Weria Khaksar

Weria Khaksar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technology Management at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Faculty of Engineering, Science and Technology. Her research focuses on advanced robotics applications, particularly in healthcare, navigation, and sensor technologies. She specializes in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Machine Learning, and SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) systems. Her work addresses ethical challenges in care robotics, privacy-preserving algorithms, and the integration of autonomous systems in healthcare and agriculture.

Key research interests include:

• Development of care robots for elderly healthcare environments
• Integration of vision-based sensors and multi-modal datasets for human monitoring
• Optimization of motion planning algorithms using reinforcement learning and MPC
• Ethical and privacy considerations in human-robot collaboration
• Agricultural robotics for precision farming and forest mapping

Her recent work (2021–2025) emphasizes:

• A qualitative review of 20 European elderly care robotics projects
• Advances in privacy-preserving HRI through multi-modal data
• Real-time SLAM systems for GNSS-interrupted environments
• Collision-free manipulation strategies for robotic arms

No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned, but her extensive publication record demonstrates significant contributions to robotics research. She has advised no formally listed students, but her work engages interdisciplinary teams across engineering, healthcare, and environmental science.

Her research is applied in:

• Robotics labs focusing on care systems and precision agriculture
• Multi-sensor integration for autonomous navigation
• Development of ethical frameworks for care robots