Areas of Research
Parallel Robots and Platforms
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Optimum Mechanical Design
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Inverse Dynamics and Control
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Planar Platforms
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Spatial Platforms
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Applications in Machining Centres
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Industry Automation
Mobile Manipulators, Underwater and Field Robots
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Dynamics and Control of Underwater Robots
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Tracking Control of AUVs
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Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems
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Aerial Robots and Ground Vehicles
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Non-linear control and Intelligent Control
Rehabilitation
Robots
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Lower Limb Rehabilitation
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Body Weight Support
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Passive Rehabilitation robot
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Applications of parallel manipulators
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Control of Rehabilitation Robots
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Robotic Physiotherapy
Agricultral and farm equipments
Mechanisms and Machines for Rural & Urban Development
Sponsored Research Projects
Ongoing
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Principal Investigator, Teaching Learning Centre on "Internet of Things", Department of Higher Education, MHRD, India, Rs.758 Lacs (Three years from August 2016)
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Principal Investigator, Design and development of an economical, lightweight and multi-purpose four degrees of freedom hybrid robotic motion platform, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Rs. 18.96 Lacs (Three years from March 2016)
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Principal Investigator, Development and Control of a Kinematically Redundant Teleoperated Mobile Manipulator for Mining / Rescue Operations, TSDP Department of Science and Technology (DST), India, Rs. 150 Lacs (Approved)
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Principal Investigator, Robust motion control design for an underwater robot with tilting thrusters, Department of Science and Technology, India, and National Research Foundation (NRF), Republic of Korea, Rs.125 Lacs (Three years from January 2018)
Completed
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Principal Investigator, Design, development and control of a new three degrees of freedom (3-dof) parallel robot for x-y theta (xyθz) motion, Department of Science and Technology (DST), India, Rs.13.32 Lacs (Three years from July 2013)
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Principal Investigator, Development of an underwater robotic research platform for the autonomous control and manipulation tasks, National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea, Republic of Korea, KRW 30 million (approx. Rs. 16 Lacs) (Two years from July 2013) (with Prof. Jinwhan Kim, KAIST, Daejeon, ROK)
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Co- Principal Investigator, Design of a popup antenna system for intermittent communication of an observed underwater noise and which remains submerged otherwise, Naval Research Board (NRB), India, Rs.14.86 Lacs (2012-2014) (with Prof. T. Asokan, IITM)
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Principal Investigator, Design and development of a new parallel manipulator family for material handling applications, Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Rs. 7.5 Lacs (2013-2014)
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Principal Investigator, Design and development of a lower limb rehabilitation robot (Lambda like robot), Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Rs. 2.5 Lacs (2015)
Notable (Selected) B.Tech. Research Projects
Dr.Santhakumar Mohan, Centre for Robotics and Control, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Indore. Email: santhakumar@iiti.ac.in