I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), located in NJ, USA. I hold a Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, specializing in the field of aerial robotics and controls. Before that, I pursued my MASc degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the same esteemed university, focusing on controls and robotics. My academic journey began with a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the National University of Science and Technology (NUST).

Ph.D. ; University of Waterloo ; Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering ; 2018

M.S. ; University of Waterloo ; Electrical and Computer Engineering ; 2012

B.E. ; National University of Sciences and Technology ; Mechatronics Engineering ; 2006

Tuesdays 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM

https://adeelakhtar.com/

ME 490 - MECH ENGR PROJECT A

ME 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

ME 305 - INTRO TO SYSTEM DYNAMICS

ME 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

ME 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

ME 790A - DOC DISSERTATION & RES

ME 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

ME 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

ME 701C - MASTER'S THESIS

Robotics
System Dynamics
Feedback Controls
Nonlinear Systems
Geometric Controls

Aerial Robotics
Path Invariant Controllers
Hybrid Controls
Feedback Linearization
Robust Global Controls
Hybrid Geometric Controls

"Global Accelerated Nonconvex Geometric Optimization Methods on SO (3)"
2023.

"A Class of Hybrid Geometric Controllers for Robust Global Asymptotic Stabilization on S"
2022.

"Coordinated Path Following for a Class of Underactuated Multi-Agent System Using Nested Set Stabilization"
2022.

"Hybrid Geometric Controllers for Fully-Actuated Left-invariant Systems on Matrix Lie Groups"
2022.

"Feedback Linearizing Controllers on SO(3) using a Global Parametrization"
2020.

Adeel Akhtar, Sajid Saleem, Jinjun Shan. 2022. "Path following of a quadrotor with a cable-suspended payload." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics , vol. 70 , no. 2 , pp. 1646--1654.

Adeel Akhtar, Sajid Saleem, Jinjun Shan. 2021. "Path invariant controllers for a quadrotor with a cable-suspended payload using a global parameterization." IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology , vol. 30 , no. 5 , pp. 2002--2017.

Adeel Akhtar, Steven Waslander. 2020. "Controller Class for Rigid Body Tracking on SO(3)." IEEE Transactions on Automatic Controls .

Adeel Akhtar, Christopher Nielsen, Steven L Waslander. 2015. "Path following using dynamic transverse feedback linearization for car-like robots." IEEE Transactions on Robotics , vol. 31 , no. 2 , pp. 269--279.