Research Portfolio

Farooq Olanrewaju

PhD Student in Systems and Control Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Geometric control, vehicle-manipulator systems, autonomous robotics, and safe physical human-robot interaction.

Focus

Research Focus

My work focuses on geometric control, vehicle-manipulator systems, autonomous robotics, and safe interaction in complex engineered systems.

I am particularly interested in developing mathematically grounded control frameworks that remain useful for real robotic platforms and future experimental research.

Affiliation

Current Affiliation

PhD Student

Systems and Control Engineering

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Current

Now

  • Working on geometric modelling and control of vehicle-manipulator systems at KFUPM.
  • Developing research directions in safe physical human-robot interaction and energy-aware robotic systems.
  • Advancing publication-oriented work in aerial robotics, control allocation, and geometric control.

Research

Featured Research Themes

Vehicle-Manipulator Systems and Safe Interaction

2024 – Present

Research on geometric and port-Hamiltonian modelling and control of vehicle-manipulator systems with emphasis on safe interaction and energy-aware robotic behaviour.

  • Vehicle-Manipulator Systems
  • Port-Hamiltonian Systems
  • Safe Interaction
  • Physical Human-Robot Interaction

Underwater Robot Cooperation

2022 – 2024

Research on cooperative underwater robotics, grasp planning, vision, autonomous docking, and mission-oriented control for marine systems.

  • Underwater Robotics
  • Grasp Planning
  • Cooperative Robots
  • Autonomous Docking

Latest

Latest Work

Latest Publication

accepted

Farooq Olanrewaju, Coauthors

"Geometric Adaptive Control on SE(3) for Fully-Actuated Aerial Vehicles With Online Parameter Estimation," ICUAS 2026, 2026.

Current Projects

  • Probabilistic Adaptive Kalman Filter
    Sep 2025 – Dec 2025
  • RL-based Control of Microgrid
    Sep 2025 – Dec 2025

Open to Collaboration

I am interested in collaborations in geometric control, autonomous robotics, vehicle-manipulator systems, and related control-oriented research areas.