Education:

• PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Drexel University Philadelphia, 2015
• MSc in Mechanical Engineering, University of Central Florida Orlando, 2013
• MSc in Applied Mechanics, Shiraz University Shiraz Iran, 2010
• BSc in Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University Shiraz Iran, 2006

Research Interests: ^top

• Dynamics and Control
• Autonomous Systems
• Large-Scale Robotics
• Sensor Fusion and State Estimation
• Aerial Robotics
• Applied Mathematics
• Applied Mechanics

Biography: ^top

Hossein Rastgoftar is currently an assistant research scientist in the Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan Autonomous and Aerospace Systems Laboratory, directed by Professor Atkins, from 2015-2017. He has received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University in 2015. Hossein has two MS degrees (one in Mechanical Systems and the other in Solid Mechanics) and a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering-Thermo-Fluids.

Hossein is currently collaborating with Professor Ella M. Atkins on cooperative aerial payload transport by autonomous Multi-UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) System (MUS) as an application for MAS continuum deformation. The project goal is to manage a cooperative MUS transport mission through task-level autonomy given a fixed set of MUS leaders and followers. An underlying cooperative control strategy motivated by continuum deformation will enhance the resilience, scalability and safety of the transport mission.

Positions Held at UM

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2015-2017)

Society Memberships: ^top

AIAA, ASME