Shitij Kumar

About

Shitij Kumar is currently a Robotics Engineer at Dexterity, Inc. developing robotics solutions to improve logistics and supply-chain in the warehousing industry. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Engineering in early 2020 from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where he also received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 2014. There he worked as a teaching and research assistant at the Multi-Agent Biorobotics Laboratory. During his Ph.D., he led the development of the first human-robot collaboration (HRC) lab at RIT under the supervision of his advisor Dr. Ferat Sahin. He worked on research addressing challenges of human safety, trust-in-automation, level of human-robot interaction, and productivity in the field of HRC in industry. During his Masters, he worked on Brain-Computer Interfaces and studied Machine Learning techniques both supervised and unsupervised and their applications in Assistive Technologies.

Employment

• Dexterity,Inc. Robotics Engineer
  2020 - Present
• NRGXP Robotics Engineer
  2020 - 2020
• Rochester Institute of Technology Lead Researcher & Manager at CM Collaborative Robotics Laboratory
  2016 - 2020
• Synaptics (United States) R&D System Architecture Intern.
  2014 - 2014
• Tech Mahindra Ltd Technical Associate
  2011 - 2011

Education

• Rochester Institute of Technology Ph.D. in Engineering
  2014 - 2020
• Rochester Institute of Technology Masters
  2011 - 2014
• Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology B.Tech
  2006 - 2010

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (14)

• Survey of Human–Robot Collaboration in Industrial Settings: Awareness, Intelligence, and Compliance
  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 2021 DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2020.3041231
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• A Time-of-Flight On-Robot Proximity Sensing System to Achieve Human Detection for Collaborative Robots
  2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2019 DOI: 10.1109/coase.2019.8842875
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• A Framework for Monitoring Human Physiological Response during Human Robot Collaborative Task
  2019
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• Sensing Volume Coverage of Robot Workspace using On-Robot Time-of-Flight Sensor Arrays for Safe Human Robot Interaction
  2019
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• Cyber-Physical Testbed for Human-Robot Collaborative Task Planning and Execution
  2019
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• HRC-SoS: Human Robot Collaboration Experimentation Platform as System of Systems
  2019 14th Annual Conference System of Systems Engineering (SoSE) 2019 DOI: 10.1109/sysose.2019.8753881
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• Speed and Separation Monitoring using on-robot Time--of--Flight laser--ranging sensor arrays
  2019 DOI: 10.1109/COASE.2019.8843326
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• Dynamic Awareness of an Industrial Robotic Arm Using Time-of-Flight Laser-Ranging Sensors
  2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) 2018 DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2018.00485
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• 360° view camera based visual assistive technology for contextual scene information
  2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Banff, AB 2017 DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2017.8122935
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• A framework for an adaptive human-robot collaboration approach through perception-based real-time adjustments of robot behavior in industry
  2017 12th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE) 2017 DOI: 10.1109/SYSOSE.2017.7994967
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