Milad Azizkhani

I am a Ph.D. student in the Robotics program at Georgia Institute of Technology, working with Dr. Yue Chen in the BM2 Lab. Before joining GT, I received my M.Sc. degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, and my B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bu Ali Sina University.

I design, build, model, control, and integrate robotic systems for various applications. My primary objective is to develop innovative control methods that synergize model-based and learning approaches. My research interests include Adaptive Control, Control Theory, Learning-Based Control, Optimal Control, Trajectory Optimization, Robot Learning, Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, and Optimization, with a current focus on applications in Soft Robotics.

News

Mar 31, 2025	Honored to receive the Ph.D. Research Excellence Award from Georgia Tech’s Mechanical Engineering Department for outstanding doctoral research.
Feb 28, 2025	Our paper titled Soft Robot Kinematic Control via Manipulability-Aware Redundancy Resolution has been accepted to the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (JMR)! Read the paper here
Nov 19, 2024	I am honored to have received the Topping Fellowship in Fall 2024 from the Mechanical Engineering Department in the category of “First Author Most Citations.”
Apr 04, 2024	I successfuly passed my PhD Qualifying Exam.

Selected Publications

JMR2025

Soft Robot Kinematic Control Via Manipulability-Aware Redundancy Resolution

Milad Azizkhani, Junhyoung Ha, Anthony L Gunderman, and Yue Chen

Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 2025

DOI Bib Video

@article{azizkhani2025soft,
  title = {Soft Robot Kinematic Control Via Manipulability-Aware Redundancy Resolution},
  author = {Azizkhani, Milad and Ha, Junhyoung and Gunderman, Anthony L and Chen, Yue},
  journal = {Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics},
  volume = {17},
  number = {7},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4067753}
}

RAL2023

Dynamic control of soft robotic arm: An experimental study

Milad Azizkhani, Anthony L Gunderman, Isuru S Godage, and Yue Chen

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023

DOI Bib Video

@article{azizkhani2023dynamic,
  title = {Dynamic control of soft robotic arm: An experimental study},
  author = {Azizkhani, Milad and Gunderman, Anthony L and Godage, Isuru S and Chen, Yue},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  volume = {8},
  number = {4},
  pages = {1897--1904},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/LRA.2023.3243802}
}

RAL2022

Dynamic control of soft robotic arm: A simulation study

Milad Azizkhani, Isuru S Godage, and Yue Chen

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022

DOI Bib

@article{azizkhani2022dynamic,
  title = {Dynamic control of soft robotic arm: A simulation study},
  author = {Azizkhani, Milad and Godage, Isuru S and Chen, Yue},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  volume = {7},
  number = {2},
  pages = {3584--3591},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/LRA.2022.3148437},
}

Mechatronics2022

Model reference adaptive control of a soft bending actuator with input constraints and parametric uncertainties

Milad Azizkhani, Mohammad Zareinejad, and Mohammad A Khosravi

Mechatronics, 2022

DOI Bib

@article{azizkhani2022model,
  title = {Model reference adaptive control of a soft bending actuator with input constraints and parametric uncertainties},
  author = {Azizkhani, Milad and Zareinejad, Mohammad and Khosravi, Mohammad A},
  journal = {Mechatronics},
  volume = {84},
  pages = {102800},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  doi = {10.1016/j.mechatronics.2022.102800}
}