Principal Invesigator

Current Lab Members

PhD Scholars:

1. Suman Midda (July 2024 - ) working on Safe Reinforcement Learning for Critical Autonomous Systems.

2. Shriman Keshri (July 2024 -) working on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Warehouse Automation.

3. Atish Dehury (July 2024 -) working on Realtime Feedback Control for Double-sided Incremental Roboforming.

4. Sobia Shafi (Jan 2026 -) working on Learning Multi-modal Task Policies from Demonstration for Contact-rich Manipulation.

5. Asmita Chakraborty (July 2026 -) working on Information Transfer in Swarm Networks

MS Scholars:

1. Shivansh Agarwal (July 2024 - ) working on Distributed Field Estimation and Learning using Multi-UAV Networks.

2. Aryan Soniya Duge (Jan 2026 -) working on Data-driven Quadruped Control for Locomotion on Uneven Terrains.

3. Muthukumarasamy M (July 2026 - ) working on Embodied AI for Dexterous Manipulation

M. Tech. Students:

1. Major Vishabh Singh (2025-27)

2. Abhay S (2025-27)

Lab Alumni

MS Scholars:

1. Srivardhan Reddy Palwai Currently at Epiroc
   Thesis: Development of a novel frequency based filtering approachfor preform design in Roboforming

M.Tech. Students:

1. Yash Pathak (2023 - 25) Currently at Maruti Suzuki India Limited.
   Thesis: Model Predictive Methods for Manipulator Motion Control

2. V Venkatesh (2023 - 25) Currently at NTPC.
   Thesis: Force control of Cooperating Robots in Robot-based double sided Incremental Sheet Metal Forming 

3. Mukesh Kanna (2024 - 26) Currently at Ashok Leyland
   Thesis: Distributed Radio Map Estimation using Multi-UAV Networks.

4. Shubham Saini (2024 - 26) Currently at HCL Tech
   Thesis: Impedance Control for Robot-based Assembly Tasks.

Dual Degree Students (B. Tech. + M. Tech. at IIT M):

1. Abhishek Dhalpe (B. Tech. in ME + M. Tech. in Robotics) (currently at Systemantics)

Thesis: Decentralized Control for Multi-Robot Collective Transport of Flexible Objects