Hossein Rastgoftar
- Assistant Professor, Aerospace-Mechanical Engineering
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
- Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics - GIDP
- (520) 621-2235
- Aerospace & Mechanical Engr., Rm. 720
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- hrastgoftar@arizona.edu
Biography
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 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
- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- A Continuum Framework and Homogeneous Map based Algorithms for Formation Control of Multi Agent Systems.
- M.S. 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
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
2024-25 Courses
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Control System Design
AME 455 (Spring 2025) -
Master's Report
AME 909 (Spring 2025) -
Research
AME 900 (Spring 2025) -
Thesis
AME 910 (Spring 2025) -
Control System Design
AME 455 (Fall 2024) -
Research
AME 900 (Fall 2024) -
Thesis
AME 910 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Research
AME 900 (Summer I 2024) -
Research
AME 900 (Spring 2024) -
Thesis
AME 910 (Spring 2024) -
Control System Design
AME 455 (Fall 2023) -
Independent Study
AME 599 (Fall 2023) -
Master's Report
AME 909 (Fall 2023) -
Nonlinear and Optimal Control
AME 556 (Fall 2023) -
Research
AME 900 (Fall 2023) -
Thesis
AME 910 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Dissertation
AME 920 (Summer I 2023) -
Control System Design
AME 455 (Spring 2023) -
Dissertation
AME 920 (Spring 2023) -
Research
AME 900 (Spring 2023) -
Nonlinear and Optimal Control
AME 556 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Control System Design
AME 455 (Spring 2022) -
Independent Study
AME 699 (Spring 2022) -
Control System Design
AME 455 (Fall 2021) -
Independent Study
AME 499 (Fall 2021)
Scholarly Contributions
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).
