Moj Ahangar | MetaOptima Technology Inc.

About Me

My name is Mojtaba (Moj) and I am a robotic developer who enjoys solving real-world research problems and particularly working on high-speed, vision-based perception and planning for robotics. Currently, I am working at Metaoptima company with utilizing and developing my skills in control and computer vision to design and develop DermDrone; a mini quadcopter capable of scanning humans in an indoor environment.

Education

Simon Fraser University (SFU):
Master of Applied Science in Mechatronic Systems Engineering, 2019–2021, Canada
K. N. Toosi University of Technology (KNTU):
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering-Control, 2013-2018, Iran

Research Interests

Robotics: Navigation and Path Planning, Real-time Localisation Algorithm, Control theory, Autonomous Mulit-rotors, System Design
Computer Vision: object detection/recognition, 3D pose estimation, motion estimation, visual servoing
Machine Learning: Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning

News

[Feb. 2022] I am glad to announce that I joined to MetaOptima as a full employee.
[Dec. 2021] Master’s thesis Defended!
[Oct. 2021] After finishing my Mitacs internship at MetaOptima, I’m continuing my work with this lovely family as a part-time employee!
[Aug. 2021] Our paper titled “Viewpoint Selection for DermDrone using Deep Reinforcement Learning” is accepted to ICCAS 2021.

Publications

Viewpoint Selection for DermDrone using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Mojtaba Ahangar Arzati, Siamak Arzanpour
21st International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems ICCAS 2021.
Design and Implementation of Robust H∞ Control for a Quadrotor
A. Noormohammadi Asl, O. Esrafilian, M. Ahangar,H.D. Taghiradm
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 135, 106358.
Estimation of Moving Obstacle Dynamics with Mobile RGB-D Camera
Saeed Bakhshi Germi, Alireza Zamanian, M. Ahangar, Mohammad A. Khosravi and R. FesharakiFard
5th International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICROM 2017), Tehran, 2017.

Theses

Design and Control of DermDrone, a quadrotor for dermatology applications with RL-based optimization, Supervisor: Prof. Siamak Arzanpour
Real-time assistive interaction with smart objects using smart glasses for people with dementia, Supervisor: Dr. Mehdi Delrobaei. The thesis received the Best bachelor project award in the faculty of electrical and computer engineering in KNTU.

Awards

Graduate Fellowship at Simon Fraser University (Spring 2021)
1st Place Award in The International Micro Air Vehicle Competition (IMAV), indoor competition, 2016, China, Beijing
1st Place Award in UAV League of International RoboCup, IRANOPEN 2016, Tehran, IRAN.
1st Place Award in Deminer Robot League of International RoboCup, IRANOPEN2015, Tehran, IRAN.
Received the Best bachelor project in faculty of electrical and computer engineering
Received the Premier Young of the year award, Golestan (My birthplace province), 2017.
Qualified as a member of Iran’s elite national foundation (Bonyad Melli Nokhbegan Iran).
Ranked 56th among 50K, in The Iranian National University Entrance Examination (964/252K).
Received the 3rd Place Awards in UAV Robot League, SHARIFCUP, 2016, Tehran, IRAN.
Received the Creativity Awards in KNTU EGG DROP, 2015, Tehran, IRAN.

Services

Member of Technical Committee: RoboCup Asia Pacific 2018, RoboCup IranOpen 2017-2019
Leader of KN2C robotic team