Swagat Kumar

Educational Background

• 2004 - 2009 : PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India)
• 2002 - 2004 : M. Tech. in Control System Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India).
• 1997 - 2001 : B. E. in Electrical Engineering from North Orissa University, Orissa, India.
  
  

Language skills

Research Interests

• Robotics
• Neural Networks
• Control System Engineering

Publications

• Laxmidhar Behera, Swagat Kumar and Awhan Patnaik, "On adaptive learning rate that guarantees convergence in feed-forward networks.", IEEE Transactions on Neural Network, Vol. 17. No. 5, September 2006. 
  
• Swagat Kumar, Naman Patel and Laxmidhar Behera, "Visual Motor Control of a 7 DOF Robot Manipulator using Function Decomposition and Sub-clustering in configuration space", Neural Processing Letters, Vol. 28, No. 1, August 2008 
  
• Swagat Kumar, Prem Kumar P, Naman Patel and Laxmidhar Behera, "Visual motor control of a 7 DOF robot manipulator using KSOM-based redundancy preserving networks". Accepted for publication in Robotica. 
  
  
• Swagat Kumar, Laxmidhar Behera and Martin McGinnity. "Learning inverse kinematics of a redundant manipulator using a RBF network through forward-inverse learning scheme". Under Review 

• Kinematic Control of a redundant manipulator using inverse-forward adaptive scheme. Swagat Kumar, Laxmidhar Behera and Martin McGinnity. Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 10-11, 2009. 
  
• Implementation of a neural network based visual motor control algorithm for a 7 DOF redundant manipulator. Swagat Kumar and Laxmidhar Behera, World congress on computational intelligence (WCCI), Hong Kong, June 1- 6, 2008. 
  

• Continuous-time single network adaptive critic for regulator design of nonlinear control affine systems. Swagat Kumar, Radhakant Padhi and Laxmidhar Behera, IFAC World Congress, July 6-11, Seoul, South Korea, 2008. 

• Swagat Kumar, Amit Shukla, Ashish Dutta and Laxmidhar Behera, "A Model-free redundancy resolution technique for visual motor coordination of a 6 DOF manipulator", International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC) , Singapore, October 1-3, 2007.

• Swagat Kumar, Radhakant Padhi and Laxmidhar Behera, "Direct Adaptive Control using Single Network Adaptive Critic", IEEE Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE), San Antonio, April 16-18, 2007. 
  

• Laxmidhar Behera, Swagat Kumar and Awhan Patnaik, "A novel learning algorithm for feedforward networks using Lyapunov function approach", Proceedings International Conference on Intelligent Sensors and Information Processing, ICISIP-2004, Chennai, pg:277-282.

• Laxmidhar Behera, Swagat Kumar and Subhas Das, "Identification of non-linear dynamical systems using recurrent neural networks", IEEE TENCON, 2003, Bangalore. 
  

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