Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Swaroop Darbha
Education
- University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, December 1994
- Dissertation Title: String Stability of Interconnected Systems: An application to platooning in Automated Highway Systems
- Adviser: Professor Karl Hedrick
- Thesis Committee Members: Professors Masayoshi Tomizuka, Shankar Sastry, and Pravin Varaiya
- Area of Study: Control Systems
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, May 1992
- Thesis Title: Modeling the Longitudinal dynamics of a vehicle for control in an Automated Highway System
- Adviser: Professor Karl Hedrick
- Area of Study: Control Systems
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, December 1994
- Indian Institute of Technology – Madras, Chennai, India
- B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, August 1989
- Thesis Title: Finite Element Analysis of the solidification process in metal casting applications
- Adviser: Professor K. N. Seetharamu
- B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, August 1989
Teaching Experiences
Graduate Courses Developed:
- Nonlinear Control System Design (MEEN 655)
- Second-level Graduate Course
- Taught: Fall 1999, 2002; Spring 2001, 2004
- Convex Optimization Methods for Control System Design (MEEN 689)
- Second-level Graduate Course
- Taught Spring 2005
Other Graduate Courses Taught:
- Mechanics of Robotic Manipulators (MEEN 612)
- Introductory Graduate course in Robotics
- Taught: Fall 2010, 2011, 2012; Spring 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Control System Design (MEEN 651)
- Introductory Graduate course in Control Systems
- Taught: Fall 1997, 1998, 2000, 2009
Undergraduate Core Courses Taught:
- Introduction to Engineering (ENGR 112)
- Freshman Course
- Taught: 2013
- Statics and Dynamics (MEEN 221):
- Sophomore Course
- Taught: Spring 2016
- Mechanical Systems II (MEEN 335):
- Junior-Level Course
- Taught: Spring 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
- Engineering Analysis for Mechanical Engineers (MEEN 357):
- Junior-Level Course
- Taught: Fall 2017
- Dynamics and Vibrations (MEEN 363):
- Junior-Level Course
- Taught: Fall 2005, Spring 2012, Fall 2014 and Spring 2016(at TAMUQ)
- Dynamic Systems and Control (MEEN 364):
- Junior-Level Course
- Taught: Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Spring 2017
- Mechanical Engineering Design I (MEEN 401):
- First Course in the Senior Capstone Design Sequence
- Studio Instructor: Fall 2010
- Mechanical Engineering Design II (MEEN 402):
- Second Course in the Senior Capstone Design Sequence
- Studio Instructor: Spring 2003
- Mechanical Engineering Design I (MEEN 445):
- First Course in the Senior Capstone Design Sequence
- Studio Instructor: Spring 2002
- Mechanical Engineering Design II (MEEN 446):
- Second Course in the Senior Capstone Design Sequence
- Studio Instructor: Fall 2002
Undergraduate Technical Electives Taught:
- Introduction to Robotics (MEEN 408):
- Senior Technical Elective; stacked with MEEN 612 from Spring 2005.
- Taught: Spring 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009 (TAMU), 2014 and 2015 (at TAMUQ), 2018; Fall 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.
- Introduced Motion Planning for Mobile Robots, Basic Routing and Assignment Algorithms.
- Two projects – one on Adaptive Control of Robotic Manipulators and the other on Routing Robots with Motion Constraints through a sequence of points with a specified orientation.
- Mechanical Controls (MEEN 411):
- Senior Technical Elective.
- Taught: Spring 1997, 1999; Fall 2004.
- Advanced Dynamics and Controls (MEEN 431):
- Required Course for Undergraduate Students interested in the Systems Area.
- Taught: Fall 2010, 2011, 2012.
- Introduced recently developed techniques for PID control design based on classical results: Hermite-Biehler Theorem, Proof of Routh-Hurwitz Theorem, D- decomposition and synthesizing sets of PID controllers satisfying stability and performance criteria based on these methods.
- Automobile Engineering (MEEN 432):
- Technical Elective.
- Taught: Spring 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, Fall 2017.
- Introduced: (1) Vehicle Dynamic Models – powertrain, tire, longitudinal, lateral and suspension models; (2) Hydraulic Control Systems – Models of Valves and Ac- tuators for modeling Power Steering, Automatic Transmission and Active/Semi- Active Suspensions.
- Introduced a Class Project: Simulating the dynamic response of an automobile based on the data from California PATH for engines, torque converter, gear ratios and gear shift schedules.
- Design of Machine Components and Systems (MEEN 441):
- Technical Elective.
- Teaching at TAMUQ in Spring 2015.
- Sound and Vibration (MEEN 459):
- Technical Elective.
- Teaching at TAMUQ in Spring 2014.
Awards and Honors
- Keynote Speaker, Benefits of V2V Communicated Information for Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, Workshop on ITS, IEEE COMSNETS, Bangalore, India, January 2018.
- Fellow, IEEE, January 2018 (citation: for contributions to Intelligent Transportation Systems & Autonomous Vehicles).
- Elected Member, Tau Beta Pi, March 2016.
- Best Paper Award for the ICUAS 2014 Paper on “Routing of two UAVs with Communication Constraints,” coauthored with S. G. Manyam (doctoral student), Prof. S. Rathinam, Dr. David Casbeer (AFRL) and Phillip Chandler (AFRL).
- Semi-plenary speaker at the 2012 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference presenting the paper: “Sub-Optimal Stationary Policies For A Class of Stochastic Optimization Problems Arising in Robotic Surveillance Applications,” co-authored by M. Park, K. Krishnamoorty, S. Darbha, P. P. Khargonekar, P. Chandler and M. Pachter.
- Fellow, ASME 2010 (citation: for contributions to Intelligent Transportation Systems & Autonomous Vehicles).
- Dwight Look College of Engineering Faculty Fellow, Texas A&M University, October 2009.
- Distinguished Achievement Award (College Level) of the Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University, October 2009.
- Tenneco Oil Exploration & Production Award for Meritorious Teaching of Engineering (College Level), Texas A&M University, October 2009.
- Peggy L. and Charles L. Brittan Teaching Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Mechanical Engineering, October 2006.
- Finalist, Best Poster Paper Award at the 2005 World Congress of International Federation of Automatic Control for the paper: “Synthesis of Fixed Structure Controllers for Discrete-time Systems Using Linear Programming,” co-authored by Waqar Malik, S. Darbha, and S. P. Bhattacharyya.
- A. P. State Special Merit Scholarship and Telugu Vignana Paritoshikam Awards from 1985 to 1989 for being ranked in the top ten (tenth) among approximately 200,000 students in the 1985 Intermediate Examination held in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
- Ranked 12 out of more than 100,000 students in the Engineering and Medical Common Entrance Test held in Andhra Pradesh, India in 1985; Ranked 379 out of more than 100,000 students in the Joint Entrance Examination of the Indian Institutes of Technology in 1985.
Academic Appointments
- Professor: September 2009 – present.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University. - Professor: November 2017- present
Department of Ocean Engineering, Texas A&M University. - Professor: January 2014 – December 2016
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar. - Associate Professor: September 2003 – August 2009.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University. - Assistant Professor: January 1997 – August 2003.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University. - Associate Research Engineer: September 2003-present.
Translink Laboratory, Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University. - Postdoctoral Researcher: April 1995 to December 1996.
California PATH, Institute for Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
Supervisor: Professor Pravin Varaiya, EECS Department, UC Berkeley.
Summer Appointments
- Visiting Summer Faculty Researcher: May 2009 – August 2009.
Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH. - Visiting Summer Faculty Researcher: May 2008 – August 2008.
Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH. - Visiting Scientist: January 1, 2006 – December 1, 2006.
Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH. - ASEE/AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellow: May 2005 – August 2005.
Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin Air Force Base, Eglin, FL. - Consultant: May 2004 – July 2004.
United Technologies Research Center, E. Hartford, CT. - Visiting Summer Faculty Researcher: May 2009 – August 2009.
Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH. - ASEE/AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellow: May 2000 – August 2000.
Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH. - General Engineer: June 1998 – August 1998.
Volpe National Transportation Center, Cambridge, MA.
Editorial Board Membership
- Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, January 2004 – December 2009; January 2018-
- Associate Editor: Differential Equations and Nonlinear Mechanics, May 2005 – December 2010.
- Associate Editor: ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, January 2009 – December 2013.
- Associate Editor: Conference Editorial Board, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2008 – 2010.
Selected Talks
- “Intelligent Cruise Control Systems and Traffic Flow Stability,” Volpe National Transportation Center, Cambridge, MA, June 1998.
- “Intelligent Cruise Control Systems and Traffic Flow Stability,” Ford Scientific Research Laboratory, Dearborn, MI, August 1998.
- “Intelligent Cruise Control Systems and Traffic Flow Stability,” Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley, March 1999.
- “Aggregation of Dynamical Systems,” Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas, Dallas, April 1999.
- “Issues in the design of cooperative classification and attack algorithms for a col- lection of UAVs,” Air Force Research Laboratory, July 2000.
- “Issues in the design of cooperative classification and attack algorithms for a collection of UAVs,” Honeywell Research and Technology Center, Minneapolis, November 2000.
- “Issues in the design of automatic vehicle following systems,” Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, March 2001.
- “Traffic flow modeling via aggregation,” NSF Workshop on Engineering Transportation Industry, Arlington, VA, August 2001.
- “Cooperative control of LOCAAS vehicles,” Lockheed Martin Aerospace Company, September 2001.
- “A non-continuum modeling of the flow of traffic via aggregation,” Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies, University of Southern California, April 2002.
- “String Stability and its application to aggregation, decentralized control and estimation,” Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, April 2002.
- “Cooperative Path Planning Algorithms,” Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, November 2002.
- “An overview of cooperative control research at Texas A&M University,” Lockheed Martin Aerospace Company, January 2003.
- “Synthesis of fixed order controllers,” Department of Aerospace Engineering, Purdue University, October 2003.
- “Development of a diagnostic system for air brakes in trucks,” National Fluid Power Association, Indianapolis, October 2003.
- “Synthesis of fixed structure controllers,” United Technologies Research Center, January 2004.
- “Modeling the flow of traffic,” Symposium in honor of Professor K. R. Rajagopal, Society of Engineering Science (SES) meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska, November 2004.
- “Combinatorial Motion Planning of Reeds-Shepp Vehicles,” Center for Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles, University of California at Berkeley, November 2005.
- “Information Flow and its relation to stability of motion of vehicles in a rigid formation,” Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, April 2006.
- “Stochastic Optimal Controller for COUNTER project,” Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, September 2006.
- “Development of a spatially discrete model for the flow of traffic,” Indo-US Workshop on Recent Advances in Transportation Engineering, January 2007.
- “Multiple Depot Vehicle Routing,” Indo-US Workshop on Recent Advances in Transportation Engineering, January 2007.
- “Combinatorial Motion Planning of Unmanned Vehicles,” Center for Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles, University of California at Berkeley, March 2007.
- “Fixed Order Controller synthesis via Linear Programming,” IMA-TAMU Summer School and Workshop on Applicable Algebraic Geometry, Texas A&M University, College Station, August 2007.
- “Combinatorial Motion Planning for a collection of Unmanned Vehicles,” ICECON Conference, National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, December 2007.
- “Routing of a collection of Unmanned Vehicles,” Air Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Dayton, August 2008.
- “Alert Processing,” Center for Excellence in Control Science and Engineering, Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton on August 2008.
- “Linear Programming Approximations for Stochastic Dynamic Programming,” Center for Excellence in Control Science and Engineering, Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, August 2009.
- “String Stability in Automated Vehicle Following Systems,” Maseeh Collogquium, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Portland State University, November 2009.
- “Performance Guarantee of a Suboptimal Policy for Multi-Robot Perimeter Surveillance,” Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, May 2014.
- “String Stability of Automatic Vehicle Following Systems,” Department of Engineering Design, Indian Institute of Technology – Madras, July 2014.
- “Performance Guarantee of a Suboptimal Policy for Multi-Robot Perimeter Surveillance,” Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, October 2014.
- “Routing Algorithms for a heterogeneous collection of UAVs,” Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, National University of Singapore, October 2014.
- “Performance Guarantee of a Suboptimal Policy for Multi-Robot Perimeter Surveillance,” Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, March 2016.
- “Diagnostics for Air Brakes in Trucks,” TNO, Eindhoven, Netherlands, March 2016.
- “Routing a collection of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,” Planning Workshop, Texas A&M University at Qatar, April 2016.
- “Perimeter Surveillance Problem and Stochastic Control,” Robotics Laboratory, King Abdulla University of Science and Technology, December 2016.
- “Perimeter Surveillance Problem and Stochastic Control,” Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT-BHU, Varanasi, India, June 2017.
- “String Stability of Automatic Vehicle Following Systems,” Nonlinear Analysis & Dynamical Systems Seminar, UT Dallas, October 2017.
- “Benefits of V2V communication for Autonomous Vehicle Following,” Keynote Speaker, Workshop on ITS, COMNETS Conference, Bangalore, January 3, 2018.
- “String Stability of Automatic Vehicle Following Systems,” Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, March 27, 2018.
- “String Stability of Automatic Vehicle Following Systems,” University of Notre Dame, April 16, 2018.
- “String Stability of Automatic Vehicle Following Systems,” KTH, Stockholm, May 3, 2018.
Student Advising
- Christopher Montez
Ph. D. Dissertation Topic: TBD. - Manideep Ankem
M. S. Thesis topic: Effect of Heterogeneity on Error Propagation in Vehicular Strings, May 2019 (expected). - Jai Thomas Lopez
Ph. D. Thesis Topic: Bounds for Optimal Motion Plans for a collection of Unmanned Vehicles. December 2019 (expected).
(co-advised with Dr. S. Rathinam) - Saikrishnakanth Hari
Ph. D. Dissertation topic: Persistent Monitoring of targets with multiple UAVs, December 2019 (expected),
M. S. Thesis topic: Development of algorithms for localization and attitude estimation from range measurements in Unmanned Vehicles, August 2016. - Mengke Liu
Ph. D. Dissertation topic: Control of Lateral Motion of Passenger and Articulated Vehicles, December 2019 (expected).
(co-advised with Dr. S. Rathinam) - Vamsi Krishna Vegamoor
M. S. Thesis Topic: Modeling the dynamics of trucks for control, December 2018 (expected). - Tyler Marr
M. S. Thesis Topic: Combined Lateral and Longitudinal Control for an Autonomous Vehicle, December 2018 (expected). - Satyanaraya G. Manyam
Ph. D. Dissertation topic: Routing Vehicles with Motion, Resource and Communication Constraints: Algorithms and Bounds, May 2015.
Current Job: Post-doctoral Researcher, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH. - Myoungkuk Park
Ph. D. Dissertation topic: Performance Guarantee of a Sub-optimal policy and its application to a perimeter surveillance problem, May 2014.
Current Job: Research Engineer, Samsung Corporation, Seoul, South Korea. - Harsha Nagarajan
Ph. D. Dissertation topic: Algorithms for maximization of Algebraic Connectivity subject to Resource Constraints, May 2014.
Current Job: Post-doctoral Researcher, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. - Navid Mohsenizadeh
Ph. D. Dissertation topic: Control Systems: New Approaches to Analysis and Design, May 2014.
Current Job: Research Engineer, Ford Motor Company, Michigan. - Saikrishna Yadlapalli
M. S. Thesis: On the Information Flow required for the Scalability of the Stability of Motion of Approximately Rigid Formation, 2006.
Ph. D. Dissertation: Combinatorial Path Planning for a System of Multiple Un- manned Vehicles, 2010.
Current Job: Functional Architect, Pricing and Revenue Management Services, JDA Software Group., Scottsdale, Arizona. - Sandeep Dhar
Ph. D. Dissertation: Development of Diagnostic Algorithms for Air Brakes in Trucks, 2010.
Current Job: Principal Engineer, Raychem (RPG) Industries, Vadodara, Gujarat. - Waqar Malik
Ph. D. Dissertation: A New Computational Approach to the Synthesis of Fixed Order Controllers, 2007.
Current Job: Data Scientist, Facebook, Menlo Park, CA. - Vipin Tyagi
Ph. D. Dissertation: A Non-Continuum Approach to obtain a Macroscopic Model for the Flow of Traffic, 2007.
Current Job: CEO & Co-founder, VerdeEn Chemicals, Houston, TX. - Shankar Coimbatore
M. S. Thesis: Modeling the Pneumatic Subsystem of a S-cam Air Brake System, 2004. Ph. D. Dissertation: A Diagnostic System for Air Brakes in Trucks, 2006.
Current Job: Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras, Chennai, India. - Sincheon Kang
Ph. D. Dissertation: On the Synthesis of Fixed Order Stabilizing Controllers, 2005. Current Job: Researcher at the Advanced Development Agency of South Korea. - Woosuk Choi
M. S. Thesis: Assessing the Benefits of Coordination on Safety in Automated Highway Systems, 2000.
Ph. D. Dissertation: Synthesis of Fixed Order Controllers, 2003.
Current Job: Senior Research Engineer, Next Generation Vehicle Team, Advanced Technology Center, R&D Division for Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation, Seoul. - Zachary Walton
M. S. Thesis: Optimal Perimeter Patrol Using Reinforcement Learning, 2011. Current Job: Principal R &D Mechanical Engineer at Halliburton, OK. - Paul Oberlin
M. S. Thesis: Path Planning Algorithms for Multiple Heterogeneous Vehicles, 2009. Current Job: Applications Engineer at Weatherford Corporation, Houston. - Srivatsan Ramarathnam
M. S. Thesis: A mathematical model for air brake systems in the presence of leaks, 2008.
Current Position: Engineer, Ashok Leyland, Chennai. - Dongwon Lim
M. S. Thesis: Synthesis of PID controllers from Empirical Data and Guaranteeing Performance Specifications, 2008.
Current Position: Post-doctoral Researcher at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Korea. - Shankar Vilayannur Natarajan
M. S. Thesis: Modeling the Pneumatic Relay Valve of a S-cam Air Brake System, 2006.
Current Job: Senior MTS UI Engineer at PermixData, San Jose, CA.. - Christopher Bowlin
M. S. Thesis: A Pressure Control Scheme for Air Brakes in Commercial Vehicles, 2005. Current Position: Associate General Counsel at Lockheed Martin, Washington DC Metro Area. - Sudhir Pargaonkar
M. S. Thesis: Distributed Motion Planning Algorithms for a Collection of Vehicles, 2003.
Current Position: SAP Workflow Analyst at Spectra Energy, Houston, TX. - Sivakumar Rathinam
M. S. Thesis: A Resource Allocation Algorithm for Wide Area Search Munitions, 2001.
Current Job: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University. - Jayesh Ametha
M. S. Thesis: Development and Implementation of Algorithms used in Ground and Internet Traffic Monitoring, 2001.
Current Position: Business Director, Capital One, Washington DC. - Shamanth Shankar
M. S. Thesis: Design of Decentralized Detection Filters for a Class of Interconnected LTI Systems, 2001.
Current Position: Strategy & Planning Manager, Forum Energy Technology Inc., Houston, TX. - Penchala Rao
M. S. Thesis: Modeling of Air Brakes for Diagnostics of Heavy Trucks, 2000. Current Position: Engineering Manager, Apple, SFO Bay Area, CA. - Shaival Gupta
M. S. Thesis: A New Algorithm for Detecting Erroneous Loop Detector Data, 1999. Current Position: Sr. Staff Software Engineer, E2open, Austin, TX. - Li-Wei Hsien
M. S. Thesis: Fault Tolerant Control of Automatically Control Vehicles in Response to Brake System Faults, 1998. - Rusli Huandra
M. S. Thesis: Intelligent Cruise Control Design based on a Traffic Flow Specification, 1998. - Seok-min Yoon
M. S. Thesis: Automatic Vehicle Following for Emergency Lane Change Manuevers, 1998.
Current Job: Senior Aerospace Engineer at Adams Communication and Engineering Technology, Philadelphia. - Omar Daud
M. S. Thesis: Lateral Control of Articulated Vehicles for Automated Highway Systems under Uncertainty in Vehicle Parameters, 1998.
Current Job: Senior Manager at Accenture Strategy, Chicago. - Cliff Spence
B. S. Honors Thesis: Design of an Experimental Test Bench for an Air Brake System, 2001. - Dimitri Doncov
B. S. Honors Thesis: Synthesis of a Motion Plan for a Dubins Robot, December 2005.
Professional Memberships
- American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Fellow.
- Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow.
Professional Service
Editorial Service:
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, January 2018-
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, January 2004 – December 2009.
- Associate Editor, Differential Equations and Nonlinear Mechanics, January 2005 – December 2010.
- Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2008 – 2010.
- Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, January 2009 – December 2013.
Service as a Reviewer for Proposals:
- California PATH Program – 02/96, 02/97, 02/99.
- Panel reviewer for National Science Foundation – 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015 2016, 2017.
- Reviewer for Indiana21 State Fund.
- US-Ukraine Cooperative Research Program.
- Institute for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota.
External Referee Service:
- Ph. D. Dissertations/Theses from Other Universities:
- Department of Electrical Engineering, KTH, Stockholm, May 2018.
- Department of Information and Systems Engineering, ETH, Zurich, July 2015.
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, 2005.
- Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, 2005.
- Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering, National Institute of Technology at Trichy, India, 2009.
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology at Warangal, India, 2012.
- Tenure and Promotion:
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore.
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette.
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar.
- California PATH program, Institute for Transportation Studies, University of California at Berkeley, CA
Conference Service:
- Program Committee Membership:
- American Control Conference, 2000.
- 3rd IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, October 2000.
- 4th IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, October 2001.
- 8th IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, October 2005.
- Advanced Vehicular Control Symposium (AVEC), Ann Arbor, MI, August 2000.
- IEEE Conference on Control Applications, San Antonio, TX, September 2008.
- Co-Organizer for the Tutorial Session: Planning and Control of Unmanned Vehicles, American Control Conference, 2013, 2015.
Referee Service:
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- Transportation Research C.
- IET Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- Vehicle Dynamics Journal.
- ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control.
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
- International Journal of Engineering Science.
- Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Practice and Real World Applications.
- IEE Control Theory and Applications.
- Systems and Control Letters.
- European Journal of Operations Research.
- Automatica.
- IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
- IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
- International Journal of Control
- Conferences: American Control Conference, ASME IMECE, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, IEEE ITS Conference, AVEC, IEEE CCA, IEEE CDC.
Other Service: Co-chair, ASME System Theory Panel, 1998-2001.
University Service:
- Departmental Service:
- Member, Qualifying Examination Committee for Controls/Vibrations, Fall 1998 to Fall 2005, Fall 2007 to Fall 2009.
- Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Spring 2012 – Fall 2013.
- Member, Graduate Curriculum Review Committee, Spring 2012- Fall 2013.
- Member, Seminar Committee, Fall 2001 to Fall 2005.
- Member of the thesis committees of several doctoral students from MEEN and AEEN.
- Member, Faculty Search Committee, Dynamic Systems and Control Position, 2005.
- Member, Faculty Search Committee, Thermal Sciences Position, 2005.
- Member, Faculty Search Committee, Dynamic Systems and Control Position, 2007, 2008.
- Member, Faculty Area SubCommittee (FASC), Department of Mechanical Engineering, TAMUQ, Fall 2014-Spring 2015.
- Member, Graduate Studies Research Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, TAMU, Fall 2016-
- Member, Mentoring and On-boarding Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, TAMU, Fall 2016-Summer 2017.
- Member, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, TAMU, Spring 2016-
- Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, TAMU, Fall 2017-
- Other Service:
- Member, College-Level Honors and Awards Committee for Research, Teaching and Service, 2011-2012.
- Faculty Senator, 2011 – 2014.
- Faculty Adviser, AID-TAMU, 2001-2011.
- Departmental Representative for College-Level Tenure and Promotion at TAMUQ, 2014.
- Member, TAMUQ Dean Search Committee, 2014 – 2015
Dr. Sivakumar Rathinam
Associate Professor