Title Of the Talk: Building useful Robots -
from Industry to House-hold
Speaker: Dr. Chayan Sarkar
Host Faculty: Dr. Rekha Raja
Date & Time: Thursday, February 1 · 12:30 -
13:30
Abstract:
A robot is a system of systems. The early view of robots talks
about a mechanical man. The idea is to build a system that can
work like a human and help us in daily life. A robot as a
coworker or a cohabitant is becoming mainstream day-by-day with
the development of low-cost sophisticated hardware. However, an
accompanying software stack that can aid the usability of the
robotic hardware remains the bottleneck of the process,
especially if the robot is not dedicated to a single job.
Programming a multi-purpose robot requires an on the fly mission
scheduling capability that involves task identification and plan
generation. This talk would share some of the real life
challenges faced in building a robot that is deployable.
Speaker Profile:
Dr. Chayan Sarkar
is a Scientist at TCS Research. He completed his doctoral
studies at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
in 2016. He received his bachelor's and master's degree in
Computer Science from Jadavpur University in 2009 and IIT Bombay
in 2011, respectively. He briefly worked as a researcher at SICS
Swedish ICT in Sweden. Currently, he is part of the visual
computing and embodied AI research area of TCS Research. His
research interests include human-robot interactions, multi-robot
systems, networked embedded systems, etc. He is part of the
organizing committee of many conferences along with serving as
the reviewer of various conferences and Journals.
Dates:
Thursday, February 1 · 12:30 - 13:30
