Assistant Professor

Dr Vitalram Rayankula

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Interests

  • Robotics – Kinematics & Dynamics, Motion Planning
  • Control
  • Optimization

Faculty Details

Education

2006

Acharya Nagarjuna University
India
BTech

2009

IIT Roorkee
India
M.Tech

2019

IIT Roorkee
India
PhD

Experience

  • August 2009 to December 2009- Lecturer- DIT, Dehradun
  • January 2010 to December 2014-Assistant Professor-Raghu Institute of Technology, Visakhapatnam
  • October 2019 to January 2020-Post Doctoral Fellow- IIT Kanpur
  • February 2020 to April 2024-Assistant Professor-Raghu Institute of Technology, Visakhapatnam

Research Interest

  • Mobile manipulator motion planning through optimization.
  • Development of inverse kinematics solutions for robot manipulators.
  • Development of novel control and its application to robots.

Awards & Fellowships

  • Aug. 2007 to June 2009 – MHRD Fellowship during M.Tech – IIT Roorkee
  • Dec. 2014 to Sept. 2019 – MHRD Fellowship during Ph.D. – IIT Roorkee

Publications

Journals

  • Inverse kinematics of mobile manipulator using bidirectional particle swarm optimization by manipulator decoupling- Ram, R. V., Pathak, P. M., & Junco, S. J. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 131, 385-405 (2019)
  • Trajectory control of a mobile manipulator in the presence of base disturbance - Ram, R. V., Pathak, P. M., & Junco, S. J. - Simulation, 95(6), 529–543 (2019)
  • Fault tolerant control and reconfiguration of mobile manipulator. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems - Rayankula, V., & Pathak, P. M - Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 101(34). (2021)

    • Conferences:

  • Modelling of mobile robot with on board redundant manipulator arm - Ram, R. V., Pathak, P. M., & Junco, S. J. iNaCoMM-2015, Kanpur, India (2015)
  • Bond graph model conditioning for analysis, simulation, and control System design: application to a planar mobile robotic manipulator - Nacusse, Matías, Crespo, Martin, Junco, S. J., Ram R.V., and Pathak, P. M., IMAACA-2017, Barcellona, Spain (2017)
  • Control of a mobile robotic manipulator: a combined design approach - Crespo, Martin, Nacusse, Matías, Junco, S. J., Ram R.V., and Pathak, P. M., IMAACA-2018, Budapest, Hungary-(2018)
  • Modelling of mobile robot with on board redundant manipulator arm - Ram, R. V., Pathak, P. M., & Junco, S. J ICBGM 2018, Bordeaux, France (2018)
  • Bond Graph Modeling and LQR based Neuro-Fuzzy control of spatial Inverted pendulum - Ishan Chawla, Vitalram Rayankula, Vikram Chopra, Ashish Singla Advance in Robotics conference-2023, Ropar, India (2023)

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