Danyal Saqib

I am a MSc student at the University of Calgary, with research focusing on Robotics and Controls. I am a part of the Calgary Human-Robot Collaboration (CHRC) Lab, supervised by Dr. Marie Charbonneau. My research focuses on control algorithms that can make physical human-robot interaction safe, by behaving compliantly (or softly) in response to human contact.

I previously completed my Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from SEECS, NUST. I completed my undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Dr. Wajahat Hussain, in the domain of self-supervised learning for robotic systems.

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Research

My general research interests include control theory, learning, and robotics. I am currently researching energy-based control methods for safe physical human-robot interaction (pHRI), that can guarantee energy limitation for robotic manipulators both within and outside of contact scenarios. I am privileged to have had the opportunity to work with and design controllers for several interesting robots, such as the Reachy Robot by Pollen Robotics at the University of Calgary's CHRC Lab, and the Talos Humanoid Robot by PAL Robotics at the University of Waterloo's RoboHub.

News

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Presented a poster on my research on energy-conscious control for pHRI at the Alberta RISE Conference 2024 at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

My Master's Thesis, submitted to the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Calgary. Presents a novel energy-conscious controller for safe pHRI.

My undergraduate thesis, submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering at SEECS, NUST. We present a robotic setup that can learn to grasp geometrically diverse objects using self-supervision.

• ENME 505 - Robotics
• ENME 502 - Mechanical Engineering Capstone Project 2
• ENME 501 - Mechanical Engineering Capstone Project 1

• SE 807 - Machine Learning
• CS 470 - Machine Learning

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