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Facilitating the Researchers through Dedicated Research Portal
A centralized database known as “UCP Research Portal" has been designed and made functional
with the purpose of registering, monitoring, and carrying out data analytics of UCP research
activities. The research portal is modified and updated in accordance with the evolving research
trends every 6-months.
Research Projects & Collaborations
Till date, UCP faculty members have secured the research grant of more than Rs. 50 Million from
local agencies such as HEC, Pakistan Science Foundation, and from international agencies such as
DAAD-Germany, TEIN ASIA-Connect.
On-going research projects at UCP:
UCP Bio-Mechatronics Lab - FOE
Under the convex of National Center of Robotics and Automation, a consortium of 11 robotics
laboratories, UCP Bio-Mechatronics Lab has been established. Dr. Zohaib Aftab (Assistant
Professor FOE) is the principal investigator (PI) of the research projects operating under this
lab, the cumulative worth of which is more than Rs. 20 Million. The main aim of this lab is
to engineer modern assistive devices, such as exoskeletons, which will improve walking function
for disabled people like polio affected and spinal cord injured patients. Several prototypes of
affordable exoskeletons have been developed and tested on patients.
Center of Robotics - FOIT
At the Center of Robotics, Dr. Syed Atif Mehdi (Assistant Professor - FoIT) is supervising two
research projects in collaboration with two universities of Germany. These projects are sponsored
by the German organization "DAAD", where the worth of each project is EUR 1.2 Million.
The goal of the first project "Fruit Yield Estimation in Orchards using Autonomous Robot" is
to develop an effective, simple, and apt computer vision algorithm to detect and count the citrus
fruits yield. While, the second project is related to autonomous underwater vehicle for the impurity
inspection of freshwater in the canals and dams.
ASIA-CONNECT Project
Dr. Majid Gulzar (Assistant Professor - FOE), in a Co-PI role, is working on project "ICT Research
and Development for Rural/Remote Areas of Pakistan”, which is funded by the international
organization TEIN under the "ASIA-CONNECT Project”. The total worth of the project is 50,000
Euros. The project's aim is to improve and enhance the communication and internet facilities in
the rural areas, hospitals, schools, colleges and village towns as lack of these facilities is one of the
major causes of backwardness and poor socioeconomic conditions of rural community.
FloatSat System - International Collaboration with University of Wurzburg,
Germany
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University of Central Punjab and University of Wurzburg, Germany are working in a collaborative
research project to enhance the functionality of Floating Satellite (FloatSat) system, which is
supervised by Dr. Muhammad Kamran Saleem (Associate Professor FOE) from UCP. The
German University has granted this FloatSat system so that UCP researchers/professionals and
students can get familiar with basic satellite operations and various subsystems used in a satellite.
FloatSat works in a frictionless environment where basic space missions such as star tracking,
satellite docking, sun tracking, satellite solar panel deployment, etc. can be performed in a real-time.
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Research & Development Projects
Project Title
ICT Research and Development for Rural/
Remote Areas of Pakistan
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Funding
Agency
Achieved by
Total
Amount
(PKRs)
Approval
Year
TEIN
Dr. Muhammad
Majid Gulzar
(Associate Professor)
8.37 M
2020
Establishment of National Center of
Robotics and Automation, Human-centered
robotics lab, UCP
HEC
Dr. Zohaib Aftab
(Associate
18.87 M
2018
Professor)
Intelligence and Autonomy Extension for
Low-Cost Freshwater Inspection Vehicles
DAAD
Dr. Syed Atif
Mehdi (Associate
6.879 M
2019
Professor)
Dr. Syed Atif
Forest Monitoring and Change Detection
using Remote Sensing Data
DAAD
Mehdi (Associate
6.879 M
2018
Professor)
Detection of Fungus in Fields using
Autonomous Robots
DAAD
Dr. Syed Atif
Mehdi (Associate
Professor)
6.879 M
2017
University of
Wurzburg,
Germany
Dr. Muhammad
Kamran Saleem
(Associate
Professor)
Equipment
is granted
2021
Floating Satellite (FloatSat) system
100+ Impact Factor Club - UCP Researchers at the International
Horizon
According to most reputed Web of Science (WoS) database, the citations of UCP have enhanced
remarkably, which means that local and international research community are referring to the
research work of UCP in their publications, thus, acknowledging the quality of research at UCP.
Impact factor score is one of the key metric parameters through which the research productivity
of any researcher can be assessed.
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