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Prof. Santhakumar Mohan
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
+91-491-209-1468
Research Area: Robotics, Research Area: Motion Control, Research Area: Mechanism Design and Analysis, Research Area: Service and Field Robots, Research Area: Underwater Vehicles and Manipulator Systems
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  • Biosketch

    Santhakumar Mohan got his Ph.D. (Robotics and Control) from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai (India) in 2010. From June 2010 to March 2011, he worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC), Kerala (India). He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon (Republic of Korea). In 2012, he joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore. He holds visiting faculty positions at IISc Bangalore, India, BSTU, Belgorod, Russia, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, RWTH Aachen, Germany, and ECN, France. His active research areas include Service and Field Robots (specifically, the design & motion control of underwater and wheeled mobile robots), Parallel Robotic Platforms, and Assistive and Rehabilitation Robots. Furthermore, he has received the outstanding young Scientist for the year 2014 from the Korea Robotics Society, European Master on Advanced Robotics Plus (EMARO+) fellowship (2018-2019), Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship (2016–2017), Satellite across virtual institutes (SAVI) fellowship (2013-2014), World-class university fellowship (2011- 2012) and Brian Korean 21 (BK21) fellowship (2011). He has published more than 150 articles in various journals and conference proceedings. He has edited three books and completed twelve sponsored projects.

    Currently, he is serving as Technical Editor, of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2020-present), Associate Editor, of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2020-2024), Advances in Mechanical Engineering (2023-present), ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control ((2020-present), Intelligent Service Robotics (2024-present), and Robotica (2024-present), and Guest Editor, of ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (2024).

    He is also an adjunct professor at the Department of Engineering Design, at IIT Madras and a Faculty Fellow at the IIT Palakkad Technology Ihub Foundation (IPTIF).

    He is the founding director of the IIT Palakkad Technology I-Hub Foundation (IPTIF) and the Technology Innovation Foundation of IIT Palakkad (TECHIN).

  • Research

    Broadly, I work in the field of Robotics and Control. Specifically, I have research interests as follows:

    • Field Robotics, Mobile Manipulators, and Underwater Robotic Systems (Dynamics and Control)
    • Parallel Robotic Platforms (Mechanical Design, Dynamics and Control)
    • Assistive and Rehabilitation Robots (Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robots)

     

    Sponsored Research

     

    On-going Funded Projects

     

    1.   Project Title: Design and development of a robotic rubber latex collection system

    • Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)/ANRF, India
    • Duration: 2024-2026
    • Budget: Rs. 61.52 Lacs

     

    2.   Project Title: Design and Development of Indigenous, cost-effective Autonomous Tractor, for Indian Farming Conditions and Applications (A-TRACT)

    • Funding Agency: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), India
    • Duration: 2024-2026
    • Budget: Rs. 48.56 Lacs, jointly with Dr.Sneha Gajbhije, EE, IIT Palakkad (Total budget: Rs. 1797.85 Lacs)
    • Other partners: C-DAC Trivandrum, C-DAC Hyderabad, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, MRV, Chennai

     

    3.   Project Title: Design and development of an underwater cleaning robot for marine applications

    • Funding Agency: IITG Technology Innovation & Development Foundation, India
    • Duration: 2023-2025
    • Budget: Rs. 49.85 Lacs, jointly with Dr.Jagadeesh Kadiyam, IIT Mandi

     

    4.   Project Title: Mathematical modelling and simulation of autonomous underwater vehicle

    • Funding Agency: Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL), India
    • Duration: 2023-2024
    • Budget: Rs. 28.32 Lacs, jointly with Dr.Jagadeesh Kadiyam, IIT Mandi


    5.   Project Title: Design and Development of an Intervention-class Underwater Robotic Vehicle with Tilting Thrusters for Marine Applications

    • Funding Agency: IIT Palakkad Technology IHub Foundation (IPTIF), India
    • Duration: 2021-2025
    • Budget: Rs. 84.32 Lacs

     

    6.   Project Title: Design, Development, and Control of a Multi-purpose Mobile Manipulator for Intelligent and Collaborative Manipulation Tasks

    • Funding Agency: IIT Palakkad Technology IHub Foundation (IPTIF), India
    • Duration: 2021-2025
    • Budget: Rs. 82 Lacs

     

    Completed Projects (after joining IIT Palakkad):

     

    1.   Project Title: Design and Development of an intelligent Underwater Vehicle with a Manipulator for offshore oil/gas and other marine applications

    • Funding Agency: Naval Research Board (NRB), India
    • Duration: 2020-2023
    • Budget: Rs. 45.25 Lacs, jointly with Dr.Jagadeesh Kadiyam, IIT Mandi

     

    2.   Project Title: Robust operational space motion control of a waist assistive powered exoskeleton

    • Funding Agency: Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIR), Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), India
    • Duration: 2021-2023
    • Budget: Rs. 31.76 Lacs, jointly with Dr.Jayant Kumar Mohanta, IIT Jodhpur

     

    3.   Project Title: Robotics and Automation in Agriculture

    • Funding Agency: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), India
    • Duration: 2020-2023
    • Budget: Rs. 51.84 Lacs 
    • Project Lead: Prof. L. Behera (IIT Kanpur), Total Budget: Rs. 194.26 Lacs

     

    4.   Project Title: Design and Development of a new sitting-type lower limb rehabilitation robot

    • Funding Agency: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India
    • Duration: 2020-2023
    • Budget: Rs. 23.21 Lacs

     

    5.   Project Title: Design and Development of a high-speed tree dimensional printer with a large range of micro motion using a scanning projection stereo-lithography technique

    • Funding Agency: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India
    • Duration: 2020-2023
    • Budget: Rs. 28.21 Lacs (as a Co-PI)
    • PI: Dr.Yogesh Singh (NIT Silchar)

     

    6.   Project Title: Bio-inspired Hybrid Underwater Vehicle for Ocean Observations

    • Funding Agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India
    • Duration: 2019-2022
    • Budget: Rs. 28.85 Lacs

     

    7.   Project Title: Development of a hybrid robotic system based on a passive orthosis and an active parallel manipulator for lower limb rehabilitation

    • Funding Agency: Russian Science Foundation (RSF), Russia
    • Duration: 2019-2022
    • Budget: 18 Million Russian Rubles (approximately Rs. 190 Lacs)

     

    8.   Project Title: Robust motion control design for an underwater robot with tilting thrusters

    • Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, India
    • Duration: 2018-2021
    • Budget: Rs.25.14 Lacs

     

    9.   Project Title: Teaching Learning Centre on "Internet of Things"

    • Funding Agency: Department of Higher Education, India
    • Duration: 2016-2020
    • Budget: Rs. 143 Lacs
    • Project Lead: Prof. S.K.Parida (IIT Patna), Total Budget: Rs. 758 Lacs

     

    Completed Projects (before joining IIT Palakkad):

     

      1.   Project Title: Design and development of an economical, lightweight, and multi-purpose four degrees of freedom hybrid robotic motion platform

      • Funding Agency: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India
      • Duration: 2016-2019
      • Budget: Rs.18.96 Lacs

       

      2.   Project Title: Design, development, and control of a new three degrees of freedom (3-dof) parallel robot for x-y theta (xyθz) motion

      • Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, India
      • Duration: 2013-2016
      • Budget: Rs.13.32 Lacs

       

      3.   Project Title: Development of an underwater robotic research platform for the autonomous control and manipulation tasks

      • Funding Agency: National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea, Republic of Korea
      • Duration: 2013-2015
      • Budget: Rs.16 Lacs (as a Co-PI)

       

      4.   Project Title: Design of a popup antenna system for intermittent communication of an observed underwater noise and which remains submerged otherwise

      • Funding Agency: Naval Research Board (NRB), India
      • Duration: 2014-2016
      • Budget: Rs.14.86 Lacs (as a Co-PI)
      • Project Lead: Prof. T.Asokan (IIT Madras)
    • Teaching

      @ IIT Palakkad

      Kinematics and Dynamics of Machinery (Even Semesters)

      Measurements, Instrumentation, and Control (Odd Semesters)

      Mechanics and Control of Robotic Manipulators (Odd Semesters)

      Wheeled Mobile Robots (Even Semesters)

      NPTEL Courses

      Wheeled Mobile Robots (Jan-Apr, 8 weeks course)

      Mechanics and Control of Robotic Manipulators (Jul-Oct, 8 weeks course)

      @ IIT Indore

      Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines (Odd Semesters)

      Dynamic and Control Systems (Odd Semesters)

      Machine Design I and II (Even Semesters)

      Robotics (Even Semesters)

      Mobile Robotics (Even Semesters)

      Robotic Control Systems (PG elective)

    • Research Group

      Current Members:

      Arun Krishnan (PhD candidate)

      Isaac John (PhD candidate)

      Avinash S Pramod (PhD candidate @ IIT Madras, Supervisor: Prof.T.Asokan)

      Prashant Raturi (PhD candidate)

      Karan Dharmendra Patil (PhD candidate, Co-Supervisor: Dr.Senthilkumar V)

      Ajay Krishnan (PhD candidate)

      Sidharthan Surendrababu (PhD candidate, QIP Scholar)

      Former Members:

      Yogesh Singh (PhD, 2016), Assistant Professor, NIT Silchar

      Pandurang Londhe (Visiting scholar, PhD, 2017), Assistant Professor, Government College of Engineering, Chandrapur

      Jayant Kumar Mohanta (PhD, 2018), Assistant Professor, IIT Jodhpur

      Swati Mishra (PhD, 2020), Assistant Professor, Symbiosis University of Applied Sciences, Indore

      Jagadeesh Kadiyam (PhD, 2021), Assistant Professor, IIT Mandi

      Meera C S (Visiting scholar, PhD, 2021), Assistant Manager, L&T SMART WORLD & COMMUNICATION

      Sandra C (Research associate, 2020-2021), Engineer, KPIT Bangalore

      Parvathi S (MS by Research, 2021), PhD student, Imperial College London

      Ravi Prakash (Visiting scholar, PhD, 2022), Assistant Professor, IISc Bangalore

      Vasanth Kumar (Visiting scholar, PhD, 2022), Team Lead, Kawasaki Robotics (USA)

      Kshetrimayum Lochan (Postdoctoral fellow, 2022), Postdoctoral fellow, Khalifa University, UAE

      Saravana Kannan (Project associate/Embedded Engineer, 2021-2022), Engineer, Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited (BGSW), Coimbatore

      Rubesh Thirumani (Project associate, 2022), Co-Founder, RobotoAI Technologies

      Surya Selvaraju (Project engineer, 2022), Co-Founder, RobotoAI Technologies

      Srikanth Sampath (Project engineer, 2022), Co-Founder, RobotoAI Technologies

      Meenakshi S (Postdoctoral fellow, 2021-2022), Associate professor, Chennai Insitute of Technology, Chennai

      Mervin Thomas (Postdoctoral fellow, 2023), Assitant professor, NITK Surathkal

      Jerin Peter (Project Engineer, 2024), MS Student, University of California, Riverside

    • Publications
      Design and Development of a Novel Rotary Actuator Based on Shape Memory Alloy and Permanent Magnet System
      Deep Singh, Rutupurna Choudhury, Yogesh Singh & Santhakumar Mohan
      Recent Developments in Multibody Dynamics. ACMD IMSD 2022 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering 73–81 (2025)
      Academic Insights and Future Prospects of Soft Robotics: Architecture, Material, Control and Application
      Mervin Joe Thomas and Santhakumar Mohan
      Journal of the Indian Institute of Science (Accepted and in press) (2025)
      A Lie Group PMP approach for Optimal Stabilization and Tracking Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
      Anil B, Sneha Gajbhiye and Santhakumar Mohan
      International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control 35 (1) 222-248 (2025)
      A modified human shoulder model considering the migration of the humeral head from the scapular glenoid fossa for the design of shoulder exoskeletons
      Avinash S Pramod, Santhakumar Mohan, and Asokan T
      Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 239 (5) 1441-1456 (2025)
      New design and construction of a mechanical gripping device with a telescopic link of a fruit harvesting robot
      L. Rybak, G. Carbone, Santhakumar Mohan, E. Gaponenko, D. Malyshev, and A. Voloshkin
      Robotica 43 (1) 69-85 (2025)
      Trajectory tracking control of an Underwater vehicle with DELTA parallel manipulator
      Arun Krishnan K S, Jagadeesh Kadiyam and Santhakumar Mohan
      Proceedings of the 3rd international and 15th National Conference on Industrial Problems on Machines & Mechanisms (IPRoMM 2024) (2024)
      Design and Development of a Dynamically Stable Wheeled Mobile Robot
      Prashant Raturi, Santhakumar Mohan, Yatendra Kumar
      Proceedings of the 3rd international and 15th National Conference on Industrial Problems on Machines & Mechanisms (IPRoMM 2024) (2024)
      Underwater Vehicle Modelling with Newton-Euler Method Using DH parameters
      Arun Krishnan KS, Jagadeesh Kadiyam, Santhakumar Mohan
      The Fifteenth (2024) ISOPE Pacific-Asia Offshore Mechanics Symposium, Chennai, India. (2024)
      Design and analysis of a human-centric shoulder exoskeleton to improve the range of motion
      Avinash S Pramod, Santhakumar Mohan, Asokan Thondiyath
      Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems (CBS), Nagoya, Japan (2024)
      Stiffness profile investigation of a variant of the 2-US-1-UU mechanism, with offsets at the proximal U joints
      Isaac John; Santhakumar Mohan; Philippe Wenger
      Proceedings of the Mechanism and Machine Theory Symposium 2024 (2024)
      Robust Control Algorithms for Flexible Manipulators
      Kshetrimayum Lochan, Binoy Krishna Roy, Bidyadhar Subudhi, Santhakumar Mohan
      CRC Press (Book) (2024)
      Manipulability Analysis of a Tree Type Humanoid Upper-Body Robot with Dual Redundant Arms
      Shifa Sulaiman, Sudheer A. P., Santhakumar Mohan, Evgeni Magid
      Scientia Iranica , Accepted (in press) (2024)
      Development of a novel three-axis force sensor-based monitoring device for static shoulder therapy
      Avinash S Pramod,Adithya R N,Poongavanam Palani,Naveenreddy V Varala,Siddhant Panigrahi,Santhakumar Mohan,Asokan Thondiyath
      Second IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information Technology and Engineering (ic-ETITE'24) (Best Paper Award Winner) (2024)
      Simulink-Based Comparative Study and Selection of a Controller for a Waist Assistive Exoskeleton
      Mervin Thomas, Jayant Kumar Mohanta, Santhakumar Mohan and Shubhashisa Sahoo
      Recent Advances in Machines, Mechanisms, Materials and Design. iNaCoMM 2023. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore 267-280 (2024)
      Kinetostatic analysis of a spatial cable-actuated variable stiffness joint
      Isaac John, Santhakumar Mohan and Philippe Wenger
      ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics 16 (9) 091003:1-13 (2023)
      Development of an Intuitive Autonomous Ground Robot for Indoor Delivery Applications
      Jerin Peter, Mervin Joe Thomas, Gokulkrishna S, Kiran Cholappally and Santhakumar Mohan
      Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Innovative Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IPDIMS 2023) (2023)
      Comparative performance investigations of the intervention-class underwater vehicles with different possible thruster configurations using eight identical thrusters
      Arun Krishnan K S, Jagadeesh Kadiyam and Santhakumar Mohan
      Ocean Engineering 288 (2) 116147:1-18 (2023)
      Robust motion control of fully/over-actuated underwater vehicle using sliding surfaces
      Arun Krishnan K S, Jagadeesh Kadiyam and Santhakumar Mohan
      Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 108 (4) 60:1-22 (2023)
      Designing and Implementing a Versatile Agricultural Robot: A Vehicle-Manipulator System for Efficient Multitasking in Farming Operations
      Sandeep Kumar, Santhakumar Mohan and Valeria Skitova
      Machines 11 (8) 776:1-26 (2023)
      Conceptual design and structural analysis of a multipurpose agricultural robot
      Mervin Joe Thomas, Rekala Sai Bharani Kumar Goud, Nagamalla Jayaprakash, Santhakumar Mohan
      Intelligent Manufacturing and Energy Sustainability. ICIMES 2023. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (2023)
      Development of an autonomous ground robot using a real-time appearance based (RTAB) algorithm for enhanced spatial mapping
      Jerin Peter, Mervin Thomas, Santhakumar Mohan
      Proceedings of the Advances in Robotics 2023 (AIR 2023), the 6th International Conference of the Robotics Society (TRS) (Best Paper Presentation Award Winner) (2023)
      Modelling and robust control of hybrid unmanned aerial-underwater robot in the presence of uncertainty
      Jay Khatri, Sandeep Gupta, Jayant Mohanta, Santhakumar Mohan
      Proceedings of the Advances in Robotics 2023 (AIR 2023), the 6th International Conference of the Robotics Society (TRS) (2023)
      The design of a gripper device with screw and gear gears in a robotic fruit picking system
      Artem Voloshkin, Larisa Rybak, Dmitry Malyshev, Giuseppe Carbone, Santhakumar Mohan, Elena Gaponenko
      Proceedings of the Advances in Robotics 2023 (AIR 2023), the 6th International Conference of the Robotics Society (TRS) (2023)
      Development of a Passive Ankle-Foot Exoskeleton for Variable Force Resistance Training
      Avinash S Pramod, Poongavanam Palani, Santhakumar Mohan and Asokan Thondiyath
      New Trends in Medical and Service Robotics. Mechanisms and Machine Science 133 (Special Mention Best Paper Award at MESROB 2023, June 2023 Romania ) 144-151 (2023)
      Conceptual Design and Kinematic Analysis of a 1T2R Parallel Manipulator
      Isaac John, Santhakumar Mohan & A. P. Sudheer
      New Advances in Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications. MeTrApp 2023. Mechanisms and Machine Science 124 127-137 (2023)
      Kinematic and Static Modelling of a New Two-Degree-of-Freedom Cable Operated Joint
      Isaac John, Santhakumar Mohan & Philippe Wenger
      New Advances in Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications. MeTrApp 2023. Mechanisms and Machine Science 124 111–123 (2023)
      Simulation-Based Comparative Study and Selection of Real-Time Controller for 3-PRRR Cartesian Parallel Manipulator
      Mervin Joe Thomas, Santhakumar Mohan, Victoria Perevuznik & Larisa Rybak
      New Advances in Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications. MeTrApp 2023. Mechanisms and Machine Science 124 138–151 (2023)
      A Simplified Approach to Develop Fuzzy Logic Controller with Disturbance Estimator for Control of a Planar Parallel (2PRP-PPR) Motion Platform
      Rutupurna Choudhury, Pandurang Londhe, Santhakumar Mohan, Yogesh Singh
      Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science 237 (10) 2413-2427 (2023)
      Selective fruit harvesting: Research, trends, and developments towards fruit detection and localization – A review
      Meenakshi S, Santhakumar Mohan
      Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science 237 (6) 1405-1444 (2023)
      A Graphical User Interface (GUI) System for a Stationary Trainer Used in Lower Limb Rehabilitation
      Parvathi Sunilkumar, Santhakumar Mohan, Larisa Rybak
      Recent Trends in Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering Oct 2022 (2022)
      Control system for a robotic system for rehabilitation of lower limbs with feedback on the patient’s effort
      Larisa Rybak, Sergey Khalapyan, Gagik Rashoyan, Santhakumar Mohan, Anna Nozdracheva
      RobCE 2022: 2022 2nd International Conference on Robotics and Control Engineering March 2022 1-5 (2022)
      Investigation on design and control aspects of a new autonomous mobile agricultural fruit harvesting robot
      Divyansh Khare, Sandra C, Santhakumar Mohan
      Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science 236 (18) 9966-9977 (2022)
      Numerical Investigations, development and control of a Cartesian (3-PRRR) parallel manipulator
      Isaac John, Santhakumar Mohan, Larisa Rybak
      Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science 236 (15) 8635-8649 (2022)
      Hovering control of an underwater robot with tilting thrusters using the decomposition and compensation method based on a redundant actuation model
      Jeongae Bak, Yecheol Moon, Jongwon Kim, Santhakumar Mohan, Tae Won Seo, Sangrok Jin
      Robotics and Autonomous Systems 150 (April) (2022)
      Design and motion control scheme of a new stationary trainer to perform lower limb rehabilitation therapies on hip and knee joints
      Parvathi Sunilkumar, Santhakumar Mohan, Jayant Kumar Mohanta, Philippe Wenger, Larisa Rybak
      International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems 19 (Jan-Feb) 1-20 (2022)
      Dual Loop Optimal Control of a Robot Manipulator and its Application in Warehouse Automation
      Ravi Prakash, Laxmidhar Behera, Santhakumar Mohan and S. Jagannathan
      IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 19 (1) 262-279 (2022)
      Double-Loop Robust Motion Control of a Ground-Based Vehicle-Manipulator System
      Swati Mishra and Santhakumar Mohan
      Materials, Design, and Manufacturing for Sustainable Environment. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering 79-91 (2021)
      A Robust Motion Control Scheme of an Underwater Robot with Tiltable Thrusters
      Jagadeesh Kadiyam, P. S. V. S. Sai Kumar, Santhakumar Mohan and D. Deshmukh
      Materials, Design, and Manufacturing for Sustainable Environment. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering 15-36 (2021)
      The method of optimal geometric parameters synthesis of two mechanisms in the rehabilitation system on account of relative position
      Dmitry Malyshev, Larisa Rybak, Santhakumar Mohan and Askhat Diveev
      Proceedings of the XII International Conference Optimization and Applications, OPTIMA-2021 (2021)
      Design and Control of Mobile Robots with Two and Four Independent Rotatable Power Wheels
      Divyansh Khare, Kausadikar Varad Prashant, Santhakumar Mohan
      Advances in Industrial Machines and Mechanisms. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. 149-160 (2021)
      Determination of the Workspace of the System Based on the 3-PRRR Mechanism for the Lower Limb Rehabilitation
      Maksat Ahmetzhanov, Larisa Rybak, Dmitry Malyshev, Santhakumar Mohan
      Advances in Mechanism Design III. TMM 2020. Mechanisms and Machine Science 85 193-203 (2021)
      Performance Investigations of an Improved Backstepping Operational-space Position Tracking Control of a Mobile Manipulator
      Swati Mishra, Santhakumar Mohan, and Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma
      Defence Science Journal 71 (4, July 2021) 448-455 (2021)
      Simulation-based semi-empirical comparative study of fixed and vectored thruster configurations for an underwater vehicle
      Jagadeesh Kadiyam, Santhakumar Mohan, Devendra Deshmukh, Taewon Seo
      Ocean Engineering 234 (August) 1-23 (2021)
      Designing a Robotized System for Rehabilitation Taking Into Account Anthropological Data of Patients
      Artem Voloshkin, Grigory Dubrovin, Anna Nozdracheva, Larisa Rybak, Santhakumar Mohan, Giuseppe Carbone
      Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Medical and Service Robots (MESROB2021), Switzerland (2021)
      A novel design for an autonomous mobile agricultural fruit harvesting robot
      Divyansh Khare, Sandra Cherussery, Santhakumar Mohan
      Mechanism Design for Robotics. MEDER 2021. Mechanisms and Machine Science 103 38-49 (2021)
      Investigation of interference-free workspace of a Cartesian (3-PRRR) parallel manipulator
      Isaac John, Parvathi Sunilkumar, Santhakumar Mohan, Larisa Rybak
      Mechanism Design for Robotics. MEDER 2021. Mechanisms and Machine Science 103 79-89 (2021)
      Materials, Design, and Manufacturing for Sustainable Environment
      Santhakumar Mohan, S. Shankar, G. Rajeshkumar
      Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (Edited book), Springer, Singapore (1st Edition) (2021)
      Mechanism and Machine Science
      Sen D., Santhakumar Mohan, Ananthasuresh G.
      Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (Edited Book), Springer, Singapore (1st Edition) (2021)
      Determination of the geometric parameters of a parallel-serial rehabilitation robot based on clinical data
      Dmitry Malyshev, Santhakumar Mohan, Larisa Rybak, Gagik Rashoyan, Anna Nozdracheva
      ROMANSY 23 - Robot Design, Dynamics and Control. ROMANSY 2020. CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (Courses and Lectures) 601 556-566 (2021)
      A New Sitting-type Lower-Limb Rehabilitation Robot based on a Spatial Parallel Kinematic Machine
      Jayant Kumar Mohanta, Santhakumar Mohan, Phillipe Wenger and Christine Chevallereau
      Mechanism and Machine Science. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering 761-771 (2021)
      Design and control of mobile robots with two and four independent rotatable power wheels
      Divyansh Khare, Kausadikar Varad Prashant and Santhakumar Mohan
      1st International & 13th National conference on Industrial Problems on Machines and Mechanisms (IPRoMM-2020) December 21-22, 2020 (2020)
      Control of a vectorial propulsion underwater vehicle considering thruster hydrodynamics constraints and actuator saturation
      Jagadeesh Kadiyam, Santhakumar Mohan, Devendra Deshmukh
      Global OCEANS 2020: Singapore - U.S. Gulf Coast, October 5-14, 2020 (2020)
      Graphical interactive user interface system for a stationary trainer to perform lower limb rehabilitation tasks
      Santhakumar Mohan, Parvathi Sunilkumar and Larisa Rybak
      International Conference on Computer Simulation in Physics and beyond, October 12-16, 2020 Moscow, Russia (2020)
      A Numerical Method for Determining the Workspace of a Passive Orthosis Based on the RRRR Mechanism in the Lower Limb Rehabilitation System
      Dmitry Malyshev, Anna Nozdracheva, Grigory Dubrovin, Larisa Rybak, Santhakumar Mohan
      New Trends in Mechanism and Machine Science. EuCoMeS 2020. Mechanisms and Machine Science 89 138-145 (2020)
      Crashing to Learn, Learning to Survive: Planning in Dynamic Environments via Domain Randomization
      Sarath S. Menon, R. Sakthi Vignesh, Santhakumar Mohan
      Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics. RAAD 2020. Mechanisms and Machine Science 84 525-534 (2020)
      Conceptual Design and Control of a Sitting-type Lower-limb Rehabilitation System established on a Spatial 3-PRRR Parallel Manipulator
      Santhakumar Mohan, Parvathi Sunilkumar, Larisa Rybak, Dmitry Malyshev, Sergey Khalapyan, Anna Nozdracheva
      Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics. RAAD 2020. Mechanisms and Machine Science 84 345-355 (2020)
      Dynamics and Motion Control of a three degree of freedom 3-PRRR Parallel Manipulator
      P.Sunilkumar, R.Choudhury, Santhakumar Mohan and L.Rybak
      New Trends in Mechanism and Machine Science. EuCoMeS 2020. Mechanisms and Machine Science 89 103-111 (2020)
      Actuator fault-tolerant control study of an underwater robot with four rotatable thrusters
      Jagadeesh Kadiyam, Anjali Parashar, Santhakumar Mohan, and Devendra Deshmukh
      Ocean Engineering. 197 (Feb 2020) 106929 (2020)
      Robust Operational-space Motion Control of a Sitting-type Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robot
      Santhakumar Mohan, Mohanta J.K., Behera L., Rybak L.A., Malyshev D.I.
      Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 1126 (Jan) 161-172 (2020)
      A Simplified Motion Control of a Vehicle Manipulator for the Coordinated Mobile Manipulation
      Swati Mishra, Santhakumar Mohan, Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma
      Defence Science Journal 70 (1) 72-81 (2020)
      Dynamic Trajectory Generation and a Robust Controller to Intercept a Moving Ball in a Game Setting
      Ravi Prakash, Laxmidhar Behera, Santhakumar Mohan, Jagannathan Sarangapani
      IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology 28 (4) 1418 - 1432 (2020)
      Design and development of an automated product retrieval system for a warehouse
      Udhayakumar S and Santhakumar Mohan
      Indo-Israel International Joint Conference on Sustainable Cities-2019 (2019)
      Determination of the workspace of the system based on the 3-PRRR mechanism for the lower limb rehabilitation
      Nozdracheva A.V., Malyshev D.I., Santhakumar Mohan, Kholoshevskaya L.R.
      IEEE Xplore (accepted (in press)) (2019)
      Implementation of a robust motion control scheme for an Ostraciiform inspired underwater robot with caudal and pectoral fins
      Jagadeesh Kadiyam, Chaitanya Mehta, Santhakumar Mohan and Devendra Deshmukh
      IFAC-PapersOnline:Proceedings of the Joint 12th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles 1st IFAC Workshop on Robot Control, (Joint CAMS and WROCO 2019) 52 (21) 283-290 (2019)
      Workspace modelling of a parallel robot with relative manipulation mechanisms based on optimization methods
      Dmitry Malyshev, Larisa Rybak, Laxmidhar Behera, Santhakumar Mohan
      Robotics and Mechatronics. ISRM 2019. Mechanisms and Machine Science 78 151-163 (2019)
      Development and motion control of spatial serial robotic manipulator under varying disturbances
      Alex BarreEpenetus, C S Meera, Santha Kumar Mohan, Mukul Gupta
      World Journal of Engineering 16 (4) 460-467 (2019)
      Adaptive Backstepping Motion Control of a New Sitting-type Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robot
      J.K. Mohanta, Santhakumar Mohan, Y. Takeda, B. Corves
      Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science. IFToMM WC 2019. Mechanisms and Machine Science 73 (Finalist, Best Paper Award) 2761-2768 (2019)
      Behavioral Fault Tolerant Control of an Omni Directional Mobile Robot with Four Mecanum Wheels
      Swati Mishra, Mukesh Sharma, Santhakumar Mohan
      Defence Science Journal 69 (4) 353-360 (2019)
      Conceptual design of a hybrid propulsion underwater robotic vehicle with different propulsion systems for ocean observations
      Jagadeesh Kadiyam, Santhakumar Mohan
      Ocean Engineering 182 (June) 112-125 (2019)
      Disturbance observer-assisted hybrid control for autonomous manipulation in a robotic backhoe
      Meera CS, Mukul Gupta and Santhakumar Mohan
      Archive of Mechanical Engineering 66 (2) 153-169 (2019)
      Design and Robust Motion Control of a Planar 1P-2PRP Hybrid Manipulator for Lower Limb Rehabilitation Applications
      Vasanthakumar M, Vinod B, JK Mohanta and Santhakumar Mohan
      Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 96 (1) 17-30 (Featured in front cover page) (2019)

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