Soft Computing Laboratory and Centre for Excellence in Robotics
Established by
Prof. (Dr.) Dilip Kumar Pratihar
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Soft Computing Laboratory and Centre for Excellence in Robotics
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Kharagpur - 721302
West Bengal
India
Established by
Dr. Dilip Kumar Pratihar
Professor (HAG Scale), Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ex-PIC, Centre for Excellence in Robotics
Institute Chair Professor
Associate Dean (Faculty of Inter-Disciplinary Departments)
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Phone No. +91-3222-282992
Fax No. +91-3222-282278
E-mail: dkpra@mech.iitkgp.ac.in, softcomputinglab@gmail.com.
Dr. Pratihar is currently a Professor (HAG Scale) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Ex-in-charge of the Centre for Excellence in Robotics, IIT Kharagpur, India. He has been appointed as Associate Dean (Faculty of Inter-Disciplinary Departments) for 2 years w.e.f. February 2024. He obtained BE (Hons.) and M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from REC (NIT) Durgapur, India, in 1988 and 1994, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur, India in 2000. He visited Kysushu Institute of Design, Fukuoka, Japan, and then Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, for his post-doctoral study under the Alexander von Homboldt Fellowship, Germany. Besides several scholarships, he received the University Gold Medal, A. M. Das Memorial Medal, Institution of Engineers' (I) Medal, Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellowship, INSA Teachers' Award 2020, New Code Of Education 2021 Award, Distinguished Alumnus Award 2021 from NIT Durgapur, Institute Chair Professor Award 2022 from IIT Kharagpur, Technologist of the Year 2022 from IEEE India Council, Mentor of Chanakya Fellowship 2022-23, 2023-24, India, Faculty Excellence Award 2023 from IIT Kharagpur, VASVIK Award 2022 for Industrial Research,. He has made notable contributions on the fundamentals and applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Industrial Automation, Robotics, Health Care, Education Technology, and others. He was among the World's Top 2% Scientists in Image Analysis and Artificial Intelligence in a survey carried out by Stanford University, USA, in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024. He was listed as Outstanding Researcher 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 by Research.com (www.research.com). He has guided 30 PhDs and 91 MTech students. At present, 9 Ph.D. students are working under his supervision. He has published more than 340 papers/book chapters and 9 books. He had been written the Textbooks on "Soft Computing" and "Fundamentals of Robotics" , which were published from India and UK. His textbook on "Soft Computing" had been translated into Chinese language also, in 2009. The 3-rd Edition of "Soft Computing" and 2-nd Edition of "Fundamentals of Robotics" have been published recently as "Soft Computing and AI: Fundamentals and Applications" and "Fundamentals of Robotics and AI", respectively. He has jointly edited three books on "Intelligent Autonomous Systems", which has been published by the Springer-Verlag, Germany; "Biomedical Robots and Devices in Healthcare", and "Advancing Healthcare through Decision Intelligence: Machine Learning, Robotics, and Analytics in Biomedical Informatics" (published by the Elsevier); and one Conference Proceedings published by the Springer Nature, Singapore. Recently, he has co-authored another textbook named "Analytical Engineering Mechanics". He has co-authored four reference books on "Modeling and Analysis of Six-legged Robots", "Modeling and Simulations of Robotic Systems Using Soft Computing" and "Modelling and Analysis of Laser Metal Forming Processes by Finite Element and Soft Computing Methods" and "Multi-body Dynamic Modeling of Multi-legged Robots". He has developed four On-line NPTEL courses (MOOC) namely (i) Traditional and Non-Traditional Optimization Tools; (ii) Robotics; (iii) Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks, (iv) Experimental Robotics. He is a member of Editorial Board of 6 international journals and Associate Editor of one International Journal. He has filed five patents, out of which three have been granted, till now. Moreover, one copyright has also been granted. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE) in 2023, Fellow of Institution of Engineers (I); Senior Member of IEEE, Member of ASME , Member of AMM, Member of AAAI.
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Recently, an initiative has been taken by me to bridge the gap between Academia and Industries.
I delivered an online awareness Lecture on Ärtificial Intelligence in Modern Industries (as requested by one Industry), mainly to the industry people.
Kindly see the Video of my lecture, as given below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tuHUmInqHAtjuO4aMV52l5F1WNfLeraI/view
It is a lecture of 2 hours.
Complete Details of Prof. Pratihar
Our Soft Computing Lab. in News: A small write-up has been published on activities of our Lab. in design and development of
autonomous and intelligent robots in the Newspaper: Financial Chronocle, 2nd June 2009
Website: http://www.mydigitalfc.com/print/37517
Our work on intelligent and autonomous robots has been published in the web-site: http://dst.gov.in/about-us/ar07-08/engg-scie.htm
Our work on "Humanoid Robots" has been reported in one French Magazine: Planete Robots
Activities of the Lab
Experimentation with the Real robots
Funded by:
IIT Kharagpur, India
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India
Mr. Rahul Kumar Jha, Ex-student of Soft Computing Lab.
Department of Bio-Technology, Government of India
7. Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India
Developed by: Pandu R. Vundavilli
Last updated: 25-th January, 2025
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