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Amir Rahmani

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4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 198-235

Pasadena, CA 91101

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347N - Maritime and Multi-Agent Autonomy

Amir Rahmani, PhD

Group Supervisor

Biography

Dr. Amir Rahmani is the technical group supervisor of the multi-agent autonomy group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Amir has a Ph.D. from University of Washington in Aeronautics and Astronautics and was an assistant professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Miami prior to joining JPL. He has over 15 years of research experience in distributed space systems, formation flying, networked dynamical systems, as well as swarm robotics. Amir is overseeing a number of projects on autonomy technologies for spacecraft and planetary robot teams. He is the NASA STTR subtopic manager on coordination and control of swarms of space vehicles.

Education

- PhD, Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Professional Experience

- Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
- Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Publications

2025
  1. A. Gupta, Y. Nakka, C. Choi, and A. Rahmani, "Global Task-Aware Fault Detection Identification for On-Orbit Multi-Spacecraft Collaborative Inspection," AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics, 06 May 2025.
2024
  1. D. Stanley, R. Woollands, F. Rossi, A. Rahmani, C. Choi, and A. Davis, "Enabling Space-Based Computed Cloud Tomography with a Mixed Integer Linear Programming Scheduler," Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 23 July 2024.
  2. H. El-Kebir, M. Ornik, Y.K. Nakka, C. Choi, A. Rahmani, "Robust Detection and Identification of Simultaneous Sensor and Actuator Faults," 2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 02 March 2024.
2023
  1. H. Tsukamato, B. Riviere, C. Choi, A. Rahmani, and S.J. Chung, "CART: Collision Avoidance and Robust Tracking Augmentation in Learning-based Motion Planning for Multi-Agent Systems," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 13 August 2023.
  2. C. Choi, Y. Nakka, A. Rahmani, and S.J. Chung, "Resilient Multi-Agent Collaborative Spacecraft Inspection," 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 04 March 2023.
  3. T. Gutierrez, N. Coulter, H. Moncayo, C. Choi, Y. Nakka, and A. Rahmani, "Distributed Health Management for Resilient Multi-agent Collaborative Spacecraft Inspection," AIAA SciTech, 01 January 2023.
2021
  1. C. Choi, M. Adil, A. Rahmani, and R. Madani, "Optimal Multi-Robot Motion Planning via Parabolic Relaxation," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RA-L), 28 November 2021.
  2. K. Ebadi, A. Harvard, A. Rahmani, and S. Chung, "Probabilistic Place Recognition for On-Orbit Visual Inspection of Uncooperative Space Objects," AIAA ASCEND Conference, 21 May 2021.
2015
  1. M. Ono, G. Droge, H. Grip, O. Toupet, C. Scrapper, and A. Rahmani, "Road-Following Formation Control of Autonomous Ground Vehicles," 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 01 January 2015.