Samit Chakrabarty
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4
Total Citations
49
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3
About
Samit Chakrabarty is a researcher at the forefront of human-robot collaboration (pHRC) and rehabilitation robotics. His work is unified by a central theme: designing robotic systems that are not only functional but also intuitively safe, comfortable, and efficient for human partners. Chakrabarty’s major contributions lie in quantifying and optimizing the human experience within these interactions. His most cited work introduces a novel "human comfortability" metric that integrates ergonomics and muscular effort, enabling robots to plan manipulation tasks that minimize physical strain on their human counterparts. This foundational paper has garnered 35 citations, establishing a new framework for evaluating pHRC quality. He further advanced this concept by developing planning algorithms that minimize human muscular effort during forceful tasks like cutting or puncturing, a critical step for practical industrial and surgical applications. Beyond collaborative manipulation, Chakrabarty has made notable contributions to rehabilitation, designing a novel compliant knee exoskeleton for post-stroke recovery and developing iterative impedance learning control for automated ankle therapy. By merging biomechanics with control theory, Chakrabarty is building a future where robots adapt to human physiology, not the other way around.
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- 4Iterative Impedance Learning Control for Ankle Rehabilitation2 citations · 2021