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Dr. Said Ghani Khan

Assistant Professor


+973 33428925
14-105A
srahman@uob.edu.bh

Areas of Expertise

Robotics, Control and AI

Education

PhD In Robotics and Control

Biography

PhD in Robotics and Control, Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) University of the West of England (and University of Bristol), UK Dr Said Ghani Khan received his Ph.D. degree in Robotics from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, Bristol (and University of Bristol), UK, in Feb. 2012.   He completed his M.Sc. (Distinction) degree in Robotics from the University of Plymouth, U.K., in 2006. Dr Khan has previously worked as an Assistant Professor in Taibah University, Saudi Arabia from 2013 to 2022. Dr Khan has also served as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Queen’s School of Engineering, University of Bristol, UK.  His research Interests include Safe Human Robot Interaction, Rehabilitation Robotics, AI Inspired Reinforcement Learning based Optimal Adaptive controllers.  He has written over fifty papers including journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has also coauthored a book titled “Biologically Inspired Control of Humanoid Robot Arms: Robust and Adaptive Approaches (Springer).”

Achievements

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Affiliations

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Grants & Contracts Awarded

  • Thermal management of a highly-concentrator triple-junction solar cell combined with a thermoelectric generator using different cooling techniques Deanship Research Project, 172k Sar Taibah University Saudi Arabia Co-Investigator. 1/3/2021-1/3/2023 Deanship Grant Taibah University
  • Robotics Arm for Stroke Rehabilitation, Deanship Grant Taibah University, amount : 67k SAR. as a Principal Investigator
  • Solar Energy, Deanship Grant Taibah University, amount 95k SAR. As a Co-Investigator.
  • PhD Scholarship (worth approx. £ 80,000) at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, Bristol and University of Bristol, UK working on Cooperative Human Robot Interaction System (CHRIS) FP7 European Union funded Project, 2008-2011.
  • Postdoctoral Research position for Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) Project, University of Bristol, UK, November, 2011
  • Doctoral Dissemination Award, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2012, £1000.
  • Doctoral Dissemination Award, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2011, £1000 GBP.
  • Travels grant (Rs1, 21,000) from Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan to attend International conference on advance design and Manufacture ICADAM 2008 in Sanya, China.

Publications & Presentations

Book:
  • Spiers, A., Khan, S. G. and Herrmann, G. (2016) Biologically Inspired Control of Humanoid Robot Arms. Springer International Publishing AG - ISBN: 9783319301587 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30160-0
II. Book Chapters in other BOOKS
  1. Carolina Rutili de Lima, Said G. Khan and Syed H. Shah (2024) Supervisory Control Theory: Principles and Applications in Patrolling Robots Advances in Engineering Research. Volume 57
  2. Anton. R. Ahmad, Said G. Khan, Syed H. Shah, and Chyi-Yeu Lin Digital Twin for a compliant Measurement Tool for Real Time Surface Measurement in Robotic Machining, Book Chapter in the Book, Functional Reverse Engineering of Machine Tools 2024, CRC, Taylor and Francis (to be published soon).
  3. Anton. R. Ahmad, Said G. Khan, Syed H. Shah, and Chyi-Yeu Lin Surface Normal Trajectory Generation for Robotic-Based Machining Operation on Curved Surface , Book Chapter in the Book, Functional Reverse Engineering of Machine Tools 2023, CRC, Taylor and Francis.
  4. Khan, S.G. Mahyuddin, M. and Samir Bendoukha (2018) Dynamic Control for HHI, Book Chapter: Springer Handbook of Humanoid A Reference
  5. Mahyuddin, M. , Herrmann, G. , Khan, S.G. (2012) A Novel Adaptive Control Algorithm in Application to a Humanoid Robot Arm. Chapter in the Book: Advances in Autonomous Robotics Springer, Volume: 7429, pp 25-36, Berlin / Heidelberg.
  6. Khan, S. G.; Lenz, A.; Herrmann, G.; Pipe, T. & Melhuish, C. (2011) Towards Safe Human Robot Interaction: Integration of Compliance Control, an Anthropomorphic Hand and Verbal Communication: Book Chapter In: Next Wave in Robotics, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011, 212, 17-24.
  7. Jallani, J., Khan, S.G., Herrmann, G. and Melhuish, C., (2011) A Novel Approach of Robust Compliance Control For Robot Fingers, Book Chapter, Published in Springer’s Next Wave in Robotics, 50-57, Berlin / Heidelberg .
  8. SG Khan, J Jalani, G Herrmann, T Pipe, C Melhuish (2011) Task space integral sliding mode controller implementation for 4DOF of a humanoid BERT II arm with posture control Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, 299-310.
  9. Khan, S. G., Naeem, W., Sutton, R. Sharma, S. (2008) Application of Soft Computing Techniques to a LQG Controller Design published in the book; Advanced Design and Manufacture to Gain Competitive Edge, pages 137-146, Springer London.
III. Journal Articles Published
  1. De Lima, C.R., Khan, S.G., Tufail, M. et al. Humanoid Robot Motion Planning Approaches: a Survey. J Intell Robot Syst 110, 86 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-024-02117-z (IF 3.3)
  2. Hajrah Sultan, Haris Ijaz, Asim Waris, Shafaq Mushtaq, Khurram Mushtaq, Niaz B Khan, Said Ghani Khan, Mehdi Tlija and Jamshed Iqbal (2023) Robust CNN Architecture for Classification of Reach and Grasp Actions from Neural Correlates: An Edge device Perspective. Measurement Science and Technology IOP Science. (IF 2.4)
  3. Carolina Rutili de Lima, Said G. Khan, Syed H. Shah and Luthiari Ferri (2023) Mask Region-based CNNs for Cervical Cancer Progression Diagnosis on Pap Smear Examinations. Elsevier, Journal of Heliyon. https://www.cell.com/heliyon/pdf/S2405-8440(23)08596-1.pdf (IF 4.0)
  4. Said G Khan (2023) Adaptive chaos control of a humanoid robot arm: a fault-tolerant scheme. Mech. Sci., 14, 209–222, https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-14-209-2023, 2023 (IF 1.3)
  5. Hassanein A. Refaey, Mohamed Abdelrahman, Said Ghani Khan, Mathkar Alharthi, Samir Bendoukha, Mohamed Emam (2023) An experimental investigation on passive cooling of a triple-junction solar cell at high concentrations using various straight-finned heat sink configurations.   Elsevier Journal Case Studies in Thermal Engineering (IF 6.268)
  6. Fazal E Nasir, Muhammad Tufail, Muhammad Haris, Jamshed Iqbal, Said G. Khan, Muhammad Tahir Khan (2023) Precision Agricultural Robotic Sprayer with Real-Time Tobacco Recognition and Spraying System Based on Deep Learning. PLOS One (IF 3.752).
  7. Muhammad Awais"

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Dr. Said Ghani Khan

Assistant Professor


+973 33428925
14-105A
srahman@uob.edu.bh

Areas of Expertise

Robotics, Control and AI

Education

PhD In Robotics and Control

Biography

PhD in Robotics and Control, Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) University of the West of England (and University of Bristol), UK Dr Said Ghani Khan received his Ph.D. degree in Robotics from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, Bristol (and University of Bristol), UK, in Feb. 2012.   He completed his M.Sc. (Distinction) degree in Robotics from the University of Plymouth, U.K., in 2006. Dr Khan has previously worked as an Assistant Professor in Taibah University, Saudi Arabia from 2013 to 2022. Dr Khan has also served as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Queen’s School of Engineering, University of Bristol, UK.  His research Interests include Safe Human Robot Interaction, Rehabilitation Robotics, AI Inspired Reinforcement Learning based Optimal Adaptive controllers.  He has written over fifty papers including journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has also coauthored a book titled “Biologically Inspired Control of Humanoid Robot Arms: Robust and Adaptive Approaches (Springer).”

Achievements

-

Affiliations

-

Grants & Contracts Awarded

  • Thermal management of a highly-concentrator triple-junction solar cell combined with a thermoelectric generator using different cooling techniques Deanship Research Project, 172k Sar Taibah University Saudi Arabia Co-Investigator. 1/3/2021-1/3/2023 Deanship Grant Taibah University
  • Robotics Arm for Stroke Rehabilitation, Deanship Grant Taibah University, amount : 67k SAR. as a Principal Investigator
  • Solar Energy, Deanship Grant Taibah University, amount 95k SAR. As a Co-Investigator.
  • PhD Scholarship (worth approx. £ 80,000) at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, Bristol and University of Bristol, UK working on Cooperative Human Robot Interaction System (CHRIS) FP7 European Union funded Project, 2008-2011.
  • Postdoctoral Research position for Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) Project, University of Bristol, UK, November, 2011
  • Doctoral Dissemination Award, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2012, £1000.
  • Doctoral Dissemination Award, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2011, £1000 GBP.
  • Travels grant (Rs1, 21,000) from Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan to attend International conference on advance design and Manufacture ICADAM 2008 in Sanya, China.

Publications & Presentations

Book:
  • Spiers, A., Khan, S. G. and Herrmann, G. (2016) Biologically Inspired Control of Humanoid Robot Arms. Springer International Publishing AG - ISBN: 9783319301587 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30160-0
II. Book Chapters in other BOOKS
  1. Carolina Rutili de Lima, Said G. Khan and Syed H. Shah (2024) Supervisory Control Theory: Principles and Applications in Patrolling Robots Advances in Engineering Research. Volume 57
  2. Anton. R. Ahmad, Said G. Khan, Syed H. Shah, and Chyi-Yeu Lin Digital Twin for a compliant Measurement Tool for Real Time Surface Measurement in Robotic Machining, Book Chapter in the Book, Functional Reverse Engineering of Machine Tools 2024, CRC, Taylor and Francis (to be published soon).
  3. Anton. R. Ahmad, Said G. Khan, Syed H. Shah, and Chyi-Yeu Lin Surface Normal Trajectory Generation for Robotic-Based Machining Operation on Curved Surface , Book Chapter in the Book, Functional Reverse Engineering of Machine Tools 2023, CRC, Taylor and Francis.
  4. Khan, S.G. Mahyuddin, M. and Samir Bendoukha (2018) Dynamic Control for HHI, Book Chapter: Springer Handbook of Humanoid A Reference
  5. Mahyuddin, M. , Herrmann, G. , Khan, S.G. (2012) A Novel Adaptive Control Algorithm in Application to a Humanoid Robot Arm. Chapter in the Book: Advances in Autonomous Robotics Springer, Volume: 7429, pp 25-36, Berlin / Heidelberg.
  6. Khan, S. G.; Lenz, A.; Herrmann, G.; Pipe, T. & Melhuish, C. (2011) Towards Safe Human Robot Interaction: Integration of Compliance Control, an Anthropomorphic Hand and Verbal Communication: Book Chapter In: Next Wave in Robotics, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011, 212, 17-24.
  7. Jallani, J., Khan, S.G., Herrmann, G. and Melhuish, C., (2011) A Novel Approach of Robust Compliance Control For Robot Fingers, Book Chapter, Published in Springer’s Next Wave in Robotics, 50-57, Berlin / Heidelberg .
  8. SG Khan, J Jalani, G Herrmann, T Pipe, C Melhuish (2011) Task space integral sliding mode controller implementation for 4DOF of a humanoid BERT II arm with posture control Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, 299-310.
  9. Khan, S. G., Naeem, W., Sutton, R. Sharma, S. (2008) Application of Soft Computing Techniques to a LQG Controller Design published in the book; Advanced Design and Manufacture to Gain Competitive Edge, pages 137-146, Springer London.
III. Journal Articles Published
  1. De Lima, C.R., Khan, S.G., Tufail, M. et al. Humanoid Robot Motion Planning Approaches: a Survey. J Intell Robot Syst 110, 86 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-024-02117-z (IF 3.3)
  2. Hajrah Sultan, Haris Ijaz, Asim Waris, Shafaq Mushtaq, Khurram Mushtaq, Niaz B Khan, Said Ghani Khan, Mehdi Tlija and Jamshed Iqbal (2023) Robust CNN Architecture for Classification of Reach and Grasp Actions from Neural Correlates: An Edge device Perspective. Measurement Science and Technology IOP Science. (IF 2.4)
  3. Carolina Rutili de Lima, Said G. Khan, Syed H. Shah and Luthiari Ferri (2023) Mask Region-based CNNs for Cervical Cancer Progression Diagnosis on Pap Smear Examinations. Elsevier, Journal of Heliyon. https://www.cell.com/heliyon/pdf/S2405-8440(23)08596-1.pdf (IF 4.0)
  4. Said G Khan (2023) Adaptive chaos control of a humanoid robot arm: a fault-tolerant scheme. Mech. Sci., 14, 209–222, https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-14-209-2023, 2023 (IF 1.3)
  5. Hassanein A. Refaey, Mohamed Abdelrahman, Said Ghani Khan, Mathkar Alharthi, Samir Bendoukha, Mohamed Emam (2023) An experimental investigation on passive cooling of a triple-junction solar cell at high concentrations using various straight-finned heat sink configurations.   Elsevier Journal Case Studies in Thermal Engineering (IF 6.268)
  6. Fazal E Nasir, Muhammad Tufail, Muhammad Haris, Jamshed Iqbal, Said G. Khan, Muhammad Tahir Khan (2023) Precision Agricultural Robotic Sprayer with Real-Time Tobacco Recognition and Spraying System Based on Deep Learning. PLOS One (IF 3.752).
  7. Muhammad Awais"

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