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Arash Kalantari

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4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 82-105

Pasadena, CA 91109

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347C - Extreme Environment Robotics Systems

Arash Kalantari

Group Leader

Biography

Arash is a Robotics Mechanical Engineer at JPL.
He specializes in mechanisms and mechanical design of robotic systems. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 2015. The focus of his PhD research was on "Multi-Modal Mobile Robots.” The HyTAQ, Hybrid Terrestrial and Aerial Robot, and ResQuake are examples of the robotic platforms he has developed.

Education

Illinois Institute of Technology, 2015
Ph.D. degree, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

K.N.Toosi University of Technology, 2008
Masters degree, Mechatronics

K.N.Toosi University of Technology, 2005
Bachelors degree, Mechanical Engineering

Professional Experience

Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2017-Present
Robotics Mechanical Engineer

DAQRI | 2015-2017
Robotics Engineer

Publications

2023
  1. Tamas G. Molnar, Katherine Tighe, Wyatt Ubellacker, Arash Kalantari, Aaron D. Ames, "Mechanical Design, Planning, and Control for Legged Robots in Distillation Columns," ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 18, Issue 6, 01 June 2023.
  2. Patrick Spieler, Skylar Weim Monica Li, Andrew Galassi, Kyle Uckert, Arash Kalantari, Joel Burdick, "PARSEC: An Aerial Platform for Autonomous Deployment of Self-Anchoring Payloads on Natural Vertical Surfaces," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 5331-5337, 29 May 2023.
  3. F. Mier-Hicks, H. Grip, A. Kalantari, S. Moreland, B. Pipenberg, M. Keennon, T. Canham, M. Pauken, E. Decrossas, T. Tzanetos, J. Balaram, "Sample Recovery Helicopter," 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, pp, 1-11, 04 March 2023.
2021
  1. Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, et al., "NeBula: Quest for Robotic Autonomy in Challenging Environments; TEAM CoSTAR at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge," Journal of Field Robotics, 21 March 2021.
2020
  1. S. Backus, J. S. Izraelevitz, J. Quan, R. Jitosho, E. Slavick, & A. Kalantari, "Design and Testing of an Ultra-Light Weight Perching System for Sloped or Vertical Rough Surfaces on Mars," IEEE Aerospace Conference, 01 January 2020.