Ashitava Ghosal

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Research Interests

• Kinematics, dynamics, control and design of robots and other computer controlled mechanical systems,
• Theoretical and numerical investigations of non-linear dynamical systems,
• Kinematics of parallel mechanisms and manipulators, and
• Design of mechanical systems, bio-medical devices and CAD/CAM.

Copy of NPTEL Web Course on Robotics -- click here and follow links in the PDF file
OR
Copy and paste http://www.mecheng.iisc.ernet.in/~asitava/NPTEL/module**.pdf where ** is 1, 2, ...,10 for the 10 modules

Oxford University Press has published my book Robotics: Fundamental Concepts and Analysis in 2006. Here is the Cover Page and here are the Contents.

There are several errors, typos and mistakes in the first print. Here is a List of Corrections. A second reprint has come out in May 2008 where almost all errors have been corrected.

Updated April 30, 2013.