Hossein Rastgoftar

Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Hossein Rastgoftar

AME N720

520.621.2235
hrastgoftar@arizona.edu

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.

Degrees

  • PhD Mechanical Engineering
    • Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
    • A Continuum Framework and Homogeneous Map based Algorithms for Formation Control of Multi Agent Systems.
  • MS Mechanical Engineering
    • University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States

Work Experience

  • University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2020 - 2021)
  • University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2017 - 2020)
  • University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2015 - 2017)

Interests

Teaching

AME 455 Control System Design
 

Research

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.

Courses

Control System Design

AME 455 (Fall 2024)
AME 455 (Fall 2023)
AME 455 (Spring 2023)
AME 455 (Spring 2022)
AME 455 (Fall 2021)
 

Independent Study

AME 499 (Fall 2021)
AME 599 (Fall 2023)
AME 699 (Spring 2022)
 

Nonlinear and Optimal Control

AME 556 (Fall 2023)
AME 556 (Fall 2022)
 

Research

AME 900 (Fall 2024)
AME 900 (Summer I 2024)
AME 900 (Spring 2024)
AME 900 (Fall 2023)
AME 900 (Spring 2023)
 

Master's Report

AME 909 (Fall 2023)
 

Thesis

AME 910 (Spring 2024)
AME 910 (Fall 2023)
 

Dissertation

AME 920 (Summer I 2023)
AME 920 (Spring 2023)

Selected Publications

Journals/Publications

  • Rastgoftar, H. (2024). Safe Human-UAS Collaboration Abstraction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.05277.
  • Rastgoftar, H., Emadi, H., & Atkins, E. M. (2023). A Finite-State Fixed-Corridor Model for UAS Traffic Management. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
  • Uppaluru, H., & Rastgoftar, H. (2023). Multi-Layer Continuum Deformation Optimization of Multi-Agent Systems. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56(2), 10222-10227.
  • Asslouj, A. E., Uppaluru, H., & Rastgoftar, H. (2022). Fast and Safe Aerial Payload Transport in Urban Areas. arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10064.
  • Rastgoftar, H. (2022). Integration of A* Search and Classic Optimal Control for Safe Planning of Continuum Deformation of a Multi-Quadcopter System. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
  • Rastgoftar, H., & Kolmanovsky, I. V. (2022). A spatio-temporal reference trajectory planner approach to collision-free continuum deformation coordination. Automatica, 142, 110255.
  • Rastgoftar, H., Liu, X., & Jeannin, J. (2022). A Concurrent Switching Model for Traffic Congestion Control. arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.05358.
  • Romano, M., Uppaluru, H., Rastgoftar, H., & Atkins, E. (2022). Quadrotor Formation Flying Resilient to Abrupt Vehicle Failures via a Fluid Flow Navigation Function. arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.01807.
  • Uppaluru, H., Emadi, H., & Rastgoftar, H. (2022). Resilient multi-UAS coordination using cooperative localization. Aerospace Science and Technology, 107960.

Proceedings Publications

  • Asslouj, A. E., & Rastgoftar, H. (2023). Quadcopter Tracking Using Euler-Angle-Free Flatness-Based Control. In 2023 European Control Conference (ECC).
  • Asslouj, A. E., Atkins, E., & Rastgoftar, H. (2023). Can a Laplace PDE Define Air Corridors through Low-Altitude Airspace?. In 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS).
  • Uppaluru, H., & Rastgoftar, H. (2023). Deep Continuum Deformation Coordination and Optimization with Safety Guarantees. In 2023 American Control Conference (ACC).
  • Uppaluru, H., Ghufran, M., Asslouj, A. E., & Rastgoftar, H. (2023). Drones Practicing Mechanics. In 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS).
  • Emadi, H., Uppaluru, H., & Rastgoftar, H. (2022). A physics-based safety recovery approach for fault-resilient multi-quadcopter coordination. In 2022 American Control Conference (ACC).
  • Liu, X., & Rastgoftar, H. (2021). Conservation-based modeling and boundary control of congestion with an application to traffic management in center city philadelphia. In 2021 Australian & New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC).