Jasan Zughaibi

Jasan received his B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from TU Berlin, Germany, in 2017 and his M.Sc. degree in Robotics, Systems, and Control from ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 2020 - both awarded with distinction. For his master’s thesis entitled "Design, Modeling and Control of a Spherical Soft Robotic Arm for Pick-and-Place Applications" at Raff D’Andrea’s lab, he was awarded the ETEL Master award of ETH Zurich and the Hans-Eggenberger Award.

His main research interests include the modeling of dynamical systems and the development of learning control algorithms for magnetically actuated continuum robots. He was one of only 13 candidates selected from over 1,000 applicants for a doctoral fellowship at the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bradley Nelson and Dr. Michael Muehlebach.

Videos:

external page A Magnetically Actuated Inverted Pendulum, 2024.

external page Fast Pick-and-Place Application with a Soft Robotic Arm, 2021.

Publications:

J. Zughaibi, B. Nelson, M. Muehlebach: external page Dynamic Electromagnetic Navigation, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025.

M. Hofer, J. Zughaibi, R. D’Andrea: external page Design and Control of an Inflatable Spherical Robotic Arm for Pick and Place Applications, Actuators, 2021.

J. Zughaibi, M. Hofer, R. D’Andrea: external page A Fast and Reliable Pick-and-Place Application with a Spherical Soft Robotic Arm, Proceedings of the International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2021.

J. Zughaibi, F. Schulze, Q. Li: external page Critical Velocity of Controllability of Sliding Friction by Normal Oscillations for an Arbitrary Linear Rheology, Physical Mesomechanics, 2018.

Student Supervision Projects (selected):·

• Neelaksh Singh (MT): “Dynamic Control Of Levitating Objects Using Electromagnetic Navigation”· 
• António Bernardes (MT): “A Ball-catching Demonstration using Learning-based Magnetic Field Modeling and 6-DOF Levitation Control”· 
• Maurus Derungs (BT): “Energy-efficient Remote Magnetic Navigation”· 
• Saimaneesh Seturu (BT): “Remote Magnetic Levitation using Reinforcement Learning”·
• Viacheslav Sydora (BT): “Swing-up Control of an Inverted Pendulum using Dynamic Electromagnetic Navigation”· 
• Jakob Schlichting (BT): “Learning-based Dynamic Modeling of Magnetically Actuated Continuum Robots”