Introduction to Robotics - Softcover

Saha, S K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070140014 ISBN 13: 9780070140011

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (India), 2008

Synopsis

Born in Maldaha, West Bengal (India), Prof. Subir Kumar Saha, has completed most of his school studies from Vidyasagar Vidyapith, Midnapore (also in West Bengal). He has completed his B.E (Mech.) from R.E. College (now NIT), Durgapur, in 1983, followed by his Master’s from IIT Kharagpur in 1985. He obtained his Ph. D degree from McGill University, Canada, in 1991, and immediately joined the R&D Center of Toshiba Corporation in Japan. At Toshiba, he worked on space robot dynamics. In 1995, he returned to IIT Madras as a Visiting Faculty, before joining IIT Delhi in 1996 as an Assistant Professor. Since 2006 he is a Professor at IIT Delhi. Prof. Saha is a recipient of Humboldt Fellowship and spent nine months during 1999-2000 at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He has also been a visiting faculty to several universities abroad, e.g., McGill University, Canada, Monash University, Australia, and University of Verona, Italy. Prof. Saha is actively engaged in teaching, research, and technology development. He established the SAE-IIT Delhi Chapter in 1997, and the Mechatonics Laboratory at IIT Delhi in July 2001. His research, consultancy, and training activities with many private companies like Asahi India, Sona Steering, Minda-Huf, SAMTEL Colour Tubes, and public sectors like BHEL, CEPC, and government agencies like DST, MIT, CWDB are the clear indication of the industries’ confidence on Prof. Saha’s commitment. Prof. Saha has to his credit more than 125 research publications in reputed journals and conference proceedings.

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Born in Maldaha, West Bengal (India), Prof. Subir Kumar Saha, has completed most of his school studies from Vidyasagar Vidyapith, Midnapore (also in West Bengal). He has completed his B.E (Mech.) from R.E. College (now NIT), Durgapur, in 1983, followed by his Master’s from IIT Kharagpur in 1985. He obtained his Ph. D degree from McGill University, Canada, in 1991, and immediately joined the R&D Center of Toshiba Corporation in Japan. At Toshiba, he worked on space robot dynamics. In 1995, he returned to IIT Madras as a Visiting Faculty, before joining IIT Delhi in 1996 as an Assistant Professor. Since 2006 he is a Professor at IIT Delhi. Prof. Saha is a recipient of Humboldt Fellowship and spent nine months during 1999-2000 at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He has also been a visiting faculty to several universities abroad, e.g., McGill University, Canada, Monash University, Australia, and University of Verona, Italy. Prof. Saha is actively engaged in teaching, research, and technology development. He established the SAE-IIT Delhi Chapter in 1997, and the Mechatonics Laboratory at IIT Delhi in July 2001. His research, consultancy, and training activities with many private companies like Asahi India, Sona Steering, Minda-Huf, SAMTEL Colour Tubes, and public sectors like BHEL, CEPC, and government agencies like DST, MIT, CWDB are the clear indication of the industries’ confidence on Prof. Saha’s commitment. Prof. Saha has to his credit more than 125 research publications in reputed journals and conference proceedings.
    Two of Prof. Saha’s recent interests are: (1) Popularizing the concept of engineering education through participation in robotics competitions. For example, he has been guiding the student teams of IIT Delhi since 2003 to take part in Doordarshan-Robocon competitions. The team was champion in 2007 and represented India in the international competition held in Hanoi, Vietnam. To strengthen the concept, Prof. Saha has launched a lecture series named as “Robotics [AT]?” during his stay in IIT Madras from Dec. 2006 to Dec. 2007. So far, he has delivered eight lectures at different engineering colleges/institutes; (2) In order to popularize the engineering problems faced by the rural industries of India, e.g., the Carpet industries, amongst the students of IITs and other engineering colleges, he has been formulating the rural technical problems as research problems and solving them using modern tools, be they software or theory. The concept has led to several national and international journal publications, and a Ph. D thesis that is expected to come out as a special book in 2009 by a reputed international publisher.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (India)
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070140014
• ISBN 13: 9780070140011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400