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ILIA Humanoid Platform
Primary technical lead for the first integrated prototype across electronics, firmware, ROS/DDS, control, autonomy, and robot learning.
System integrationControlRL
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Robot learningEmbodied intelligenceSim-to-real
I build humanoid robots that learn, estimate & move.
I am a robotics researcher and technical founder with 8+ years of experience taking humanoid systems from models and simulation to electronics, software, and physical experiments. I now lead ILIA at 8Robotics.
- Current
- Co-Founder & CTO
8Robotics - Building
- ILIA Humanoid
Embodied intelligence - Research
- Control · Learning
Sim-to-real
01 Robotics researcher and technical founder building intelligent humanoid systems from models to machines.
Research profile
Model-based robotics, now meeting robot learning.
My work connects locomotion control, state estimation, perception, and embedded systems. At 8Robotics, I lead the integration of ILIA’s first humanoid prototype and current work on control, autonomy, and reinforcement learning.
Research interests
01 / Robot learning02 / Embodied intelligence03 / Sim-to-real transfer04 / Humanoid locomotion05 / State estimationSelected research
Systems, not simulations alone.
Research carried from equations and simulation into hardware, experiments, and deployable real-time systems.
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Surena-V Humanoid Robot
Led dynamics and control work spanning trajectory planning, robust locomotion, implementation, and experimental validation.
LocomotionControlHardware
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Kinematic Base State Estimation
Invariant and quaternion extended Kalman filtering that fuses inertial measurements with humanoid forward kinematics.
InEKFLie algebraSensor fusion
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R / 03
RGB-D SLAM for Humanoid Robots
Benchmarked mapping pipelines and improved RTAB-Map using proprioceptive odometry for fast, light-robust localization.
RTAB-MapRGB-DNavigation
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Selected publications
Research in the open.
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IEEE-RAS Humanoids · 2024
Surena-V: A Humanoid Robot for Human-Robot Collaboration with Optimization-Based Control Architecture
A. Bazrafshani, A. Yousefi-Koma, …, A. Vedadi
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J. Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences & Engineering · 2023
Estimation and Early Prediction of Grip Force Based on sEMG Signals and Deep Recurrent Neural Networks
A. Ghorbani, A. Yousefi-Koma, A. Vedadi
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ICRoM · 2023
Kinematic Base State Estimation for Humanoid Using Invariant Extended Kalman Filter
A. Vedadi, A. Yousefi-Koma, M. Shariat-Panahi, M. Nozari
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ICRoM · 2023
Comparative Evaluation of RGB-D SLAM Methods for Humanoid Robot Localization and Mapping
A. Vedadi, A. Yousefi-Koma, P. Yazdankhah, A. Mozayyan
Experience
From research bench to embedded deployment.
My practice combines model-based robotics, learning, embedded systems, and the discipline required to make algorithms work on physical machines.
Full curriculum vitae- 2025—Now
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
8Robotics · ILIA
Leading ILIA’s first integrated humanoid prototype across custom electronics, firmware, ROS/DDS, control, autonomy, and early reinforcement-learning experiments.
- 2022—2025
Robotics & AI Engineer
Cheetah · Tehran
Developed real-time forward-collision warning and driver-monitoring systems using computer vision, deep learning, CARLA validation, and embedded deployment.
- 2022—2024
Research Associate · Dynamics & Control Lead
CAST · University of Tehran
Led Surena-V locomotion, trajectory planning, state estimation, whole-body behavior, and physical experiments while mentoring junior researchers.
- 2017—2022
Research Assistant
CAST · University of Tehran
Built walking-pattern generation, state-estimation, and perception modules for humanoid robots and contributed to actuator development.
- 2019—2022
M.S. Dynamic & Control Engineering
University of Tehran
Thesis on real-time humanoid localization and configuration identification using machine vision and proprioceptive estimation.
Contact / Collaborate
Let’s build robots that learn and work beyond the lab.
Open contact page
I welcome research collaborations and technically ambitious robotics work.