Dr. Atul Thakur Associate Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering R115 Block 3 Academic Area Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihta, Bihar - 801106 E-mail: athakur@iitp.ac.in Phone: +91-611-523-3158 Google Scholar: ‪ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FPcGBlsAAAAJ&hl=en LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atul-thakur-5336957/ Orcid: Atul Thakur (0000-0001-5937-4793) (orcid.org) Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Bio-inspired robotics, microrobotics, machine learning.

Biography

• Mobile Robotics (ME512)
• Robot Motion Planning (ME510)
• Modeling and Simulation of Mechatronic Systems (MH504)
• Mechatronics Labs I and II (MH519 and MH520)

• System Dynamics and Control (ME312)
• Fundamentals of Mechatronics (MH501)
• Control Systems (ME309)
• Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines (ME304)
• Engineering Mechanics (ME101)
• Engineering Drawing (ME111)
  

• Organized a Short-term Training Program for the Engineers of Building Construction Department, Govt. of at IIT Patna in collaboration with Dr. Subrata Hait, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IIT Patna during May 20 to June 12, 2013. Number of participants was 25.
• Organized a CEP course “Introduction to robotics: Mechanics, Control, and Programming” during October 26 – 28, 2018. Number of participants was 31.
• Conducted an FDP on Mobile Robotics funded by AICTE under its ATAL program during June 16-20, 2021. Number of participants was 200.
• Conducted an FDP on Advanced Mobile Robotics funded by AICTE under its ATAL program during September 20-24, 2021. Number of participants was 88.
  

• Serving as Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
• Serving as Associate Editor of Journal of ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE)
  

• Robust Motion Planning for Amphibious-Inspired Robots, 2013-2016, Sponsor: DST, Status: Completed
• Development of Low Cost, Efficient, Mechanism for Collection of Garbage and Dirt for Municipal Corporations, Panchayats, 2018-2021, Sponsor: SAP, MHRD, Status: Completed (as coPI with Prof. Mayank Tiwari)
• Development of Lizard-like Robotic Spy Surveillance System, 2019-2022, Sponsor: IMPRINT, SERB, Status: Completed (as co-PI with Dr. Raju Halder)
• Intelligent Partition of Complicated Multiscale 3D Models for Rapid Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing, 2018-2022, Sponsor: Shanghai Municipality,  (as coPI with Dr. Xiangzhi Wei, Shanghai Jiao Tang University)
• Assessment of the Use of Modern Robotic and Machine Learning Tools for Addressing Operational Challenges at 3×660 MW Capacity Coal Fired Supercritical Power Plant , 2022-2023, Status: Ongoing, Sponsor: Prayagraj Power Generation Corp. Ltd.
  

• Associate Dean Academic Affairs, July 2021-July 2022
• Secretary, Department Academic Program Committee of Mechanical Engineering Department, 2016-2020.
• Member, Department Purchase Committee of Mechanical Engineering Department, 2016-2019.
• Member, Committee for Developing Executive M-Tech Program in Mechatronics, 2021
• Member, Committee for Developing Dual Degree B-Tech (Mechanical)+MBA Program in collaboration with National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) 2022
• Member, Institute Wellness Center, 2018-2022
  

2023

• Thakur, A., Sahoo, S., Mukherjee, A., and Halder, R. (April 17, 2023). "Making Robotic Swarms Trustful: A Blockchain-based Perspective." ASME. J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4062326
  
• Kamble, Y., Raj, A., and Thakur, A. (February 16, 2023). "ANN-Aided Computational Approach For Mechanophenotyping Of Biological Cells Using AFM." ASME. J Biomech Eng. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4056916

2022

• Nishad, S. R., Halder, R., Banda, G., and A. Thakur, Development of a lizard-inspired wall-climbing robot using pressure sensitive adhesion, IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 72535-72544, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3189162.
• Agarwal, D., Thakur, A.D. and Thakur, A. Magnetic microbot-based micromanipulation of surrogate biological objects in fluidic channels. J Micro-Bio Robot (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12213-022-00151-4
• Agarwal, D., Thakur, A. D., and Thakur, A., A feedback-based manoeuvre planner for nonprehensile magnetic micromanipulation of large microscopic biological objects, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 148, 2022, 103941, ISSN 0921-8890, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2021.103941.
• Zhang, H., Thakur, A., and Wei, X., Patch-size segmentation of small-scaled magnetic resonance images of the prostate with prior information, Computer-Aided Design & Applications, 19(1), 2022, 38-53

2021

• Sinha, K. N. R., Kumar, V., Kumar, N., Thakur, A., Raj,R., Deep learning the sound of boiling for advance prediction of boiling crisis, Cell Reports Physical Science, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2021, 100382, ISSN 2666-3864, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2021.100382.
• Gundupalli, S.P., Shukla, R., Gupta, R., Hait, S., Thakur, A., Optimal sequence planning for robotic sorting of recyclables from source-segregated municipal solid waste, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 2021, 21(1), 014502
• Feng, R., Li, X., Zhu, L., Thakur, A., Wei, X., An improved two-level support structure for extrusion-based additive manufacturing, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2021, 67, 101972

2020

• Raj, A., and Thakur, A., Hydrodynamic parameter estimation for an anguilliform-inspired robot, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications, 2020, 99(3-4), pp. 837-857.
• Kumar, A., Gunjan, M.R., Jakhar, K., Thakur, A., Raj, R. Unified framework for mapping shape and stability of pendant drops including the effect of contact angle hysteresis, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2020, 597, 124619
• Sharma, N. K., Tiwari, M., Thakur, A., and Ganguli, A. K., A systematic review of methodologies and techniques for integrating ergonomics in development and assessment of manually operated equipment, International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2020, DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2020.1862552

Older Journal Articles

• Raj, A., and Thakur, A., Dynamically feasible trajectory planning for anguilliform-inspired robots in the presence of steady ambient flow, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 118:144-158, 2019.
• Sinha, K. N. R., Ranjan, D., Raza, M. Q., Kumar, N., Kaner, S., Thakur, A., and Raj, R., In-situ acoustic detection of critical heat flux for controlling thermal runaway in boiling systems, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 138:135-149, 2019.
• Gundupalli, S., P., Hait, S., and Thakur, A., Classification of metallic and non-metallic fractions of e-waste using thermal imaging-based technique Article reference, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 118:32-39, 2018. 
• Jakhar, K., Chattopadhyay, A., Thakur, A., and Raj, R., Spline based shape prediction and analysis of uniformly rotating sessile and pendant droplets, Langmuir, 33(22):5603-5612, 2017. 
• Gundupalli, S., P., Hait, S., and Thakur, A., Multi-material classification of dry recyclables from municipal solid waste based on thermal imaging, Waste Management, 70:13-21, 2017.
• Gundupalli, S., P., Hait, S., and Thakur, A., A review on automated sorting of source-separated municipal solid waste for recycling, Waste Management, 60:56-74, 2017.
• Raj, A., and Thakur, A., Fish-inspired robots: design, sensing, actuation, and autonomy-a review of research. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 11(3):dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/11/3/031001, 2016.
• Thakur, A., Chowdhury, S., Švec, P., Wang, C., Losert, W., and Gupta, S., K., Indirect pushing based automated micromanipulation of biological cells using optical tweezers. International Journal of Robotics Research, 33(8):1098-1111, 2014.
• Chowdhury, S., Thakur, A., Švec, P., Wang, C., Losert, W., and Gupta, S., K., Automated Manipulation of Biological Cells Using Gripper Formations Controlled By Optical Tweezers, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 11(2), 338-347, 2014.
• Švec, P., Thakur, A., Raboin, E., Shah, B., C., and Gupta, S., K., Target Following with Motion Prediction for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Operating in Cluttered Environments. Autonomous Robots, 36(4), 383-405, 2014.
• Thakur, A., Švec, P., Gupta, S., K., GPU based generation of state transition models using simulations for unmanned surface vehicle trajectory planning. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 60(12), 1457-1471, 2012.
• Thakur, A., Gupta, S., K., Improving performance of rigid body dynamics simulation by removing inaccessible regions from geometric models. Computer-Aided Design, 44(12), 1190-1204, 2012.
• Thakur, A., and Gupta, S., K., Real-time dynamics simulation of unmanned sea surface vehicle for virtual environments. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 11(3), 2-11, 2011.
• Thakur, A., Banerjee, A., G., Gupta, S., K., A survey of CAD model simplification techniques for physics-based simulation applications. Computer-Aided Design, (41):2, 65-80, 2009.

 Conference Articles

 2021

• Das, A., Halder, R., and Thakur. A., Deep reinforcement learning-based 3D exploration with a wall climbing robot. Proc. of the IEEE International Region 10 Technical Conference (IEEE TENCON '21), Auckland, New Zealand, 7-10 Dec 2021. IEEE Press.
• Sarwar, M. M. S., Yadav, R., Samanta, S., Ray, R., Halder, R., Banda, G., Bhattacharya, A., and Thakur, A., A robotic software framework for autonomous navigation in unknown environment, 2021 International Symposium of Asian Control Association on Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Automation (IRIA), 2021, pp. 345-350, doi: 10.1109/IRIA53009.2021.9588693.
• Rishikesh, Bhattacharya, A., Thakur, A., Banda, G., Ray, R., and Halder, R., Secure communication system implementation for robot-based surveillance applications, 2021 International Symposium of Asian Control Association on Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Automation (IRIA), 2021, pp. 270-275, doi: 10.1109/IRIA53009.2021.9588788.
• Ojha, P., and Thakur, A., Real-time obstacle avoidance algorithm for dynamic environment on probabilistic road map, 2021 International Symposium of Asian Control Association on Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Automation (IRIA), 2021, pp. 57-62, doi: 10.1109/IRIA53009.2021.9588792.
• Nishad, S., Halder, R., Banda, G., Ray, R., Bhattacharya, A., and Thakur, A., A lizard-inspired quadruped robot based on pressure sensitive adhesion mechanism for wall climbing, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Robotics 2021, June 30-July 4, 2021. Kanpur, UP, India.
• Darekar, A. Y., and Thakur, A., Trajectory planning in the presence of dynamic obstacles for anguilliform-inspired robots, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Robotics 2021, June 30-July 4, 2021. Kanpur, UP, India.
• Kumar, B., Bhatt, C., and Thakur, A., Deep learning based real-time computation of thrust for a robotic fish, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Robotics 2021, June 30-July 4, 2021. Kanpur, UP, India.
• Pedapudi, B. R. B., Hait, S., and Thakur, A., Multi-Layer perceptron-based classification of recyclable plastics from waste using hyperspectral imaging for robotic sorting, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Robotics 2021, June 30-July 4, 2021. Kanpur, UP, India.
• Sharma N.K., Tiwari M., Thakur A., Ganguli A.K. (2022) Biomechanical simulation and a detailed analysis of the roadside cleaning activity. In: Black N.L., Neumann W.P., Noy I. (eds) Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021). IEA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 223. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74614-8_22 

Older conference articles

• Thati, S., Raj. A., and Thakur, A., Optimal and dynamically feasible path planning for an anguilliform fish-inspired robot in presence of obstacles. ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, Quebec City, Canada, August 26-29, 2018.
• Agrawal, K., Jain. K., Gupta, D., Shrivastav, R., Agnihotri, A., and Thakur, A., Bayesian optimization based terrestrial gait tuning for an 12-dof alligator-inspired robot with active body undulation. ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, Quebec City, Canada, August 26-29, 2018.
• Raj, A., Kumar, A., and Thakur, A., Automated Locomotion Parameter Tuning for an Anguilliform-inspired Robot. In Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2016 IEEE International Conference on, Budapest, Hungary, October 9-12, 2016.
• Paulraj, S.G., Hait, S., and Thakur, A., Automated municipal solid waste sorting for recycling using a mobile manipulator, 40th International Conference on Mechanisms and Robotics (MR) at 2016 ASME-IDETC, Charlotte, NC, USA, August 21-24, 2016.
• Kulkarni, P., Kumar, A., Thakur, A., D., and Thakur, A., Automated non-prehensile magnetic micromanipulation in presence of spatially varying flow field, 10th International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems (MNS)at 2016 ASME-IDETC, Charlotte, NC, USA, August 21-24, 2016.
• Shah, B., C., Švec, P., Thakur, A., and Gupta. S., K., Path Planning for Unmanned Vehicles Operating in Time-Varying Flow Fields. ICAPS Workshop on Planning and  Robotics (PlanRob 2016), London, UK, June 13-14, 2016.
• Sathish, G.P., and Thakur, A., Automated Municipal Solid Waste Sorting for Recycling using a Mobile Manipulator, 40th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR), ASME-IDETC, Charlotte, UNC, USA, August 21-24, 2016.
• Das, A., Thakur, A., D., and Thakur, A., Image guided automated non-prehensile magnetic micromanipulation of cells, 9th International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems (MNS) at 2015 ASME-IDETC, Boston, MA, USA, August 2-5, 2015.
• Shriyam, S., Mishra, A., Nayak, D., and Thakur, A., Design, fabrication and gait planning of alligator-inspired robot, International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Sciences, Hyderabad, AP, India, January 9-11, 2014.
• Chowdhury, S., Thakur, A., Švec, P., Wang, C., Losert, W., and Gupta, S., K., Enhancing range of transport in optical tweezers assisted microfluidic chambers using automated stage motion. ASME International Conference on Micro and Nanosystems, Portland, Oregon, August 4-7, 2013.
• Chowdhury, S., Thakur, A., Wang, C., Švec, P., Losert, W., and Gupta. S., K., Automated indirect manipulation of irregular shaped cells with optical tweezers for studying collective cell migration. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '13), Karlsruhe, Germany, May 6-10, 2013.
• Thakur, A., Chowdhury, S., Švec, P., Wang, C., Losert, W., and Gupta, S., K., Automated indirect optical micromanipulation of biological cells using indirect pushing for minimizing photo-damage. ASME International Conference on Micro and Nanosystems, Chicago, Illinois, August 12 -15, 2012.
• Švec, P., Thakur, A., Shah, B., C., and Gupta. S., K., USV trajectory planning for time varying motion goals in an environment with obstacles. ASME Mechanism and Robotics Conference, Chicago, Illinois, August 12-15, 2012.
• Chowdhury, S., Thakur, A., Wang, C., Švec, P., Losert, W., Gupta, S., K., Automated indirect transport of biological cells using planar gripper formations. IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2012), Seoul, Korea, August 20-24, 2012.
• Švec, P., Schwartz, M., Thakur, A., and Gupta, S., K., Trajectory planning with look-ahead for unmanned sea surface vehicles to handle environmental disturbances. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, San Francisco, California, September 25-30, 2011.
• Thakur, A., Švec, P., and Gupta, S., K., Generation of state transition model using simulation for unmanned sea surface vehicle trajectory planning. ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, Washington DC, August 28-31, 2011.
• Thakur, A., Gupta, S., K., A computational framework for real-time unmanned sea surface vehicle motion simulation. ASME Computers in Engineering Conference. Montreal, Canada, August 15-18, 2010.
• Gupta, S., K., Anand, D., K., Thakur, A., Švec, P., and Schwartz, M., A simulation based framework for discovering planning logic for Unmanned Surface Vehicles. ASME Engineering Systems Design and Analysis Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, July 12-14, 2010.
• Schwartz, M., Švec, P., Thakur, A., and Gupta, S., K., Evaluation of automatically generated reactive planning logic for unmanned surface vehicles. Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop September 21 - 23, Gaithersburg, Maryland, September 2009.
• Thakur, A., Gupta, S., K., Context dependent contact preserving off-line model simplification for interactive rigid body dynamics simulations. ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, San Diego, August 30-September 2, 2009.
• Thakur, A., Gupta, S., K., Anand, D., K., Brough, J., E., Kavetsky, R., A., and Schwartz, M., A survey of the virtual environments-based assembly training applications. Proceedings of Virtual Manufacturing Workshop, Turin, Italy, October 7-8, 2008.
• Pavanaskar, S., S., Thakur, A., Sunil, V., B., and Pande, S., S., WebNC: An internet based system for global product development. Proceedings of 7th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, 2009, Chennai, India, December 1-4.
• Thakur, A., S., S., Pande, A web based system for sheet metal modeling and process planning, Proceedings of 1st International and 22nd All India Conference on All India Manufacturing Technology Design and Research, 2006, Roorkee, India, December 21-26.
• Thakur, A., Pande, S., S., SIBAM: A web based feature modeler for sheet metal components. Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of future, Vellore, India, July 19-23, 2006.
• Pavanaskar, S., S., Thakur, A., Sunil, V., B., and Pande, S., S., FBMod: A web based feature modeler for prismatic components, Proceedings of the National Conference on Design for Product Cycle (DPLC-2006), Pilani, India, February 17 - 18, 2006.

• Chowdhury, S., Thakur, A. and Gupta, S.K. Manipulation of biological cells using optical tweezers: Challenges and solutions. In Autonomous Robot-Aided Optical Manipulation for Biological Cells, Elsevier Science, 2021.
• Schwartz, M., Svec, P., Thakur, A., and Gupta, S. K., Simulation based synthesis of planning logic for autonomous unmanned sea surface vehicles. Simulation Driven Innovation and Discovery, Energetics Applications, CALCE EPSC Press, College Park, 2011. 
  

Patent

• Raj, R., Thakur, A., Banerjee, S., Pandey, U., “System and method for boiling-based underwater buoyancy control," Application filed
• Anugrah AK, Thakur, A. Halder, R., Design of adhesion based omni orientation surface traverse mechanism in crawling quadruped trot-gaited robot" Application filed.
  

Present Students

Doctoral

• Dharmveer Agarwal (Thesis Submitted: Robotic Nonprehensile Magnetic Micromanipulation of Large Microscopic Biological Objects)
  
• Neelesh Sharma (jointly guided with Dr. Mayank Tiwari, ME)
• Mukesh Kumar Singh
• Pritam Ojha
• Yuvaraj Kamble (jointly guided with Dr. Abhishek Raj, ME)
• Kadali Manisankar (jointly guided with Dr. Mayank Tiwari, ME)

 Masters

• Kundan Saha
• Pushpendra Pal
• Purusottam Pradhan
• Kodidasu Purna Rama Sai Usha Pranav
  

 Bachelors

• Krishna Raj
• Roshan Kumar
• Aditya Baberwal
  

Past Students

Doctoral

• Sathish P. Gundupalli, 2019 
• Thesis title: Automated segregation of recyclables from solid waste stream using thermal imaging technique
• Aditi Raj, 2019
• Thesis title: Trajectory planning for underwater anguilliform-Inspired robots operating in presence of ambient flow

 Masters

• Anand Kumar Mishra, 2014
• Thesis title: Design, fabrication and planning of bio-inspired quadruped robots
• Sherbahadur Yadav, 2014
• Thesis title: Design and planning of unmanned ground vehicles for human following
• Akash Das, 2015 – Joint guidance with Dr. Ajay D. Thakur, Department of Physics
• Thesis title: Automated motion planning of magnetic microrobot
• Guddi Kumari, 2015 – Joint guidance with Dr. Rishi Raj, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Thesis title: Temperature feedback control for enhancing critical heat flux during pool boiling.
• Sumit Banerjee, 2017 - Joint guidance with Dr. Rishi Raj, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Thesis title: Boiling-based buoyancy controlled underwater robot
• Biswaranjan Das, 2017
• Thesis title: Anguilliform-inspired robot
• Himansu Shaw, 2017
• Thesis title: A shape-memory alloy actuated robotic fish
• Kishan Gopal Karwa, 2017
• Thesis title: Magnetic microrobot for non-prehensile manipulation of cells
• Krishna Agrawal, 2017
• Thesis title: Automatic gait adaptation for alligator-inspired robot
• Aaditya Asati, 2018
• Thesis title: Haptic feedback from virtual environment for laparoscopic surgical simulation using cutaneous and kinesthetics haptic Interface
• Rajan Sippy, 2018
• Thesis title: Development of android powered eye tracking-based wheelchair control with autonomous navigation
• Adnan Jawed, 2018
• Thesis title: Design and fabrication of carangiform robotic fish
• Shubham Pathak, 2019
• Thesis title: Control of boiling-based variable buoyancy robot
• Sushrut Lingayat, 2019
• Thesis title: Laparoscopic simulator with haptic feedback
• Amit Kumar, 2019
• Thesis title: Design of a dragonfly-inspired micro air vehicle
• Aditya Sudeep Ratnaparkhi, 2020
• Thesis title: Model-based backtepping leader-follower formation control of unmanned surface vehicles
• Abhishek Sharma, 2020
• Thesis title: Design and control of haptic interface for laparoscopic simulator
• Pedapudi Bharath Raja Bhoopal, 2021
• Thesis title: Classification of recyclable plastic from waste using hyperspectral imaging technique
• Akshay Y. Darekar, 2021
• Thesis title: Trajectory planning for fish-inspired robots in the presence of dynamic obstacles
• Ajayan, 2022 
• Thesis title: Development of experimental setup for robotic sorting of plastic waste
• Ninad Kuware, 2022
•  Thesis title: Prognosis and control of boiling crisis by leveraging acoustic emissions and deep learning.
• Anugrah A. K.
• Miniaturization and Rapid Prototyping of Lizard Inspired Robot for Swarm Application
  

Bachelors

• Delip Thomas and Srinivas Gunti, 2014
• Thesis title: Design and fabrication of snake-inspired robots
• Shivam Chourey and Vora Nishant, 2014 – Joint guidance with Dr. Ajay D. Thakur, Department of Physics
• Thesis title: Development of magnetic microrobot
• Ashesh Chattopadhyay, 2015 – Joint guidance with Dr. Rishi Raj, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Modeling of droplet geometry on surfaces exhibiting different contact angles
• C. Nitish, 2015
• Thesis title: Design and fabrication of glove for augmented reality applications
• Samiran Mondal, 2015
• Thesis title: Design, control and fabrication of an alligator-inspired underwater swimming robot
• Pranav Kulkarni, 2016 – Jointly guidance with Dr. Ajay Thakur, Department of Physics
• Thesis title: Control of magnetic microrobot in the presence of environmental flow
• Abhijeet Agnihotri and Raunak Srivastava, 2017
• Thesis title: Control of quadruped gait in an alligator-inspired robot
• Ashwin Goyal and Chirag Jain, 2017
• Thesis title: Estimation of crowd density using a quadcopter
• Amit Kumar and Maneesh Meena, 2018
• Thesis title: Stair-climbing gait control of a 12-DOF quadruped robot
• Kushagra Jain, 2018
• Thesis title: Gait parameter estimation using Bayesian-optimization for an alligator-inspired robot
• Santhosh Thati, 2018
• Thesis title: Optimal trajectory planning for an anguilliform-inspired robot
• Rajendra Verma and Rahul Dilare, 2019
• Thesis title: Quadruped robot based on mammalian gait
• Rishabh Shukla and Rohit, 2019
• Thesis title: Sorting of municipal solid saste using robotic hand
• Bansal Kumar and Chandan Bhatt, 2021
• Thesis title: A deep learning-based real time computation of thrust for fish-inspired robot
• Aman Kumar and Akshat Jain 2022
• Thesis title: Modelling and simulation of adhesive force and climbing in a lizard-inspired robot
• Maria and Anisha, 2022
• Thesis title: Animal health monitoring tool
• Pranay and Hareesh, 2022
• Thesis title: Sanitization robot
  
• Kritadhi Maity and Ayush Gupta
• Advance Prediction of Boiling Crisis through Acoustic Signal Analysis
  
• Anushkha Singh and Gogineni Charishma
• 3D ObjectT Reconstruction from Multiview Monocular Images
  

• Amarjeet Kumar
  
• Development of Fish-Inspired Robot
  
• Satyendra R. Nishad
  
• Development of Lizard-Inspired Wal Climbing Robot
• Harshang Shah
• Development of Pipe Inspection Robot for Thermal Power Plant
• Ravi Shekhar Tiwari
• Demand Forecasting in a Themal Power Plant based on LSTM

   Research Videos

• Alligator-inspired robot

• Eel-inspired robot

• Quadruped robot

• Robotic waste segregation for recovery of recyclables

• Magnetic micromanipulation

• Magnetic micromanipulation in presence of flow

• Lizard-inspired wall-climbing robot
  

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