Baris Fidan

Biography

Baris Fidan is an Associate Professor in Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering, with cross appointment in System Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He is also a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Professor Fidan is the principal investigator for the NSERC discovery program ‘Distributed Geometric Coordination of Autonomous Vehicle Networks Moving in Three Dimensions’ and the CFI-ORF Research Infrastructure ‘Cooperative Autonomous Vehicle Network Test-Bed’. He is also a co-investigator of the NSERC CRD project “Autonomous Driving Strategies for Urban and Highway Environments”, the NSERC/ORF CRD project “Development of New Technologies for Design and Popularization of Urban Vehicles”, the Automotive Partnership Canada project “Next Generation Electric Vehicles: Development of Key Technologies and Full Vehicle Testing”, and the NSERC/ORF CRD project “Hard Shaping and Accelerated Dressing Technologies for High-Productivity / High-Quality Gear Manufacture“.

Research Interest

His research interests include cooperative and adaptive control, system identification, nonlinear system theory, multi-agent systems and sensor networks, robotics and intelligent systems, and various control applications including vehicular controls and control of biomedical mechatronic systems.