- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Gulf Oil/Thomas A. Dietz Professor
- Affiliated Faculty, Ocean Engineering
- Phone: 979-862-2238
- Email: dswaroop@tamu.edu
- Office: MEOB 526
- Website: Research Webpage
- Linkedin: Profile
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
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- Decision and Control Algorithms for Enabling Autonomy
- Vehicle Dynamics & Control
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Task Allocation and Decision Making for UAVs
- Applied Combinatorial Optimization & Control
- Robotics
Awards & Honors
- 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
- M. Liu, K. Chour, S. Rathinam and S. Darbha, ``Lateral Control of an Autonomous and Connected Vehicle with Limited Preview Information, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, doi:10.1109/TIV.2020.3033773.
- S. K. K. Hari, S. Rathinam, S. Darbha, K. Kalyanam, S. G. Manyam and D. Casbeer, ``Optimal UAV Route Planning for Persistent Monitoring Missions,’’ IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 550-566, April 2021, doi: 10.1109/TRO.2020.3032171.
- S. Darbha, S. Konduri and P. R. Pagilla, ``Benefits of V2V Communication for Autonomous and Connected Vehicles,’’ IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 1954-1963, May 2019, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2018.2859765.
- K. Kalyanam, M. Pachter, M. Patzek, C. Rothwell and S. Darbha, ``Optimal Human–Machine Teaming for a Sequential Inspection Operation,’’ IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 557-568, Aug. 2016, doi: 10.1109/THMS.2016.2519603.
- M. Park, K. Kalyanam, S. Darbha, P. P. Khargonekar, M. Pachter and P. R. Chandler, ``Performance Guarantee of an Approximate Dynamic Programming Policy for Robotic Surveillance,’’ IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 564-578, April 2016, doi: 10.1109/TASE.2014.2366295.