Sattar's primary research focus is on making robots work safely and intuitively with people, so humans and robot can coexist and collaborate. This means looking into improving a robot's perception about people, their intentions and/or actions, engaging in dialog, as well as the environment. Perceiving the world robustly, particularly under changing and degraded conditions is an open challenge; his research interest extends into multi-modal sensory perception. Past research has been heavily influenced by making robots work with humans in unstructured environments, particularly underwater, and current and work involves field robots in the air, water and outdoor, all-terrain platforms.
