Email: anazir@ust.hk
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Abdullah Nazir

Postdoctoral Fellow at Hong Kong Center for Construction Robotics, by courtesy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). I'm interested in robotic manipulation. Specifically, the development of robot hands and planning/control software to skillfully handle objects for applications in domestic and industrial scenarios.


Please do reach out for any possible collaboration in the areas of manipulation, loco-manipulation, etc.

Publications

A Dexterous Robotic Hand for In-Hand Manipulation of Long, Thin Objects

Abdullah Nazir
Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation (RSS), 2024
Workshop paper


Picking by Tilting: In-Hand Manipulation for Object Picking using Effector with Curved Form

Yanshu Song, Abdullah Nazir, Darwin Lau, Yun–Hui Liu
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023
Full video  •   Paper  •   Code

Learning to Rock-and-Walk: Dynamic, Non-Prehensile, and Underactuated Object Locomotion Through Reinforcement Learning

Abdullah Nazir, Xu Pu, Juan Rojas, Jungwon Seo
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
Full video  •   Code

Rock-and-Walk Manipulation: Object Locomotion by Passive Rolling Dynamics and Periodic Active Control

Abdullah Nazir, Pu Xu, Jungwon Seo
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2022
Best Paper Award Finalist   •   Full video  •   Paper  •   Code

Dynamic Flex-and-Flip Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects

Chunli Jiang, Abdullah Nazir, Ghasem Abbasnejad, Jungwon Seo
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019
Full video  •   Paper  •   Code

Passive Dynamic Object Locomotion by Rocking and Walking Manipulation

Abdullah Nazir, Jungwon Seo
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019
Full video

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