Ashitava Ghosal

About

Ashitava Ghosal is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a faculty member of the Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He obtained BTech, MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, University of Florida at Gainesville and Stanford University,
respectively. Prior to joining Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore he had research appointments at Carnegie Mellon University and at Integrated Systems, Inc., Santa Clara. His research interests are in the areas of robotics and multi-body mechanical systems, design of mechanical systems and product design. He has published over 100 papers in international journals and conferences and he has authored the textbook Robotics: Fundamental Concepts and Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2006).

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Education

• Stanford University Ph D
  1983 - 1986

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Publications (74)

• Differential kinematic control and co-ordination among redundant joints during whole arm reaching movements
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.08.681178
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• Dynamically isotropic Gough–Stewart platform for micro-vibration isolation in spacecrafts
  Mechanism and Machine Theory 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2024.105735
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• Modeling, simulations and experiments with generally routed cable-driven continuum robots and their application to three-fingered grippers
  Robotica 2024 DOI: 10.1017/S0263574724000651
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• Kinematic signatures of fast feedback trajectory control during goal-directed finger, arm, and saccadic eye movements
  2023 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.09.552575
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• Dynamically Isotropic Gough-Stewart Platform Design Using a Pair of Triangles
  2023 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32606-6_31
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• Optimum Design of a Compliant Foot for a Quadruped
  2023 DOI: 10.1145/3610419.3610448
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• Static Modeling of Miniaturized Pneumatic Artificial Muscles, Kinematic Analysis, and Experiments on an Endoscopic End-Effector
  IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 2019 DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2019.2916783
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• Resolution of redundancy in robots and in a human arm
  Mechanism and Machine Theory 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2017.12.008
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• Efficient simulation and rendering of realistic motion of one-dimensional flexible objects
  Computer-Aided Design 2016 DOI: 10.1016/j.cad.2016.02.003
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• Synthesis of adjustable spherical four-link mechanisms for approximate multi-path generation
  Mechanism and Machine Theory 2013 DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2013.08.009
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