SIAVASH FARZAN

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Research Team

Principal Investigator

Siavash Farzan (sfarzan@)
Assistant Professor, Cal Poly

I lead a group of graduate and undergraduate students to develop safety-critical and robust planning and control algorithms for autonomous cyber-physical systems such as autonomous vahicles, aerial drones, and robot manipulators.

I'm consistently seeking ambitious graduate and undergraduate students interested in cyber-physical systems and robotics. If you're motivated by addressing fundamental challenges for autonomous systems and are considering theoretical/experimental research collaborations with me at Cal Poly or WPI, feel free to contact me at sfarzan@calpoly.edu.

Current Students

Vishrut Bohara (vbohara@)
Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - Present

Research interests: safety-critical control, autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles

Varun Gampa (vgampa@)
Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - Present

Research interests: learning-based control, model predective control

Chinmayee Prabhakar (cprabhakar@)
Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - Present

Research interests: learning-based coordinated control, unmanned aerial vehicles

Sumeet Shanbhag (sshanbhag1@)
Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - Present

Research interests: motion planning, autonomous vehicles, sim2real transfer

Chaitanya Gaddipati (cgaddipati@)
Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - Present

Research interests: control of PDE systems, robust/adaptive control

Harshal Bhat (hbhat@)
Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - Present

Research interests: safety-critical adaptive control, autonomous vehicles

Shivam Sharma (ssharma4@)
Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - Present

Research interests: simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), agricultural robotics

Past Students

Shiva Tekumatla (stekumatla@)   Graduate Student, WPI, 2021-22   (now at Honeywell)
Research interests: underactuated robotics, controls, learning-based control
Ghokulji Selvaraj (gselvaraj@)   Graduate Student, WPI, 2021-22
Research interests: robotic vision, deep learning, agricultural robotics
Wael Mohammed (wmohammed@)   Graduate Student, WPI, 2022   (now at Berkshire Grey)
Research interests: vision-based robotic manipulation
Yichen Guo (yguo2@)   Undergraduate Student, WPI, 2022   (now at Cornell)
Research interests: robust control, ROS-based mobile robots
Tian Yu (Annie) Fan (tfan@)   Graduate Student, WPI, 2022   (now at MathWorks)
Research interests: robot manipulation and control
Khizar Amjed Mohamed (kamjedmohamed@)   Graduate Student, WPI, 2022   (now at Boardwalk Robotics)
Research interests: learning-based control, underactuated robots
Jidnyesha Patil (jpatil@)   Graduate Student, WPI, 2022   (now at Smartapp)
Research interests: motion planning and control, autonomous vehicles
Aditya Patil (apatil@)   Graduate Student, WPI, 2022   (now at ArcBest)
Research interests: robust adaptive control, quadrotor aerial vehicles
Rohith Venkataramanan (rvenkataramanan@)   Graduate Student, WPI, 2022-23
Thesis title: Perception-Driven Robotic Manipulation and Motion Planning for Packaging of Dynamic Compressible Objects
Harin Vashi (hvashi@)   Graduate Student, WPI, 2022-23   (now at Outrider)
Research interests: motion planning, multi-agent systems

Senior Capstone Design Teams
Drone Swarms for Search and Rescue Missions

Anderson MacMillan, Wyatt Colburn, Rushabh Shah, Chris Short
Undergraduate Students, Cal Poly, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024

Areas: localization, control, embedded systems

Autonomous Apple Harvesting Robot

Jack Cline, Tyus Green, Devon Woolston
Undergraduate Students, Cal Poly, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024

Areas: manipulation, grasping, navigation

Cal Poly Gen 2 Battle Bot

Kelvin Villago
Undergraduate Student, Cal Poly, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024

Areas: embedded systems, PCB design

Stair-Capable Robot Vacuum

Benjamin Draper and Sawyer Wofford (co-advised with Jing Xiao)
Undergraduate Students, WPI, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022

Areas: novel robotic mechanism design, feedback control, embedded systems

"Winner of the 2022 Provost's MQP Award for Robotics Engineering"

A Hopping Two-Wheeled Segway Robot

Christian Defranco, Brian Desousa, and Samuel Mwangi
Undergraduate Students, WPI, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022

Areas: novel robotic mechanism design, feedback control, ROS-enabled embedded systems

Small-Size Soccer Robots

Spencer Belleville, Conner Christinsen, Ashley Espeland, David Lapointe, Noah Page, Logan Rinaldi, Nathan Rogers, Benjamin Schwantes, Evan Vadeboncoeur, Yifei Zhao
Undergraduate Students, WPI, Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

Areas: multi-agent systems, motion planning, embeeded systems, mechatronics

Robotic CNC Tending Work Cell with Remote Access

Brian Francis, Mayank Govilla, Nikolas Neathery
Undergraduate Students, WPI, Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

Areas: robotic manipulation, system integration, motion planning