त्वरित संपर्क
के आर गुरुप्रसाद
(PhD, IISc Bangalore)
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
शोध करना दिलचस्पी
Robotics-Mechanics and Control, Motion Planning, Multi Robots Systems, Cooperative Control, Exo-Skeleton Control, Voronoi Partition and its Applications.
- Robotics and Autonomous systems: Motion planning: Single and multi-robotic point to point motion planning, coverage path planning, robotic exploration and mapping.
- UAV/Drones: Single and multi-UAV motion planning and control, multi-UAV search and rescue
- Multi-robotic/Agent systems: Deployment, cooperative and distributed control, emergent behavior
- Mobile manipulation: UAV mounted manipulator control for applications such as autonomous inspection and minor repair of large structures.
- Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy logic and Fuzzy logic control, Intelligent control, Reactive or Behavior-based systems, Group behavior and Distributed systems, Distributed decision making; distributed/behavior-based systems/intelligence, swarm intelligence; emergent behavior
- Robotics – Mechanics and control: Manipulator control, Distributed control, control of lower-body and whole-body exoskeletons.
- Voronoi partition: Generalization, distributed algorithms, application to multi-robot/UAV applications and facility location/locational optimization problems.
Office
Diamond Jubilee Academic Complex 503H-H,
Department of Mechanical Engineering
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
शिक्षा
Ph.D. | Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (2009)Thesis title: Multi-agent search using Voronoi partition Advisor: Prof Debasish Ghose
M.Sc (Engg) (thesis) | Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1996)Thesis: Model Reference Learning Control using Adaptive Network-based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS)
B.E | Mechanical Engineering, Mangalore University (Karnataka Reginal Engineering College/National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal) (1993)
चयनित प्रकाशन
h-index: 11, i10 index: 14, Citations:382 Scopus id: 7004340204, Orcid Id: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9654-519X
Books:K.R. Guruprasad, Robotics: Mechanics and Control, PHI, Delhi 110092, 2019 (https://www.phindia.com/Books/BookDetail/9789388028615/robotics-guruprasad)
Santosh K V and K Guruprasad Rao (K R Guruprasad) (Editors), Smart Sensors Measurements and Instrumentation Select Proceedings of CISCON 2020, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 750, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore. (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-0336-5)
Journal (Refereed – SCI/Scopus indexed)Vishnu G Nair and K.R Guruprasad, “2D-VPC: An efficient coverage algorithm for multiple autonomous vehicles”, International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, 19(8), pp. 2891-2901, August 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-020-0389-6.
Jeane M D’Souza, Venkat Varun Velpula, and K.R Guruprasad, “On effectiveness of camera as an UAV mounted search sensor,” International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, 19(7), pp 2557–2568 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-020-0373-1
Soumya S. and K.R Guruprasad, “Distributed nonlinear control of planar serial-link manipulators”, International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, 19(2) (2021) pp. 850-863, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12555-020-0031-7
K.R. Guruprasad and T.D Ranjitha, “CPC algorithm: Exact area coverage by a mobile robot using approximate cellular decomposition”, Robotica, vol 39, pp. 1141–1162, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S026357472000096X
Soumya S. and K.R. Guruprasad, “Multi-agent system inspired distributed control of a serial-link robot”, Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics, and Intelligent System, vol 14, no 1, pp. 29-38, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14313/JAMRIS/1-2020/4
Vishnu G Nair and K.R Guruprasad, “MR-SimExCoverage: Multi-robot simultaneous exploration and coverage,” Computers and Electrical Engineering, vol 95, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2020.106680
Vishnu G Nair and K.R Guruprasad, “Geodesic-VPC: spatial partitioning for multi-robot coverage problem”, International Journal of Robotics and Automation, vol 35, issue 3, 2020, pp. 189-198. DOI https://doi.org/10.2316/J.2020.206-0303
Vishnu G Nair and K.R Guruprasad, “GM-VPC: An algorithm for multi-robot coverage of known spaces using generalized Voronoi partition”, Robotica, vol 38, issue 5, May 2020, pp. 845-860.
Jeane M D’Souza, K.R. Guruprasad, and Akshar Padman, “A realistic simulation platform for multi-quadcopter search using downward facing cameras”, Computers and Electrical Engineering, vol 74, pp. 184-195, March, 2019.
S Soumya and K.R Guruprasad, “Model-based Manipulator Control and the Computational Cost”, Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems, vol 10, issue 12, pp. 319-326, 2018. [Scopus]
Dasgupta, J. Baca, K.R. Guruprasad, A. Munoz-Melendez, J. Jumadinova, The COMRADE System for Multi-Robot Autonomous Landmine Detection in Post-Conflict Regions, Journal of Robotics, vol 2015, February 2015.
K.R. Guruprasad, Effectiveness-Based Voronoi Partition: A new tool for solving a class of location optimization problems, Optimization Letters, vol 7, Issue 8, December 2013, pp 1733-1743.
K.R. Guruprasad and D. Ghose, Performance of a Class of Multi-Robot Deploy and Search Strategies based on Centroidal Voronoi Configurations, International Journal of Systems Science, vol 44, issue 4, 2013, pp. 680-699.
K.R. Guruprasad and D. Ghose, Heterogeneous Locational Optimization using Generalized Voronoi Partition, International Journal of Control, vol 86, issue 6, 2013, pp. 977-993.
K.R. Guruprasad and D. Ghose, Automated multi-agent search using centroidal Voronoi configuration, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 8, issue 2, April 2011, pp. 420-423.
पुरस्कार एवं फैलोशिप
Best presentation: K.R Guruprasad, Multi-Agent Search using Sensors with Heterogeneous Capabilities, Presented in the Doctoral Symposium, IISc-IBM Research Third Operations Research and Data Analytics Workshop, March 2008.
Best paper award finalist - K. Hungerford, P. Dasgupta, and K.R. Guruprasad, A Repartitioning Algorithm to Guarantee Complete, Non-overlapping Planar Coverage with Multiple Robots, Distributed Autonomous Robots and Systems (DARS) 2014.