Papers
10
Total Citations
61
H-Index
5
About
Atanu Maity is a pioneering roboticist whose research focuses on bio-inspired and field robotics, with a particular emphasis on serpentine, amphibian, and climbing robots designed for extreme environments. His most significant contributions lie in developing robotic systems for subterranean applications, most notably an amphibian subterranean robot for mine exploration (20 citations) and a mobile robot for environmental monitoring in underground coal mines. Maity’s work addresses critical challenges in mining safety and efficiency, creating robots capable of operating in post-flooding scenarios and constrained underground spaces. His research on hyper-redundant serpentine robots (2010, 7 citations) has advanced the understanding of limbless locomotion, including the implementation of serpentine shape functions and piecewise sine functions for generating complex body undulations. More recently, he has explored bio-inspired climbing robots that combine magnetic adhesion with inchworm-like locomotion (2018, 5 citations), demonstrating applications for inspection tasks in hazardous structures. Through his systematic study of serpentine robot design philosophy and dynamic analysis using co-simulation techniques, Maity has established himself as a key contributor to the development of versatile, nature-inspired robotic systems for challenging real-world applications.
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Top Papers
- 1Amphibian subterranean robot for mine exploration20 citations · 2013
- 2An experimental hyper redundant serpentine robot7 citations · 2010
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- 4Design of an Amphibian Exploring Robot5 citations · 2014
- 5A bio-inspired climbing robot: design, simulation, and experiments5 citations · 2018
- 6Serpentine robot moves and postures5 citations · 2011
- 7Serpentine robots: A study of design philosophy4 citations · 2011
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- 9Implementation of serpentine locomotion3 citations · 2012
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