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Nilanjan Sarkar

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Director of Graduate Studies, Mechanical Engineering

Associate Professor of Computer Engineering

Email :me.graduate.program@vanderbilt.edu,
nilanjan.sarkar@vanderbilt.edu
Robotics and Autonomous Systems Laboratory:
http://robotics.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/
Office: 509 OH
Phone: 615-343-7219
Fax : 615-343-6687

Research Interests

Human-robot collaboration, wearable computing, robot control, rehabilitation robotics, fault-adaptive control, and signal processing.


Teaching Interests

Dynamics, Control, and Robotics.

Education

B.E., Mechanical Engineering, University of Calcutta, 1985
M.E., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, 1988
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, 1993

Publications

1. “Anxiety Detecting Robotic Systems – Towards Implicit Human-Robot Collaboration,” (P. Rani, N. Sarkar, C. Smith, and L. Kirby) in Robotica, Vol. 22, Issue. 1, pp. 85-95, 2004.

2. “Hybrid Fault Adaptive Control of a Wheeled Mobile Robot,” (M. Ji, Z. Zhang, G. Biswas, and N. Sarkar), in the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 226-233, 2003.

3. “Fault-Accommodating Thruster Force Allocation of an AUV Considering Thruster Redundancy and Saturation,” (N. Sarkar, T. Podder, and G. Antonelli), in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 223-233, 2002.

4. “Adaptive Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: Experimental Results on ODIN,” (G. Antonelli, S. Chiaverini, N. Sarkar, and M. West), in the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 756-765, 2001.

5. “A Parallel Distributed Cognitive Control System for a Humanoid Robot,” (K. Kawamura, A. Peters, B. Bodenheimer, N. Sarkar, J. Park, and A. Spratley), in the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 65-94, March 2004.

 

 

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