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Assistant Lecturer

mahdi Barakas

Research Interests

Vibration

control

dynamic

Gender MALE
Place of Work Polytechnic College Hawija
Department Department of Human, Robotic and Intelligent Machines
Position Assistant lectuer
Qualification MSc
Speciality Applied Mechanic
Email mahdiq.f-haw@ntu.edu.iq
Phone 07724620581
Address قادسبة ثانية, كركوك, كركوك, العراق
Assist. lecture

Mahdi Qahraman Fakhruddin
Born in 1996, Kirkuk, Iraq.

He received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, University of Babylon, Iraq, in 2018. He later obtained his M.Sc. in Applied Mechanical Engineering from the University of Babylon in 2022.

He is currently working at Northern Technical University / Hawija Polytechnic College, in the Department of Robotics and Intelligent Machines.

Skills

MATLAB/Simulink (80%)
ANSYS (80%)
SOLIDWORKS (85%)
Comsol Multiphysics (88%)
working experience

Academic Qualification

Msc
Sep 1, 2019 - Nov 22, 2022

Msc in applied Mechanic

Working Experience

Data [مسؤول وحدتي الدراسات الإحصائية و البيانات و المعلومات]
Apr 24, 2024 - Present

Stuff data

محاضرات [تدريس]
Mar 29, 2023 - Present

القاء محاضرات في مختلف اقسام كلية لمختلف المواد مثلا الكتروينك والرسم الهدسي و الرسم الصناعي و الكينماتيكس روبتس

Publications

A robot design that helps increase agricultural yields while providing psychological comfort to the use
Dec 4, 2025

Journal KHWARIZMIA

publisher peninsula

DOI https://doi.org/10.70470/ESTIDAMAA/2025/012

Volume Vol. 2025 (2025)

The population-driven, urbanization-driven, and labor shortage-driven global demand for food increasingly requires technological innovation to meet such a need. Agricultural robots are among the most recent technological innovations aimed at enhancing productivity, efficiency, and sustainability while improving the state of psychological and physical health of their human operators. The current article reviews studies reporting on the design and control of those robotic systems that set an objective not only to increase yields but also to increase psychological comfort through approachable and collaborative Human–Robot Interaction (HRI). Agroautomation technological drivers are discussed in this paper. HRC is presented as a framework for adaptive user-centered system design with necessary factors regarding cognitive ergonomics levels of autonomy and interfaces for cooperation—such as gesture- and electromyography-based control in unstructured environments. Analysis regarding design considerations, challenges in autonomy, and nonverbal communication methods relevant to achieving safe, efficient, and psychologically supportive interaction between humans and robots is provided. With advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, collaborative robotic systems have the potential to transform modern agriculture- increasing productivity while improving human well-being. It is this techno logically intensified wave that grows fields of hope.

Mechanically-Informed Design of Flexible Solar Cells: Coupled Deformation–Efficiency Modeling
Nov 20, 2025

Journal KHWARIZMIA

publisher peninsula

DOI https://doi.org/10.70470/ESTIDAMAA/2025/011

Volume Vol. 2025 (2025)

The Flexible solar cells are the most potential type of solar cells to enable wearable, foldable, and conformable energy harvesting systems. Therefore, mechanical fragility and strain-induced performance loss remain scientifically challenging limitations for their large-scale deployment. A new mechanically informed design framework is developed in this work that clearly couples deformation mechanics with a photovoltaic efficiency model capable of predicting strain-driven degradation as well as accounting explicitly for it. A typical architecture of perovskite-based flexible solar cells is analyzed using integrated finite element simulations together with a strain-dependent drift-diffusion model. The mechanical module solves stress/strain distributions due to bending/stretching/cyclic loads while the electrical module contains constitutive relations between local strains and bandgap shifts; mobility changes (variation) in carrier transport; recombination dynamics(parameters). Direct importation (feeding) deformation fields into an electronic solver allows mapping at what scales(load scale or device scale) does charge transport & power conversion efficiency get affected by load. The results find optimum substrate modulus, active-layer thickness, and kirigami-inspired geometric design that reduce peak strain and increase fatigue life (mechanically resilient photovoltaic architecture) to provide clear guidelines. This work proposes a framework to fill the critical gap between material mechanics and solar-cell physics by framing an approach pathway for next-generation flexible solar cells with high durability, stability, and energy performance through a predicted design.

Assessing Wind and Solar Resource Potential in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq for On-Site Oilfield Electrification
Nov 15, 2025

Journal KHWARIZMIA

publisher peninsula

DOI httphttps://doi.org/10.70470/ESTIDAMAA/2025/010s://doi.org/10.70470/KHWARIZMIA/2025/009

Volume Vol. 2025 (2025)

This study clearly illustrates that oilfields in Kurdistan are capable of eliminating the use of diesel by integrating hybrid solar-wind systems. The resource assessment performed for major fields indicates steady high values of solar irradiance (average between 5.4 and 5.9 kWh/m²/day) with moderate wind speeds appropriate to be integrated with turbines. Simulation outcomes from a GIS-based site appraisal, Weibull-oriented wind characterization, and HOMER Pro optimization affirmed that hybrids cut operational dependency on diesel generators drastically — fuel consumption drops by fifty-eight to sixty-seven percent in all locations where hybrids are installed. Some of the reasons these configurations have competitive levelized costs of energy between 0.045 and 0.068 USD/kWh which is well below the costs from electricity generation based on current diesel systems include lower net present cost improved system performance due to battery supported autonomy increased reliability as well as emission reduction which translates tens of thousands. It notes that hybridization not only yields economic results but also falls in line with the broader energy transition agenda of Iraq whereby it enables cleaner, decentralized, and more resilient power systems for remote oilfields. These results equally affirm renewable-driven hybrid microgrids as an economically compelling pathway and technically robust support for sustainable oilfield electrification in Kurdistan Region.

Integration of Titanium Alloys in Robotic Design and the Rise of Medical Robotics
Oct 18, 2025

Journal KHWARIZMIA

publisher peninsula

DOI https://doi.org/10.70470/KHWARIZMIA/2025/009

Volume Vol. 2025 (2025)

The fusion of advanced materials with modern robotics creates excellent results in robotic systems, increasingly applied in industrial, aerospace, and medical applications. Among such materials titanium alloys have found wide acceptance due to high specific strengths with attributes that include resistance to corrosion, biocompatibility, thermal stability—thus ideal for surgical robots, mobile robots as well as precision robots. The main problems are cost, machinability and weldability plus low-temperature brittleness. Meanwhile, innovation in medical robotics has raised the bar wherein the current scope of implementation includes surgical support, sterilization support and ancillary medication support together with vital sign monitoring and remote procedures highly necessitated because of COVID-19. Exemplified by da Vinci robot systems that productively combine titanium parts with state-of-art technologies giving a chance for minimally invasive surgery extremely accurate and safe operations. This paper will review the major titanium alloys which currently find application in making robots, criteria relevant to material selection and development cum application of medical robots besides having technical cum economic cum ethical challenges. It also discusses future trajectories in AI, VR/AR, and surgical automation with a note that the right choice of alloys and further innovations are key to making possible the subsequent generation of high-performance robotic systems.