Arsalan Akhter
Robotics Engineering
Education:
Masters of Science, Mechatronics Engineering - National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, 2014 Bachelors of Engineering, Electrical Engineering -
National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, 2011
I am a PhD Student in the Robotics Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where I am working at the NEST Lab. Currently, my research interests are towards swarm-robotics, and how the energy demands of a swarm of robots can be met using the swarm infra-structure itself.
Office Location
85 Prescott, 220
Contact
Phone:
508-831-6665
Lab website
Awards
PhD Scholar - The Fulbright Scholarship
Research Interests
Research Interests:
Swarm Robotics
Scholarly Work
Scholarly Work:
Akhter A.*, Tahir M.*, Ajmal A., Hashmi S.M.U., "A Review of Techniques and Approaches in Robocup @Home". In the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, Karachi, Pakistan, December 2015.
Ali, S. U., Akhter A. and Faraz K. "Cellular Automata based Motion Planning for Mobile Robots." In the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2012), Guangzhou, China, December 2012.
Akhter A., Butt U.T., Azhar M., Raza S.M., Ahmed T., Zia G.,Bhatti M.S., Sohail J., Arshad M., Imran Z., Mehmood A., Malik M.T., Iqbal T., Amir A., Salman M., Faraz K., Khan S., "EMEnents 2013 Team Description". Team Description Paper, Robocup Internation
Hashmi, S. M. U., Ajmal A., Akhter A., Khalid, S., Manzoor, W., Ahmed, A., “Application Layer Time Synchronization Utilizing Symbol Timing Recovery in Wireless Sensor Networks”. In the Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Modeling
Zaman, M. A., Shafqat, S., Imran, A., Noor, I., Akhter, A., and Faraz, K. "Online Vision-Based Techniques for Robotic Soccer Environment". In the Proceedings of the 43rd International Symposium on Robotics (ISR2012), Taipei, Taiwan, August 2012.