Design, Development and Control of a Multi-purpose Mobile Manipulator for Intelligent and Collaborative Manipulation Tasks

Industry 4.0 Smart factory concept. Workers, robot arms and assembly line. Technology vector illustration

Ref: IPTIF/TD/IP/009

Robotic systems are being designed to mimic human behaviour such that their applications can make inroads in service sectors such as elderly care, smart home and smart super-market. The effective way to make a robotic system more human like is to embed human like intelligence in robotic systems as well. This mandates that the controller learns the system dynamics as well as the control actuation with minimum information about the system and environment. This proposal will comprehensively investigate the empowerment of such robotic devices through learning.

The investigators of this project are:

  1. Dr. Santhakumar Mohan (lead investigator)
    Associate Professor
    Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
  2. Dr. Sneha Gajbhiye
    Assistant Professor
    Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
  3. Dr. Vijay Muralidharan
    Assistant Professor
    Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad