Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Biography
Dr. Ekta Singla is presently working as Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical, Materials and Energy Engineering at IIT Ropar. Prior to this, she was working as Senior Project Engineer at IIT Kanpur. She has experienced one year post-doctoral research at Institute de Systems Intelligence et de Robotics (ISIR), UPMC, Paris, France, in the area of Evolutionary Design. Her PhD from IIT Kanpur covered the study, analysis and development of customized manipulators for cluttered environments. During her PhD, she visited Technical University, Berlin, Germany, as a visiting research student for a project on rehabilitation.
Research Interests
- Task-based manipulator design, Kinematic redundant manipulators, Evolutionary robotics
- Robot motion planning, Obstacle avoidance in constrained environments
- Applied optimization methods
- Computer Aided Design
Education
- PhD., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, 2010
- M.Tech., Thapar University, Punjab, India, 2002
- B.Tech., Punjab Technical University, India, 2000
Work Experience
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India, 2010-present
- Senior Research Engineer (Adhoc), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Sep. - Dec., 2010
- Postdoctoral fellow (CNRS), University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2009 - 2010
- Visiting research student (DFG), TU Berlin, Germany, May - Dec. 2005
- Lecturer, Thapar University, Jan. 2002 - July 2004
Selected Publications
Book Chapter
1. Rubrecht S., Singla E., Padois V., Bidaud P., Broissia M., "Evolutionary design of a robotic manipulator for a highly constrained environment". Exploring New Horizons in Evolutionary Design of Robots, Editors: S. Doncieux, J-B. Mouret, N. Bredeche, Springer-Verlag, 2010.Journal Publications
1. Singla E., Tripathi S., Rakesh V., Dasgupta B., “Optimal synthesis of kinematically redundant serial manipulators for cluttered environments”, Robotics and Autonomos Systems, Vol. 58 (5), 2010, pp 585 — 595.2. Dasgupta B., Gupta E., Singla E., “A Variational Approach to Path Planning for Hyper-Redundant Manipulators”, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 57 (2), February 2009, pp 194 — 201
3. Singla E., Dasgupta B., “Design and Development of Exoskeleton Hip joint based on Spherical Parallel Mechanism”, IISc Centenary – International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Bangalore, India, July 2008.
4. Singla E., Dasgupta B., “Towards Posture Planning for Spatial Redundant Manipulators”, Proceedings of 2nd National Conference on Advances in Manufacturing Technology, Chandigarh, India, March 2008, pp. 1-11.
5. Bhattacharyya A., Singla E., Dasgupta B., “Robot path planning using Silhouette method”, Proceedings of 13th National Conference on Mechanisms and Machines, IISc Bangalore, India, December 2007.
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