K R Guruprasad, PhD

(Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur)

Visiting Faculty, Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras, Chennai, India

Professional Experience

July 2025 onwards: Visiting Faculty (Under inter IIT Faculty Exchange Scheme), Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras
July 2022 onwards : Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur (Currently on leave under Faculty Exchange Scheme)
September 2019 - June 2022: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NITK, Surathkal
January 2006 - September 2019: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NITK, Surathkal
October 2000 - December 2005: Lecturer/Sr. Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NITK, Surathkal
March 2011 - May 2012: Postdoctoral/visiting researcher, Computer Science Department, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA
August 1993 - July 1994: Trainee Engineer, BPL Electronics Ltd, Bengaluru, INDIA

PhD (2009) - Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
MSc (Engg) (1996) - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
BE (Mechanical Engineering) (1993) - Mangalore University/Karnataka Regional Engineering College (National Institute of Technology Karnataka), Surathkal

Robotics and Autonomous systems: Motion planning: Single and multi-robotic point to point motion planning, coverage path planning, robotic exploration and mapping.
UAV/Drones: Single and multi-UAV motion planning and control, multi-UAV search and rescue
Multi-robotic/Agent systems: Deployment, cooperative and distributed control, emergent behavior
Mobile manipulation: UAV mounted manipulator control for applications such as autonomous inspection and minor repair of large structures.
Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy logic and Fuzzy logic control, Intelligent control, Reactive or Behavior-based systems, Group behavior and Distributed systems, Distributed decision making; distributed/behavior-based systems/intelligence, swarm intelligence; emergent behavior
Robotics – Mechanics and control: Manipulator control, Distributed control, control of lower-body and whole-body exoskeletons.
Voronoi partition: Generalization, distributed algorithms, application to multi-robot/UAV applications and facility location/locational optimization problems.

Visiting Faculty: Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras
Associate Professor: Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur www.iitk.ac.in/new/k-r-guruprasad
Associated Faculty: Center for Mechantronics, IIT Kanpur www.iitk.ac.in/robotics/index.php
Associated Faculty: SIKSA Study Centre for Indian Knowledge System for Holistic Advancement, IIT Kanpur https://www.iitk.ac.in/new/siksa-study-centre-for-indian-knowledge-system
Adjunct Faculty: Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur - MTech in Unmanned Aerial Systems Engineering https://www.iitk.ac.in/aero/m-tech-uas

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