    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, Climbing Robots for Human-Made 3D structures, Proc. of the 9th Intl. Conf. on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR2006), pp. 172-176, Brussels, Belgium, 2006
    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, Design and Simulation of a Novel Pole Climbing and Manipulating Robot, Proc. of the 9th Intl. Conf. on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR2006), pp. 177-182, Brussels, Belgium, 2006
    M. Tavakoli, L. Marques, A. de Almeida, Pole Climbing and Manipulating Robots: Assessment of Different Design Categories, Int. Symp. On Robotics and Systems (ISR2006), Munich, Germany, 2006

    Ph.D. Thesis

    Carlos Xavier Pais Viegas, SCALA: Scalable Modular Rail based Multi-agent Robotic System for Fine Manipulation over Large Workspaces (11/2017) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli and Aníbal Traça de Almeida

    M.Sc. Thesis

    Luís Gaspar, Implementation of an IoT Architecture for Wireless Monitoring of Patients in Smart Beds (9/2023) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli and David Portugal

    André Alexandre Ribeiro Araújo, Securing the BLE Transmission of Vital Signs in Wireless Patient Biomonitoring (9/2023) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli and David Portugal

    Rafael Molter, Toward bio-inspired artificial muscle fascicles based on liquid crystal elastomer (2/2023) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    José Pedro Neto Carvalheiro, Wearable SpO2 Monitoring in the Chest Zone: Design, Fabrication, and Validation (11/2021) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    João Pedro Marques Pereira, Soft, Conformal, and Printed Pressure Mapping Films and E-Textiles (9/2021) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Miguel Maranha Soares, Printed RFID antennas and energy harvesting for stretchable biomonitoring patches (7/2020) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Bruno Santos, Methods for Interfacing stretchable inks and microchips (7/2020) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Detion Brahmiai, 3. Wearable Temperature and Heart rate monitor for analysis of Sleep Apnea (7/2020) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Francisca Carvalho, • Soft, adhesive, conductive, tough hydrogels for bioelectronics (4/2019) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Alexandre Chambel, • Nano particle ink for printed stretchable electronics (4/2019) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Manuel Carneiro, Conformal multi electrode EEG monitoring system (4/2019) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Cristina Leal, Stretchable Ag-Zinc Battery (9/2018) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Luís Negrão, Multi-layer Ag-PDMS based stretchable circuits (9/2018) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    João Vilarinho, Wearable EMG armband for health and fun (9/2018) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Luana Giliberto, Soft matter capacitive sensors for a prosthetic hand, a step toward emboddied intelligence (9/2017) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Silivia DAngelo, Single Channel EMG control of a soft robotic hand (9/2017) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Daniel Green Marques, Interfacing integrated circuits in stretchable electronics (9/2017) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Tatiana Patricio, Hydrogel-PDMS conjunctions for stretchable Electronics (9/2017) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Davide Vaz Gomes, Stretchable electrodes for Biomonitoring patches (9/2017) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Hugo Paisana, Hydroprinted Electroncis (9/2017) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Rui Pedro Rocha, Fabrication techniques of soft tactile sensors for prosthetic applications (11/2016) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    João Ministro Lourenço, Hybrid Omniclimbers based on switchable magnets (11/2015) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli

    Andriy Sayuk, A low cost prosthetic hand for a kid amputee (11/2015) Supervised by Mahmoud Tavakoli