Papers
46
Total Citations
992
H-Index
15
About
Ashitava Ghosal is a distinguished robotics researcher whose work spans flexible manipulators, wheeled mobile robots, hyper-redundant systems, and continuum robotics. Based at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, he has made foundational contributions to the modeling and analysis of robotic systems across multiple decades. His 1995 paper comparing assumed modes and finite element models for flexible multilink manipulators (204 citations) remains a landmark reference for researchers tackling structural flexibility in robot arms. That same year, his influential work on slip modeling for wheeled mobile robots (132 citations) addressed a critical gap in non-holonomic systems research, later extended to uneven terrain kinematics and dynamics (89 and 27 citations respectively). His textbook, *Robotics: Fundamental Concepts and Analysis* (2006, 104 citations), has shaped undergraduate robotics education across India and beyond. Ghosal's research has also probed nonlinear dynamics, notably revealing chaotic behavior in robot control equations, and more recently advanced trajectory planning for hyper-redundant robots and continuum robot modeling. With a cumulative citation record exceeding 700, his work reflects both theoretical rigor and practical relevance, making him a seminal figure in the Indian and global robotics research community.
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- 2Modeling of slip for wheeled mobile robots132 citations · 1995
- 3Robotics: Fundamental Concepts and Analysis104 citations · 2006
- 4Kinematics of wheeled mobile robots on uneven terrain89 citations · 2004
- 5Trajectory Planning and Obstacle Avoidance for Hyper-Redundant Serial Robots57 citations · 2017
- 6Modeling of flexible-link manipulators with prismatic joints39 citations · 1997
- 7Chaos in Robot Control Equations29 citations · 1997
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