2007

 

2006

2005

2004

  • Podder, T. and Sarkar, N. “A Unified Dynamics-Based Motion Planning Algorithm for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems (UVMS),” in Robotica, Vol. 22, No.01, pp.117-128, 2004.
  • Rani, P., Sarkar, N., Smith, C., and L. Kirby, "Anxiety Detecting Robotic Systems: Towards Implicit Human-Robot Collaboration," in Robotica, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 85-95, 2004.
  • Kawamura, K., Peters, A., Bodenheimer, B., Sarkar, N., Park, J. and Spratley, A, “A Parallel Distributed Cognitive Control System for a Humanoid Robot,” (), in the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 65-94, March 2004.
  • Chai, P., Rani, P., Sarkar, N. "An innovative high-level human-robot interactions for disabled persons," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, USA, April 2004.
  • Rani, P., Sarkar, N., "Emotion-Sensitive Robots- A New Paradigm for Human-Robot Interaction", IEEE-RAS/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2004), November 2004, Los Angeles, USA
  • Halder, B., Zhang, Z. and Sarkar, N., “Fault Adaptive Formation Control of Mobile Robots,” Proceedings of IMECE, Anaheim, California, November 13-19, 2004.
  • Erol, D., Rani P., Brackin, R.L., Sarkar, M.S.,  and Sarkar, N., "Robotic Aid to People with Disability By Means of an Innovative Communication Paradigm", 9th Mechatronics Forum International Conference (Mechatronics 2004) , September 2004, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Adams, J., Rani, P., Sarkar, N., "Mixed Initiative Interaction and Robotic Systems", Workshop on           Supervisory Control of Learning and Adaptive Systems, Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), San Jose, CA, July, 2004.
  • Rani, P., Sarkar, M., Brackin, R., Sarkar, N., "Semi-Autonomous Human-Robot Interaction Using EMG-Based Modified Morse Code", Workshop on Multi-point interaction in Robotics and Virtual Reality, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, USA, April 2004.
  • Park, J., Ferguson, S., Sarkar, N., Kawamura, K., Bluethmann, B., Ambrose, R., and Alader, K., “Toward Intelligent System Health Monitoring for NASA Robonaut,” 4th IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Volume 2,  10-12 Nov. 2004, pp. 855 – 868.
  • Podder, T. and Sarkar, N. “Frequency-based Partial and Total Decomposition Approaches for Trajectory Planning of Robotic Systems with Variable Dynamic Responses,” in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advances in Robot Dynamics and Control (ARDC 04), Paper no. IMECE2004-60137, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2004.

2003

  • Ji, M.,Zhang,  Z., Biswas, G. and Sarkar, N. “Hybrid Fault Adaptive Control of a Wheeled Mobile Robot,” in the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 226-233, 2003.
  • Rani, P., Sarkar, N., Smith, C."Anxiety Detection for Implicit Human-Robot Collaboration", IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Washington D.C., pp: 4896-4903, October 2003.
  • Rani, P., Sarkar, N., Smith, C., "Affect-Sensitive Human-Robot Cooperation "Theory and Experiments", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp: 2382-2387, Taiwan, September 2003.
  • Zhang, Z., Ji, M. and N. Sarkar, N., “Dextrous Trajectory Control of a Mobile Robot,” in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advances in Robot Dynamics and Control (ARDC 03), Paper no. IMECE2003-43493, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2003.
  • Podder, T. and Sarkar, N., “Motion Planning and Control of UVMS: A Unified Dynamics-Based Approach,” in the Proceedings of IEEE/MTS International Conference - OCEANS, pp. 2446-2453, San Diego, USA, September 22-26, 2003.

2002

  • Antonelli, G., Sarkar, N. and Chiaverini, S. “Explicit Force Control for Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems,” in Robotica, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 251-260, 2002.
  • Sarkar, N., Podder, T. and Antonelli, G. “Fault-Accommodating Thruster Force Allocation of an AUV Considering Thruster Redundancy and Saturation,” in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 223-233, 2002.
  • Antonelli, G., Chiaverini, S. and N. Sarkar, N., “External Force Control for Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems,”  in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 931-938, 2002.
  • Sarkar, N., Sims, J., Vashishtha, D., Rani, P., Brackin, “Stress Detection for Implicit Human-Robot Cooperation”, World Automation Congress, Orlando, USA, June 2002.
  • Ji, M., Zhang, Z., Biswas, G., and Sarkar, N.“Hybrid Fault Adaptive Control of a Mobile Robot,”  in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advances in Robot Dynamics and Control (ARDC 02), Paper no. IMECE2002-32696, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2002.
  • Sarkar, N. “Psychophysiological Control Architecture for Human-Robot Coordination – Concepts and Initial Experiments,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3719-3725, 2002.
  • Rani, P,, Sims, J,, Brackin, R,, Sarkar, N. "Online Stress Detection using Psychophysiological Signal for Implicit Human-Robot Cooperation," in Robotica, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 673-686, 2002.

2001

  • Antonelli, G., Chiaverini, S., Sarkar, N. and West, M. “Adaptive Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: Experimental Results on ODIN,” in the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 756-765, 2001.
  • Sarkar, N. and Podder, T., “Coordinated Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems Subject to Drag Optimization,” in the IEEE Journal on Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 228-239, 2001
  • Podder, T, and Sarkar, N. “Fault Tolerant Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Under Thruster Redundancy,” in the Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 34, pp. 39-52, 2001.
  • Cui, Y. and Sarkar, N.,“A Unified Force Control Approach to Autonomous Underwater Manipulation,” (in Robotica, Vol. 19, pp. 255-266, 2001.
  • Podder, T., Antonelli, G. and N. Sarkar, N.  “An Experimental Investigation into the Fault-Tolerant Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle,” in the Journal of Advanced Robotics, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 501-520, 2001.
  • Thongchai, S., Goldfarb, M.,Sarkar, N., and Kawamura, K. , “A Frequency Modeling Method of Rubbertuators for Control Application in an IMA Framework,” in the Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 1710-1714, Arlington, Virginia, June 25-27, 2001.
  • Podder, T., Antonelli, G. and Sarkar, N., “Fault Tolerant Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Under Thruster Redundancy: Simulations and Experiments,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1251-1256, San Francisco, 2000. This paper received the Anton Phillips Best Student Paper Award.
  • Podder, T. and Sarkar, N. “A Fault Accommodating Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Under Thruster Redundancy and Saturation,” in the Proceedings of the 2001 ASME International Symposium on Advances in Robot Dynamics and Control, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, New York, 2001.
  • Northrup, S., Sarkar, N., and Kawamura, K., “Biologically-Inspired Control Architecture for a Humanoid Robot,”  in the Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 1100-1105, Maui, 2001.

 1991-2000

  • Podder, T. and Sarkar, N.“ Dynamic Trajectory Planning of an Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator System,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3461-3466, San Francisco, 2000.
  • Cui, Y. and Sarkar, N. “A Unified Force Control Approach to Autonomous Underwater Manipulation,”  in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1263-1268, San Francisco, 2000.
  • Thongchai, S., Suksakulchai, S., Wilkes, D. and N. Sarkar, N., "Sonar Behavior-Based Fuzzy Control for a Mobile Robot,” (in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol: 5, pp. 3532-3537, October 8-11, Nashville, 2000.
  • Sarkar, N. and M. Sarkar, M., “An Introduction to Graph-Rewriting Framework for High-Level Robotic Task Planning,” in the International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 129-138, 1999.
  •  Sarkar, N., Yuh, J. and Podder, T., “Adaptive Control of Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems Subject to Joint Limits,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 142-147, Korea, 1999.
  • Antonelli, G., Chiaverini, S. and Sarkar, N.,“An Explicit Force Control Scheme for Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems,”  in the Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 136-141, Korea, 1999.
  • Cui, Y., Podder, T. and Sarkar, N., “Impedance Control of Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Korea, 148-153, 1999.
  • Antonelli, G., Sarkar, N. and Chiaverini, S. “An External Force Control Scheme for Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2975-2980, 1999.
  • Antonelli, G., Chiaverini, S., Sarkar, N., and West, M. “Adaptive Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: Experimental Results on ODIN,”  in the Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, pp. 64-69, California, 1999.
  •  Sarkar, N. and Podder, T.“Motion Coordination of Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems Subject to Drag Optimization,” in the Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 387-392, Detroit, MI, May 1999.
  • (Podder, T. and Sarkar, N.,“Fault Tolerant Decomposition of Thruster Forces of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle,”  in the Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 84-89, Detroit, MI, May 1999.
  • Antonelli, G., Chiaverini, S., and Sarkar, N., “Explicit Force Control for Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems with Adaptive Motion Control,”  in the Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Hong Kong Symposium on Robotics and Control, pp. 361-366, Hong Kong, 1999.
  • Sarkar, N., Yun, X. and Ellis, R. "Live-Constraint-Based Control for Contact Transitions,” in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 743-754, October 1998.
  • Sarkar, N. and M. Sarkar, M., “A Graph-Rewriting Approach to High-Level Task Planning – An Introduction,”  in the Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 661-666, Victoria, Canada 1998.
  • "Yuh, J., Choi, S., Ikehara, C., Kim, J., McMurtry, G., Nejhad, M., Sarkar, N., and Sugihara, K. "Design of a Semi-Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Intervention Mission,”  in the Proceedings of the 1998 International Symposium on Underwater Technology, pp. 63-68, Tokyo, Japan, 1998.
  • Sarkar, N. and Yun, X. “Traction Control of Wheeled Vehicles Using Dynamic Feedback Approach,” in the Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 413-418, Victoria, Canada.
  • Yun, X. and Sarkar, N., “Unified Formulation of Robotic Systems with Holonomic and Nonholonomic Constraints,”  in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 640-650, August 1998.
  • Sarkar, N., Yun, X. and Kumar, V., "Dynamic Control of 3-D Rolling Contacts in Two-Arm Manipulation," IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 364-376, 1997.
  • Sarkar, N., Yun, X. and Kumar, V., "Control of Contact Interactions with Acatastatic Nonholonomic Constraints, "InternationalJournal of Robotics Research, Vol 16, No.3, June l997: 357-374.
  • Sarkar, N., Yun, X. and Ellis, R., “Live-Constraint-Based Control for Contact Transitions,”  in the Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, pp. 353-360, Monterey, CA, July 1997.
  • Sarkar, N., Ellis, R., and Moore, T. “Backlash Detection in Geared Mechanisms: Modeling, Simulation, and Experimentation,” in the Journal of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (Academic Press), Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 391-408, June 1997.
  • Ellis, R., Sarkar, N. and Jenkins, M. “Numerical Methods for the Force Reflection of Contact,”  in the Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 119, No. 4, pp. 768-774, December 1997.
  • Sarkar, N. and Kumar, V., "Velocity and Acceleration Analysis of Contact between Three-Dimensional Rigid Bodies," ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 63, Dec. 1996: 974-1984.  
  • Ricker, L., Sarkar, N. and Rudie, K., “A Discrete-Event Systems Approach to Modeling Dextrous Manipulation,”  in the Robotica (Cambridge University Press), Vol. 14, Part 5, pp. 515-525, December 1996.
  • Sarkar, N. and Yun, X., “Design of a Continuous Controller for Contact Transition Task Based on Impulsive Constraint Analysis,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2000-2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1996.
  • Ellis, R., Sarkar, N. and Jenkins, M. “Numerical Methods for the Haptic Presentation of Contact: Theory, Simulations, and Experiments,”  in the Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division, The Fifth Annual Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, The Winter Annual Meeting of the ASME, Atlanta 1996, DSC-Vol 58, pp. 413-420.
  • Yun, X. and Sarkar, N., “Dynamic Feedback Control of Vehicles with Two Steerable Wheels,”  in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3105-3110, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1996.
  • Ricker, L., Sarkar, N. and Rudie, K., “A Discrete Event Systems Approach to Modeling Dextrous Manipulation,”  in the Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, pp. 156-165, Illinois, October 1995.
  • Ellis, R., Sarkar, N. and Moore, T., Detection of Incipient Backlash in Robotic Mechanisms,” in the Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management, Vol 2, pp. 527-534, Kingston, Ontario, June 1995.
  • Sarkar, N., Yun, X. and Kumar, V., “Control of Mechanical Systems with Rolling Constraints: Application to Dynamic Control of Mobile Robots,”  in the International Journal of Robotics Research (MIT Press), Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 55-69, February 1994.
  • Sarkar, N. and Kumar, V., "Velocity and Acceleration Analysis of Contact between Three-Dimensional Rigid Bodies," 23nd Biennial ASME Mechanisms Conference, Minneapolis, Sept 12-14, ASME Publication Mechanism Synthesis and Analysis, DE-Vol. 70, 1994, pp. 433-440.
  • Sarkar, N., Yun, X. and Kumar, V., “Control of a Single Robot in a Decentralized Multi-Robot System,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 896-901, San Diego, California, 1994.
  • Sarkar, N., Yun, X. and Kumar, V., "Control of Rolling Contacts in Two-Arm Manipulation," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Atlanta, May 2-7, 1993.   
  • Sarkar, N., Yun, X. and Kumar, V., "Dynamic Control of a Robot in a Multiagent Framework," IEEE International Conference on Robots and Intelligent Systems, Tokyo, June, 1993.
  •  Sarkar, N., Yun, X. and Kumar, V., “Control of a Single Robot in a Cooperative Multi-Robot Framework,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 1645-1652, Yokohama, Japan, 1993.
  • Sarkar, N., Yun, X. and Kumar, V., "Dynamic Path Following: A New Control Algorithm for Mobile Robots,'' 32nd IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control, San Antonio, Texas, December 15-17, 1993.  
  • Wang, C-C., Sarkar, N. and Kumar, V. , "Rate Kinematics of Mobile Manipulators," Robotics, Spatial Mechanisms, and Mechanical Systems, ASME Pub. no. DE-Vol. 46, Eds. Kinzel et al. Proceedings of the 22nd Biennial ASME Mechanisms Conference, Phoenix, Sep., 1992, pp. 225-232.
  • Yun, X., Kumar, V., Sarkar, N., and Paljug, E. , "Control of Multiple Arm Systems with Rolling Constraints," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Nice, France, May 10-15, 1992, pp. 2193-2198.  
  • Kumar, V., Yun, X., Paljug, E., and Sarkar, N., "Control of Contact Conditions for Manipulation with Multiple Robotic Systems," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 7-11, 1991, pp. 170-175.

 

 

 

 

 

 

    


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