Hossein Rastgoftar

Assistant Professor, Aerospace-Mechanical Engineering
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics - GIDP

Contact

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

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

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Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

Hughes, J. T., Mazmanyan, G., Ghufran, M., & Rastgoftar, H. (2026). VR-Based Control of Multicopter Operation. IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, 41(2), 46-55.
Rastgoftar, H. (2026). Privacy-Aware Operation of a Complex Mission. Journal of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems, 6(1), 011001.
Rastgoftar, H. (2025). Deep and Decentralized Multiagent Coverage of a Target With Unknown Distribution. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 12(2), 1393-1405.
Rastgoftar, H. (2025). Safe Human-UAS Collaboration From High-Level Planning to Low-Level Tracking. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 22, 7132-7144.
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

Rastgoftar, H. (2025). Containment Control Approach for Steering Opinion in a Social Network. In 2025 IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC).
Rastgoftar, H., & Zahed, M. (2025). Deep Neural Network-Based UAS Transport. In 2025 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS).
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).

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