Hossein Rastgoftar

Interests

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.

Teaching

AME 455 Control System Design

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

• Asslouj, A. E., Uppaluru, H., Ramezani, M., Atkins, E., & Rastgoftar, H. (2024). A Fixed Air Corridor Model for UAS Traffic Management in Urban Areas. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 60(5), 5651-5662.
• Rastgoftar, H. (2024). Safe Human-UAS Collaboration From High-Level Planning to Low-Level Tracking. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 1-13.
• Rastgoftar, H., Emadi, H., & Atkins, E. M. (2024). A Finite-State Fixed-Corridor Model for UAS Traffic Management. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 25(3), 2322-2330.
• 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

• Ghufran, M., Tetakayala, S., & Rastgoftar, H. (2024). Motion Planning for Quadrupled Teams: An Experimental Evaluation Using a Dynamic Fluid Flow Model. In 2024 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV).
• Ghufran, M., Tetakayala, S., Hughes, J., Wilson, A., & Rastgoftar, H. (2024). Quadcopter Team Configurable Motion Guided by a Quadruped. In 2024 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV).
• Uppaluru, H., Ghufran, M., & Rastgoftar, H. (2024). Fluid Flow Modeling and Experimental Evaluation of Unscrewed Aerial System Coordination. In 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS).
• 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).