Contributions in Research
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 (Patent Granted).
Developed Raliway Track-inspecting Robot, for which the Patent has been granted.
Developed Teaching Doll for providing information about Good- and Bad-touch body parts to the School Children.
Developed Intelligent Flow Dispancing System, for which the Patent has been granted.
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 five Patents (out of which, three have been granted) and transferred optimal design of leaf spring to a manufacturing industry.
Transferred root causes of failure of Gas Turbine, Pigtails, Centrifugal Pump, Motorized C-Hook to the Industries.
Note: For a more detailed information, kindly visit:
http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/department/ME/faculty/me-dkpra