AI, robotics & HRI

Human-Robot Interaction Research

Research on mixed-reality interfaces and digital twins for programming physical robot trajectories.

  • IEEE CCECE 2026
  • Human-robot interaction
  • Digital twin

Human-robot interaction for robot programming using Augmented Reality and Digital Twin

Authors: M. Hashemi, K. Mojallal, S. Mozaffari, S. Alirezaee
Venue: 2026 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)
Date: March 2026

This work presents AURaPath, an augmented-reality approach for programming a UR10 robot using HoloLens 2 and a digital twin. The system supports spatial waypoint authoring, motion preview, and execution on the physical robot.

Theoretical computer science

Computational Geometry

Research on guarding problems, bounded fields of view, and visibility constraints.

  • Journal · 2026

City Guarding with Cameras of Bounded Field of View (Journal Version)

Authors: A. Biniaz, M. Hashemi
Venue: Computational Geometry, Volume 132, Article 102230

An extended journal version providing tight bounds and generalizations for guarding free space among buildings and convex shapes with limited-field-of-view cameras.

  • CCCG · 2025

Guarding Polygons With Mutually Visible π-Guards

Authors: A. Ahadi, A. Biniaz, M. Hashemi, A. Nakhaeisharif
Venue: 37th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry

A study of polygon guarding with 180° vertex guards under mutual-visibility constraints, establishing bounds for general and orthogonal polygons.

  • CCCG · 2023

City Guarding with Cameras of Bounded Field of View

Authors: A. Biniaz, M. Hashemi
Venue: 35th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry

A study of city-guarding and art-gallery variants that proves tight bounds for 180° field-of-view cameras guarding rectangular buildings and orthogonally convex polygons.