Position

Current:

Ph.D. student. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering - Robotics Laboratory. (expected completion date: end of November 2002).

previous:

Assistant teacher in Mechanical Engineering Design 1 (034015), Kinematic Analysis and Synthesis of Mechanisms (035010), Kinematics Dynamics and Control of Robots (036026) . Previously taught also in the Manufacturing Workshop for Mechanical Engineering students.

Future?

Starting December 16 I will begin my post doc at Johns Hopkins ERC-CISST (Engineering Research Center for Computer Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology).

Ph.D. Research: Development of Variable Geometry Parallel Robots for Stiffness Synthesis/Control.

Dissertation abstract

Dissertation table of contents

Abstract (unformal description of the work)

Master thesis: Analysis and Synthesis of Parallel Robots for Medical Applications.

Abstract

Detailed Project Description (with images & movies of the RSPR prototype robot No. I)

General research Interests:  Task based design and synthesis, Direct kinematics, Singularity analysis, Applications of Line Geometry for kinematic design, Medical robotics.

2001: Excellent assistant teacher award for spring semester 2000/2001.

1999: Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

1998: Gutwirth prize for excellence in research.

1996: Bachelor of Science (Cum Laude) in Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

1991: Completed a four-year study in the Junior Technion vocational school (BOSMAT) and received a car technician diploma. Received the Bnei-Brit Prize for Excellent Project.

• Simaan, N., Glozman, D., Shoham, M., “Design Considerations of New Six Degrees-Of-Freedom Parallel Robots.” IEEE International Conference on Robotics  and Automation, 1998, Vol. 2, pp. 1327-1333.  pdf version

 
• Simaan, N., and Shoham, M., "Robot Construction for Surgical Applications." Second Israeli Symposium on Computer-Aided Surgery, Medical Robotics, and Medical Imaging (ISRACAS'99), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, May 6, 1999.  ps version
• Shoham, M., Goldberger, S., Roffman, M., and Simaan, N., "Robot Construction for Surgery." First Israeli Symposium on Computer-Aided Surgery, Medical     Robotics, and Medical Imaging (ISRACAS'98), Technion City, Haifa, Israel, May 6, 1998.
• Simaan, N., Analysis and Synthesis of Parallel Robots for Medical Applications, Master Thesis, Technion, Israel, 1999.  List of Contents (pdf)
• Simaan, N., Shoham, M., "Robot Construction for Surgical Applications." The First IFAC Conference on Mechatronic Systems, September 18-20, 2000, Darmstadt, Germany.

 
• Simaan, N., and Shoham, M., "Remarks on Hidden Lines in Parallel Robots," 7th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics (ARK 2000), Piran-Portoroz, Slovenia, June 26-30, 2000. (conference presentation)

 
• Simaan, N., and Shoham, M., "Singularity Analysis of a Class of Composite Serial In-Parallel Robots,"  IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 301-311, June 2001.
• Simaan, N., and Shoham, M., “Geometric Interpretation of the Derivatives of Parallel Robot's Jacobian Matrix with Application to Stiffness Control" accepted for publication in ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.

 
• Simaan, N., and Shoham, “Stiffness Synthesis of a Variable Geometry Planar Robot” the 8th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics (ARK 2002). Included in Advances In Robot Kinermatics: Theory and applications, J. Lenarcic and F. Thomas, Eds., Kluwer Academic, 2002. pdf version
• Simaan, N., Shoham, M., "Stiffness synthesis of a variable geometry six degrees-of-freedom parallel robot," submitted to IJRR -International Journal of Robotics Research.

The RSPR robot from concept to reality.	press on picture for prototype specs.
Second Improved Prototype (2002)

Links

• Family
• Homepage of Khalil Simaan

 
• Parallel Robots
• J-P. Merlet - Parallel Robots Bibliography
• ParalleMic - The Parallel Mechanisms Information Center

• Miscellaneous
• 11 Typical Stept For Programmers And Young Researchers :-)

 

Nabil Simaan
Lady Davies Building, Room 367
Faculty of Mechanichal Engineering
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Israel

e-mail: nabil@tx.technion.ac.il
Phone: 972-4-8293169.