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Faryar Jabbari’s research spans adaptive control, pneumatic actuation, and the emerging frontier of heterogeneous multi-robot systems. His early work tackled the challenging problem of stabilizing pneumatic actuators—devices prized in robotics for their high force-to-weight ratio and low cost. In his highly cited 1991 paper (74 citations), he implemented an adaptive control law that overcame the inherent nonlinearities and uncertainties of pneumatic systems, laying a foundation for more reliable and efficient robotic force actuation and position control. More recently, Jabbari has turned his attention to multi-robot collaboration. In 2024, he introduced a finite state machine architecture for encoding pairwise interactions in heterogeneous teams (5 citations), enabling robots with different dynamics and functionalities to combine their strengths. His follow-up work (2 citations) uses control barrier functions to enhance resilience through such collaborations, allowing individual robots to recover from failures by forming temporary, capability-expanding partnerships. This shift from single-actuator control to distributed, resilient multi-robot coordination highlights Jabbari’s sustained impact—from foundational adaptive control theory to practical, scalable solutions for modern robotic teams.