• Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • Gulf Oil/Thomas A. Dietz Professor
  • Affiliated Faculty, Ocean Engineering
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Swaroop Darbha

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley — 1994
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley — 1992
  • B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras — 1989

Research Interests

    • Decision and Control Algorithms for Enabling Autonomy
    • Advanced Air Mobility
    • Robotics
    • Intelligent Transportation Systems
    • Systems, Control & Applied Optimization

Awards & Honors

  • IEEE ITSS Distinguished Lecturer - 2025
  • Fellow, IEEE - 2018
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems - 2014
  • Fellow, ASME - 2010
  • The Association of Former Students' Distinguished Achievement Award (College Level) - 2009
  • Tenneco Award for Meritorious Teaching of Engineering - 2009
  • Texas A&M University College of Engineering Faculty Fellow - 2009

Selected Publications

  • G. Ma, P. R. Pagilla and S. Darbha, "Robust Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control System Design: Trade-Off Between Parasitic Actuation Lag and Communication Delay," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 7980-7989, June 2025, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2025.3553812.
  • N. Kumar, J. J. Lee, S. Rathinam, S. Darbha, P. B. Sujit and R. Raman, "The Persistent Robot Charging Problem for Long-Duration Autonomy," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 2191-2198, March 2025, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3524897.
  • N. Somisetty, H. Nagarajan and S. Darbha, "Optimal Robust Network Design: Formulations and Algorithms for Maximizing Algebraic Connectivity," in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 918-929, March 2025, doi: 10.1109/TCNS.2024.3431408.
  • G. Ma, P. R. Pagilla and S. Darbha, "Selection of Time Headway in Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Platoons Under Noisy V2V Communication," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 1029-1038, Jan. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2024.3498701.
  • D. P. Kumar, S. Darbha, S. G. Manyam and D. Casbeer, "Generalization of Optimal Geodesic Curvature Constrained Dubins’ Path on Sphere with Free Terminal Orientation," in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 8, pp. 2991-2996, 2024, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2024.3520026.
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