Lab Members

“Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.” – Helen Keller

Faculty

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Shakti S. Gupta

Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Dynamics and controls, Design & manufacturing

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Mangal Kothari

Professor, Aerospace Engineering

Optimal planning & Control, Adaptive Control, Terrestrial and Legged Robotics

Doctoral Students

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Nimesh Khandelwal

Ph.D. Candidate, PMRF fellow

Safe RL, state estimation, SW architecture

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Avinash Bhashkar

Ph.D. Student, Sr.SRA

Hardware architecture, Product development, DiNNs

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Amritanshu Manu

Ph.D. Candidate, PMRF fellow

Loco-Manipulation, model-based control, gait planning

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Toshith

Ph.D. Student, PMRF fellow

Perception and autonomous navigation

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Rajayogeshwar G

Ph.D. Student

Quadruped, manipulator system design and control

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Shankhadeep Saha

Ph.D. Student

Quadruped Motion Planning and Control

Masters Students

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Dhayakiran Reddy Tirumala

Sim2Real Reinforcement Learning, Actuator Modeling

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Shashank Sinha

RL Based Locomotion

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Sidharth Bhalla

Distillation of MPC Optimisation

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Nihal Anwar

Control Systems

Technical Staff

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Himanshu Mishra

Senior Project Mechanic

Research Interns

# Name Programme Contribution(s) Status
1 Devabrata Bothra B.Tech Hardware Design and development On going
2 Risav B.Tech RL implementation on Cobot 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
6 Devesh Pandey M.Tech Actuator Development 2024
7 Kudupudi Mohan Kumar M.Tech Robto Motion Planning 2024
8 Aditya Vats B.Tech + M.Tech Learning Based Control 2024
9 Samarth Sachan B.Tech + M.Tech Multi Bofy Dynamics Simulation 2024
10 Devesh Mishra B.Tech + M.Tech Multibody dynamics of Robot 2025
11 Tapan Chahar M.Tech Quadruped Motion planning on stairs 2025
12 Subham Mansingh Pawar M.Tech Actuator test rig development 2025