Curriculum Vitae

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Ehsan Rezapour
Bragstads plass 2D, room-D139, NTNU, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
+47-40573169
Ehsan.Rezapour@itk.ntnu.no
19 June 1985
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Occupational Field PhD student in Robotics Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU), September 2011 January 2015, Trondheim, Norway
University of Toronto Visiting Graduate Student
September 2013 December 2013, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Education MSc Robotics and Control

Ume University (Sweden) - GPA: A

References Professor Kristin Y. Pettersen

Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU, 7491, Trondheim, Norway,
Tel: +4773 5943 46 - Email: kristin.ytterestad.pettersen@itk.ntnu.no

Courses

PhD Courses:
Advanced nonlinear systems (Grade: A)
Advanced nonlinear observer design (Grade: A)
Advanced methods in numerical optimal control (Grade: A)
Geometric control of mechanical systems ( Grade: A )
Advanced topics in guidance and navigation ( Grade: A)
Robust hybrid control (EECI courses, Paris, France)
Important master courses:
Robust control (Grade: 5/5)
Robot modeling and Control (Grade:5/5)
Artificial intelligence (Grade: 5/5)
Multivariable control (Grade: 5/5)
Adaptive control (4/5)
Image processing (Grade: 5/5)

Title of Master Thesis Model-Based Trajectory Planning and Control of Underactuated Mechanical

Systems (case study: application of virtual holonomic constraints approach to a

double link Pendubot)

http://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:474054/FULLTEXT0

Publications

Ehsan Rezapour, Pl Liljebck, Path Following Control of a Planar Snake

Robot with an Exponentially Stabilizing Joint Control Law, In Proc. The
IFAC Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles Symposium, Gold Coast, Australia, 2013.
Ehsan Rezapour, Kristin Y. Pettersen, Pl Liljebck, and Jan. T. Gravdahl, Path
Following Control of Planar Snake Robots Using Virtual Holonomic Constraints,
In Proc. International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Shenzhen, China,
2013.
Best Student Paper Award Finalist, Robio 2013
Ehsan Rezapour, Kristin Y. Pettersen, Pl Liljebck, and Jan. T. Gravdahl,
Differential Geometric Modelling and Robust Path Following Control of Snake
Robots Using Sliding Mode Techniques, In Proc. International Conference on
Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Honk Kong, China, 2014.
Ehsan Rezapour, Kristin Y. Pettersen, Jan. T. Gravdahl, and Pl Liljebck,
Body Shape and Orientation Control for Locomotion of Biologically-Inspired Snake
Robots, IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics
and Biomechatronics (BioRob), Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2014, submitted.
Ehsan Rezapour, Andreas Hoffman, Kristin. Y. Pettersen, Alireza Mohammadi,
and Manfredi Maggiore, Virtual Holonomic Constraint based Direction Following
Control of Planar Snake Robots Described By a Simplified Model, The 2014
IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC 2014), Antibes, France,
2014. submitted.
Alireza Mohammadi, Ehsan Rezapour, Manfredi Maggiore, Kristin. Y. Pettersen,
Direction Following Control of Planar Snake Robots Using Virtual Holonomic
Constraints,, 53rd International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Los
Angeles, CA, USA, 2014. submitted.

Journal Papers

Guest Lecture

Honors, Awards, and Offers

Ehsan Rezapour, Kristin Y. Pettersen, Pl Liljebck, Jan. T. Gravdahl, Eleni

Kelasidi, Path Following Control of Planar Snake Robots Using Virtual
Holonomic Constraints, Robotics and Biomimetics, Springer, 2014. Submitted
(Invited paper).
Path-Following and Waypoint-Tracking Control for Planar Snake Robots,
University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, July 2013.

Best Student Paper Award Finalist, Robio 2013, Dec. 2013, China.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology fellowship, Sep. 2011.
Lund University 6 months research assistant grant, Sep. 2011.
Ranked among the top 1% in the nationwide university entrance exam (Konkour) in
Mathematics and Physics field, Jul 2003, Iran.

Mother tongue(s) Persian

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competences Matlab/ Simulink
Maple
dspace
Labview
Experiences 2008 2009
Automation Engineer, Montazer Qaem Power Plant, Karaj-Iran