Arman Raayatsanati

I am a master's student in Robotics, Systems and Control at ETH Zurich. My main interest is in building intelligent robots that can interact with the environment. At ETH, I have worked on Raptor, a quadcopter equipped with a soft gripper designed for the rapid picking up of objects.

I worked on my undergraduate thesis investigating the aerodynamic downwash effects of quadcopters at the Soft Robotics Lab under the supervision of Robert Katzschmann. Currently, I am working on a research project of the Robotic Systems Lab and the Robotics and Perception Group under the joint supervision of Marco Hutter and Davide Scaramuzza.

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Research

I am currently working on research projects on perception and control in aerial and legged robotics, Bayesian meta-learning, and physics-informed deep learning for computational fluid dynamics.

sym RAPTOR: Rapid Aerial Pickup and Transport of Objects by Robots
Aurel X. Appius*, Erik Bauer*, Marc Blöchlinger*, Aashi Kalra*, Robin Oberson*, Arman Raayatsanati*, Pascal Strauch*, Sarath Suresh*, Marco von Salis*, Robert K. Katzschmann
(*equal contribution, order determined alphabetically.)
2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
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A quadcopter combined with a soft gripper that can quickly pick up objects of different geometries.

Teaching
Fall 2022: Computational Thinking (Teaching Assistant)
Fall 2021: Computational Thinking (Teaching Assistant, Exam Preparation Instructor), Quad-Rotors: Control and Estimation (Lab Assistant)
Spring 2021: Introduction to Robotics and Mechatronics (Lab Assistant)
Awards

Excellence Scholarship and Opportunity Programme (ESOP) for the top 2-3% of incoming master's students at ETH Zurich.
German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung) scholarship for the top 0.5% of German university students.

Last updated: July 2023

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