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Amalendu Mukherjee is a robotics researcher whose work has made significant contributions to the control and dynamics of space robotic systems. His research focuses primarily on impedance control, trajectory control, and attitude stabilization of free-flying space robots — a technically demanding domain where conventional control methods often fall short due to the dynamic coupling between manipulator motion and spacecraft attitude. Mukherjee's most influential contribution, "Impedance Control of Space Robots Using Passive Degrees of Freedom in Controller Domain" (2005, 54 citations), introduced an innovative framework for modifying manipulator impedance through passive degrees of freedom embedded within the controller architecture, offering both stability and flexibility in force-trajectory control tasks. His 2008 work on robust trajectory control (47 citations) further advanced reliable motion planning under the uncertainties inherent to space environments. He also pioneered a novel torque generation device based on continuously variable transmission principles for attitude control of free-flying robots, demonstrating a creative, hardware-grounded approach to spacecraft stabilization. Collectively, his research addresses some of the most challenging aspects of space robotics, including interaction torque management and end-effector force control, making his work highly relevant to satellite servicing, on-orbit assembly, and autonomous space operations.