Areas of Research
- Bio-inspired Robotics
- Inertial Sensing
- Machine Learning
- Optimal Estimation
- Robot Control
- Robot Dynamics & Kinematics
- Robot-Assisted Search & Rescue
- Robotics
- Sensor Fusion
- Sensors
- Soft Robotics
- Tensigrity Mechanisms
Research
- Soft Robotics
- What are soft materials and why use them with robots?
- Tensegrity Robotics
- Sensing and Estimation
I am a robotics researcher with expertise in Bio-inspired Robotics, Soft Robotics. Inertial Sensing, Optimal Estimation, Tensegrity Mechanisms and Sensor Fusion.
I have research interests in fields of Bio-inspired Robotics, Soft Robotics, Robot locomotion, Inertial Sensing, Sensor Fusion, Machine Learning, Nonlinear Control, Artificial Intelligence, Analytical Dynamics, Optimal Estimation and Computer Vision. I have special interest in studying energy-efficient systems, modeling them and analyzing their non-linear behavior. Currently, I am working on model-free control framework for modular, soft material robots capable of locomotion in unstructured environments.
Research Interests:
- Soft Robotics:
- Design of highly deformable, 3D-printed, motor-tendon terrestrial soft material robots capable of locomotion in variable environments and ability to carry loads.
- Design and locomotion control of soft robot using friction manipulation and motor-tendon actuation.
- Data-driven, control-primitive based, model-free control of soft material robots.
- Highly deformable 3-D printed soft robot generating inching and crawling motions with variable friction legs.
- Intelligent Sensing with Inertial Sensors:
- Dynamic Equilibrium Axis
- Non-contact orientation sensors comprising of multiple inertial sensors
- Software Gyroscope (Gyro-Free IMU)
- Tensegrity Mechanisms
