Muhammad Asif Arain

Welcome to my page! I am a Ph.D. student at Mobile Robotics & Olfaction Lab since September 2012. My research topic is “Sensor Planning Strategies for Robot Gas Emission Monitoring”. My supervisors are Erik Schaffernicht, Victor Hernandez, Marco Trincavelli, Marcello Cirillo and Achim J. Lilienthal. The following video shows what I mean by sensor planning for gas emission monitoring with a mobile robot.

An example exploration with mobile remote sensor for gas emission monitoring (red dots are high concentration areas).

Currently, I am conducting gas emission monitoring experiments in large environments using some improved and newly developed exploration strategies with our Gasbot. Here are some pictures from the preparation stages, and some cool videos will follow.

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Brief CV I am from Badin, located in the south of Pakistan, near the Arabian Sea. I have received my masters under the European Union mobility program of Erasmus Mundus in EMARO (European Master on Advanced Robotics) with dual masters degrees from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland in 2011 and University, of Genova, Italy in 2012. My masters thesis was “Path Planning for a Quadruped Robot on Uneven Terrain” which was conducted at Italian Institute of Technology, Italy. My supervisors for this research were Ioannis Havoutis, Claudio Semini, and Jonas Buchli. Before coming to Europe, I did my bachelors in Electronic Engineering from Mehran University of Engineering & Technology (Pakistan) in 2005, and then I worked as an Instrument Engineer at Pakarab Fertilizers Limited (Pakistan) for almost 4 years.

Contact

Dr. Muhammad Asif Arain

AASS Research Centre
School of Science and Technology
Örebro University
70182 Örebro, Sweden
Room T1214
Phone +46 (0)19 30 13 55
asif.arain@oru.se

Publications

Journal Articles

[1]	M. A. Arain, V. Hernandez Bennetts, E. Schaffernicht and A. Lilienthal. Sniffing out fugitive methane emissions : autonomous remote gas inspection with a mobile robot. The international journal of robotics research, 40(4-5):782-814, 2021 [ BibTeX \| DiVA ]
[2]	M. A. Arain, M. Trincavelli, M. Cirillo, E. Schaffernicht and A. J. Lilienthal. Global coverage measurement planning strategies for mobile robots equipped with a remote gas sensor. Sensors, 15(3):6845-6871, 2015 [ BibTeX \| DiVA \| PDF ]

Refereed Conference and Workshop Articles

[1]	H. Fan, M. A. Arain, V. Hernandez Bennetts, E. Schaffernicht and A. J. Lilienthal. Improving Gas Dispersal Simulation For Mobile Robot Olfaction : Using Robot-Created Occupancy Maps And Remote Gas Sensors In The Simulation Loop. In 2017 ISOCS/IEEE International Symposium on Olfaction andElectronic Nose (ISOEN 2017) Proceedings 2017 [ BibTeX \| DiVA ]
[2]	M. A. Arain, H. Fan, V. Hernandez Bennetts, E. Schaffernicht and A. J. Lilienthal. Improving Gas Tomography With Mobile Robots : An Evaluation of Sensing Geometries in Complex Environments. In 2017 ISOCS/IEEE International Symposium on Olfaction andElectronic Nose (ISOEN 2017) Proceedings 2017 [ BibTeX \| DiVA ]
[3]	M. A. Arain, E. Schaffernicht, V. Hernandez Bennetts and A. J. Lilienthal. The Right Direction to Smell : Efficient Sensor Planning Strategies for Robot Assisted Gas Tomography. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages 4275-4281, 2016 [ BibTeX \| DiVA \| PDF ]
[4]	M. A. Arain, M. Cirillo, V. Hernandez Bennetts, E. Schaffernicht, M. Trincavelli and A. J. Lilienthal. Efficient Measurement Planning for Remote Gas Sensing with Mobile Robots. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages 3428-3434, 2015 [ BibTeX \| DiVA \| PDF ]
[5]	M. A. Arain, I. Havoutis, C. Semini, J. Buchli and D. G. Caldwell. A comparison of search-based planners for a legged robot. , pages 104-109, 2013 [ BibTeX \| DiVA \| PDF ]
[6]	M. A. Arain, H. V. Hultmann Ayala and M. A. Ansari. Nonlinear System Identification Using Neural Network. In Emerging Trends and Applications in Information Communication Technologies : Second International Multi Topic Conference, IMTIC 2012, Jamshoro, Pakistan, March 28-30, 2012: Proceedings, 281:122-131, 2012 [ BibTeX \| DiVA \| PDF ]
[7]	M. A. Arain. Navobot formula 2 : a navigation and handling implementation. 2006 [ BibTeX \| DiVA ]
[8]	M. A. Arain, M. A. Ansari, C. K. Khatri, B. K. Maheshwari and S. A. Kazi. Design, Mathematical Modeling \& Simulation of a Robot System with 3-DOF. 2005 [ BibTeX \| DiVA ]

Theses

[1]	M. A. Arain. Efficient Remote Gas Inspection with an Autonomous Mobile Robot. Örebro University, School of Science and Technology, Ph.D. Thesis, 2020 [ BibTeX \| DiVA \| PDF ]

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