Publications 

Conference Papers:

1. Nitin Desai, “Enhancing Autonomy and Adaptive Control of Industrial Robots in Dynamic Environments Using Reinforcement Learning”, International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition 2025 (IMECE) ASME, Hyderabad (Accepted) Available online (Jan 2026) 

2. Gobinda Behera Nitin Desai, “Deep Learning-Based Automatic Machining Feature Recognition from CAD Model”, International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition 2025 (IMECE) ASME, Hyderabad (Accepted) Available online (Jan 2026) 

3. Nitin Desai, Gobinda Behera, Sankha Deb, Debashis Sen, “Development of a Three-Finger Adaptive Robotic Gripper for Handling Irregular and Complex Objects and Its Dynamic Grasp Synthesis”, Proceedings of the ASME 2025, 20th International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference MSEC2025 June 23-27, Greenville, South Carolina.  Paper Link: https://doi.org/10.1115/MSEC2025-155617 

4. Nitin Desai, Gobinda Behera, Sankha Deb, Debashis Sen, “A Genetic Algorithm Based Adaptive and Hybrid Pathfinding Algorithm to Enhance the Performance of Robotic Bin-Picking”, 2024 IEEE 21st India Council International Conference (INDICON). Paper Link: 10.1109/INDICON63790.2024.10958511 

5. Nitin Desai, Sainul Ansary, Atul Mishra, Sankha Deb, Debashis Sen, “Design and Implementation of a Lance for Performing Robot-Assisted Metallurgical Temperature Measurement and Sampling and Robot Trajectory Planning and Control”, The International Conference on Next Generation Technologies: Design and Manufacturing (ICNGT 2024), hosted by IIT Madras.

6. Nitin Desai, Sankha Deb, Debashis Sen, “MaskPose: 3D pose estimation and image segmentation of objects from RGB images for robotic grasping”, National Seminar on Innovation & Technology Inclusion Program in Manufacturing and Asset Management for Steel Industry, Tata Steel Ltd, Jamshedpur 2023, India

7. Gobinda Behera, Nitin Desai, Sankha Deb, “Implementation of Soft Computing-Based Metaheuristic Algorithms in Multi-Objective Environmentally-Conscious Machining Operation Sequence Optimization with Carbon Emission Reduction”, Proceedings of the ASME 2025, 20th International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference MSEC2025 June 23-27, Greenville, South Carolina. Paper Link: https://doi.org/10.1115/MSEC2025-155708 

Journal Papers:

1. Nitin Desai, Sainul Ansary, Atul Mishra Sankha Deb, Debashis Sen, “Design and Implementation of a Lance for Performing Robot-Assisted Metallurgical Temperature Measurement and Sampling and Robot Trajectory Planning”, Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, Taylor and Francis. Paper Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/15397734.2025.2579754

 2. Nitin Desai, Sankha Deb, Debashis Sen, “Occlusion-resilient pose estimation of textureless components in a cluttered environment and its implementation in robotic bin picking”, Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics. Springer (Accepted)