Farhad Mehdifar

Postdoctoral Researcher,

Robot Athletic Intelligence Lab (RAIL),

Division of Dynamics,

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Chalmers University of Technology

Email: farhad.mehdifar[at]chalmers.se , farhadmehdifar[at]gmail.com

Brief Bio:

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Robot Athletic Intelligence Lab (RAIL) at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, where I work with Prof. Shivesh Kumar on holistic control co-design of legged robots and underactuated dynamical systems. I received my PhD in control systems engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, under the supervision of Prof. Dimos Dimarogonas and Prof. Charalampos Bechlioulis, with a thesis entitled "Funnel-Inspired Closed-Form Control for Satisfaction of Spatiotemporal Constraints and Multi-Agent Coordination". Before that, I was a research assistant at INMA, ICTEAM, UCLouvain, Belgium, supported by an FRIA/FNRS fellowship. I hold B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering (Control Systems) from the University of Tabriz, Iran.

News:

[01-June-2026] I joined the Robot Athletic Intelligence Lab (RAIL) in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher.
[08-May-2026] I successfully defended my PhD Thesis at KTH! (Thesis Link)
[08-Nov-2025] On November 24, 2025, I will present a seminar at Uppsala University’s Division of Systems and Control.
[21-Jun-2025] I will be presenting at the “Certified Control Synthesis for Robotic Systems" workshop at ECC 2025 on June 24, 2025 (Workshop Details).
[21-Jun-2025] I will attend ECC 2025 on June 24-27, 2025, in Thessaloniki, Greece.
[06-Jun-2025] I will attend the EECI Course: "The Scenario Approach: Data Science for Systems, Control, and Machine Learning" by Prof. Marco C. Campi and Prof. Simone Garatti, from 16 to 20 June 2025 at the University of Oxford.
[09-March-2025] Our paper: "Collaborative Satisfaction of Long-Term Spatial Constraints in Multi-Agent Systems: A Distributed Optimization Approach" is accepted for publication in the 23rd European Control Conference, IEEE.
[10-Dec-2024] Our paper: "Low-Complexity Control for a Class of Uncertain MIMO Nonlinear Systems under Generalized Time-Varying Output Constraints" is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
[25-Nov-2023] I will attend the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, taking place on Dec. 13-15, 2023, in Singapore.
[17-Jul-2023] Our paper: "Control of Nonlinear Systems Under Multiple Time-Varying Output Constraints: A Single Funnel Approach" is accepted for publication in the 62nd Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE.

Research Interests:

Nonlinear Control Theory
Control of Multi-Agent Systems
Constrained and Safety-Critical Control Systems
Distributed Optimization
Optimization-Based Control
Switching \ Hybrid Systems
Autonomous (Mobile, Manipulator, Legged) Robot Control
Space Robotics and Manipulation
Networked Control Systems
Scenario Approach and Data-Driven Methods with Probabilistic Guarantees
Control Co-Design
Formal Methods

Teaching Assistant:

Automatic Control, General Course (EL1000, EL1010), Division of Decision and Control Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, presented by Prof. B. Wahlberg (Fall 2022, and 2023) and Prof. H. Sandberg (Fall 2024).
Supervision of Bachelor Students for Degree Project in Electrical Engineering (EF112X), Context: Control and Robotics, Division of Decision and Control Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, presented by Prof. D. Dimarogonas (Spring 2023).
Modeling and Analysis of Dynamical Systems, Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL), UCLouvain, Belgium, presented by Prof. D. Dochain & Prof. J. C. Delvenne (Fall 2019, and 2020).
Project in Applied Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL), UCLouvain, Belgium, presented by Prof. J. Hendrickx (Spring 2020).
System Identification, Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL), UCLouvain, Belgium, presented by Prof. J. Hendrickx (Spring 2019).
Robotic, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, presented by Dr. H. Kharrati (Spring 2018, 2017, and 2016).
Modern Control Systems, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, presented by Dr. F. Hashemzadeh (Spring 2017).
Linear Control Systems, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, presented by Dr. F. Hashemzadeh (Fall 2016).

Page updated

Google Sites

Report abuse