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    ► PI

    Peiman Naseradinmousavi, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor

    Mechanical Engineering Department
    Email: pnaseradinmousavi@sdsu.edu
    Office Tel: 619-594-5125 Cell: 484-804-0384
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    Before joining San Diego State University, Dr. Peiman Naseradinmousavi was Visiting Assistant Professor of Purdue University. He received the Ph.D. and B.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering (dynamics and control) from Villanova and Tabriz universities, in 2002 and 2012, respectively. His research interests include Smart Flow Distribution Network, Robotics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Control Theory, Optimization, Magnetic Bearings, and Mathematical Modeling. He received honor and prestigious awards:

    ► Graduate Students

    ■ Dr. Alexander Bertino, former PhD student: defended on May 17, 2022; former MS student

    Mechanical Engineering Department
    Email: abertino6245@sdsu.edu
    Tel: 858-254-0698

    Alex Bertino received his B.Sc. from University of California, San Diego. He carried out his M.Sc. at Dynamic Systems and Control Laboratory of San Diego State University. For his PhD, he formulated and experimentally verified four state-of-the-art control strategies on Baxter, a 7-DOF redundant robot manipulator. The control strategies examined in his work are the subject of active research in the field of nonlinear control and have the potential to significantly improve the performance of robot manipulators when they operate in unstructured environments. The first control strategy he investigated is model-free decentralized-adaptive control. The purpose of this control strategy is to achieve consistent performance across a wide range of joint configurations and end-effector inertias, while having a similar computational effciency as PID approaches. The second control strategy he investigated is delay-adaptive control. The purpose of this control strategy is to simultaneously estimate and compensate for an unknown long actuator delay. The third control strategy he investigated is prescribed-time control. A key feature of this control strategy is that the settling time is explicitly assigned by the control designer to a value desired, or "prescribed" by the user, and that the settling time is independent of the initial conditions and of the reference signal. The fourth control strategy he investigated is the prescribed-time safety filter. This formation yields a filter that is capable of avoiding multiple obstacles in a minimally invasive manner with bounded joint torques, while simultaneously allowing a nominal controller to converge to positions located on the boundary of the safe set by the end of a fixed-duration task. Through the formulation and experimental verification of each control strategy he presented, we demonstrated that our proposed methods perform well in both theory and in practice. He received the following prestigious award:

    ■ Dr. Mostafa Bagheri, former PhD student: defended on May 9, 2019

    Mechanical Engineering Department
    Email: mbagheri@sdsu.edu
    Tel: 424-347-4858

    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.

    ■ Wesley Hsiao, MSc Student

    Mechanical Engineering Department
    Email: wesleyyphsiao@gmail.com
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    Wesley received his BS in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine in 2017. His research interests include robotics, control, artificial intelligence, and deep learning. He is working on the 18 DOF SQ1 quadrupedal robot.

    ■ Nina Amiri, MSc Student

    Mechanical Engineering Department
    Email: amiri@rohan.sdsu.edu
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    Ms. Nina Amiri received her B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2105 from San Diego State University. Her research interests include dynamics, robotics, and control. She currently works on trajectory optimization and adaptive control of a 14-DOF NAO bipedal robot.

    ■ Ryan Tandy, MSc Student

    Mechanical Engineering Department
    Email: ryantandy14@gmail.com
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    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.

    ■ Nathan Thomas, MSc Student

    Mechanical Engineering Department
    Email: thomasnathan95@yahoo.com
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    Nathan Thomas received his B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering in 2017 from San Diego State University. His research interests include dynamics, controls, and mathematical modeling. Currently, he is working with a 25-DOF NAO bipedal robot.

    ■ Shane Allison, MSc Student (Graduated)

    Mechanical Engineering Department
    Email: shaneasrca@gmail.com
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    He received a B.Sc. in Nano-Engineering in 2013 from UCSD. In 2011 He was a Research Assistant at the UCLA Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging assisting in the research of the behavior and synthesis of Bio-compatible Nanoparticles. His research interests include Nanomaterials, Control Theory, and Dynamics.

    ► Undergraduate Assistants

    ■ Emily Bidgood

    Mechanical Engineering Department
    Email: eemooly48@gmail.com
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    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.

    ■ Kelly Allen

    Mechanical Engineering Department
    Email: 22kellyallen@gmail.com
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    Kelly Allen 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.

    ■ Ryan Toca

    Mechanical Engineering Department
    Email: tocaryan@yahoo.com
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    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.

    Aztec Robotic Technologies Team (Undergraduate Students)

    Mechanical Engineering Department

    • President-Samuel Espinoza

    • Treasurer-Anas Khafagi

    • Vice President-Alex Peraza

    • Membership Officer-Aubrey Appelbaum

    • Public Relations-Carlos Antonio Cabrera