Vijay Kumar (born 12 April 1962) is an Indian
roboticist and UPS foundation professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science with secondary appointments in computer and information science and electrical and systems engineering at the
University of Pennsylvania, and became the new Dean of
Penn Engineering on 1 July 2015.[1]
Kumar is known for his research in the control and coordination of multi-robot formations.[2][3]
He was elected to the
American Philosophical Society in 2018.[4]
Education
B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, May 1983
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, March 1988
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, September 1987
About his research work
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Honours and awards
The Ohio State University Presidential Fellowship (1986)
Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of Pennsylvania (1996)
The Ferdinand Freudenstein Award for significant contributions to mechanisms and robotics awarded at the 5th National Conference on Mechanisms and Robotics (1997)
Best paper award, Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (2002)
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2003)
Kayamori Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2004)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Lecturer (2005)
Fellow, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2005)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Award (2012)
George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research (2013)[5]
^Desai, J.P.; Ostrowski, J.; Kumar, V. (1998). "Controlling formations of multiple mobile robots". Robotics and Automation, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Conference on. Vol. 4.
doi:
10.1109/ROBOT.1998.680621.