Faculty
Shakti S. Gupta
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Dynamics and controls, Design & manufacturing
Mangal Kothari
Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Optimal planning & Control, Adaptive Control, Terrestrial and Legged Robotics
Doctoral Students
Nimesh Khandelwal
Ph.D. Candidate, PMRF fellow
Safe RL, state estimation, SW architecture
Avinash Bhashkar
Ph.D. Student, Sr.SRA
Hardware architecture, Product development, DiNNs
Amritanshu Manu
Ph.D. Candidate, PMRF fellow
Loco-Manipulation, model-based control, gait planning
Toshith
Ph.D. Student, PMRF fellow
Perception and autonomous navigation
Rajayogeshwar G
Ph.D. Student
Quadruped, manipulator system design and control
Masters Students
Devesh Pandey
Actuator development
Kudupudi Mohan Kumar
Robot Motion planning
Aditya Vats
Learning-based control
Samarth Sachan
Multibody dynamics simulation
DHAYAKIRAN REDDY TIRUMALA
Design and learning based controls
Tapan Chahar
Actuator testing and system identification
Shubham Mansingh Pawar
Actuator test rig development
Technical Staff
Himanshu Mishra
Senior Project Mechanic
Research Interns
| # | Name | Programme | Contribution(s) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chirayu Rankawat | B.Tech | Contact sensor development | completed |
| 6 | Ishan Maheshwari | B.Tech | Hardware Assembly and mujoco simulation setup | Completed |
| 2 | Dhananjay Khandelwal | B.Tech | Dynamometer development | Completed |
| 3 | Yash Barjatya | B.Tech | Web development | Completed |
| 4 | Sarthak Goyal | B.Tech | Web development | Completed |
| 5 | Ayush Agrawal | B.Tech IIT-Kanpur | Experiment design and data analysis | In Progress |
| 6 | Shivansh | B.Tech IIT-Kanpur | DeLan(PINNS) based control of leg | In Progress |
| 7 | Abhijit Jowhari | B.Tech IIT-Kanpur | LLM for quadruped locomotion | In Progress |
| 8 | Akansha Singh | B.Tech IIT-Kanpur | Sensor Selection for experiments | Completed |
| 9 | Manvi Bengani | B.Tech IIT-Kanpur | Foot sensor development of Legs | In Progress |
| 10 | Aniket Nandi | B.Tech IIT-Kanpur | Battery housing and latch mechanism | In Progress |
| 11 | Savudam Sai Sathvik | B.Tech IIT Gandhinagar | Motion library development | In Progress |
| 12 | Darsh Kumar | B.Tech | Actuator Testing | Completed |
| 13 | Adarsh | B.Tech | Actuator control and bandwidth | Completed |
| 14 | Devabrata Bothra | B.Tech | Hardware Design and development | On going |
Alumni
| # | Name | Programme | Research Area | Graduation Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aditya Rajawat | B.Tech + M.Tech | Planning and control | 2020 |
| 2 | Arihant Jain | B.Tech + M.Tech | Multibody dynamics simulation | 2022 |
| 3 | Jaihind J | M.Tech | Model based control of single leg | 2023 |
| 4 | Soumya Ranjan Panda | M.Tech | QDD actuator design and development | 2023 |
| 5 | Shyamkumar Sidapara | B.Tech + M.Tech | Multibody dynamics simulation | 2023 |