Somashekhar S. Hiremath

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Papers

11

Total Citations

108

H-Index

6

About

Dr. Somashekhar S. Hiremath is a leading researcher in mobile robotics, with a primary focus on autonomous navigation, trajectory control, and practical robotic solutions for societal challenges. His most impactful work addresses the critical problem of manual scavenging in urban India through the design of a reconfigurable autonomous sewage cleaning mobile manipulator (25 citations), demonstrating his commitment to applying robotics to hazardous real-world tasks. Dr. Hiremath has made substantial contributions to the control of differential drive and Hilare robots, developing novel controllers for waypoint navigation and trajectory tracking along predefined paths, including work on velocity-constrained stepper motor systems. His research extends to multi-robot systems, where he has developed obstacle avoidance strategies inspired by the Bug-1 algorithm, and to reinforcement learning approaches for autonomous navigation. With a portfolio of over 100 citations, Dr. Hiremath has also advanced low-cost vision-based measurement systems and mathematical models for mobile robot position estimation. His work is characterized by a strong integration of theoretical modeling, simulation, and experimental validation, making significant strides in both the theory and application of intelligent mobile robotics.

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H-Index
11
Papers
108
Total Citations
10
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Design and Development of a Reconfigurable Type Autonomous Sewage Cleaning Mobile Manipulator
25 citations · 2013
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2019 (4 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 10
🏛 Institutions: Indian Institute of Technology Madras

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