Affiliation
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General Manager, MARSRobotics
Title
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Prof
Lecture
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The Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Dr. Mohammad Amin AL-Jarrah, PhD form Stanford University in 1989 in Aeronautics and Astronautics founded MARSRobotics in September 2013. Dr. Al-Jarrah is an unmanned vehicles systems expert with over 80 refereed publications in international journals and conferences. He supervised more than 30 Master Degree Students during his service in academia as a faculty, department head, dean, and VP for academic affairs. He holds three masters’ degrees: Machine Design, Applied Mechanics, and Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University. Dr. Jarrah developed at NASA AMES the wind tunnel simulation of Dog-Fights super maneuvers funded by the Air Force of Scientific Research and NASA Ames. He worked as a member of the High Angle of Attack Technology group on a UAV concept for testing fighter super-maneuvers in 1988. Shortly after returning to Jordan in January of 1989 he started his drive with the armed forces of Jordan to establish an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Program. Dr. Jarrah served as the Director of JUST unmanned air-vehicle project in 1992-1997. He did many projects in the area of unmanned systems and industrial solutions in the area of automation and manufacturing for leading industries in the region: Jordan Armed Forces, Tawazun, Mubadala, Emirates Armed forces Research Center, Jordan Ports Authority, Gulf Aircraft Maintenance company (GAMCO) and many other institutions. Dr. Al- Jarrah is a leading scientist in the area of Autonomous Unmanned Systems in the region and the pioneer of Mechatronics systems education in the region. Dr. Jarrah was able to form an outstanding team of engineers to form the startup MARSRobotics. MARSRobotics team consists of more than 40 full time young hardworking engineers working on the development of the advanced autopilot system hardware and software as well as the MARS-EYE project, system hardware-software development and integration, Ground Control Station Software and Hardware, Mission planning and control, etc. In 2019, he started JUSTCO with Jordan Armed Forces to develop Unmanned Aerial Systems. In 2023 he was appointed as a CTO at EDGE-Group-Advanced Concepts company after EDGE-Group acquired 80% of MARSRobotics.