CPSquare | Cal Poly Cyber-Physical Systems Lab

CPSquare: Cal Poly Cyber-Physical Systems Lab

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, feel free to contact me at sfarzan@calpoly.edu.

Graduate Students

	Pranav Athreya (pathreya@) Graduate Student, Cal Poly, 2024 - Present Research interests: cooperative localization, multi-agent systems
	Jack Cline (jrcline@) Graduate Student, Cal Poly, 2024 - Present Research interests: dynamic task allocation, heterogeneous multi-robot systems
	Kelvin Villago (kvillago@) Graduate Student, Cal Poly, 2024 - Present Research interests: safety-critical formation control, multi-agent systems

Undergraduate Research Teams

The Road Ahead: Pioneering Control and Planning for Self-Driving Cars
Wesley Luu, Nayeli Mateo, Dylan Sandall, Wilson Szeto, Alfred Tran
Undergraduate Students, Cal Poly, Winter 2024 - Summer 2024
Learning Aligned Employment Program (LAEP)

Drive to Succeed: Empowering Underserved Communities through Autonomous Driving Education
Amanda Chan
Undergraduate Students, Cal Poly, Summer 2024
Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)

Advanced Localization and Grasping Sensor Technologies for Autonomous Robotic Apple Harvesting
Chris Bae, Gabriel Basus
Undergraduate Students, Cal Poly, Summer 2024
Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)

Collective Localization and Dynamic Formation Control for Robot Swarms
Dmitri Dobrynin, Indigo Garcia
Undergraduate Students, Cal Poly, Summer 2024
Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP)

Alumni

Chinmayee Prabhakar (cprabhakar@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - 2024 (now at SpadXTech)
Thesis title: A Unified Framework for Multi-Agent Collective Localization and Target Tracking

Akshay Jaitly (ajaitly@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2023-24 (now at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs)
Thesis title: Polytopic Action-Set and Motion Planning with Learned Polytopic Representations of Behaviors

Vishrut Bohara (vbohara@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 (now at Nokia Bell Labs)
Thesis title: Estimation-based Safety-Critical Control of Multi-Agent Robotic Systems

Rohith Venkataramanan (rvenkataramanan@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2022-23 (now at UltraFlex)
Thesis title: Perception-Driven Robotic Manipulation and Motion Planning for Packaging of Dynamic Compressible Objects

Chaitanya Gaddipati (cgaddipati@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - 2024
Research interests: control of PDE systems, robust/adaptive control

Varun Gampa (vgampa@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - 2024 (now at ArcBest)
Research interests: learning-based control, model predective control

Harin Vashi (hvashi@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2022-23 (now at Outrider)
Research interests: motion planning, multi-agent systems

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 (now at Magna International)
Research interests: robotic vision, deep learning, agricultural robotics

Sumeet Shanbhag (sshanbhag1@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2023 - 2024
Research interests: motion planning, autonomous vehicles, sim2real transfer

Swati Shirke (svshirke@) Graduate Student, WPI, 2024
Research interests: multi-agent reinforcement learning

Senior Capstone Design Teams

	Advanced Multi-Agent UAV Coordination and Distributed Localization Toma Grundler, Jack Ryan Undergraduate Students, Cal Poly, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 Areas: multi-agent systems, embedded systems
	Experimental Framework for Multi-Agent Coordination and Distributed Localization in Micro-UAVs Minwoo Park, Niko Tambornini Undergraduate Students, Cal Poly, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 Areas: multi-agent systems, embedded systems
	Distributed Multi-Robot Localization and Coordination Framework for Mobile Robots Dmitri Dobrynin, Indigo Garcia Undergraduate Students, Cal Poly, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 Areas: multi-agent systems, embedded systems
	Urban Autonomous Driving and Coordinated Platooning with NVIDIA Jetbots Patrick Crandall, Kalon Bienz Undergraduate Students, Cal Poly, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 Areas: multi-agent systems, autonomous vehicles
	Field-Deployable Mobile Manipulator for Autonomous Apple Harvesting Gabriel Basus, Andrew Daouda, Antonio Bowen Undergraduate Students, Cal Poly, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 Areas: localization, manipulation, signal processing
	Development of an Autonomous Driving Education Kit using NVIDIA Jetbots Bennett Parisi Undergraduate Students, Cal Poly, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 Areas: autonomous vehicles, embedded systems
	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 Combat Robot, Electrical System 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