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Patents

Humanoid Fall Direction Change Among Multiple Objects
Ambarish Goswami, Umashankar Nagarajan and Yoshiaki Sakagami
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., U.S. Patent No.8369991, Issued on February 5, 2013.

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Refereed Journal Articles

Integrated Motion Planning and Control for Graceful Balancing Mobile Robots
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor and Ralph Hollis
International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), Special Issue: Motion Planning for Physical Robots, 2013 (Accepted)

Shape Space Planner for Shape-Accelerated Balancing Mobile Robots
Umashankar Nagarajan and Ralph Hollis
International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2013 (Accepted)

Direction-Changing Fall Control in Humanoid Robots: Theory and Experiments
Ambarish Goswami, Seung-kook Yun, Umashankar Nagarajan, Sung-Hee Lee, KangKang Yin and Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan
Autonomous Robots, 2013 (Accepted)

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Refereed Conference Papers

Integrated Planning and Control for Graceful Navigation of Shape-Accelerated Underactuated Balancing Mobile Robots
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor and Ralph Hollis
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), pp. 136 - 141, May 2012

Planning in High-dimensional Shape Space for a Single-wheeled Balancing Mobile Robot with Arms
Umashankar Nagarajan, Byungjun Kim and Ralph Hollis
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), pp. 130 - 135, May 2012

Hybrid Control for Navigation of Shape-Accelerated Underactuated Balancing Systems
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor and Ralph Hollis
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 3566 - 3571, December 2010

Dynamic Constraint-based Optimal Shape Trajectory Planner for Shape-Accelerated Underactuated Balancing Systems
Umashankar Nagarajan
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), pp. 243 - 250, June 2010

Generalized Direction Changing Fall Control of Humanoid Robots among Multiple Objects
Umashankar Nagarajan and Ambarish Goswami
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), pp. 3316 - 3322, May 2010

Trajectory Planning and Control of a Dynamically Stable Single Spherical Wheeled Mobile Robot
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor and Ralph Hollis
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), pp. 3743 - 3748, May 2009

State Transition, Balancing, Station Keeping and Yaw Control for a Dynamically Stable Single Spherical Wheel Mobile Robot
Umashankar Nagarajan, Anish Mampetta, George Kantor and Ralph Hollis
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), pp. 998 - 1003, May 2009

Human-Robot Physical Interaction with Dynamically Stable Mobile Robots
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor and Ralph Hollis
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pp. 281 - 282, 2009

Adaptive Neuro - Fuzzy Controller for Stabilizing Autonomous Bicycle
Umashankar N and Himanshu Dutt Sharma
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 1652 - 1657, Dec. 2006

A Model Approach for Perception based Intelligent Design
Himanshu Dutt Sharma and Umashankar N
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 660 - 665, Dec. 2006

A Robotic Model (ROBI) of Autonomous Bicycle System
Himanshu Dutt Sharma and Umashankar N
International Conference on Computational Inteligence for Modelling Control and Automation (CIMCA), November 2006

Multi-criteria Intelligent Dispatching Control of Automated Guided Vehicles in FMS
Umashankar N and Karthik V N
IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics & Intelligent Systems (CIS), pp. 422 - 427, 2006

Fuzzy Controller Design for an Autonomous Bicycle System
Himanshu Dutt Sharma and Umashankar N
IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems (ICEIS), pp. 498 - 503, April 2006

Stabilization of Autonomous Bicycle using Fuzzy Controller with Maximum Allowable Lean Constraint
Himanshu Dutt Sharma and Umashankar N
International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS), December 2005

Simulation Model for Studying Inherent Stability Characteristics of Autonomous Bicycle
Himanshu Dutt Sharma, Sameer M Kale and Umashankar N
IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), pp. 193 - 198, 2005

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Papers Under Review

The Ballbot: An Omnidirectional Balancing Mobile Robot
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor and Ralph Hollis
International Journal of Robotics Research (Under Review)

Automatic Task-specific Model Reduction for Humanoid Robots
Umashankar Nagarajan and Katsu Yamane
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots & Systems (IROS), 2013 (Under Review)

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Theses

Fast and Graceful Balancing Mobile Robots
Umashankar Nagarajan
PhD Thesis, CMU-RI-TR-12-16, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA, July 2012

Simulation Analysis of Rider Effect on Bicycle Stabilization
Umashankar Nagarajan
Undergraduate Thesis, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, December 2006