Experimental Robotics

Prof. Dilip Kumar Pratihar received his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in 2000. He received University Gold Medal, A.M. Das Memorial Medal, Institution of Engineers’ (I) Medal, INSA Teachers’ Award 2020, New Code Of Education 2021 Award, Distinguished Alumnus Award 2021 from National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Institute Chair Professor Award 2022 from IIT Kharagpur, Technologist of the Year Award 2022 from IEEE India Council, and others. He was included among the World’s Top 2% Scientists in the areas of Image Analysis and Artificial Intelligence in a survey carried out by Stanford University, USA, in 2020, 2021, 2022. He was declared Outstanding Researcher 2021, 2022 in www.research.com. He completed his post-doctoral studies in Japan, and then, in Germany under the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship Programme. He received the Shastri Fellowship (Indo-Canadian Fellowship) to work on humanoid robots. Under his Mentorship, a group of four students has received Chanakya Fellowship recently by the TIH-IoT (coordinated by IIT Bombay), sponsored by the DST, Government of India. He is working now as a Professor (HAG scale) of IIT Kharagpur. He has made significant contributions on the fundamentals and applications of Artificial Intelligence in Industrial Automation, Robotics, Health Care, Education Technology, and others. He has published more than 180 research papers in peer reviewed international journals and more than 100 papers in conferences and national journals. He has contributed 25 chapters in edited international books. A few of his fundamental contributions published in IEEE, ASME, Elsevier, Springer journals are being highly cited by researchers in the field. His h-index values are found to be as follows: 43 (Google Scholar), 33 (Scopus), 29 (Web of Science). He has written the textbooks on “Soft Computing”, “Fundamentals of Robotics”, co-authored another textbook on “Analytical Engineering Mechanics”, edited a book on “Intelligent Autonomous Systems”, co-authored four reference books on “Modeling and Analysis of Six-legged Robots”, “Modeling and Simulations of Robotic Systems Using Soft Computing”, “Modeling and Analysis of Laser Metal Forming Processes by Finite Element and Soft Computing Methods” and “Multi-body dynamic modeling of multi-legged robots”. His textbook on “Soft Computing” has been translated into Chinese language also. He has developed three on-line NPTEL courses, such as “Traditional and Non-Traditional Optimization Tools”, “Robotics” and “Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks”. He has guided 25 PhDs, and 12 more Ph.D. students are working now under his guidance. He has filed four patents and received copyright for an intelligent optimization tool named Bonobo Optimizer. He has completed a number of sponsored projects funded by the DST, DAE, DBT, MHRD of Govt. of India, and four consultancy projects of the industries. He is in editorial board of a few International Journals. He is an Associate Editor of two International Journals. He has been elected as a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (I), MASME, MAAAI and SMIEEE.