TECHNICAL SESSION TITLE Authors
Field Robots
(Technical Session 1)
A Chain-Driven, Sandwich-Legged Quadruped Robot: Design and Experimental Analysis Aman Singh (Indian Institute of Science)*; Bhavya Goswami (University of Waterloo); Ketan Nehete (University of California, Berkeley); Shishir Kolathaya (Indian Institute of Science)
Optimizing Bipedal Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning for Sliding and Hopping on Low-Friction Terrain Krishna Prakash Yadav (National Institute of Technology Warangal); Jyotindra Narayan (Indian Institute of Technology Patna and Imperial College London)*
ESO based Balance and Walking Controller for Biped Anurag Sinha (Defence R&D Organisation); Jaywant Kolhe (Defence R&D Organisation)*; Pooja Agrawal (Defence Institute of Advanced Technology); Sanjay Talole (Defence R&D Organisation)
Design and Development of a Cost-Effective Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Water Quality Monitoring in Shallow Aquaculture Environments Yogang Singh (Sheffield Hallam Univeristy)*; Aiyelari Temilolorun (Sheffield Hallam Univeristy)
Advancing Quadruped Robot Locomotion and Stability with Neuro-Fuzzy PID Control Framework Suvansh Gupta (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology); Jay Dhamija (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology); Chahek Sarawagi ( Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology); Jyotindra Narayan (Indian Institute of Technology Patna)*; Ashish Singla (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology)
TO-SoFiT: Topology Optimization of Hydraulic Soft Fish Tail Design for programmable undulating locomotion A Padmaprabhan (IIT Hyderabad); Amal Shaji (IIT Hyderabad); Prabhat Kumar (IIT Hyderabad)*
Planning and navigation in unstructured environments
(Technical Session 2)
A novel Path Planning Algorithm using Dynamic Region Biased RRT* Algorithm with two tree feature for Narrow Passage Environment Siddhartha Upadhyay (Indian Institute of Science)*; Koena Mukherjee (National Institute of Technology Silchar)
Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation Using Double Deep Q-Network: Efficient Goal-Seeking and Obstacle Avoidance Pratik Kumar Bhanwala (IIT Patna); Pritam Ojha (Indian Institute of Technology Patna); Atul Thakur (IITPatna)*
Robot Motion Planning by Non-prehensile Obstruction Handling in Cluttered Environments PRATIK YAWALKAR (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)*; REKHA RAJA (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)
Adaptive time delay estimation based control design for thruster driven AUV Diwakar Gurung (IIT Kharagpur)*; Vidit Gedam (IIT Kharagpur); Atanu Jana ( IIT Kharagpur); Swapnil Laxman Jagadale (IIT Kharagpur); C S Kumar (IIT Kharagpur); Vishwanath Nagarajan (IIT Kharagpur)
Efficient Area Coverage through Divide and Conquer and Metaheuristic-Optimized Reconfigurable Robot Morphologies Abdullah Hayat (UAE University)*
Robotics and Control Systems
(Technical Session 3)
Design and Experimental Validation of a Model-Free Controller for Feedback-Linearizable SISO Systems Karthik Shenoy (IIT Madras)*; Akshit Saradagi (Luleå University of Technology); Ramkrishna Pasumarthy (IIT Madras); Vijaysekhar Chellaboina (School of Computer Science, UPES)
Planning and Control for Torso Stabilization and Foot Placement in a Biped Robot with Impulsive Ankle Actuation Manideep Gumalapuram (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay); Jacob Thomas Sony (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay); Vivek Sangwan (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)*
RL to Control Agile Dynamics of a Single Legged Hopping Robot Hemanth Dontamsetti (IIT Bombay)*; Prasanna Gandhi (IIT Bombay)
Event-Triggered Model Predictive Control for Reactionless Manoeuvring of a Satellite-Mounted Robotic Arm Saurabh Chaudhary (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur )*; Niladri S. Tripathy (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur); Suril V. Shah (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur)
Grasping and Human-Robot Interaction
(Technical Session 4)
Grasp Sequence Planning for Multi-object Grasping using Reachability Maps Saniya Patwardhan (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar)*; Anamullah Ansari (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar); Aravind Krishna (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar); Harish Palanthandalam-Madapusi (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar)
Placement-Invariant Hand Grasp Recognition using Fixed Diameter sEMG Band Shivam Sharma (Defence Institute of Advanced Technology Pune)*; Kazi Newaj Faisal (Military Institute of Science and Technology); Rishi Raj Sharma (Defence Institute of Advanced Technology Pune)
Adaptive Impedance Control for Synchronized and Compliant Manipulation in the Dual 7-DoF Arms Robot Himanshu Varshney (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad); Arun Dayal Udai (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad)*; Indramani . (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad); Ashish Siddharth (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad)Himanshu Varshney (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad); Arun Dayal Udai (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad)*; Indramani . (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad); Ashish Siddharth (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad)
Machine Learning-Based Electroencephalography signal Processing for Prosthetic Arm Control Devansh Dave (Nirma University); REENA TRIVEDI (NIRMA UNIVERSITY)*; Hardini Dalwadi (Nirma University); Naitik Dalwadi (Nirma University); Priyam Parikh (Nirma University)
Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction Through Multimodal Sensing: Sound Source Localization and Vision-Based Human Detection Vijay Saini (IIT Roorkee); Vikas . (IIT Roorkee); Pushparaj Pathak (IIT Roorkee)*
Hand Function Recovery in Chronic Stroke Patients using Dynamic Constraints based ExoRehabGlove Syed Saif Ahmed (Tezpur University)*; Nayan Kakoty (Tezpur University); Bhivraj Suthar (IIT Jodhpur); Zahnupriya Kalita (Tezpur University); Satyajit Borah (TIMeS Hospital); Kuki Bordoloi (HKBM Physiotherapy and rehabilitation Centre)
Collaborative and Bio-Inspired Robotics for Physical Interaction
(Technical Session 5)
Towards a mobile assistive robot for specially-abled personals: Case study of Turtlebot3 with IntelRealSense payload Foaad Mustafa (Indian Institute of Technology); Siddhant Panigrahi (Indian Institute of Technology)*; Sivasankar Ganesan (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham); Poongavanam Palani (Indian Institute of Technology); Srinivasan Lakshminarayanan (TU Munich); Asokan Thondiyath ( Indian Institute of Technology)
MARL-SR: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning-based Cooperative Navigation for Swarm Robotics Applications Sachin Kansal (Thapar Institute of Engineering Technology)*; Manveer Singh (University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
Numerical simulation of worm-like soft robot locomotion Jose Munoz (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)*; Ashutosh Bijalwan (Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics en Enginyeria)
Kinematic and Dynamic Modeling-Based Design Tool for Twisted String Actuators Vishal Rathi (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur)*; Bhivraj Suthar (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur); Bidipta Rana (Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management)
Kinematic Characterization of a 5-DOF Exoskeleton for Biomimetic Shoulder Movement Assistance Ashish Rout (Indian Institute Of Technology Ropar)*; Ekta Singla (Indian Institute Of Technology Ropar)
Perception, Learning, and Distributed Autonomy in Robotics
(Technical Session 6)
Towards Global Localization Using Multi-Modal Object-Instance Re-Identification Aneesh Chavan (IIIT-H)*; Vaibhav Agrawal (IIIT-H); Vineeth Bhat (IIIT-H); Sarthak Chittawar (IIIT-H); Siddharth Srivastava (Typeface Inc.); Chetan Arora (IIT Delhi); Madhava Krishna (IIIT-H)
Deep Learning-Based Microrobot Detection and Segmentation for Localization Yuvaraj Kamble (Indian Institute of Technology Patna); Simran Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology Patna); Atul Thakur (IITPatna)*
Assembling of Swarm of Autonomous Robots with Limited Visibility in the Presence of Rectangular Obstacles BANASHREE MANDAL (NIT DURGAPUR)*; Deepanwita Das (National Institute of Technology Durgapur); Beeravalli Venugopal Reddy (National Institute of Technology Durgapur); Gunja Singh (National Institute of Technology Durgapur)
Implementation and Validation of Task-Based Control for Bi-Manual Manipulation Using TurtleBot Manipulators Nishant Singh (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur); Vishal Rathi (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur); Suril Vijaykumar Shah (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur); Bhivraj Suthar (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur)*
Smarter Robots, Fewer Queries: A Knowledge-Driven Approach to Reduce LLM Dependency Ayush Mothiya (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati); Gayathri Rangu (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati)*; Shivashankar B. Nair (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
Kinematics, Dynamics and Design of Robots
(Technical Session 7)
Automatic balancing control experiment on an axis for heritage drone prototype using PID control Mohammed KHADEM (University of Calabria)*; Dmitry Malyshev (DIMEG, University of Calabria); Giuseppe Carbone ( DIMEG, University of Calabria)
A Design approach for Cable-Driven Serial Chain Manipulators Considering Obstacles in the Workspace Sanjana Polisetti (Mahindra University); Nakka Surya Satya Sanjeevi (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar)*; Deep Seth (Mahindra University)
Enhancement of Position Accuracy of An Industrial Robot Through a Combination of Kinematic Calibration and Machine Learning Rohit K (Indian Institute of Technology Madras); Sandhya D ( Vellore Institute of Technology); ELDHO PAUL (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)*; Riby Abraham Boby (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur); Anuj Tiwari (Indian Institute of Technology Madras); Ganesh Narayanan (Vellore Institute of Technology)
Evaluation of joint loads during berthing operation by Robotic Arm for Space Station application V Sri Pavan RaviChand (URSC)*; Abhinandan Kapoor (URSC)
Medical, Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics
(Technical Session 8)
ASPIRE: Accessible Surgical-robotics Platform for REsearch in Surgical Training, Skill Evaluation and Autonomy Sanjay Jayalakshmi Prabakar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras ); Manojkumar Srinivasan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras ); Pranali Ingole (Indian Institute of Technology Madras); Niravkumar Patel (Indian Institute of Technology Madras )*
Vision Based Robotic Surgical Assistant for Coarse Surgical Actions: Implementation and Evaluation Andal Amirthavarshini G (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)*; Harish Prasanna Vellivel ( Indian Institute of Technology Madras ); Asokan Thondiyath (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
Comparison of machine learning techniques for Elbow movement recognition using sEMG signals Siddharth Rajesh Patil (Mahindra University); Akilan A (Mahindra University); Deep Seth (Mahindra University)*; Sanjeevi Nakka (Mahindra University)
Real-Time Ground Reaction Force Prediction During Squatting Using Insole Pressure Sensors and Machine Learning Dhruv Thakkar (Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune); Vidhi Shah (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar); Vineet Vashista ( Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar)*
Real-Time Gait Frequency Monitoring Using a Wearable IMU-based System: A Pilot Study Aneri Bhuptani (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar); Vineet Vashista (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar )*