Vijay Kumar (roboticist)
Vijay Kumar (born April 12, 1962) is an Indianroboticist and UPS
foundation professor in the Schoolof Engineering & Applied
Mechanics with secondaryappointments in computer and information
science andelectrical and systems engineering at the University
ofPennsylvania, and will become the new Dean of PennEngineering on
July 1, 2015.[1] Kumar is known for hisresearch in the control and
coordination of multi-robotformations.[2][3]
1 Education B. Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Instituteof
Technology, Kanpur, India, May 1983
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State Univer-sity, Columbus,
Ohio, March 1985
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State Univer-sity, Columbus,
Ohio, September 1987
2 About his research workHis fundamental contributions, which
straddle both the-ory and practice, address the control and
planning of mul-tiple robots cooperating to explore, map ,
manipulate andmove in 3-D environment. He was rst to formulateand
solve the problem of cooperative mobile manipula-tion with multiple
robots, simultaneously controlling thegrass motion and
rolling/sliding interactions in the early90s. He was also the rst
to work on the multi robot for-mation control problem leading to
highly cited papers onthe subject in the late 90s. Kumar"s creative
theoreti-cal, algorithmic, and experimental work on
cooperatingrobots have transformed the science of robotics
systemsand impacted a wide range of application in the area
ofnetworked and cyber physical systems.
3 Honours and awards The Ohio State University Presidential
Fellowship(1986)
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991) Lindback Award
for Distinguished Teaching, Uni-versity of Pennsylvania (1996)
The Ferdinand Freudenstein Award for signicantcontributions to
mechanisms and robotics
5th National Conference on Mechanisms andRobotics (1997)
Best paper award, Distributed Autonomous RoboticSystems
(2002)
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers(2003)
Kayamori Best Paper Award, IEEE InternationalConference on
Robotics and Automation (2004)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distin-guished Lecturer
(2005)
Fellow, Institute for Electrical and Electronics En-gineers
(2005)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distin-guished Award
(2012)
George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellencein Research
(2013) [4]
Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award (2013) IIT Kanpur
Distinguished Alumnus Award 2013-14, for his outstanding
contributions to the area ofcontrol and coordination of multi-robot
formations.
The Joseph Engelberger Award by the Robotics In-dustries
Association (2014)
4 See also Raaello D'Andrea
5 References[1] Kim, Isabel. BREAKING: Vijay Kumar named new
dean of engineering. The Daily Pennsylvanian. TheDaily
Pennsylvanian. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
[2] Desai, J.P.; Ostrowski, J.P.; Kumar, V. (2001).Modeling and
control of formations of nonholonomicmobile robots. Robotics and
Automation, IEEE Transac-tions on 17 (6): 905908.
doi:10.1109/70.976023. Re-trieved 2008-06-29.
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