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Exec Committee member of International RoboCup Federation in Rescue Robot League |
Ehsan Mihankhah
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Education |
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| 1997 - 2000 |
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| 2001 - 2006 |
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2006 - 2009 |
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Msc. Final Thesis |
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“Adding Autonomous Behavior to Resquake Mobile Robots”, under supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Sep 2009 |
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Bsc. Final Thesis |
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“Control of CNC Engraver on Cylindrical Surfaces”, under supervision of Prof. Alireza Fatehi, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Sep 2006 |
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Awards and Honors |
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International Awards |
| Received the 2nd Place Award Advanced Mobility Award in Rescue Robot League of International RoboCup2008- World Championship Competitions ,Suzhou, China | |
| Received the 3rd Place Award in Rescue Robot League of International RoboCup2008- World Championship Competitions ,Suzhou, China | |
| Received the 2nd Place Award in Rescue Robot League of International RoboCup2008- IRAN Open Competitions ,Tehran, IRAN | |
| Received the 2nd Place Award in Rescue Robot League of International RoboCup2007- IRAN Open Competitions ,Tehran, IRAN (with Resquake Robotic Team) | |
| Received the 1st Place Advanced Mobility Award in Rescue Robot League of International RoboCup2007- IRAN Open Competitions ,Tehran, IRAN (with Resquake Robotic Team) | |
| Received the 2nd Place Advanced Autonomy Award in Rescue Robot League of International RoboCup2007- IRAN Open Competitions ,Tehran, IRAN (with Resquake Robotic Team) | |
| Received the Best Operator Interface Award (Innovation Award) in Rescue Robot League of International RoboCup2006, Bremen, Germany (with Resquake Robotic Team) | |
| Received the 2nd Place Award in Rescue Robot League of International RoboCup2006- IRAN Open Competitions ,Tehran, IRAN (with Resquake Robotic Team) | |
| Received the Best Design Award (2nd place) in Rescue Robot League of International RoboCup2005, Osaka, Japan(with Resquake Robotic Team) | |
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National Awards |
| “Distinguished researcher of the year”, 1388 (2009), among the graduate students of K.N. Toosi University of Technology | |
| “Distinguished researcher of the year”, 1383 (2004), among the undergraduate students of K.N. Toosi University of Technology | |
| Got the commendation of research day of 1387 (2008) from the head of K.N. Toosi University for “Successfully leading Resquake Robotics Team” for 5 years | |
| Received the 2nd Place Award in Rescue Robot League of first National Khwarizmi Robotic Competitions ,Tehran, IRAN, 2008 | |
| Received the 2nd Place Award in Rescue Robot League of first National Urban Robot Competitions ,Tehran, IRAN, 2006 | |
| Received the Best Workshop Award (1st place) at the seventh 7th Iranian Student Conference in Electrical Engineering (iscee2004) for presenting a mobile robot made by Resquake Robotic Group | |
| Received the 1st Place Award in the second National Robotic Championships (2003) in Dezfool for Labyrinth Intelligent Mouse (RADABI) | |
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Non Academic Awards |
| Received the commendation letter from Tehran Municipality with the title “Elite of the Region”, 2009 | |
| Received the commendation letter from Tehran Municipality with the title “Entrepreneur of the Region”, 2011 | |
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International Positions |
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Member of Technical Committee of International RoboCup Federation |
2007 - 2009 |
| Elected in Atlanta, GA, USA | ||
| ► | Exec Committee member of International RoboCup Federation | 2009 - 2012 |
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Elected in 2009 in Graz, Austria |
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| ► | Chairman | 2010 - 2012 |
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Rescue Robot League of International RoboCup Iran Open 2010, Tehran, Iran |
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| ► | International judge and Member of Technical Committee | 2009 |
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International RoboCup 2009 world championship competitions, Graz, Austria |
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| ► | International judge and Member of Technical Committee | 2010 |
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International RoboCup 2010 world championship competitions, Singapore |
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| ► | International judge and Member of Technical Committee | 2011 |
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International RoboCup 2011 world championship competitions, Istanbul, Turkey |
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| ► | International judge | 2009 & 2010 |
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Thailand National Rescue Robot Competitions, Bangkok, Thailand |
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Publications |
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2009 | |
| E. Mihankhah [Ehsan Mihankhah], A. Kalantari, E. Aboosaeedan, H.D. Taghirad, and S.Ali.A. Moosavian, “Autonomous Staircase Detection and Stair Climbing for a Tracked Mobile Robot using Fuzzy Controller,” in Proc. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO2008), Bangkok, Thailand, February 21 - 26, 2009, pp. 1980-1985. | ||
| ► | “Line Matching Localization and Map Building with Least Square” | 2009 |
| E. Mihankhah [Ehsan Mihankhah], H.D. Taghirad, A. Kalantari, E. Aboosaeedan, and H. Semsarilar, “Line Matching Localization and Map Building with Least Square,” in Proc. 2009 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM2009), Singapore, July 14-17, 2009, pp. 1734-1739. | ||
| ► | “Feature-Based Laser Scan Matching For Accurate and High Speed Mobile Robot Localization” | 2007 |
| A. A. Aghamohammadi, H. D. Taghirad, A. H. Tamjidi, and E. Mihankhah [Ehsan Mihankhah], “Feature-Based Laser Scan Matching For Accurate and High Speed Mobile Robot Localization,” in Proc. 3rd European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR2007), Freiburg, Germany, September 19 - 21, 2007. | ||
| ► | “Safe Autonomous Stair Climbing for a Tracked Mobile Robot Using a Kinematics based Controller” | 2009 |
| A. Kalantari, E. Mihankhah [Ehsan Mihankhah], and S.Ali.A. Moosavian, “Safe Autonomous Stair Climbing for a Tracked Mobile Robot Using a Kinematics based Controller,” in Proc. 2009 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM2009), Singapore, July 14-17, 2009, pp. 1891-1896. | ||
| ► | “ResQuake: A Tele-Operative Rescue Robot” | 2009 |
| S.Ali.A. Moosavian, A. Kalantari, H. Semsarilar, E. Aboosaeedan, and E. Mihankhah [Ehsan Mihankhah], “ResQuake: A Tele-Operative Rescue Robot,” Journal of Mechanical Design, August 2009, Volume 131, Issue 8. | ||
| ► | “Guiding Robots Towards Fieldable Capabilities” | 2011 |
| Raymond Sheh, Tetsuya Kimura, Ehsan Mihankhah, Johannes Pellenz, Soren Schwertfeger, Jackrit Suthakorn, “The RoboCupRescue Robot League: Guiding Robots Towards Fieldable Capabilities,” Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Robotics and Social Impacts (ARSO) , 2011 | ||
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Workshops and Presentations |
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International Rescue Robot Workshop, Pattaya, Thailand |
Fall 2009 & Fall 2010 |
| Presented the workshop titled: “ Effective Operator Interface” | ||
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International Rescue Robot Workshop, Pattaya, Thailand |
Fall 2009 & Fall 2010 |
| Presented the workshop titled: “Line Matching Localization and Map Building with Least Square” | ||
| ► | 2009 International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Singapore | Summer 2009 |
| Presented paper titled “Line Matching Localization and Map Building with Least Square,” | ||
| ► | 2009 International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Singapore | Summer 2009 |
| Presented paper titled “Safe Autonomous Stair Climbing for a Tracked Mobile Robot Using a Kinematics based Controller” | ||
| ► | 2008 International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Bangkok, Thailand | Winter 2009 |
| Presented paper titled “ Autonomous Staircase Detection and Stair Climbing for a Tracked Mobile Robot using Fuzzy Controller” | ||
| ► | Rescue Robot Camp 2007, Rome, Italy | Summer 2007 |
| Presented workshop titled “Operator Interface and Mechanical Design of Resquake mobile robots” | ||
| ► | Mobile Robotics Presentation | Fall 2006 |
| • Presented the last achievements in Mobile Robotics and introduction of Resquake Robotic Team in Mechanical Engineering Faculty of K.N.Toosi University of Tech. | ||
| ► | Mobile Robotics Presentation | Fall 2006 |
| • Presented the last achievements in Mobile Robotics and introduction of Resquake Robotic Team in Electrical Engineering Faculty of K.N.Toosi University of Tech. | ||
| ► | 7th Iranian Student Conference in Electrical Engineering (iscee2004) | Summer 2004 |
| • Presented the workshop “An Introduction To Implementing A Full Autonomous Mobile Robot” | ||
| ► | Annual Robotic Conference | Winter 2004 |
| • Presenter at the “Annual Robotic Conference” at K. N. Toosi University where major robotic activities of the year were presented. The structural design and implementation of SNAIL, one of Resquake’s robots, was presented at the conference | ||
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Working Experiences |
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Managing director of Mexima Engineering Co. Ltd. |
September 2009 till present |
| My company produces Industrial Robots and Special Machineries. We implement industrial automation for all kinds of production lines | ||
| ► | Control Engineer in ACSID Engineering Co. | September 2005 – April 2008 |
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Worked as the control engineer and software developer of gold craft CNC machine project (also my BSc. final thesis) and foam cutter CNC machine project. More than 100 of these machines are working all over Iran |
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| ► | Team Leader and Control Engineer of Resquake Robotic Group | September 2004 - September 2009 |
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Served as the team leader and control engineer and software developer in an inter-disciplinary group. Responsibilities included: Team management and leadership, software development and microcontroller firmware programming. |
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Related Websites |
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| ► | Organization of International RoboCup Federation | http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Organization_of_RoboCup |
| ► | Iranian RoboCup National Committee | http://www.robocupiran.ir/ |
| ► | Rescue Robot League Page on NIST | http://www.nist.gov/el/isd/testarenas.cfm |
| ► | Rescue Robot League Wiki | http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Robot_League |
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My Company |
http://www.mexima.com |
| ► | My Academic Research Group (Resquake) | http://saba.kntu.ac.ir/resquake |
| ► | My YouTube Channel | http://www.youtube.com/user/EhsanMihankhah |
| ... and to find more about me, please search my name in Google … | ||
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Videos of Selected Projects [Academics and Industrials] |
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Academic
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2008 – RoboCup 2008 World Championship Competitions, Silver won the 2nd place award for “Best in Class Mobility” |
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Academic
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2009 – MSc Final Thesis, Adding Autonomous Behavior to Rescue Robot. Automatic staircase detection and climb by processing vertical and horizontal LASER Range Finder data. .Also published in ROBIO 2008 |
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Academic
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2009 – MSc Final Thesis, Adding Autonomous Behavior to Rescue Robot. Neural Network based autonomous navigation |
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Academic
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2009 – MSc Final Thesis, Adding Autonomous Behavior to Rescue Robot. Line matching algorithm for Localization and Mapping. Data was taken by the Australian team CASualty (from UNSW) in Thailand National Rescue Robot Competitions 2009 and offline processed by my algorithm. Also Published in AIM 2009 |
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Academic
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2009 – MSc Final Thesis, Adding Autonomous Behavior to Rescue Robot. Localization and Mapping, Autonomous Exploration. Also Published in AIM 2009
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Industrial / Academic
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2006- BSc Final Thesis, Also Industrialized in my own company and sold to the market (about 150 Machines) – CNC engraver for gold bangles |
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Industrial
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2010- Robotic Ladle, Industrialized and sold to the Market. This robot takes Aluminum Molten (over heated to about 800 degrees of centigrade) from furnace and pours it into Aluminum Die-Cast machine |
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Industrial
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2011- Object Handling Robot for Plastic Injection Molding, Industrialized and sold to the Market. This robot picks the produced plastic products from the mold of plastic injection molding machine and palletizes them on a conveyor. This robot communicates with EuroMap12 standard |
