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

Dec 18, 2025	🏆 [New Award!] I am pleased to have been selected to receive the prestigious Herbert P. Haley Fellowship for the 2025–2026 academic year from the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech.
May 08, 2025	📄 [New Paper!] Our paper titled Dynamic Task Space Control of Redundant Pneumatically Actuated Soft Robot has been accepted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)! Read the paper here
Mar 31, 2025	🏆 [New Award!] Honored to receive the Ph.D. Research Excellence Award from Georgia Tech’s Mechanical Engineering Department for outstanding doctoral research. Read more here
Feb 28, 2025	📄 [New Paper!] 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	🏆 [New Award!] I am honored to have received the prestigious Flowers Family Fellowship in Fall 2024 from the Mechanical Engineering Department at Georgia Tech for the most cited first author publication.
Apr 04, 2024	🎓 [Milestone!] I successfully passed my PhD Qualifying Exam.

Selected Publications (full list | Scholar)

RAL2025

Dynamic Task Space Control of Redundant Pneumatically Actuated Soft Robot

Milad Azizkhani, Shreyas Kousik, and Yue Chen

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025

DOI Bib Video

@article{azizkhani2025dynamic,
  title = {Dynamic Task Space Control of Redundant Pneumatically Actuated Soft Robot},
  author = {Azizkhani, Milad and Kousik, Shreyas and Chen, Yue},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/LRA.2025.3568316},
}

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}
}