Ashitava Ghosal
Prof. Satish Dhawan Chair Professor
PhD, Stanford University, California, 1986
MS, University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida, 1982
BTech, IIT Kanpur, 1980
Research Interests
Kinematics, dynamics, control and design of robots and other computer-controlled mechanical systems, Theoretical and numerical investigations of non-linear dynamical systems, Kinematics of parallel mechanisms and manipulators
Design of mechanical systems,
Biomedical devices, CAD/CAM
Teaching
- ME 240 Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems
- ME 246 Introduction to Robotics
- PD 229 Computer Aided Product Design
Selected Recent Publications
- S K Mahapatra and A Ghosal (2024), “Modeling, simulations and experiments with generally routed cable-driven continuum robots and their application to three-fingered grippers”, Robotica, Vol. 16 (1), pp. 011009. https://doi:10.1017/S0263574724000651
- Y Pratap Singh, N Ahmad and A Ghosal (2024), “Design of Decoupled and Dynamically Isotropic Parallel Manipulators Considering Five Degrees-of-Freedom”, ASME Transactions, Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics,Vol. 16 (1), pp. 011009. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4062176
- S K Mahapatra and A. Ghosal, (2023). “Obtaining Desired Shapes of Cable-Driven Continuum Robots Using General Cable Routing”, Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science, IFToMM WC 2023, Vol. 148, pp. 130-138. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45770-8_13
- S. Barthwal, M. Trikha and A. Ghosal (2023), “Flexible Hinge-Based Antenna Pointing Mechanism”, Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science, IFToMM WC 2023, Vol 148, pp. 302-310. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45770-8_30
- P Pal, A Dasgupta, Shishir N Y Kolathaya and A Ghosal, “Optimum Design of a Compliant Foot for a Quadruped”, AIR ’23, Proceedings of the 2023 6th International Conference on Advances in Robotics, July 2023, pp. 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610419.3610448
Sponsored Projects
- Hexapod for orthopaedic applications
- LifeBox – an apparatus for organ preservation https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210137100A1/en
Additional Information
- Dean, Faculty of Engineering, IISc Bangalore (2022-2024)
- NPTEL course on Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems, https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc22_me96/preview
- NPTEL course on Robotics, https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc21_me37/preview
- Elected Member of IFToMM Executive Committee (2016-2019 & 2020-2023)
- Elected Fellow of Indian National of Engineering (2010)
- Associate Editor: Mechanism and Machine Theory and ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics
- Robotics: Fundamental Concepts and Analysis, Oxford University Press (2006)