Welcome!
Hi, I am Umashankar Nagarajan. I am a Robotics PhD student at The Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. I work with Prof. Ralph Hollis and Dr. George Kantor on Dynamically Stable Mobile Robots with special emphasis on a robot called “Ballbot”, which moves on a single spherical wheel. You can see Ballbot balancing next to me in the picture above.
I work on developing better control strategies and trajectory planning procedures for underactuated dynamically stable mobile robots. I also work on human-robot physical interaction.
I did my undergraduation in Mechanical Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India. I worked with Mr. Himanshu Dutt Sharma (Scientist, Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani, India and an ex-faculty of BITS, Pilani, India) on Autonomous Bicycle, which is a Dynamically Stable Robot too.
Last Updated: Nov. 17, 2009