Contact Dr Seemal Asif
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 758255
- Email: s.asif@cranfield.ac.uk
- ORCID
Areas of expertise
- Aerospace Manufacturing
- Industrial Automation
- Industrial Ergonomics and Human Factors
Background
Dr. Seemal Asif has over 11 years of experience in research development and delivery in the field of Automation, Robotics, and Systems Integration. Dr Asif has been involved in several projects sponsored by Airbus, EPSRC and Innovate UK. She has been instrumental in setting up the Human-robot Interaction for gesture control. One of her research projects focuses on the Relatime Error Correction and Compensation for the Industrial Robots on an open Network. She has an interest in Swarm Intelligence and Hybrid communication. Her work for assembly and automation has been recognised and respected widely.
She has completed her Ph.D. in Robotics and Intelligent Automations at Cranfield University. Seemal received her MSc Software Engineering from the University of York in 2010 and then joined the Intelligent Automation group at the Centre for Structures, Assembly, and Intelligent Automation at Cranfield University as a Research Fellow. Seemal has worked for 4 years in the software engineering industry in an institutional environment where she had the opportunity to research supportive tools for the University. During this time, she worked on multiple projects at various levels from developer to project manager.
She is interested in researching automation, robotics, intelligent automation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, software engineering, formal methods, and control theory. Being naturally inclined towards academia, she finished her MSc Computer Science in 2009 and obtained Eureka Scholarship for the MSc Software Engineering in York. She is a gold medallist for both her Undergrad and Masters.
As part of Cranfield University, she developed the Flexible Cell Coordinator (FLEXA). Flexa was the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) project with the involvement of companies like Volvo Aero, Rolls-Royce, Avio, MTU (Germany), etc. She teaches and supervises MSc and PhD students in Robotics, Machine Learning, and IoT and Artificial Intelligence.
She is registered as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) by British Engineering Council and recognized as a Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK and a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Research opportunities
MSc by research and PhD opportunities are available in the following main areas:
- Imitation Learning
- Intelligent Robotic Hand
- Automated Robotic Welding
- Robotic inspection in confined spaces
- Robot Swarm Communication Network – A Heterogeneous system
- Applied AI and Machine Learning
If you are interested in any of those topics or you may have your own idea, please first discuss with Dr Seemal Asif (s.asif@cranfield.ac.uk) email to arrange the time. To apply for a PhD position, fill in our online application form at Cranfield University - Online applications, mentioning your preferred supervisor's name on the form. Robotics is part of our Aerospace 'theme', so don't worry if the application form has this as the subject area.
Students are normally expected to identify their own source of funding, e.g. self-funding, an employer, or a nationally-funded scholarship. From time to time, we have funding for PhD scholarships - we always advertise these at https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/research/phd?Keyword=&Theme=aerospace
Current activities
- Machine Learning
- Internet of Things
- System Integration
- Artificial Intelligence
- Robotics
- Human-Robot Integration
- Intelligent automation
- Software Engineering, Design and Architecture
- Machine Vision and Image Processing
- Formal Methods
- Shifan Li (2020-2023)
- Angelos DIMAKOS (2020-21)
- Ashish JAISWAL (2020-21)
- Zhengwei JIN (2020-21)
- Lalitha ORUGANTI (2020-21)
- Daniel WOODHALL (2020-21)
- Robert Zoumboulis-Airey (2020-21)
- Ohima Agans-oliha (2020-21)
- Daniella Alvarado (2019-20)
- Artificial Robotic hand for customising applications
- Framework of Robotic GMAW Process in Simulation
- Framework for Robot Swarm Communication Network – A Heterogeneous system
- Navigating in an unmapped environment with automatic obstacle avoidance
- Imitation Learning for performing a task
- Automated robotic welding station
- Application of different Machine Learning techniques on a Robot to enable multi-purposeness
- A Framework for Controlling Multiple Industrial Robots using Mobile Applications
Imitation Learning of Bionic Hand
- Robotics Control
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Signal Analysis
Clients
- Airbus
- Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) project with the involvement of companies such as Volvo Aero, Rolls-Royce, Avio and MTU (Germany).
- EPSRC Centre of Intelligent Automation.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Asif S & Webb P (2022) Realtime calibration of an industrial robot, Applied System Innovation, 5 (5) Article No. 96.
- Dimakos A, Woodhall D & Asif S (2021) A study on centralised and decentralised swarm robotics architecture for part delivery system, Academic Journal of Engineering Studies, 2 (3).
- Alvarado D & Asif S (2021) A framework for controlling multiple industrial robots using mobile applications, International Journal of Mechatronics and Automotive Research, 3 (1) 13-18.
- Asif S & Webb P (2021) Kinematics analysis of 6-DoF articulated robot with spherical wrist, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2021 Article No. 6647035.
- Asif S & Webb P (2016) Contactless Medium Scale Industrial Robot Collaboration, Advances in Robotics & Automation, 5:145.
- Asif S & Webb P (2016) Enhanced cell controller for aerospace manufacturing, Advances in Robotics & Automation, 5 (2) Article No. 1000147.
- Tang G, Asif S & Webb P (2015) The Integration of Contactless Static Pose Recognition and Dynamic Hand Motion Tracking Control System for Industrial Human and Robot Collaboration, Industrial Robot: An International Journal, 42 (5) 416-428.
- Webb P, Asif S, Hogger S, Kosche T & Kiernan P (2015) Advanced flexible automation cell control for aerospace manufacturing, Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, 87 (2) 156-164.
- Asif S & Webb P (2015) Software System Integration - Middleware - An Overview, International Journal of Computer Applications, 121 (5) 27-29.
- Asif S & Webb P (2015) Networked control system – an overview, International Journal of Computer Applications, 115 (6) 26-30.
- Asif S & Muhammad Aslam (2010) FMSIND: A Framework of Multi-Agent Systems Interaction during Natural Disaster, American Journal of Science, 6 (5) 217-224.
Conference Papers
- Asif S (2022) Cost effective welding system by using AR3 robot. In: 2022 2nd International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies (ICoDT2), Rawalpindi, 24-26 May 2022.
- Seemal Asif & Phil Webb (2013) An improved cell controller for the aerospace manufacturing. In: Advances in manufacturing technology XXVII : proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Manufacturing Research, 2013, Cranfield, 19 September 2013.
- Asif S & Webb P (2012) Advanced flexible automation cell. In: 6th European Aeronautics Days, Madrid, 30 March - 1 April 2011.
- Seemal Asif (2010) Translating the TID Station into Perfect : Poster. In: VSTTE 2010 Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments, Edinburgh, Scotland, 16 August 2010.