[-] Journal Publications:

[J22] Manjunatha, H., Pareek, S., Memar, AH., Kesavadas, T. and Esfahani, ET., "Effect of Haptic Assistance Strategy on Mental Engagement in Fine Motor Tasks." Journal of Medical Robotic Research, Accepted, 2020.

[J21] Memar, AH., and Esfahani, ET., "Objective Assessment of Human Workload in Physical Human-Robot Cooperation using Brain Monitoring." ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, Vol.9, No.2, Pp.13:1-12:21, 2020.

[J20] Memar, AH., and Esfahani, ET., "A Robot Gripper with Variable Stiffness Actuation for Enhancing Collision Safety." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol.67, No.8, Pp.6607-16, 2020.

[J19] Baghdadi, A., Cavuoto, LA., Jones-Farmer, A., Rigdon, SE., Esfahani, ET., and Megahed, FM., "Estimating the Onset of Physical Fatigue at the Workplace: A Statistical Perspective on Using Wearables to Detect Changes in Gait Trajectory Parameters." Journal of Quality Technology, Accepted, 2019.

[J18] Younespour, M., Atighehchian, A, Kianfar, K., and Esfahani, ET., "Using Mixed Integer Programming and Constraint Programming for Operating Rooms Scheduling with Modified Block Strategy." Operations Research For Health Care, Vol.23, Pp.100220, 2019.

[J17] Pareek, S., Manjunata, H., Esfahani, ET and Kesavadas, T., "MyoTrack: Realtime Estimation of Subject Participation in Robotic Rehabilitation using sEMG and IMU." IEEE Access, Vol.7, Pp.76030 - 76041, 2019.

[J16] Jujjavarapu, SS., Memar, AH., Karami, AM. and Esfahani, ET., "Variable Stiffness Mechanism for Suppressing Unintended Forces in Physical Human Robot Interaction." Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, Vol.11, No.2. Pp.,020915-1-7, 2019.

[J15] Baghdadi, A., Megahed, F., Esfahani, ET. and ,Cavuoto, L., "A Machine Learning Approach to Detect Changes in Gait Parameters Following a Fatiguing Occupational Task." Ergonomics, Vol.61, No.8, Pp.1116-1129, 2018.

[J14] Memar, AH., and Esfahani, ET., "Physiological Measures for Human Performance Analysis in Human-Robot Teamwork: Case of Tele-Exploration." IEEE Access, Vol.6, Pp.1-12, 2018.

[J13] Ghobadi, M., Singla, P., and Esfahani, ET., "Robust Attitude Estimation from Uncertain Observations of Inertial Sensors using Covariance-Inflated Multiplicative Extended Kalman Filter." IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol.67, No.1, Pp.209-217, 2018.

[J12] Ghobadi, M., and Esfahani, ET., "A Robust Automatic Gait Monitoring Approach Using a Single IMU for Home-based Applications." Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.17, No.5, Pp.17500771-20, 2017.

[J11] Ghobadi, M., Majji, M. and Esfahani, ET., "AOSID: An analytical solution to the output-only system identification problem to estimate physical parameters and unknown input simultaneously." Structural Control and Health Monitoring, Vol.24, No.8, Pp.1-23, 2017.

[J10] Hussein, AA., Shafiei, SB., Sharif, M., Esfahani, ET., Ahmad, B., Kozlowski, JD., Hashmi, Z. and Guru, K.A. "Technical mentorship during robot-assisted surgery: a cognitive analysis." British Journal of Urology, BJU International, Vol.118, No.3, Pp.429-436, 2016.

[J9] Guru, K., Shafiei, SB., Khan, A., Hussein, A., Sharif, M. and Esfahani, ET., "Undrestanding Cognitive Performance during Robot Assisted Surgery." Journal of Urology, Vol.86, No.4, Pp.751-757, 2015.

[J8] Guru, K., Esfahani, ET., Raza, S.J., Bhat, R., Wang, K., Hammond, Y., Wilding, G., Peabody, J.O. and Chowriappa, A.J. "Cognitive Skill Assessment During Robotic-Assisted Surgery." British Journal of Urology, BJU International, Vol.115, No.1, Pp.166-174, 2015.

[J7] Esfahani, ET. and Horvath, I., "Editorial: Application of brain-computer interfaces in CAD/E systems." Computer-Aided Design, Vol.54, Pp.1-2, 2014.

[J6] Esfahani, ET., Wang, S. and Sundararajan V., "Multi-sensor Wireless System for Eccentricity and Bearing Fault Detection in Induction Motors." IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics, Vol.19, No.3, Pp.818-826, 2014.

[J5] Esfahani, ET. and Sundararajan V., "Classification of Primitive Shapes Using Brain-Computer Interfaces." Computer-Aided Design, Vol.44, No.10, Pp.1011-1019, 2012.

[J4] Esfahani, ET. and Sundararajan V., "Using Brain-Computer Interfaces to Detect Human Satisfaction in Human-Robot Interaction." International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol.8, No.1, Pp.87-101, 2011.

[J3] Esfahani, ET. and Elahinia, M.H., "Developing an Adaptive Controller for a Shape Memory Alloy Walking Assistive Device." Journal of Vibration and Control, Vol.16, No.13, Pp.1897-1914, 2010.

[J2] Esfahani, ET. and Elahinia, M.H., "Stable Walking Pattern for an SMA-Actuated Biped" IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics, Vol.12, No.5, Pp.534-541, 2007.

[J1] Azimi, E., Ghobadi, M., Esfahani, ET. , Keshmiri, M. and Tehrani A.F., "Three-Dimensional Smooth Trajectory Planning Using Realistic Simulation." Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3276 /2005, Ed by D. Nardi et al, Pp. 381-392. Springer-Verlag GmbH.

[-] Book Chapters

[B4] Manjunata, H. and Esfahani, ET., "Application of Reinforcement and Deep Learning Techniques in Brain Machine Interfaces", Advances in Motor Neuroprosthesis, Ed. Vinjamuri, R., Pp.1-14, Springer 2020.

[B3] Esfahani, ET., McBride, DW., Shafiei, SB. and Obenaus, A., "A Real-Time Analysis of Traumatic Brain Injury from T2 Weighted Magnetic Resonance Images Using a Symmetry-based Algorithm", Video Bioinformatics, Vol.22, Computational Biology, Ed. Bhanu, B., Talbot, P., Pp.99-117, Springer 2015.

[B2] Elahinia, M.H., Esfahani, E.T., Wang, S., "Control of SMA systems: review of the state of the art." Shape Memory Alloys: Manufacture, Properties and Applications. Ed. by Chen, R.C., Nova Science Publishers, 2011, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-60741-789-7.

[B1] Esfahani, E.T., "Dynamic Modeling with Dymola" A Key to Some Software Packages in Mechanical Engineering, Ed. by Forouzan, M., Pp. 259-274 Kelid-Amouzesh Press, Iran 2005, ISBN: 964-8617-45-7

[-] Papers in Conference Proceedings:

[C45] Basu, A.,Jujjavarapu, S., and Esfahani, ET., "Design of a Novel Variable Stiffness Active Ankle Foot Orthosis Using Permanent Magnets for Drop Foot Assistance." 2020 ASME IDETC/CIE Conference, Aug. 16-19, 2020--St. Louis, MO.

[C44] Manjunata, H., Pareek, S., Memar, AH., Kesavadas, T. and Esfahani, ET., "Effect of Haptic Assistance Strategy on Mental Engagement in Fine Motor Tasks." The Second Neuroadaptive Technology Conference, July. 16-18, 2019--Liverpool, UK.

[C43] Jujjavarapu, S., and Esfahani, ET., "A Variable Stiffness Mechanism for Stable Interaction in Collaborative Environment: An EMG Study." 2019 ASME IDETC/CIE Conference, Aug. 18-21, 2019--Anaheim, CA.

[C42] Jujjavarapu, S., and Esfahani, ET., "Improving Stability in Upper Limb Rehabilitation Using Variable Stiffness." 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), July 23-27, 2019--Berlin, Germany.

[C41] Gorantla, KR., and Esfahani, ET., "Surgical Skill Assessment using Motor Control Features and Hidden Markov Model." 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), July 23-27, 2019--Berlin, Germany.

[C40] Pareek, S., Manjunatha, H., Esfahani, ET., and Kesavadas, T., "MyoTrack: Tracking Subject Participation in Robotic Rehabilitation using sEMG and IMU." International Symposium on Medical Robotics, April 3-5, 2019-- Atlanta, GA.

[C39]Manjunatha, H., Memar, AH., and Esfahani, ET., "Classification of Task Type and Reaction Time of Operator in Simulated Multiple Robot Tele-Exploration." 2nd International Neuroergonomics Conference, June 27-29, 2018-- Philadelphia, PA.

[C38]Memar, AH., and Esfahani, ET., "Using EEG for Predicting User Preferences of Physical Compliance in Human-Robot Cooperation." 2nd International Neuroergonomics Conference, June 27-29, 2018-- Philadelphia, PA.

[C37]Jujjavarapu, S., Karami, MA and Esfahani, ET., "Variable Stiffness Mechanism for Tremor Suppression in Human-Robot Interaction." 2018 ASME IDETC/CIE Conference, Aug 26-29, 2018--Quebec City, Canada.

[C36]Memar, AH., and Esfahani, ET., "A Variable Stiffness Gripper with Antagonistic Magnetic Springs for Enhancing Manipulation." Robotics: Science and Systems, June 26-30, 2018-- Pittsburgh, PA.

[C35] Memar, AH., and Esfahani, ET., "EEG Correlates of Motor Control Difficulty in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: A Frequency Domain Analysis", IEEE Haptics Symposium, Pp.229-234, March 25-28, 2018, San Francisco – CA.

[C34] Jujjavarapu, S, Memar, AH., and Esfahani, ET., "Design of a 2D haptic system with passive variable stiffness using permanent magnets for upper-limb rehabilitation", ASME IDETC 2017 Conference, Pp.4228-4231, Aug 30-Sep 2, 2017, Cleveland – OH.

[C33] Memar, AH., Mastroarde, N., and Esfahani, ET., "Design of a Novel Variable Stiffness Gripper Using Permanent Magnets", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 29-June 3, 2017, Singapore.

[C32] Memar, AH., and Esfahani, ET., "Design of a Novel Variable Stiffness Grippe", IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Aug 26-31, 2016, New York City – NY.

[C31] Memar, AH., and Esfahani, ET., "Human Control of Multiple Robots in A Collaborative Exploration: Individual Differences in Visual Skills", IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Aug 26-31, 2016, New York City – NY.

[C30] Ghobadi, M., and Esfahani, ET., "A Robust Method to Improve Estimation Accuracy of Walking Gait Kinematics by Considering Geometrical Constraints on Kinect Data", ASME IDETC 2016 Conference, Aug 21-24, 2016, Charlotte – NC.

[C29] Pillai, N., Patra, A., and Esfahani, ET., "Modeling Post-Impact Injury Propagation in TraumaticBrain Injury", ASME IDETC 2016 Conference, Aug 21-24, 2016, Charlotte – NC.

[C28] Dinparastdjadid, A., and Esfahani, ET., "Spike Sorting via Multi-Cluster Feature Selection", ASMEIDETC 2016 Conference, Aug 21-24, 2016, Charlotte – NC.

[C27] Memar, AH., and Esfahani, ET., "Human Performance in a Mixed Human-Robot Team: Design of a Collaborative Framework", ASME IDETC 2016 Conference, Aug 21-24, 2016, Charlotte – NC.

[C26] Ghobadi, M., Yuqian, Z., Rana, A., Esfahani, ET., and Esfandiari, L. "Quantitative Estimation of Electro-osmosis Force on Charged Particles inside a Borosilicate Nanopore-Based Sensor" 38th International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, IEEE EMBC 2016, Pp.4228-4231, Aug 16-20,2016 – Orlando FL.

[C25] Guru, KA., Shafiei, SB., Khan, A., Sharif, M., Raza, S.J., Fiorica, T., Wing, J., Durrani, Esfahani,ET., "Surgical Workload Evaluation during Robotic Assisted Surgery", American Urological Association Annual Meeting, May 15-19, 2015 – New Orleans, LA.

[C24] Guru, KA.,Shafiei, SB., Khan, A., Sharif, M., Korszen, S., Berka, C., Esfahani, ET., "Surgical Mentorship During Robot-assisted Surgery: Is the Surgeon really with the Program?" Science of Team Science Conference, June 2-5, 2015 –Bethesda, MD.

[C23] Ghobadi, M., Kesavadas, T., Sosnoff, J. and Esfahani, ET., "Using Minimum Jerk Model for Human Activity Classification in Home-Based Monitoring", IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, Pp.909-912, Aug 11-14, 2015, Singapore.

[C22] Shafiei, SB., Guru, KA. and Esfahani, ET., "Using Two-Third Power Law for Segmentation of Hand Movement in Robotic Assisted Surgery", ASME IDETC 2015 Conference, Aug 2-5, 2015, Boston - MA.

[C21] Ghobadi, M., Majji, M., and Esfahani, ET., "Simultaneous Output-Only Identification of Physical Parameters and Unknown Inputs of Linear Systems", ASME IDETC 2015 Conference, Aug 2-5, 2015, Boston - MA.

[C20] Pareek, S., Sharma, V., and Esfahani, ET., "Human Factor Study in Gesture Based CAD Environment", ASME IDETC 2015 Conference, Aug 2-5, 2015, Boston - MA.

[C19] Esfahani, ET., Pareek, S., Chembrammel, P., Ghobadi, M. and Kesavadas, T., "Adaptation of Rehabilitation Systems based on User’s Mental Engagement", ASME IDETC 2015 Conference, Aug 2-5, 2015, Boston - MA.

[C18] Memar, AH., and Esfahani, ET., "Modeling and Dynamic Parameter Identification of the Schunk Powerball Robotic Arm", ASME IDETC 2015 Conference, Aug 2-5, 2015, Boston - MA.

[C17] Bani-Hani, M., Borazjani, I., Esfahani, ET., Krovi, V., and Karami, AM., "Generation and Optimization of Traveling Vibrating Waves in Self-Assembling Swimming Smart Boxes", ASME IDETC 2015 Conference, Aug 2-5, 2015, Boston - MA.

[C16] Daghooghi, M., Borazjani, I., Karami, MA and Esfahani, E.T., "Self-Propelled Swimming Simulations of Self-Assembling Smart Boxes." ASME 2014 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS2014), September 8-10, 2014 - Newport, RI, USA.

[C15] Karami, MA., Esfahani, E.T., Daghooghi, M. and Borazjani, I., "Self-Assembling Swimming Smart Boxes." ASME 2014 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS2014), September 8-10, 2014 - Newport, RI, USA.

[C14] Ghobadi, M., and Esfahani, E.T., "Foot-Mounted Inertial Measurement Unit for Activity Classification." 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 14), August 26-30, 2014 - Chicago, IL, USA.

[C13] Shafiei, SB., and Esfahani, E.T., "Aligning Brain Activity and Sketch in Multi-Modal CAD Interface." ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference (DETC 2014), August 17-20, 2014 - Buffalo, NY, USA.

[C12] Ghobadi, M., and Esfahani, E.T., "Adaptive Segmentation for Air Gesture Identification." ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference (DETC 2014), August 17-20, 2014 - Buffalo, NY, USA.

[C11] Shankar, SS., Jaiswal, P.,Esfahani, E.T., and Rai, R., "Sketching in Air: A Single Stroke Classification Framework." ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference (DETC 2014), August 17-20, 2014 - Buffalo, NY, USA.

[C10] Deshpande, A., Esfahani, E.T., and Rai, R., "Geons and Non-Accidental Relations in 2D Shape Abstraction: A BCI Study." ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference (DETC 2014), August 17-20, 2014 - Buffalo, NY, USA.

[C09] Bhat, R., Deshpande, A., Rai, R. and Esfahani, E.T., "BCI-touch based system, a multimodal CAD interface for object manipulation." ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Expositions (IMECE 2013), NOV 15-21, 2013 - San Diego, CA.

[C08] Wang, S., Esfahani, E.T. and Sundararajan, V., "Evaluation of SSVEP as Passive Feedback for Improving the Performance of Brain Machine Interfaces." ASME 2012 Design Engineering Technical Conference (DETC 2012), August 12-15, 2012 - Chicago, IL.

[C07] Esfahani, E.T. and Sundararajan, V., "Using Brain Computer Interfaces For Geometry Selection In CAD Systems: P300 Detection Approach." ASME 2011 Design Engineering Technical Conference (DETC 2011), August 28-31, 2011 - Washington DC.

[C06] Esfahani, E.T. and Sundararajan, V., "A Text Understanding Interface for Physical System Modeling and Simulation." ASME 2009 Design Engineering Technical Conference (DETC 2009), August 30- September 2, 2009 - San Diego CA.

[C05] Esfahani, E.T., Elahinia, M.H., Hefzy, M.S., Armstrong, C., "Shape Memory Alloys, An Alternative Actuation Method for Orthosis." North American Congress on Biomechanics (NACOB 2008), Aug 5-9, 2008 - Ann Arbor, MI.

[C04] Tarkesh, E. and Elahinia, M.H., "Nonlinear Control Techniques for a SMA Active Ankle Foot Orthosis." ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Expositions (IMECE 2007), NOV 11-15, 2007 - Seattle, WA.

[C03] Esfahani, E.T., Elahinia, M.H. and Hefzy, M.S., "Developing an Active Ankle Foot Orthosis Based on Shape Memory Alloy Actuators." ASME 2007 Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC 2007), Jun 20-24, 2007 - Keystone, CO.

[C02] Esfahani, E.T. and Elahinia, M.H., "Walking Pattern Filter for Dynamic Biped Robot with SMA actuators." ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2006), Nov 5-10, 2006 - Chicago, IL.

[C01] Ghobadi, M., Azimi, E., Esfahani, E.T. and Keshmiri, M., "Stable Walking Pattern Generation for Humanoid Robot." In Proc. of 13th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (ISME 2005) Pp. 2303, 17-19 May 2005 - Isfahan, Iran.

[-] Conference/Workshop Abstracts & Posters:

[A13] Memar, AH. and Esfahani, ET., "Cognitive haptic based rehabilitation system for patient-centric hometherapy.", ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Workshop on Cognitiveand Social Neuroscience Methods for HRI, March 5, 2018, Chicago, IL.

[A12] Pareek, S., Chembrammel, P., Esfahani, ET., and Kesavadas, T., "Cognitive haptic based rehabilitationsystem for patient-centric home therapy", 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, July 11-15, 2017, Jeju Island, Korea.

[A11] Ghobadi, M., Auerbach, BD., Chen, GD., Ding, D., Esfahani, E.T. and Salvi, R.J., "Observing Dynamics of Auditory System Recovery using Conditional Granger Causality", 38th International Con-ference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, IEEE EMBC 2016, Aug 16-20, 2016 – Orlando, FL.

[A10] Auerbach, B.D., Chen, G.D., Ding, D., Ghobadi, M., Esfahani, E.T. and Salvi, R.J., "Maladaptiveneuronal gain enhancement along the ascending auditory pathway following acoustic trauma NeuralCircuits", April 6-9, 2016 – Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

[A09] Ghobadi, M., and Esfahani, ET., "Evaluating Sensor Fusion Algorithms on Wearbale Inertial Sensors based on a Realistic Simulation Framework for Indoor Environments", ASME IDETC 2016 Conference, Aug 21-24, 2016, Charlotte – NC.

[A08] Ghobadi, M., Memar, AH. and Esfahani, E.T., "Employing Human Gestural Feedback in Physical Human-Robot Interactions Based on IMU and EMG Sensors" IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 26-30, 2015 – Seattle, WA.

[A07] Pareek, S., Kesavadas, T., and Esfahani, ET., "Using Brain Monitoring for Adaptive Human Robotic Interaction in Robotic Rehabilitation" Personal Health and Human Performance Conference, December9, 2014 – Dayton OH.

[A06] Shafie, SB., Guru, KA, Sharif, M. and Esfahani, ET., "Using Human Motor Control for Classification of Surgical Expertise", Clinical Translation of Medical Robots Workshop in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Systems, Sep 17, 2014 –Chicago, IL.

[A05] Esfahani, E.T., Zimcosky, M., and Elahinia, M., "Design and Control a SMA walking robot" Proceedings of SPIE Smart Structures and Materials, March 8-12, 2009 –San Diego, CA.

[A04] Esfahani, E.T. and Elahinia, M.H., "The Nonlinear stress based switching control for shape memory alloy actuators." 12th Conference on Nonlinear Vibration, Dynamics and Multibody Systems, Jun 1-5, 2008 - Blacksburg, VA.

[A03] Esfahani, E.T., Elahinia, M.H. and Hefzy, M.S., "Sliding mode controller for a knee prosthesis actuated by Shape Memory Alloy." 11th Conference on Nonlinear Vibration, Stability and Dynamics of Structures, Aug 13-17, 2006 - Blacksburg, VA.

[A02] Esfahani, E.T., Tehrani, A.F. and Tarkesh, H., "Pre-controlling the Semi-Passive Biped Walking Gait Using Realistic Simulation and Genetic Algorithm." 15th International Symposium on Measurement and Control in Robotic, 8-10 Nov. 2005 - Brussels, Belgium.

[A01] Esfahani, E.T. ,(et all) "Persia Robot Team Description Paper." In Proc. of 6th International Robocup Symposium,Pp. 495, 24-25 June 2002 - Fukuoaka, Japan.