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Hossein Rastgoftar is currently an assistant professor in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Arizona. Prior to this, he was an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Michigan from 2020 to 2021. He was also an assistant research scientist (2017 to 2020) and a postdoctoral researcher (2015 to 2017) in the Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University in 2015 and has two MS degrees (one in Mechanical Systems and the other in Solid Mechanics) and a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering-Thermo-Fluids. Rastgoftar’s areas of interest span decision-making under uncertainty, human-robotic interaction, swarm robotics, system autonomy, UAS traffic management, intelligent transportation, formal specification and verification, and finite-state abstraction of dynamical systems.Show Less
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Courses
- NOCNonlinear and Optimal Control
- CSDControl System Design
Grants
- A Continuum Deformation Approach to Unmanned Aircraft Traffic Management
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$441.7K
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Technologies / Patents
Publications (97)
Recent
- Multi-Layer Continuum Deformation Optimization of Multi-Agent Systems
2023
- Deep Continuum Deformation Coordination and Optimization with Safety Guarantees
2023
- Experimental Evaluation of Multi-Agent System Collision-Free Coordination Using Ideal Fluid-Flow Models
2023
- Multi-Agent Coordination Fluid Flow Modeling and Experimental Evaluation
2023
- Can a Laplace PDE Define Air Corridors through Low-Altitude Airspace?
2023
- Resilient multi-UAS coordination using cooperative localization
2022
- Quadcopter Tracking Using Euler-Angle-Free Flatness-Based Control
2022
- Fast and Safe Aerial Payload Transport in Urban Areas
2022
- Boundary control of traffic congestion modeled as a non-stationary stochastic process
2022
- A spatio-temporal reference trajectory planner approach to collision-free continuum deformation coordination
2022
- A Concurrent Switching Model for Traffic Congestion Control
2022
- Drones Practicing Mechanics
2022
- A Physics-Based Data-Driven Approach for Finite Time Estimation of Pandemic Growth
2022
- Real-Time Deployment of a Large-Scale Multi-Quadcopter System (MQS)
2022
- A Finite-State Fixed-Corridor Model for UAS Traffic Management
2022
- Collision-Free Continuum Deformation Coordination of a Multi-Quadcopter System Using Cooperative Localization
2022
- Integration of A* Search and Classic Optimal Control for Safe Planning of Continuum Deformation of a Multiquadcopter System
2022
- A physics-based safety recovery approach for fault-resilient multi-quadcopter coordination
2022
- A Continuous-Time Optimal Control Approach to Congestion Control
2022
- A mass-conservation model for stability analysis and finite-time estimation of spread of COVID-19
2021
- A physics-based finite-state abstraction for traffic congestion control
2021
- Conservation-based modeling and boundary control of congestion with an application to traffic management in center city philadelphia
2021
- Safe affine transformation-based guidance of a large-scale multiquadcopter system
2021
- A continuum deformation approach for growth analysis of COVID-19 in the United States
2021
- Continuum deformation coordination of multi-agent systems using cooperative localization
2021
- Continuum deformation of a multi-quadcopter system under time-varying communication weights
2021
- Scalable vehicle team continuum deformation coordination with eigen decomposition
2021
- Corrections to “Safe Affine Transformation-Based Guidance of a Large-Scale Multiquadcopter System”[Jun 21 640-653]
2021
- An integrative behavioral-based physics-inspired approach to traffic congestion control
2020
- Resilient physics-based traffic congestion control
2020
- DSCC2020-3330
2020
- Fault-resilient continuum deformation coordination
2020
- Multi-quadcopter team leader path planning using particle swarm optimization
2019
- Experimental evaluation of continuum deformation with a five quadrotor team
2019
- Multi-uav continuum deformation flight optimization in cluttered urban environments
2019
- Physics-based freely scalable continuum deformation for uas traffic coordination
2019
- Resilient Continuum Deformation Coordination
2019
- An integrative data-driven physics-inspired approach to traffic congestion control
2019
- Formal specification of continuum deformation coordination
2019
- Safe multi-cluster UAV continuum deformation coordination
2019
- Interactive Physics-Inspired Traffic Congestion Management
2019
- Geofence boundary violation detection in 3D using triangle weight characterization with adjacency
2019
- Safe multiquadcopter system continuum deformation over moving frames
2018
- Unmanned Vehicle Autonomy for Long-Duration Surveillance Missions
2018
- Cooperative Aerial Payload Transport Guided by an In Situ Human Supervisor
2018
- Cooperative aerial lift and manipulation (calm)
2018
- Continuum deformation of a multiple quadcopter payload delivery team without inter-agent communication
2018
- A data-driven approach for autonomous motion planning and control in off-road driving scenarios
2018
- A graph-theoretic-based method for analyzing conduction problems
2017
- Continuum deformation of multi-agent systems under directed communication topologies
2017
- Specification and evaluation of geofence boundary violation detection algorithms
2017
- Nonlinear System Finite-Time Output Reachability for Flight Control given Uncertain Airspeed
2017
- Continuum deformation of a multi-quadcopter system in a payload delivery mission
2017
- Unmanned vehicle mission planning given limited sensory information
2017
- Deployment of an Arbitrary Distribution of a Multi-Agent System With Finite Size on a Desired Formation
2016
- Continuum deformation of multi-agent systems
2016
- Continuum deformation of a multi-agent system over nonlinear surfaces
2016
- Deployment of a Multi-Agent System on a Desired Formation
2016
- Alignment as Biological Inspiration for Control of Multi-Agent Systems
2016
- Asymptotic tracking and robustness of MAS transitions under a new communication topology
2016
- Higher Order Dynamics for MAS Evolution as Continuum Deformation
2016
- Autonomous Collision Avoidance as a Markov Decision Process
2016
- Homogeneous Deformation without Interagent Communication
2016
- Homogeneous Deformation of Multi-Agent Systems Communication
2016
- Swarm motion as particles of a continuum with communication delays
2015
- A Continuum Framework and Homogeneous Map Based Algorithms for Formation Control of Multi Agent Systems
2015
- An alignment strategy for evolution of multi-agent systems
2015
- Continuum evolution of multi agent systems under a polyhedral communication topology
2014
- A continuum based approach for multi agent systems under local inter-agent communication
2014
- Continuum evolution of a system of agents with finite size
2014
- Evolution of multi agent systems under a new communication topology
2014
- Evolution of multi-agent systems as continua
2014
- Distributed formation control for collaborative tracking of manifolds in flows
2014
- Planning and control of swarm motion as continua
2013
- Distributed control of swarm motions as continua using homogeneous maps and agent triangulation
2013
- Preserving stability under communication delays in multi agent systems
2013
- Multi-agent deployment based on homogenous maps and a special inter-agent communication protocol
2013
- Boundary control of temperature distribution in a spherical shell with spatially varying parameters
2012
- Stochastic fuzzy assessment for managing hydro-environmental systems under uncertainty and ambiguity
2012
- An Inverse Method for Controlling the Temperature Distribution in Infinite Wedge Domain
2012
- Planning and control of swarm motion as deformable body
2012
- Planning and Control of Swarm Motions as Deformable Bodies
2012
- An Inverse Method for Controlling the Temperature Distribution and Identification of the Conductivity of Thick Cylindrical Shells
2011
- Boundary Control of Temperature Distribution in a Rectangular Functionally Graded Material Plate
2011
- An Inverse Method for Determining and Controlling Inaccessible Domain Temperature of Hot Bodies
2011
- Boundary Control of Large Amplitude Vibration of Anisotropic Composite Laminated Plates
2010
- Boundary Control of Temperature Distribution in a Rectangular FGM Plate
2009
- Boundary Control of Temperature Distribution in a Thick Rectangular FGM Plate (Cubic Block)
2009
- Boundary control of vibration of symmetric composite laminated plate
2008
- Boundary control of large vibration of FGM rectangular plates
2008
- Boundary Control of a Vibrating FGM Rectangular Plate
2008
- Stability analysis of a flexible two-link Timoshenko manipulator using boundary control method
2008
- An inverse method for fast identification of impact loads using strain integrals
2008
- Boundary Control of Vibration of General Composite Laminated Plate
2008