GRaDS Lab
Geometry, Robotics, and Dynamical Systems (GRaDS) Lab — Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
The GRaDS Lab develops the geometric, nonlinear, and hybrid control foundations of intelligent robots — with applications to mobile and aerial robotics, drones, and safety-critical autonomous systems operating reliably in the real world.
Research
Geometric Path Following & Feedback Linearization
Making robots converge to and stay on a geometric path — via transverse feedback linearization and singularity-free quadratic-program designs for unicycles, quadrotors, and aircraft.
Safe & Resilient Autonomy
Guaranteeing a system never leaves its path once reached — control barrier functions and hybrid control for forward path invariance under obstacles, noise, and cyber-attacks.
Geometric Stochastic Control & Learning on Lie Groups
Coordinate-free density steering (Schrödinger bridges) and learned neural Lyapunov certificates directly on rotation groups like SO(2) and SO(3).
News
| Jun 20, 2026 | PhD student Hamza Tariq receives an IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Travel Award to attend CCTA 2026 in Vancouver.  |
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| May 02, 2026 | Hamza Mahmood and Hamza Tariq present posters at the 3rd Northeast Systems and Control Workshop (NESCW) at Princeton. |
| Jan 22, 2026 | Kiran Aman joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.  |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Hamza Mahmood and Hamza Tariq join the GRaDS Lab as its first PhD students. |
| Jan 06, 2025 | The GRaDS Lab is founded in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at NJIT.  |