IEEE IISc Student branch
ComSoc (Communications Society)
welcomes you all for a technical talk by
Dr. Abhra Roy Chowdhary

Abstract: A strategic opportunity exists to develop Intelligence, Mapping and Repair (IMR) platforms for Industry 4.0at greatly reduced scales and with unique mission capabilities. This research aims to develop autonomous mobilerobots (AMR) that mimic human and collective behavior for inspection & maintenance tasks in industrialenvironments, commencing with terrestrial vehicles for indoor settings, marine vehicles for outdoors and moving intotransformable aerial vehicles for indoor-outdoor settings as longer-term goals. Based on the foundations of systems-of-systems design approaches, novel integrated motion planning for bioinspired mechanisms, reconfiguration elementsi.e. sensors, actuators and flexible electronics are systematically developed and demonstrated in unique test-bedenvironments. In addition to tackling key technological challenges, this project seeks to contribute to the designscience of autonomous systems by developing and testing design principles inspired by nature. Autonomous design inthis context will provide systematic processes for integrating and leveraging current and breakthrough of technologies.