Research Interests

·         Space Robotics, Robot kinematics and Manipulator Design, Mobile Robot Perception, Sensor fusion in mobile robots, SLAM, Industrial Automation etc.

Professional Background

●         Professor: 26 October, 2023 to till date at Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar-India

●         Associate Professor: 26 September, 2010 to 26 October, 2023at Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar-India

●         Former Head, Dept of Instrumentation and Control Engineering: 12 February, 2018 to 06-02-2020 at Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar-India

●         Former Head, Dept of Electrical Engineering: 12 February, 2018 to 06-02-2020 at Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar-India

●         Assistant Professor: October 2002 to 26 September,2010,

●         Lecturer, March 2002 to October 2002 at Dr. BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, (REC) Jalandhar, and lecturer from Sep.1996 to Mar., 2002, at Govt. Polytechnic Bathinda, Punjab (Through PPSC), class ‘A’ Punjab State Posts.

●         Research Assistant: Feb.1996 to Sep. 1996. National Physical Laboratory (NPL) New Delhi, INDIA.

●         Assistant Engineer:  Aug. 1995 to Feb. 1996. Oswal Textiles, Ltd. Ludhiana, Punjab, INDIA

Visiting Faculty

●          Member of the core committee for “Space Robotics mission 2020 of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Govt. of India

●          IPR consultant and motivational Speaker to academics and Industry

Member of Professional Bodies

●          Life member Instrument Society of India (ISOI), Life membership no. 2371

Qualification

●          Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Instrumentation at College of Engineering & Technology Bathinda. Punjab, INDIA.

●          M Tech. (By Research) in Instrumentation and Control Engineering (Specialization Robotics) at Dr. BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, INDIA, Dissertation: “Cleaning Robot for Indian Railways: Feasibility and Optimal Trajectory Planning Analysis”.

●          PhD at Dr. BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, INDIA. In Dept. of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, (Specialization Robotics) Thesis “Analysis and development of sensor fusion frame work for mobile robots.

R&D Projects

●          Principal Investigator: Design and Development of Underwater Robot (Completed) Funding agency: Dr. BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar

●          Principal Investigator: Robot for Cleaning the Railway Tracks: (completed) Funding agency: MHRD (Ministry of Human   Resource Development), Government of INDIA (Project No. 26-11/2001.TSV, S.No-89) Rs 13 Lakh.

●          Principal Investigator: Indo-Korean R&D project on Shared Autonomy System in Field Mobile Robots. Project awarded in May, 2015 (Project Code ROK-30 no INT/Korea/P-25 dated 07/07/2015) Funding agency Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India and Ministry of Science, ICT (Information/Communication Technology) and Future Planning (MSIP) of the Republic of South Korea. (completed)

●        Co-Principal Investigator R&D project "Modeling and Simulation of Antenna Control Servo System," Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), NRSC, Shadnagar year of start 2019 (completed)

●        Design and development of Service mobile robot for hospitals, under TEQIP-III, Ts 2.4Lakh (completed)

Awards:     

●          Best Teacher Award 2000-2001 at Govt. Polytechnic Bathinda

●          Best Teacher Award 2001-2002 at Govt. Polytechnic Bathinda

●          Best Teacher Award 2018-2019 at Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, by Director cum Chairman senate during 15th convocation 

●          Award of Honour, year 2001 (Rs 20,000) by Commissioner Bathinda, on the innovative design of “Domestic robot”, to   present the paper in international conference in Thailand

●          Award of Honour for pioneer work on robotics and participation at state level exhibition of Robotics at Guru Gobind Singh Stadium Jalandhar on 26th January,2011by Shri Shivraj V Patil

●          Certificate award for excellence in robotics by DAAAM International, Vienna 2011

●          awarded with prestigious “Emerald Literati Awards of Excellence 2020” by Emerald Publishing Limited UK for an outstanding research paper 'Multi-data sensor fusion framework to detect transparent object for the efficient mobile robot mapping', authors Ravinder Singh and Kuldeep Singh Nagla published in International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems (Impact Factor 1.7).

Programs Coordinated

●          Coordinator AICTE–STC on “Modern Practices in Measurement and Instrumentation Engineering” July 13-17,2009

●          Coordinator two days workshop on cloud computing 25-03-2017 to 26-03-2017 with RCPL ltd.

●          Coordinated TEQIP-II Sponsored Short Term Course on “Recent Trends in Instrumentation and Control Engineering (RTICE-2014)”, held on December 08-12, 2014

●          Chairman BOS, department of ICE and EE held on 23-07-2018

●          Co-Patron (Executive General Chair) at 3rd International conference SoCTA 2018 held at NIT Jalandhar from 21-23 December, 2018

●          Convener of Short-Term Course (STC) on “Optimization and Control Design Techniques Innovations and Challenges” at NIT Jalandhar Duration: 10.01.2019 to 14.01.2019

●          Coordinator 5 days Faculty Development Program on Embedded system 7 Wireless sensor network for IoT in collaboration with eict IIT Roorkee from 8-12 November, 2019

●          Coordinator IPR one day workshop in collaboration with PSCS&T and CIPAM 11-02-2020 at NITJ

●          Coordinated 5 days online STC on IPR under TEQIP-III from 18 to 22August, 2020

International Participation

●          Worked on Indo-US project “charge carrying transport in crystalline materials” as a research assistant at NPL New Delhi- 1996

●          Presented paper in Asian Symposium on Industrial Automation and Robotics (ASIAR 2001), Bangkok THAILAND, 17-18 may, 2001

●          Presented paper in International Conference ACIAR-2005 (Asian conference on Industrial Automation & Robotics), 11th -13th May, 2005, Landmark Hotel, Bangkok .

●          Presented paper at IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA – 06 Luoyang, HeNan, China.  June 25-28, 2006.

●          Attended summer school on Intellectual Property Rights at WIPO (World intellectual property    organization), Geneva, Switzerland, 3-14 July, 2006.

●          Presented paper 22nd DAAAM World Symposium “Intelligent Manufacturing & Automation: Power of Knowledge and Creativity”, at Austria Center Vienna, Vienna.

●          Presented paper entitled “Sensor fusion frame work for robust occupancy grid mapping” in Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR) annual workshops (Sensing for Control and Augmentation) held at Washington DC (USA) on October 23-25, 2013.

●          Member Delegate INDO-FRENCH Workshop on Research and Academic Cooperation 2014, at Ecole Centrale de Lille, France June 23-24th, 2014.

●          Indo-Korean partnership for joint R&D Program on mobile robots 2015-2017, First meeting held at Korea University Seoul, South Korea from 25-08-2015 to 31-08-2015

Intellectual Property Skills and Trainings

●      Attended Summer School on IP from July 3-July14, 2006 at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Worldwide Academy, Geneva, Switzerland

●      Completed General Course on IP, Distance Learning, October 1 to November 15, 2006, World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO Worldwide Academy, Geneva Switzerland

IPR,s (Patents, copy rights and Designs)

1.      Mechanism to Clean Bird Dropping (Garbage) within a Cage type Poultry Farm, Indian Patent no 210090, Granted on 18/9/2007, Inventor: KS Nagla

2.      An Earth Quake Alarm, Granted Indian Patent no 220748, Inventor:  KS Nagla

3.      An Intelligent Leg Exercise Machine, Granted Patent no 280792, inventors: K S Nagla, Dr Moin Uddin, Amandeep Singh Kalra, Akshay Kathiyal.

4.      Patent applied entitled “Induction Hardening Machine” with DAV Institute of engineering and Technology, Jalandhar, Patent application number 2269/del/2012, inventors Amit kohli, KS Nagla, Hari Singh Patent Gtanted

5.      Patent entitled “An Improved Packed Bed Photocatalytic Reactor with High and Uniform Illumination and an Associated Technique of Purification” Inventor Dr Jatinder Kumar Ratan, Dr KS Nagla applied  patent application no 4290/DEL/2016 Patent Granted

6.      Robotic modular transportation system, patent no 201611024583, Granted patent no 465901 inventor Dr KS Nagla

7.      Cookies dispensing machine, Patent no. 201611024585, inventor Dr. KS Nagla

8.      Watermelon seed extracting device and method thereof, patent no 201611024584, inventor Dr. KS Nagla

9.      Patent entitled Instrument for making geometrical shapes and method thereof, patent application number 202011011813 (TEMP/E-1/12695/2020-DEL) filed on 18-03-2020, inventors Ankit Kumar, Varun Sharma, Kuldeep Singh Nagla, OM Parkash Verma and Ajay Gupta (Under TEQIP-III)

10.   Patent entitled Sub bandage pressure measuring instrument and method thereof, patent application no filed on 19-03-2020 with patent application number 202011011830 (TEMP/E-1/12753/2020-DEL) inventors Monica Sikka , Kuldeep Singh Nagla. (Under TEQIP-III)

11.   Patent entitled  An apparatus for Ultraviolet Sterilization of the surface, filed on 26-05-2020, patent application no (TEMP/E-1/24267/2020-DEL) 202011022003 inventors Dr KS Nagla and Dr LK Awasthi (Under TEQIP-III)

12.   Patent entitled Vehicle disinfecting system patent application no 202011029850 filed on 14-07-2020, Inventors Dr SK Mishra and Dr KS Nagla (Under TEQIP-III)

13.   Patent entitles Method and System for Virtually Monitoring the mood of an Infant in An Anti-Infectious Cradle, Patent application no 202111011104 filed on 16-03-2021 inventors, Harimurgan, Kuldeep singh Nagla, Adtiya Manchanda, Arpit Rankwar, Ashkrit Shukla, Divyansha Sharma, Kirti Daga, Pranshul Gupta, Srishty Banga. Tuneer Khargonkar. (through TEQIP-III)

14.   Patent entitled Service robot, inventor Kuldeep Singh Nagla, LK Awasthi, patent application no 202111002143 filed on 17-01-2021 (through TEQIP-III)

15.   Patent entitled fixture of tapered plate for 3-axis vertical milling machines and method thereof, Inventors Dr. Varun Sharma ,Mr. Ankit Thakur ,Dr. Shailendra Singh Bhadauria ,Dr. Kuldeep Singh Nagla ,Dr. Rajiv Kumar Garg patent application no 202111009992 date of filing 10-02-2021

16.   Decorative Article, Indian Design No 207315, Granted on  6th Dec.,2006, Designer: KS Nagla

17.   Industrial design Heat treatment tray, Indian Design No  254948, Granted on 3/7/2013

18.   Indian design patent titled “Door Handle”, Indian Design no 265973, Granted on 20-02-2015

19.   Photocatalytic Reactor for water treatment, Designed Dr Jatinder Kumar, Dr KS Nagla,  design Granted , Design no 279651 granted on 08-03-2017

20.   Cookies dispensing machine, Design Application No 285331, designer Dr. KS Nagla

21.   Watermelon seed extracting device, Design Granted  No 285332, Designer Dr. KS Nagla

22.   Bolt design application comminuted on 26-09-2016

23.   Design garment Design application no 328642-001, filed on 30-03-2020 designer’s Dr Simarjeet kaur and Dr KS Nagla (Joint applicant NIT Jalandhar and KMV college Jalandhar)

24.   Design multiple storage unit design application no 328379-001 filed on 08-05-2020 designer Dr. KS Nagla (Under TEQIP-III)

25.   Design Universal storage shelf design application no 328512-001 filed on 29-05-2020 designer Dr KS Nagla (Under TEQIP-III)

26.   Design magazine cum newspaper stand design application no 328550-001 filed on 13-05-2020 Designer Dr KS Nagla (Under TEQIP-III) Granted with no 328550-001 dated 23-03-2020

27.   Design entitled service mobile robot filed by Kuldeep Singh Nagla, Lalit kumar Awasthi, Karan Shah, Umani and Vivek (jointly by UCOMAX and NITJ) filed on 20-01-2021, design granted with no 337694-001 dated 20-01-2021

28.   Design entitled Ultavilot surface cleaner filed by Kuldeep Singh Nagla, Lalit kumar Awasthi, Karan Shah, Umani and Vivek (jointly by UCOMAX and NITJ) filed on 19-01-2021, design granted with no 337687-001 dated 07-12-2021

29.   Gralu kam karj lai bhawikh which robots the jogdan   ©L-37672/2011  Dt. 18/03/2011, Copy Right of Dr KS Nagla

30.   Solar water heating system ate is the mohatav  ©L-37671/2011, Dt. 18/03/2011, Copy Right of Dr KS Nagla

31.   IPR Ki Hai   ©L-37370/2011, Dt. 18/03/2011, Copy Right of Dr KS Nagla

32.   Soorji photovoltaic upkarn  ©L-37669/2011, Dt. 18/03/2011, Copy Right of Dr KS Nagla

33.   Pani de shudikharn dealn navian vidian  ©L-36944/2011, Dt. 06/01/2011, Copy Right of Dr KS Nagla

34.   Discovering a twist on the stem of eucalyptus plants, Discovered by: KS Nagla,  ©L-29494/2007 Dt. 12/11/2007

35.   Discovering a Unique Twist Pattern in of Nassella Neesiana,  Discovered by: KS Nagla, ©L-35431/2010, Dt. 09/02/2010

36.   Discovering Buoyancy Force Based  Perpetual  Motion Machine, Discovered by: KS Nagla,  ©L-35432/2010, Dt. 09/02/2010

37.   Program tool for multi-sensor data fusion: focused on mobile robots mapping, Copy Right  © Diary no 3390/2015-co/SW dated 08/04/2015

38.   Program tool for corner extraction using laser range finder focused on mobile robot mapping applied for copy right © Diary Number 3390/2015-CO/SW, April, 2015.

39.   Program tool for Information transformation between laser and servomotor for 3D mobile robot mapping copy right © Diary no 9920/2016-CO/SW,2016 Granted Reg. no SW-9112/2017 Archana khurana and Dr KS Nagla

40.   Program tool entitled ‘path planning algorithm for mobile robot with path length and execution time measurement’ Mr Chimata Venkanna and KS Nagla applied

41.   Program tool  for sonar based accurate mapping, Singh R. KS Nagla, Applied 

42.   Program tool entitled “Calibration of Stereo Vision camera and Laser Range Finder for mobile robot applications” Diary number 14521/2018-CO/SW dated 17-10-2018, Granted on 21-12-2018 copy right no SW-12007/2018

43.   Program tool for estimation of translation calibration parameters along axis parameters between 2d LRF and Rotating platform applied in 27, November 2018 diary no 16376/2018-CO/SW Archana Khurana and KS Nagla (Granted-SW12095/2019 on 21-01-2019)

44.   Program tool for estimation of transformation matrix between 2D LRF and Stereo Vision using point to point correspondences. diary no 15343/2019-CO/SW Granted copy right Archana Khurana and KS Nagla  (Granted-SW120990/2019 on 21-01-2019)

Technology Transfer

1.      Technology transfer of Patent entitled “An Improved Packed Bed Photocatalytic Reactor with High and Uniform Illumination and an Associated Technique of Purification” Inventor Dr Jatinder Kumar Ratan, Dr KS Nagla applied patent application no 4290/DEL/2016 to Hisafe industry in June 2020.

2.      Technology transfer of a patent entitled Robotic modular transportation system, patent no 201611024583, inventor Dr KS Nagla to Digitech Ltd. Pune in September 2020.

3.      Technology Transfer of a Patent entitled An apparatus for Ultraviolet Sterilization of the surface, filed on 26-05-2020, patent application no (TEMP/E-1/24267/2020-DEL) 202011022003 inventors Dr KS Nagla and Dr LK Awasthi to UCOMAX company of Gujrat in July 2020

4.      Technology Transfer of invention service mobile robot to UCOMAX in December 2020

Publications Journals

1.     Singh R.K., Nagla K.S., “Enhanced A* Algorithm for the Time Efficient Navigation of Unmanned Vehicle by Reducing the Uncertainty in Path Length Optimization” MAPAN Springer, Vol 38, 317-335,  (SCI-Q3-IF 1.17) 2023

2.     Khurana A, Nagla KS, “Extrinsic calibration methods for laser range finder and camera; A systematic Review”, MAPAN Springer, Vol 36, 669-690 (SCI-Q3-IF 1.17) 2021

3.     A. Varshney, N. Garg, K. S. Nagla, T. S. Nair, S. K. Jaiswal, S. Yadav & D. K. Aswal, “Challenges in Sensors Technology for Industry 4.0 for Futuristic Metrological Applications,” MAPAN Springer, Vol 36, 215-236, (SCI-Q3-IF 1.17) 2021

4.     Singh, Ravinder, and Kuldeep Singh Nagla. "Comparative analysis of range sensors for the robust autonomous navigation–a review." Sensor Review (SCI-Q3-IF 1.54) 2019

5.     Archana Khurana, KS Nagla "An Improved Method for Extrinsic Calibration of Tilting 2D LRF", has been accepted for publication in Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (SCI) Vol 99, pp 693-712, (SCI-Q1-IF 3.13) 2019

6.     Archana Khurana, KS Nagla, Improved Auto-Extrinsic Calibration between Stereo Vision Camera and Laser Range Finder, International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, 12(2), 1-33 , (SCI-Q2-IF 2.8) 2020

7.     Singh, R. and Nagla, K.S., “Sonar sensor model for the precision measurement to generate robust occupancy grid" MAPAN, Springer 2018, Vol 34 239-257 (SCI-Q3-IF 1.17))

8.     Singh, R. and Nagla, K.S., 2018, “Removal of Specular Reflection and Cross Talk in Sonar for Precise and Accurate Range Measurements”, MAPAN, Springer, Vol 34 31-42 (SCI-Q3-IF1.17)

9.     Singh R, Nagla K.S.,”A modified sensor fusion framework for quantifying and removing the effect of harsh environmental conditions for reliable mobile robot mapping”, In Sensor Review Vol. 39 No. 4, pp. 456-472 , 2019 (SCI-Q3-IF 1.54)

10.   Khurana, A. & Nagla, K.S. “Signal Averaging for Noise Reduction in Mobile Robot 3D Measurement System” MAPAN (2018) vol. 33 Springer pp 33-41 (SCI-Q3-IF 1.17)2018

11.   K.S. Nagla, Moin Uddin, Dilbag Singh, “Improved occupancy grid mapping in specular environment,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 60 pp 1245-1252, 2012 (SCI-Q1-IF 3.7)

12.   S. Ghosh, A. Mukhopadhyay, M. Sikka, K.S. Nagla, “Pressure mapping and performance of the compression bandage/garment for venous leg ulcer treatment.”, Journal of Tissue Viability 2008, Vol 17 pp 82-94 (SCI-Q2- IF 3.37)

13.   Singh R.K., Nagla K.S., “A**: A bidirectional approach based on analytical treatment to conventional A* for the smooth and fast trajectory planning” IIJT Springer, 2023 (SCOPUS Journal Published)

14.   Archana Khurana, KS Nagla, Improved Auto-Extrinsic Calibration between Stereo Vision Camera and Laser Range Finder, International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, 12(2), 1-33, (SCI) 2020

15.   Singh, R. and Nagla, K.S., (2019). Development of an efficient laser grid mapping technique: P-SLAM. International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, 10(3), pp.177-198. (Scopus)

16.   Singh R, Nagla K.S., “Multi-data sensor fusion framework to detect transparent object for the efficient mobile robot mapping" International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Vol. 7 Issue: 1, pp.2-18 (Scopus)

17.   Singh, R. and Nagla, K.S., 2019. Modified probabilistic laser sensor model to reduce the effect of the mixed pixel for robust autonomous mobile robot navigation. International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems, 14(4), pp.305-324. (Scopus)

18.   Singh, R. and Nagla, K.S., “Error Analysis of Laser Scanner for Robust Autonomous Navigation of Mobile Robot in Diverse Illumination Environment”, World Journal of Engineering Vol. 15 Issue: 5, pp.626-632 (Scopus)

19.   Singh, R. and Nagla, K.S., “Improved 2D laser grid mapping by solving mirror reflection uncertainty in SLAM”, International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems, 6(2) 2017, pp.93-114 (Scopus)

20.   KS Nagla, Moin Uddin, Dilbag Singh, “Multi-sensor Data Fusion and Integration for Mobile Robots: A Review”, International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, No. 2, June 2014, pp. 131-138

21.   KS Nagla, Moin Uddin, Dilbag Singh, “Dedicated Filter for robust occupancy grid mapping”, International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2015, pp. 82-92

Conferences

1.      K.S. Nagla “Robot for Railways (with case study of Indian railways)” Annals of DAAAM in   Proceedings of 12th DAAAM International Symposium, Vienna, Austria 2001, pp 213-214

2.      Nagla K. S. “PLC based remote control universal robot” Proceedings of Asian Symposium on Industrial Automation and Robotics (ASIAR 2001), BITECH Bangkok THAILAND, 17-18 may,2001, pp 162-166

3.      Nagla K.S. and R. Jha. “Domestic Mobile Robot” Annals of DAAAM for 2002 & Proceedings of 13th DAAAM International Symposium on “Intelligent Manufacturing & Automation: Learning from Nature” at Vienna, Austria, Oct. 23-26, 2002, pp 373-374.

4.      Nagla K.S. and R. Jha “Sequence Control of Mobile Robot for Collision Free Path” Proceedings of The Asian Conference on Industrial Automation & Robotics, Bangkok, May 8-9, 2003, pp 249-252.

5.      Nagla K.S. and R. Jha “Recent Progress in Underwater vision systems” poster presentation in the proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Technology (ICET-2004) KIIT., Bhubaneshwar. December 2004.

6.      Nagla K. S., Saha S K, Jha R., Akshay Mathur “Robot for Cleaning the Surface below the Indian Railway Tracks at Platforms: Feasibility and Kinematics” Proceedings of international conference ACIAR-2005 (Asian conference on Industrial Automation & Robotics), 11th -13th May, 2005,  Bangkok, Thailand. Pp 55

7.      Nagla K. S., Saha S K, Jha R., Akshay Mathur “Kinematics of Wheeled Mobile Robot” proceedings of 16th DAAAM International Symposium “Intelligent Manufacturing and Automation: Focus on Young Researchers and Scientists” 19-22nd October 2005 at Opatija, CROATIA, pp 259-260.

8.      K.S. Nagla, MoinUddin, R. Jha, Akshay Mathur “Service Robot for Indian Railway Tracks at Platforms: Feasibility, Kinematics, Dynamics and Trajectory planning” IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA- 06 Luoyang, HeNan, China.  June 25-28, 2006.

9.      Nagla KS, Moin Uddin, R, Jha, Arora, JS, Kalra, AS, Katyal,A, “Cleaning Robot: Selection and analysis of driving Mechanism”. 17th International DAAAM Symposium “Intelligent Manufacturing & Automation: Focus on Mechatronics & Robotics” 8-11th November 2006 pp 261-262

10.   K.S. Nagla, MoinUddin, Dilbag Singh “Recent Trends in Cleaning Service Robots” World Conference on Education , Jalandhar INDIA, August 03-05, 2009

11.   K.S. Nagla, MoinUddin, Dilbag Singh, Rajev Kumar “Object Identification in Dynamic Environment Using Sensor Fusion”, for AIPR 2010, USA.

12.   K.S. Nagla, Moin Uddin, Dilbag Singh,  Nikhil Rathi, “Sensor Fusion Frame Work for Marble/Stone  Processing Industry using Low Cost Sensors” 22nd DAAAM World Symposium “Intelligent Manufacturing & Automation: Power of Knowledge and Creativity”, at Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria from 23-26th November 2011. Pp 339-340

13.   Gaurav Sharma, K.S Nagla, “Evaluation of Occupancy Grid using LabVIEW software,” IISc Bangalore (ACODS: International conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems), February 13, 2012

14.   KS Nagla, Neha Sharma, and Meera Sharma, “Online performance measure of logical sensors for occupancy grid mapping,” 2nd International Conference on Biomedical and Assistive Technologies, BEATS 2012.

15.   K.S. Nagla, Moin Uddin, Dilbag Singh “Sensor fusion frame work for robust occupancy grid mapping” in Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR) annual IEEE workshops (Sensing for Control and Augmentation) held at Washington DC (USA)  on October 23-25, 2013

16.   Goyal, J.K.; Nagla, K.S. , “A new approach of path planning for mobile robots”,  IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI, 2014), pp 863 – 867

17.   Tripathi, P.; Singh, H.; Nagla, K.S.; Mahajan, S. , “Occupancy grid mapping for mobile robot using sensor fusion”, IEEE International Conference on Issues and Challenges in Intelligent Computing Techniques (ICICT), 2014  , pp 47 – 51

18.   Nidhi Jain, Y Prem Kumar, KS Nagla, “Corner Extraction From Indoor Environment For Mobile Robot Mapping” 12th IEEE International conference INDICON 2015, 17-20 Dec., 2015, pp 1-6

19.   Archana Khurana, KS Nagla, “ 3D Mobile Robot Mapping using Laser Range Finder” 14th International Conference on Humanizing Work and Work Environment, Dec. 2016

20.   Archana Khurana, KS Nagla, “3D scene reconstruction using stereo vision camera for mobile robot application,” SoCTA 2018

21.   Archana Khurana, KS Nagla, “3D scene reconstruction using stereo vision camera for mobile robot application,” Advances in Intelligent System

22.   K S Nagla “Domestic Robot” Proceeding of National Symposium IPRooM,  2000, Pryadarshani College of Engineering and Technology, Nagpur, INDIA.

23.   R Jha,. KS Nagla “On Solar thermal electrical power generation” Proceedings of National Seminar, Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), SBSCET Ferozepur, INDIA.Oct. 26, 2002

24.   K S Nagla and R Jha “Mobile robot on collision free path” Proceedings of National Conference PCIC-2003, NSS College of Engg. Palakkad (Kerala), Jan, 2003.

25.   Nagla KS., Jha R, Mathur A., “Embedded Robotics: an approach to design and development of embedded based Mobile Robot” National Seminar on Embedded Systems Kanya Maha Vidyalaya Jalandhar, January 24-25, 2005 pp 175-182.

26.   Nagla K S, Jha R, Akshay Mathur, “Embedded based Robotics” Published online at http://www.electronicsforu.com/electronicsforu/articles/default.asp , March 2005.

27.   Akshay Mathur and Kuldeep Singh Nagla ‘parallel port testing and programming’ published in electronics for you, Vol. 38 No. 7 July 2006 pp 58-62

28.   KS Nagla, Palavi Singla, Amanpreet Singh, Apeksha, , “Stochastic modeling of sonar sensor for mobile robot navigational applications”, National seminar on social implications on artificial Intelligence, March,2011

29.   Sunil Kumar  , K.S. Nagla, Kinematic Analysis of Skid-Steer Wheeled Mobile Robot, A Multi-Track National Conference SLITCON 1-3 March, 2019

30.   Mukesh Kumar Sharma1, K.S. Nagla, Kinematic Analysis of Two-Wheeled Differential Drive Mobile Robot, A Multi-Track National Conference SLITCON 1-3 March, 2019

Invited Talks/Expert Lectures Delivered

1.   Expert lecture by KS Nagla on “Recent Trends in Robotics” at Gulzar Group of Institute (institute under Punjab technical university) on 25th Feburary, 2012

2.   Expert lecture by KS Nagla on “Recent Trends in Robotics Focused on Advanced Sensors” Industrial Automation Training Center Panchkula  18/02/2012

3.   Invited talk by KS Nagla on “Artificial Intelligence” at Kanya Maha Vidyalya Jalandhar on 1st march 2012.

4.   Expert talk by KS Nagla on “Advanced Sensors for Mobile Robots” at DAV institute of Engineering and Technology, Jalandhar on 15/02/2012

5.   Expert talk by KS Nagla on “Intellectual Property Rights” at Lovely Professional University Jalandhar on 23 March, 2011, in collaboration with PSCST Chandigarh

6.   Session Chairman at 22nd DAAAM World Symposium “Intelligent Manufacturing & Automation: Power of Knowledge and Creativity”, at Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, -25th November 2011

7.   Expert lecture by KS Nagla on “recent Trends in robotics” at Baba Hira Singh Bhattal Institute of Engineering and Technology Lehragaga  on 16/03/2012

8.   Invited Guest lecture on Robotics : focused on advanced sensors,  by KS Nagla, in UGC sponsored National Seminar on Wireless communication & networks at  Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University on 25 March, 2012

9.   Guest lecture on Robotics (one day workshop) at DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jalandhar on 12/02/2011

10. Invited talk on IPR at Chitkara Institute of Engineering and Technology ,Patiala on 20/01/2007

11. Expert talk on Robotics in Nurturance programme for talent search awardees NCERT, New Delhi at NITJ on 11/01/2011

12. Expert lecture on IPR in department of chemistry at NITJ on 04/11/2009

13. Expert lecture and workshop on sensors at Eklaya School Jalandhar on 19/11/2009

14. Expert Lecture on IPR in the department of Business management at DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology Jalandhar on 7/11/2009.

15. Expert lecture/discussion on Robotics at GZS college of engineering and technology Bathinda on 30th   September, 2012

16. Expert lecture on Robotics at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College 12th   October, 2012 during Annual festival “IGNITE 12”.

17. Expert lecture on Industrial Designs at one day workshop on IPR at Phagwara, Punjab

18. Expert lecture on “Futuristic Robotics Resign”  DAV institute if Engineering and Technology, Jalandhar on 05/03/2013

19. Expert lecture on “Intellectual Property Rights: Experience Sharing with Inventor” at Delhi Technological University, Delhi 08/03/2013

20. Expert Lecture on “Robotics: Focused on mobility and sensors”  at Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal on 09/03/2013

21. Expert Lecture on “Robotics: Focused on sensors Fusion”  at LPU Jalandhar on 18/01/2014

22. Expert lecture on Recent Trends on Robotics an Overview at DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology Jalandhar on occasion of Inauguration of Robotics Club on dated 17-10-2014

23. Session Chairman in DAV National Congress on science,  technology & management on 08 November, 2014

24. Expert lecture on Recent Trends on Robotics at NITTTR Chandigarh on dated 20-02-2015

25. Expert lecture on IPR at Shaheed Bhagat Singh State Technical Campus (SBSSTC) Ferozepur on 27-05-2015 (AICTE sponsored FDP)

26. Expert lecture on Recent Trends on Service  Robotics at NITTTR Chandigarh in STC on embedded technology dated 11-02-2016 available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwNd_SSfcNI   starting at time 4:30:47

27. Invited Lecture on Multi sensor data fusion in mobile robots at 9th International Conference on Advances in Metrology-2016 (AdMet-2016) from 24-26 February 2016 at NPL new Delhi-India

28. Invited lecture on IPR, at Hotel Ramada Jalandhar on 12-08-2016 organized by MSME technology development center (PPDC) Meerut, Govt. of India 

29. Invited lecture as a resource person UGC-Sponsored “National Conference on Emerging Trends in Electronics and Computer Engineering (ETECE-2017)” being organized by the Department of Electronics and Computer Science Engineering at Guru Nanak Dev University, Regional campus, Gurdaspur on February 11th, 2017

30. Invited Lecture for National workshop on "Robotics with Embedded System (ROEMS-2017)" held from 27-29th March 2017 at Guru Nanak College Budhlada, Mansa, Punjab.

31. Invited Lecture during one day seminar on ‘Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)’  held on May 16, 2017  at IKG PTU, main campus, Kapurthala.

32. Invited lecture on Robotics and embedded system at Sant Longowal Institute of engineering and Technology on 9/10/2018 during the Workshop sponsored by TEQIP III on “Embedded Systems” to be held from 28 to 29 Oct. 2018

33. Expert lecture on IPR at Kanya Maha Vidyalaya Jalandhar on 12-12-2018 during faculty development program

34. Expert lecture on IPR department of Industrial and Production Engineering NITJ, on 29-01-2019 during STC

35. Expert lecture on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at GNEDC Ludhiana during TEQIP sponsored STC on 04-02-2019

36. Expert lecture on IPR at NITJ on 04-03-2019 during STC on Intellectual property rights and innovation technologies

37. Expert lecture on IPR during interactive session at PTU Kapurthala on 15th October, 2019

38. Expert lecture on IPR at KMV Jalandhar 07-12-2019 during FDP

39. Expert Lecture on IPR at Amritsar through SMES govt of India

31.   Expert Lecture on Artificial Intelligence focused upon multi sensor data fusion in mobile robots at Apeejay Institute of Management Jalandhar on 25-12-2019 (during FDP)

32.   Expert Lecture on IPR during STC at Sardar Patel College of Engineering Mumbai 11-01-2021

33.   Expert lecture on Multi sensor data fusion on mobile robots at Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University on 25-02-2021

34.   Expert lecture on IoRT at CET Bathinda during DFP on 18-02-2021

35.   Expert lecture at women college Mukatsar

36.   Expert lecture on IPR at KMV Jalandhar June 2021

37.   Expert lecture on IPR at LPU Jalandhar on 31-7-202

38.   Expert lecture on IPR at NIT Hamirpur on 30-09-2021

39.   Expert Lecture on Robotics and IoRT at NIT Hamirpur on 5-01-2021 during FDP

40.   Expert lecture on IORT at Baba Farid Group of Institutions Bathinda on 18-1-2022 during FDP

41.   Expert lecture on IPR at NITTTR Chandigarh on 03-02-22 during FDP

42.   Expert lecture on IPR at Khalsa college Ludhiana 25-04-2022

43.   Expert Lecture on Artificial Intelligence focused upon multi sensor data fusion in mobile robots at Apeejay Institute of Management Jalandhar on 11-05-2022

44.   Expert Lecture on AI and Industry 4.0 at LPU Jalandhar during STC on 13-06-2022

45.   Expert lecture on robotics at KV-III on 28-06-2022

46.   Expert lecture on IPR on  26-8-2022 at KMV Jalandhar

47.   Expert lecture on IPR on 30-01-2023 at NIT Jalandhar

48.   Expert Lecture on IPR at NIT Utrakhand 25-04-2023

49.   Expert lecture Robotics and sensor calibration at Legal metrology IILM Ranchi on 08-07-2023

50.   Expert Lecture on IPR at Guru Nanak college for women Ludhiana 05-08-2023

PhD Guided

1.      Mobile robot Mapping, Ravinder Singh PhD Research scholar (completed 29-07-2020)

2.      Mobile robot Mapping, Archana Khurana, PhD Research Scholar (Completed 2022)

3.      Mobile Robot Navigation, Raj Kumar (Part Time, PhD) Submitted

4.      Mobile robot Mapping and calibration, Mandeep Singh, In progress

M Tech Guided

1.      Neuro –fuzzy technique for the speed and steering control and obstacle avoidance for the autonomous guided vehicle, Ajaj Rasul, September-2008

2.      A stochastic approach to analyze mobile robot navigation using sensor fusion”, Rajesh M June-2009

3.      “Neural learning for sensor fusion in autonomous mobile robot”, Rajeev Kumar, June-2010

4.      “Occupancy grid mapping for mobile robot using sensor fusion”, Priyanshu Tripathi,  June-2010

5.      “Object identification using sensor fusion by Dempster Shafer theory”, Nikhil Rathi,June-2011

6.      “Occupancy grid mapping for the mobile robot using Scale Invariant Feature Transform”, Utpal Kant, June-2011

7.      “Estimation and removal of errors in Hokuyo UBG-04LX-F01 2D laser range finder” Ravinder Singh, 2012

8.      “Mobile Robot Path Planning” Jitin Kumar Goyal, 2013

9.      Error Analysis of 3-DOF manipulator, Vikas Kumar 2014

10.    Improved Computation time for occupancy grid mapping, Jai Parkash Jingar, 2014

11.    Odometry error model for differential drive motor, Sanjay Kumar, 2014  

12.    Corner Extraction from indoor environment for Mobile Robot Mapping, Nidhi Jain 2015

13.    Mobile Robot Environment Mapping using Sonar Sensor, Prem Kumar ,2015

14.    Collision Avoidance in Mobile Robots using vector histogram, Tarlok singh.2015

15.    Mobile Robot 3D Mapping using Stereovision, Rini Sharma, 2016

16.    3D Mobile Robot Mapping using Laser Range Finder, Archana Khurana, 2016

17.    PID Tuning of 3-DOF Manipulator, Rahul Sharma, 2016

18.    Mobile robot mapping by stereovision using feature based techniques, Deepak Bhola, 2017

19.    Modeling laser intensities corresponding to extrinsic parameter of target, Kirti Singh, 2017

20.    Mobile robot localization by using Kalman filter, Rajnish Partap Singh, 2017

21.    Localization of ORIGAMI wheeled mobile robot with augmented Kalman filter, Prasanth kumar, 2018

22.    Path planning analysis by varying growth factor with RRT and RRT* techniques, Chimata venkanna, 2018

23.    Global path planning of mobile robot in static environment using PRM and GA, Mukesh Kumar Sharma, 2019

24.    Mobile robot path planning analysis using particle swarm optimization, Sunil Kumar, 2019

25.    Implementation of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using LiDAR Scans in a Mobile Robot, Abhishek Gupta, 2021

26.    Modelling and simulation of ground station antenna control system, k. Dhanunjay. 2021

27.    IoT based 2d mapping of Mobile robot using sonar sensor, Thrishna S Nair, 2021

28.    Deep learning based object detection method using vision transformer for mobile robot applications, Divya Sirala 2022

29.    Metaheuristic- based FO-PID Controller Approach for Solar tracking, Rohit Verma, 2023 Jointly supervised with Dr Amit Kumar singh

Reviewer of International Journals

1.         Reviewer of Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Science

2.         Journal of Scientific and Industrial Metrology

Robot Developed

“Domestic Robot” January, 2000: , “Millennium Mover” Robot ,year, 2000: , “Universal Robotic Arm”, year 2000:, “Robot for Railway”, year 2001: “Heavy duty Mobile Robot”, year 2001:,“UNITECH” Robot, year 2001 ;,“PLC based Mobile  Robot”, year 2002 ;,“Two Legged” Robot, year 2002 ;,“ROBOCOP” Robot , year ,2002 ;, “Artificial Limb for Disabled Persons”, year 2003 ;, “Microcontroller Based Mobile Robot” , year 2004  ;,“Underwater Robot”, year 2006  :, “Water sprinkler robot”, year 2007:, “Cleaning robot”, year 2008:, Autonomous mobile robot , year 2009, saloon cleaning robot, Year 2010, Obstacle avoidance Robot, year 2011, Oragami based robot 2018, Service robot for hospitals 2020. Medical equipment Litho Blast 2021.

Address

  Dr. KS Nagla, Professor

Dept. of ICE, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, (Pb). INDIA.- 144011