Bikash Bepari

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Bikash Bepari is a robotics and smart materials researcher whose work has significantly advanced the field of micro-manipulation and intelligent robotic systems. His primary research focus lies in Ionic Polymer Metal Composite (IPMC) actuators, compliant mechanisms, and robotic gripper design — areas where he has made consistently influential contributions throughout the 2010s and beyond. Bepari's most celebrated work, "IPMC-Actuated Compliant Mechanism-Based Multifunctional Multifinger Microgripper" (2014, 25 citations), demonstrated how electroactive polymers could be harnessed to achieve precise, low-voltage actuation for sophisticated gripping tasks — a breakthrough with far-reaching implications in biomedical micro-manipulation and soft robotics. His parallel investigations into grasp mapping for dexterous robot hands (13 citations) and two-fingered compliant gripper design (9 citations) further established him as a leading voice in gripper technology development. Beyond hardware design, Bepari has explored intelligent control paradigms, including gesture-based IPMC gripper control and hyper-redundant kinematic modeling for shape estimation. His more recent work applying IPMC as an EMG sensor for human arm activity diagnosis (2022) reflects an exciting evolution toward human-machine interface applications. With nearly 100 cumulative citations, his contributions bridge smart materials science, biomimetic robotics, and precision engineering in meaningful and enduring ways.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   IPMC-Actuated Compliant Mechanism-Based Multifunctional Multifinger Microgripper

   25 citations · 2014
2. 2
   Grasp mapping for Dexterous Robot Hand: A hybrid approach

   13 citations · 2014
3. 3
   On Design and Development of an Intelligent Mobile Robotic Vehicle for Stair-Case Navigation

   10 citations · 2010
4. 4
   Design and control of two fingered compliant gripper for micro gripping

   9 citations · 2014
5. 5
   Gesture based control of IPMC actuated gripper

   8 citations · 2014
6. 6
   Shape estimation of IPMC actuators in ionic solutions using hyper redundant kinematic modeling

   7 citations · 2016
7. 7
   IPMC as EMG Sensor to Diagnose Human Arm Activity

   7 citations · 2022
8. 8
   Novel approach of IPMC actuated finger for micro-gripping

   6 citations · 2015
9. 9
   Soft robotic finger fabrication with PDMS and IPMC actuator for gripping

   4 citations · 2016
10. 10
    Selection of Robotic Grippers Under MCDM Environment: An Optimized Trade Off Technique

    4 citations · 2014

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