Key Research Areas

Robotics, Visual Servoing, Imitation Learning


About

I received PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India, in 2020. Currently, I am working as Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Electrical Engineering at IIT Mandi. Before joining IIT Mandi, I was working as an Autonomy Senior Engineer in the Integrated Components and Solutions Division at Caterpillar. My primary research interests include robot learning, visual servoing, multi-robot systems, modelling and simulation.


Recent Publications

1. R. S. Sharma, A. Mondal, and L. Behera, "Tracking Control of Mobile Robots in Formation in the Presence of Disturbances," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 110-123, 2021, doi: 10.1109/TII.2020.2983646.
2. R. S. Sharma, S. Shukla, L. Behera, and V. K. Subramanian, "Position-based visual servoing of a mobile robot with an automatic extrinsic calibration scheme," Robotica, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 831-844, 2020.
3. R. S. Sharma, S. Shukla, H. Karki, A. Shukla, L. Behera, and V. K.S., "DMP Based Trajectory Tracking for a Nonholonomic Mobile Robot With Automatic Goal Adaptation and Obstacle Avoidance," in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019, pp. 8613-8619. doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793911.
4. R. S. Sharma, R. R. Nair, P. Agrawal, L. Behera, and V. K. Subramanian, "Robust Hybrid Visual Servoing Using Reinforcement Learning and Finite-Time Adaptive FOSMC," IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 3467-3478, 2019, doi: 10.1109/JSYST.2018.2875789.


Course Taught

1. EE 301P - Control Systems Lab
2. DP503P - Basic Mechanical and Electrical Workshop