Atul Thakur

About

Atul Thakur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Patna. His research interest is broadly in the area of robotics and automation. He has been actively engaged in the research involving the design, motion planning, and control of bio-inspired robots, application of robotics in the area of solid waste management, and selective micromanipulation of biological cells using magnetic microrobots.

He received a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, Master of Technology (M.Tech.) degree in manufacturing engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in production engineering from the University of Mumbai. Atul is a recipient of the 2013 Best Dissertation Award from ASME-CIE Division. He received Elsevier Journal of Computer-Aided Design 2012 most cited paper award. He is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) since 2009 and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2011.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Patna Associate Professor
  2012 - Present

Education

• University of Maryland at College Park Doctor of Philosophy
  2007 - 2011

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (34)

• Dynamically feasible trajectory planning for Anguilliform-inspired robots in the presence of steady ambient flow
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2019.05.001
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• A robotic tool for magnetic micromanipulation of cells in the presence of an ambient fluid flow
  Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference 2019 DOI: 10.1115/DETC2019-97941
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• In-situ acoustic detection of critical heat flux for controlling thermal runaway in boiling systems
  International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.04.029
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• Bayesian optimization based terrestrial gait tuning for a 12-DOF alligator-inspired robot with active body undulation
  Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference 2018 DOI: 10.1115/DETC201886033
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• Classification of metallic and non-metallic fractions of e-waste using thermal imaging-based technique
  Process Safety and Environmental Protection 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.psep.2018.06.022
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• Optimal and dynamically feasible path planning for an anguilliform fish-inspired robot in presence of obstacles
  Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference 2018 DOI: 10.1115/DETC2018-86120
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• A review on automated sorting of source-separated municipal solid waste for recycling
  Waste Management 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2016.09.015
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• An open source low-cost alligator-inspired robotic research platform
  Proceedings - 2016 6th International Symposium on Embedded Computing and System Design, ISED 2016 2017 DOI: 10.1109/ISED.2016.7977088
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• Automated locomotion parameter tuning for an Anguilliform-inspired robot
  2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2016 - Conference Proceedings 2017 DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2016.7844625
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• Multi-material classification of dry recyclables from municipal solid waste based on thermal imaging
  Waste Management 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2017.09.019
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