About me:

I am a Research Engineer at National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. I am affiliated with BioRobotics lab in the Biomedical Engineering Department at NUS. I completed my masters in Mechanical Engineering, IISc with thesis title "Design, analysis, simulation and experimentation of a flexible spine quadruped".

I am broadly interested in providing robots with the capacity to move on their own, exploiting and exploring the hardware capacity to their fullest without involving human decision making in the process.

Relevant topics: Robot locomotion and manipulation, Reinforcement learning based control, Optimization based design and control, Mechanisms design and development.

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Work summary (2019 -2023)

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Hardware Designs

Publications

A Novel Back-support Exoskeleton with a Differential Series Elastic Actuator for Lifting Assistance, in IEEE Transactions on Robotics,
doi: 10.1109/TRO.2023.3331680. Ding, Shuo and Reyes, Francisco Anaya and Bhattacharya, Shounak and Narayan, Ashwin and Han, Shuaishuai and Seyram, Ofori and Yu, Haoyong. (2023).
A Lightweight Shoulder Exoskeleton With a Series Elastic Actuator for Assisting Overhead Work. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. PP. 1-11. 10.1109/TMECH.2023.3330755.
S. Ding, F. Anaya-Reyes, A. Narayan, S. Ofori, S. Bhattacharya and H. Yu(2023)
A Novel Passive Back-support Exoskeleton with a Spring-cable-differential for Lifting Assistance
S Ding, FA Reyes, S Bhattacharya, O Seyram, H Yu, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2023
Design and analysis of a novel hybrid-driven continuum robot with variable stiffness.
Edward Harsono, Yang Jun, Shounak Bhattacharya*, Yu Haoyong. Accepted in Mechanism and Machine Theory. 2022
Learning Active Spine Behaviors for Dynamic and Efficient Locomotion in Quadruped Robots.
Shounak Bhattacharya*, Abhik Singla, Abhimanyu, Dhaivat Dholakiya, Shalabh Bhatnagar, Bharadwaj Amrutur, Ashitava Ghosal, Shishir Kolathaya. IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man, 2019), New Delhi, India. [arxiv_link][video]
Trajectory Based Deep Policy Search for Quadrupedal Walking.
Shishir Kolathaya*, Dhaivat Dholakiya, Shalabh Bhatnagar, Abhik Singla, Shounak Bhattacharya*, Ashitava Ghosal, Bharadwaj Amrutur, Abhimanyu Singh, Ashish Joglekar, Aditya Varma Sagi, Suhan Shetty, Ajay Gunalan. IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man, 2019), New Delhi, India.
Realizing Learned Quadruped Locomotion Behaviors through Kinematic Motion Primitives.
A. Singla, Shounak Bhattacharya*, D. Dholakia, Ashitava Ghosal, Bharadwaj Amrutur, Shalabh Bhatnagar, Shishir N.Y. Kolathaya. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA, 2019), Canada.[arxiv link][video]
Design, Development and Experimental Realization of a Quadrupedal Research Platform: Stoch
D. Dholakia, Shounak Bhattacharya*, Ajay G, A. Singla, Shalabh Bhatnagar, Bharadwaj Amrutur, Ashitava Ghosal, Shishir N.Y. Kolathaya. IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR 2019), China.[arxiv link][video]
Design of a one-dimensional flexible structure for desired load-bearing capability and axial displacement.
Shounak Bhattacharya*, G.K.Ananthasuresh, Ashitava Ghosal, Accepted in Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines Journal, 2018.[Link]
Flexible spine quadruped. Accepted in Dynamic Walking, Finland, 2017, Shounak Bhattacharya*, Ashitava Ghosal.[Link]
Design, Analysis, Simulation and Experimentation of a Flexible Spine Quadruped.
Shounak Bhattacharya*, Master’s Thesis, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2017. [Link]