V. Balakrishnan
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87
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About
V. Balakrishnan is a robotics researcher whose work focuses on fault tolerance and failure analysis in kinematically redundant robotic manipulators, with particular emphasis on systems operating in hostile or hazardous environments. His most significant contribution lies in addressing a challenging and often overlooked problem: how robots behave when joint failures go undetected or unidentified by the controller. Rather than assuming failures will always be caught, Balakrishnan pioneered strategies that enable manipulators to maintain functional performance even under unidentified locked-joint conditions — a critical advancement for real-world deployment in remote or dangerous settings. His most cited work, an experimental study on failure-tolerant teleoperation (2003, 34 citations), demonstrated practical implementations of these concepts, bridging theoretical analysis with physical robotic systems. Complementary studies on workspace analysis and post-fault behavior further established a comprehensive framework for understanding performance degradation after undetected failures. His research also contributed novel control strategies explicitly designed to tolerate unidentified faults, moving the field beyond reliance on perfect failure detection. Collectively accumulating over 85 citations, Balakrishnan's body of work provides foundational insights for engineers and researchers designing robust, fault-resilient robotic systems for space exploration, nuclear operations, and other high-stakes applications.
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- 6An analysis of the post-fault behavior of robotic manipulators7 citations · 2002