About me
I’m Mostafa Othman, a robotics researcher with an M.Sc. in Robotics and Computer Vision (Innopolis University) and a B.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering (Nile University). I work on robot manipulation under uncertainty: contact-rich assembly, teleoperation, haptic interfaces, and vision-guided control.
This site hosts my publications, thesis and lab projects, and an academic CV.
Research focus
- Peg-in-hole and tight-clearance assembly
- Bilateral and shared teleoperation with force feedback
- Computer vision for detection and localisation in clutter
- Learning from demonstration and hybrid position/force control
See Research for a fuller statement and Projects for implementations and demos.
Selected work
- Publication: Robotic Pick and Assembly Using Deep Learning and Hybrid Vision/Force Control — IEEE NIR 2021
- Master’s thesis: Peg-in-hole assembly with four control modes — KUKA LBR iiwa, haptics, shared autonomy, imitation learning · Defence presentation (PDF)
- Bachelor’s thesis: VR teleoperation in hazardous environments — custom 7-DOF arm (team-designed and built); 1st IoT & AI Egypt Challenge; top 5 Dell EMC Envision the Future
Education
- M.Sc. Robotics and Computer Vision — Innopolis University, Russia (2022)
- B.Sc. Mechatronics Engineering — Nile University, Egypt (2020)
Honors (academic & competitions)
- 1st place — IoT & AI Egypt Challenge (graduation project), 2020
- Top 5 worldwide — Dell EMC Envision the Future, 2020
- 1st place Egypt — Robot Challenge AIR RACE, 2016