Reza Razavian
I am an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Northeastern University. I am part of the Action Lab.
My research involves studying human movements to understand how we interact with and move through our environment.
I am part roboticist, part biomechanist, and part neuroscientist.
I have built robots that move humans, robots that are moved by humans, forced humans to move like a robot, and made robots move like humans.
My life in Academia
A synergy-based motor control framework for the fast feedback control of musculoskeletal systems, RS Razavian, B Ghannadi, J McPhee, Journal of biomechanical engineering 141 (3), 031009, 2019
Biomechanical Modelling of Sitting Movements for Designing Robotic Lower-Limb Prostheses and Exoskeletons with Energy Regeneration, B Laschowski, RS Razavian, J McPhee, bio, Rxiv, 801258, 2019
On the relationship between muscle synergies and redundant degrees of freedom in musculoskeletal systems, RS Razavian, B Ghannadi, J McPhee, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 13, 23, 2019
A modified homotopy optimization for parameter identification in dynamic systems with backlash discontinuity, B Ghannadi, RS Razavian, J McPhee, Nonlinear Dynamics 95 (1), 57-72, 2019
Biomechanics imaging and analysis, RS Razavian, S Greenberg, J McPhee, Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering, 488-500, 2019
Upper Extremity Rehabilitation Robots: A SurveyB Ghannadi, RS Razavian, J McPhee, Handbook of Biomechatronics, 319, 2018
Feedback Control of Functional Electrical Stimulation for 2-D Arm Reaching Movements, RS Razavian, B Ghannadi, N Mehrabi, M Charlet, J McPhee, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 26 (10 …, 2018
Configuration-Dependent Optimal Impedance Control of an Upper Extremity Stroke Rehabilitation Manipulandum, B Ghannadi, RSRazavian, J McPhee, Frontiers in Robotics and AI 5, 124, 2018
Nonlinear model predictive control of an upper extremity rehabilitation robot using a two-dimensional human-robot interaction model, B Ghannadi, N Mehrabi, RS Razavian, J McPhee, 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems …, 2017
Estimation of Maximum Finger Tapping Frequency Using Musculoskeletal Dynamic Simulations, MS Shourijeh, RS Razavian, J McPhee, Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics 12 (5), 051009, 2017
Feedback control of functional electrical stimulation for arbitrary upper extremity movements, RS Razavian, B Ghannadi, J McPhee, 2017 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 1451-1456, 2017
Predictive simulation of reaching moving targets using nonlinear model predictive control, N Mehrabi, RS Razavian, B Ghannadi, J McPhee, Frontiers in computational neuroscience 10, 143, 2017
A Human Motor Control Framework based on Muscle Synergies, RS Razavian, University of Waterloo, 2017
A neuronal model of central pattern generator to account for natural motion variation, RS Razavian, N Mehrabi, J McPhee, Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics 11 (2), 021007, 2016
A motor control framework for the fast control of a 3D musculoskeletal arm motion using muscle synergy, RS Razavian, J McPhee, Proc. 4th Joint Int. Conf. Multibody Syst. Dyn., 2016
Minimization of Muscle Fatigue as the Criterion to Solve Muscle Forces-Sharing Problem, RS Razavian, J McPhee, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, V001T15A001-V001T15A001, 2015
A model-based approach to predict muscle synergies using optimization: application to feedback control, RS Razavian, N Mehrabi, J McPhee, Frontiers in computational neuroscience 9, 121, 2015
Steering disturbance rejection using a physics-based neuromusculoskeletal driver model, N Mehrabi, RS Razavian, J McPhee, Vehicle System Dynamics 53 (10), 1393-1415, 2015
A Physics-Based Musculoskeletal Driver Model to Study Steering Tasks, N Mehrabi, RS Razavian, J McPhee, Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics MARCH 10, 021012-1, 2015
Definition of Muscle Synergies for Automobile Steering, RS Razavian, N Mehrabi, J McPhee, World Congress of Biomechanics, 2014
A Three-Dimensional Musculoskeletal Driver Model to Study Steering TasksN Mehrabi, RS Razavian, J McPhee, 9th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and …, 2013
A battery hardware–in–the–loop setup for concurrent design and evaluation of real–time optimal HEV power management controllers, RS Razavian, NL Azad, J McPheeInternational Journal of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles 5 (3), 177-194, 2013
Design and Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing of Optimal Controllers for Hybrid Electric Powertrains, RS Razavian, University of Waterloo, 2012
On real-time optimal control of a series Hybrid Electric Vehicle with an ultra-capacitor, RS Razavian, NL Azad, J McPhee, 2012 American Control Conference (ACC), 547-552, 2012
Design and evaluation of a real-time optimal control system for series hybrid electric vehicles, RS Razavian, A Taghavipour, NL Azad, J McPheeInt. J. Electr. Hybrid Veh 4, 260-288, 2012
Optimal powertrain control of a series hybrid electric vehicle using Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle, RS Razavian, NL Azad, J McPhee, University of Waterloo Graduate conference, 1, 2011