Specialisation:

Mechanical Engineering; Robotics; Artificial Intelligence

Major Professional Contributions:

• Made notable contributions in all four modules of Robotics, namely Kinematics, Dynamics, Control Schemes and Intelligent issues
• Has research experience on various types of Robots, namely Manipulators, Wheeled Robot, Tracked Vehicle, Multi-legged Robots, Drones
• Published seminal work on Dynamics of 7 dof Biped Robot in 2007, and recently completed study on dynamics and dynamic stability of 29 dof Humanoid Robot
• Designed, developed and tested Orthotic and Prosthetic devices for disabled people.
• Has research experience on multi-body dynamics of six-legged robot and co-authored a Research Monograph, which is published by the Springer
• Developed intelligent Agricultural Robot for pesticides spraying.
• Made significant contributions in Electron Beam Welding of Similar, Dissimilar and Reactive materials.
• Developed intelligent and autonomous systems in various fields of Engineering, namely Robotics, Manufacturing Science, Medical Diagnosis, and others.
• Developed several soft computing-based approaches, namely genetic-fuzzy, genetic-neural and neuro-fuzzy systems, and developed dimensionality reduction techniques for the ease of visualization of the higher dimensional data, fuzzy clustering tool, fuzzy reasoning tool etc.
• Proposed an Intelligent Optimization Tool named Bonobo Optimizer for single- and multi-objective optimization, for which the Copyright has been granted.
• Filed four Patents (out of which, one has been granted) and transferred optimal design of leaf spring to a manufacturing industry.

Consultancy Areas:

(i) Robotics

(ii) Optimization

(iii) Manufacturing Science

(iv) Thermal Science

(v) Machine Design

(vi) Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks

Sector Associated With:

Kharagpur (West Bengal)

Sectors Interested to Offer Service:

Any Sector in India

Professional Experience

1. Industrial Experience: 2 years (1988-1990)

2. Teaching and Research: 33 years (10 Years at REC(NIT) Durgapur and 23 Years at IIT Kharagpur)

Keywords

Robotics, Optimization, Welding, Forming, Metal Cutting, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Un-conventional Machining, Machine Design, Mechanisms