DYNAMIC SYSTEMS AND CONTROL LABORATORY - Key Persons
Alex Bertino won the Prestigious Award for Best Student Paper of DSCD Robotics at Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC) 2020, entitled "Experimental and Analytical Decentralized Adaptive Control of a 7-DOF Robot Manipulator". This unique work was carried out by Alex on 7-DOF Baxter of my DSCL lab funded by NSF Grant # 1823951.
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- Associate Professor / Mechanical Engineering Department
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- Student at San Diego State University
Emily Bidgood is a student at San Diego State University pursuing a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and a Computer Science minor. She hopes to eventually work in the renewable energy or transportation industries. She is interested in robotics (bipedal) and control.
is pursuing a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from San Diego State University. She recently interned for one of the leading developers of autonomous robots for human environments. Kelly's research interests include robotic design and artificial intelligence.
Mostafa Bagheri was PhD student in Joint Doctoral Program between San Diego State University & University of California, San Diego. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering in 2010 and 2013, respectively, from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran. He was honored with the 2011 Annual Award for the best B.Sc. thesis in Mechanical Engineering by Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 2014, he joined to Advanced Robotics Department, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), and worked on the European project Walk-Man as a graduate researcher. Also, He was Research Assistant (RA) at System Dynamics and Control Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), from 2010 to 2014. His research interests include Nonlinear Dynamics & Control Systems, Robotics & Mechatronics, Adaptive Control and Identification, Dynamic Programming and Optimization, Vehicle Dynamics, and Finite Element Methods & Engineering Mathematic. He received the following award: ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC) 2016 Student Travel Grant.
Nathan Thomas received his B.Sc. and MSc degrees in mechanical engineering in 2017 and 2024 from San Diego State University. His effort was an investigation into the first experimental use of monocular depth estimation when traversing an environment with obstacles. He investigated a navigation task in which the location of an obstacle and a target within the environment is initially unknown. In order to complete this task, he utilizd a deep neural network to estimate depths of objects in the scene. First, the objects are located within the scene using an HSV-based scanning algorithm. Second, he constructed an encoder-decoder based neural network. This network is capable of estimating the depth of all points on the scene with an average root mean squared error of 0.462. Third, he calculated a trajectory which avoids the obstacle and ends at the target object. He showed that this approach is able to successfully determine the 3D coordinates of objects in an environment in under 10ms with an average error of only 248mm.
Ryan Tandy received his B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering in 2017 from San Diego State University. His research interests include dynamics, robotics, and control. He is working on a 25-DOF NAO bipedal robot.
Ryan Toca is pursuing his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from San Diego State University. He aspires to work in the aerospace industry manufacturing unmanned aircrafts designed for reconnaissance. His research interests include Robotics and Mechatronics.