Darbha Swaroop
Professor
Office: 320 Engineering/Physics Building Office Wing
Phone: 979-862-2238 Fax: 979-845-3081
Email: dswaroop@tamu.edu

Curriculum Vita

Advanced Vehicular Control and Diagnostic Systems, Motion planning and control of Unmanned Vehicles, Decision making under uncertainty, Fixed Structure Controller Synthesis

• Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1989.
• Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1992.
• Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley, 1994.

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, from September 2009.

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, September 2003 to August 2009.

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station,January 1997 to August 2003.

Visiting Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute for Transportation Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1995-1996.

Visiting Scientist, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, OH, January - December 2006.

• Peggy L. and Charles L. Brittan Teaching Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, 2006.
• Dwight Look College of Engineering Faculty Fellow, 2009.
• Tenneco Award for Meritorious Teaching of Engineering, 2009.
• The Association of Former Students' Distinguished Achievement Award (College Level), 2009.

• S. Yadlapalli, W.A. Malik, S. Darbha, M. Pachter, ``A Lagrangian-based algorithm for a Multiple Depot, Multiple Traveling Salesmen Problem,'' Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 1990-1999, August 2009.
• S. Darbha, K.R. Rajagopal, ``Unsteady motions of degrading or aging linearized elastic solids,''International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Volume 44, Issue 5, Pages 478-485, June 2009.
• Waqar Malik, Swaroop Darbha and S. P. Bhattacharyya, ``ALinear Programming Approach to the Synthesis of Fixed StructureControllers,'' IEEE Transactions onAutomatic Control, Vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 1341-1352, 2008.
• S. Darbha, K. R. Rajagopal and V. Tyagi, ``A Review of Mathematical Models for the flow of traffic and some recent results,'' Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods \& Applications, Vol. 69, No. 3, Pages 950-970, August 2008.
• W. A. Malik, S. Kang, S. Darbha, S. P. Bhattacharyya, ``Synthesis of Absolutely stabilizing controllers,'' IET Control Theory and Applications, Vol. 2, no. 10, pp. 895-905, October 2008.
• Waqar Malik, Swaroop Darbha and S. P. Bhattacharyya,``On the boundedness of the set of stabilizing controllers,''International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control,Vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 782-795, 2008.
• Meir Pachter, Phillip Chandlerand Swaroop Darbha, ``Optimal MAV Operations in an UncertainEnvironment,'' International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control,Vol. 18, no.2, pp. 248-262, February 2008.
• Vipin Tyagi, Swaroop Darbha and K. R. Rajagopal, ``A dynamical systems approach based on averaging to model the macroscopic flow of traffic,'' Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, Vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 590-612, June 2008.
• Shankar C. Subramanian, Swaroop Darbha, K.R. Rajagopal, ``A parameter estimation scheme for a class of sequential hybrid systems,''Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 1113-1124, November 2008.
• Waqar Malik, SivakumarRathinam and Swaroop Darbha, ``A constant factor approximationalgorithm for a generalized multi-depot, multiple travellingsalesmen problem,'' Operations ResearchLetters, Vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 747-753, November 2007.
• Shankar, V. N., Shankar Coimbatore,Swaroop Darbha and K. R. Rajagopal, ``Development and experimentalcorroboration of a mathematical model of a relay valve of an airbrake system,'' NonlinearAnalysis: Hybrid Systems, Vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 430-442, September 2007.
• Sivakumar Rathinam, Raja Sengupta and Swaroop Darbha,``A Resource Allocation Algorithm for Multiple Vehicles withNon-holonomic Constraints,'' IEEE Transactions on AutomationScience and Engineering, Vol. 4, no.1, pp. 98-104, January 2007.
• Sivakumar Rathinam, Raja Sengupta andSwaroop Darbha, ``Resource allocation algorithms for multiplevehicles,''Vol. 588 of Lecture Notes inEconomics and Mathematical Systems, pp. 255-268, Springer, April 2007.
• M. Pachter, P. R. Chandler and Swaroop Darbha,``Optimal control of an ATR Module Equipped MAV/Human Operatorteam,'' to appear in Cooperative Control, Edwin Elgar Publishers,Eds. Pardalos, Murphey, Grundel and Prokopyev, 2007.
• Meir Pachter, Swaroop Darbha and Phillip Chandler,``Optimal Sequential Inspections with loitering,'' accepted for publicationin Advances in Cooperative Control and Optimization, Editors: Michael Hirsch,Don Grundel, Rob Murphey and Panos Pardalos, Springer Lecture Notes, 2007.
• Saikrishna Yadlapalli, Waqar Malik, Sivakumar Rathinam and Swaroop Darbha,``A Lagrangian-based algorithm for a combinatorial motion planning problem,'' Advances in Cooperative Control and Optimization, Editors: Michael Hirsch, Don Grundel, Rob Murphey and Panos Pardalos, Springer Lecture Notes, 2007.
• P. Oberlin, S. Rathinam, S. Darbha, ``A transformation for a Heterogeneous, Multiple Depot, Multiple Traveling Salesmen Problem,'' Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 1292-1297, 2009.
• P. Oberlin, S. Rathinam, S. Darbha, ``A transformation for a homogeneous, multiple depot, multiple traveling salesmen problem,'' Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 2636-2641, 2009.
• S. Yadlapalli, S. Rathinam, S. Darbha, ``An approximation algorithm for a 2-Depot, heterogeneous vehicle routing problem,''pp. 1730-1735, 2009.
• W. A. Malik, S. Darbha, S. P. Bhattacharyya, ``On the Transient Control of LTI systems,'' Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 3142-3147, 2009.
• Ramarathnam, S.; Dhar, S.; Darbha, S.; Rajagopal, K.R., ``Development of a model for an air brake system with leaks,'' Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 1134-1139, 2009.