Dr.-Ing. Seyed Ali Baradaran Birjandi

Dr.-Ing. Seyed Ali Baradaran Birjandi

Trimbe Inc.
(former PhD Student @ TUM)
TUM

Thesis

Nonlinear Observer-Based Approaches for Accurate and Reliable Kinematic State Estimation and Disturbance Monitoring

Biography

I am an expert roboticist with over 9 years of hands-on experience in robotic systems, specializing in sensor fusion and control as well as dynamical systems design. With a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich, my work focuses on enhancing robotic performance, safety, and reliability. Passionate about pushing the boundaries of robotics, I develop innovative solutions that enable robots to sense and interact with the world as humans do.

Research Interests

  • Robotics
  • Systems Engineering

Contact

Selected Publications

  • Erfan Shahriari, Petr Svarný, Seyed Ali Baradaran Birjandi, Matej Hoffmann, Sami Haddadin, Path-Constrained Haptic Motion Guidance via Adaptive Phase-Based Admittance Control, 2025. [Project Page]
  • Seyed Ali Baradaran Birjandi, Harshit Khurana, Aude Billard, Sami Haddadin, A Stable Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter for Estimating Robot Manipulators Link Velocity and Acceleration, 2023. [Project Page]
  • Erfan Shahriari, Seyed Ali Baradaran Birjandi, Sami Haddadin, Passivity-Based Adaptive Force-Impedance Control for Modular Multi-Manual Object Manipulation, 2022. [Project Page]
  • Seyed Ali Baradaran Birjandi, Niels Dehio, Abderrahmane Kheddar, Sami Haddadin, Robust Cartesian Kinematics Estimation for Task-Space Control Systems, 2022. [Project Page]
  • Robin Jeanne Kirschner, Alexander Kurdas, Kübra Karacan, Philipp Junge, Seyed Ali Baradaran Birjandi, Nico Mansfeld, Saeed Abdolshah, Sami Haddadin, Towards a Reference Framework for Tactile Robot Performance and Safety Benchmarking, 2021. [Project Page]
  • Seyed Ali Baradaran Birjandi, Johannes Kühn, Sami Haddadin, Observer-Extended Direct Method for Collision Monitoring in Robot Manipulators Using Proprioception and IMU Sensing, 2020. [Project Page]
  • Seyed Ali Baradaran Birjandi, Sami Haddadin, Model-Adaptive High-Speed Collision Detection for Serial-Chain Robot Manipulators, 2020. [Project Page]
  • Seyed Ali Baradaran Birjandi, Johannes Kühn, Sami Haddadin, Joint Velocity and Acceleration Estimation in Serial Chain Rigid Body and Flexible Joint Manipulators, 2019. [Project Page]