Swagat Kumar

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Swagat Kumar is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work spans multi-robot coordination, human-robot interaction, visual servoing, and autonomous mobile systems. His most influential contribution, "Event-Triggered Finite-Time Integral Sliding Mode Controller for Consensus-Based Formation of Multirobot Systems With Disturbances" (2017, 266 citations), introduced a robust finite-time control strategy for multi-agent formation problems, establishing him as a significant voice in distributed control theory. Complementing this, his vision-based human-following robot work (2016, 140 citations) demonstrated practical advances in service robotics, developing a novel visual controller enabling mobile robots to reliably track humans in real-world environments. Kumar has also made notable contributions to robot perception and manipulation. His loop closure detection approach using bag of word pairs (2015, 64 citations) improved topological mapping reliability, while his retail stock assessment research pioneered autonomous robot-based shelf monitoring systems. In robot manipulation, his series of papers on visual motor control of redundant manipulators — employing learning networks and function decomposition techniques — reflect a sustained research thread bridging computer vision and kinematics. Across more than a decade of research, Kumar's work consistently addresses the intersection of perception, intelligence, and control in robotic systems, accumulating over 600 citations and demonstrating meaningful real-world impact.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Event-Triggered Finite-Time Integral Sliding Mode Controller for Consensus-Based Formation of Multirobot Systems With Disturbances

   266 citations · 2017
2. 2
   A Novel Vision-Based Tracking Algorithm for a Human-Following Mobile Robot

   140 citations · 2016
3. 3
   High performance loop closure detection using bag of word pairs

   64 citations · 2015
4. 4
   Product counting using images with application to robot-based retail stock assessment

   38 citations · 2015
5. 5
   Visual motor control of a 7DOF redundant manipulator using redundancy preserving learning network

   36 citations · 2009
6. 6
   Remote retail monitoring and stock assessment using mobile robots

   18 citations · 2014
7. 7
   Visual Motor Control of a 7 DOF Robot Manipulator Using Function Decomposition and Sub-Clustering in Configuration Space

   13 citations · 2008
8. 8
   A novel fusion framework for robust human tracking by a service robot

   9 citations · 2017
9. 9
   A Hybrid Image Based Visual Servoing for a Manipulator using Kinect

   8 citations · 2017
10. 10
    A Model-free Redundancy Resolution Technique for Visual Motor Coordination of a 6 DOF robot manipulator

    8 citations · 2007

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