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Dr. Ganesha Udupa

Dean, Emerging Technologies | Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Amritapuri

Qualification: BE, M.Tech., Ph.D
ganesh@am.amrita.edu
Research Interest: Nanometrology, Optical Instrumentation, Precision Engineering, Robotics
Date of Joining: 01/12/2004
Nature of Association: Regular

Bio Publications
Bio

Dr. Ganesha Udupa received his M.Tech. in Product Engineering Systems Technology and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Precision Engineering and Metrology) from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. His doctoral dissertation was titled, “Investigations on Surface Topography Characterization by Confocal Microscopy.” He has Post Doctoral Research Felowship from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

Dr. Ganesha Udupa joined Amrita’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2004 as chairperson with years of international experience.

He continued on as a Research Fellow in the School of Mechanical and Production Engineering (SMPE) at NTU. He was also associated with the Innovation in Manufacturing System and Technology (IMST) Program undertaken as part of the university’s alliance with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.

While at NTU, Dr. Udupa conducted research at the Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology Center. He also developed a novel sub-surface nano-defects detection system for silicon wafers, for which he received a Singapore patent and filed for a US patent.

Dr. Udupa has published more than 80 papers in National and International Journals and conference proceedings.He has five patents to his credit.He was conferred the Best paper award (1st prize) for the outstanding Ph.D research paper at the 17th AIMTDR conference, Jan 1997, Warangal, India. He was received with a Foreign Travel Grant from CSIR for research paper presentation at 11th ASPE Annual meeting, Monterey, California, USA,1996.

Dr. Udupa was a principal investigator for the joint Amrita-ISRO funded project on Soft Lunar Lander and founded Amrita- ISRO & MISR labs. He is a mentor for Univeristy Mars Rover project wherein students regularly attend world Rover Challenge to be held in USA & European countries. One of his papers has recently presented and well received at the IEEE conference on Oct 29, 2010 at The Korean Institute of Science and Technology.

Dr. Udupa has guided numerous students for Ph.D., masters and bachelors level projects at Amrita. His current areas of interest include Robotics, Precision Engineering, Nano Metrology, Manufacturing Technology, Computer-Aided Inspection, Optical Instrumentation and Design of Interferometers, Holography / Shearography for NDT and Opto-Mechatronics. He was the key person of AICT sponsored National Nano Technology Workshop, conducted at Amrita. He organised the National Level Robotics Workshop on Oct 14-16 2006, April 4-6, 2008 and Jan 29-31, 2010 at Amritapuri campus, Kollam, Keralam.

Publications

Conference Proceedings

Year : 2024

Mechanical Analysis and Optimization of a Prosthetic Hand Incorporating a Compliant Mechanism Finger Design

Cite this Research Publication : Jyoshna Kumar R, K.Vishnu Raj, Ganesh Udupa, Anand R, Mechanical Analysis and Optimization of a Prosthetic Hand Incorporating a Compliant Mechanism Finger Design, 2024 8th International Conference on Computational System and Information Technology for Sustainable Solutions (CSITSS), IEEE, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1109/csitss64042.2024.10816967

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2022

Design and Analysis of Soft Prosthetic Hand based on Asymmetric Flexible Hydraulic Actuator

Cite this Research Publication : Robin Roy, Ganesh Udupa, Design and Analysis of Soft Prosthetic Hand based on Asymmetric Flexible Hydraulic Actuator, 2022 International Conference on Computing, Communication, Security and Intelligent Systems (IC3SIS), IEEE, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1109/ic3sis54991.2022.9885620

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2019

Intuitive Manipulation of Delta Robot using Leap Motion

Cite this Research Publication : P. Giridharan, Rajeevlochana G. Chittawadigi, and Dr. Ganesh Udupa, “Intuitive Manipulation of Delta Robot using Leap Motion”, 4th International and 19th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms (iNaCoMM2019). Springer Publications , Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, 2019

Publisher : 4th International and 19th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms (iNaCoMM2019)

Year : 2013

Innovative Flexing Technique for Bionic Hand Design

Cite this Research Publication : S. Pramod, Ganesh, S., and Ganesha, U., “Innovative Flexing Technique for Bionic Hand Design”, Proceedings, Amrita Bio Quest, Amritapuri. 2013.

Publisher : Proceedings, Amrita Bio Quest, Amritapuri

Year : 2012

A novel technique for the development of artificial Human Hand for prosthetic Application (Received best paper(poster) Award)

Cite this Research Publication : K. B. S. Pavan Kumar, Srinath, S. K., P, S. Menon C., Pramod, S., and Ganesha, U., “A novel technique for the development of artificial Human Hand for prosthetic Application (Received best paper(poster) Award)”, National conference on Applications of data mining in management of metabolic and Degerative disorders. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham , Mysore, pp. 1-7, 2012.

Publisher : Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Year : 2012

Design and Fabrication of a Novel Multiple Fuse System

Cite this Research Publication : K. Aditya, Karthik, S., and Ganesha, U., “Design and Fabrication of a Novel Multiple Fuse System”, 4th international and 25th All India manufacturing technology Design and Research Conference (AIMTDR 2012). Jadavapur University, Kolakata, India, pp. 1338-1343, 2012.

Publisher : AIMTDR

Patents

Year : 2022

Lightweight Multipurpose Solar Powered Electric Vehicle

Cite this Research Publication : Indian Patent 401157, "Lightweight Multipurpose Solar Powered Electric Vehicle," granted on July 12, 2022

Publisher : Indian Patent 401157

Year : 2021

A Device For Sensing Fluid Pressure (Granted)

Cite this Research Publication : Indian Patent 379561 A Device For Sensing Fluid Pressure granted on October 21, 2021

Year : 2021

Artificial Humanoid Robotic Hand and Process of Manufacturing Thereof

Cite this Research Publication : U. Ganesha, “Artificial Humanoid Robotic Hand and Process of Manufacturing Thereof”, U.S. Patent 3631/CHE/20112011.


Year : 2013

LIGHT WEIGHT MULTIPURPOSE SOLAR POWERED ELECTRIC VEHICLE

Cite this Research Publication : U. Ganesha and Freeman, J., “LIGHT WEIGHT MULTIPURPOSE SOLAR POWERED ELECTRIC VEHICLE”, U.S. Patent 4959/CHE/20132013.

Publisher : U.S. Patent 4959/CHE/2013

Year : 2012

A Device For Sensing Fluid Pressure

Cite this Research Publication : U. Ganesha, “A Device For Sensing Fluid Pressure”, U.S. Patent 2000/CHE/20122012.

Year : 2011

Artificial Humanoid Robotic Hand and Process of Manufacturing Thereof

Cite this Research Publication : U. Ganesha, “Artificial Humanoid Robotic Hand and Process of Manufacturing Thereof”, U.S. Patent 3631/CHE/20112011.

Conference Paper

Year : 2021

Design of robotic manipulator for space applications

Cite this Research Publication : Design of robotic manipulator for space applications; N. Sreekanth, Abhishek Dinesan, Arjun R. Nair, Ganesha Udupa, Virinchi Tirumaladass; Materials Today: Proceedings,Volume 46, Part 10, 2021

Publisher : Materials Today: Proceedings

Year : 2020

Design and Manufacture of Octagonal Rover for Space Exploration

Cite this Research Publication : V. K. Pranav, K. S. Kumar, A. R. Nair and G. Udupa, "Design and Manufacture of Octagonal Rover for Space Exploration," 2020 4th International Conference on Automation, Control and Robots (ICACR), Rome, Italy, 2020, pp. 48-52, doi: 10.1109/ICACR51161.2020.9265497.

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2020

Evaluation of roundness error for cylindrical surfaces using vision system

Cite this Research Publication : Vysakh S., Surendran, K. N., and Udupa, G., “Evaluation of roundness error for cylindrical surfaces using vision system”, in IConAMMA- 2019 International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Applications, Bengaluru, India, 2020.

Publisher : IConAMMA- 2019 International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Applications, Bengaluru, India.

Year : 2017

Design, Analysis, Manufacturing and Testing of Artificial Hand with Fingers made of Rubber and Plastic Pneumatic Actuators

Cite this Research Publication : Rachakonda Praneeth, N V Sai Kiran, Aditya S, Anjai Krishnan, Pramod Sreedharan, Ganesha Udupa, “Design, Analysis, Manufacturing and Testing of Artificial Hand with Fingers made of Rubber and Plastic Pneumatic Actuators”, Proceedings of the 44th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Amrita University, Amritapuri Campus, Kollam, Keralam, India, 14-16 Dec 2017

Year : 2017

Design and manufacture of Amrita Surya Vahini-A solar auto rickshaw

Cite this Research Publication : G. Udupa, Freeman, J., Nimbewal, V., Choudhary, R. K., Sasikumar, S., and Nair, S. V., “Design and manufacture of Amrita Surya Vahini-A solar auto rickshaw”, in International Conference on Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications, RAHA 2016 - Conference Proceedings, 2017.

Publisher : International Conference on Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications, RAHA 2016 - Conference Proceedings

Year : 2017

Design and Manufacture of Miniature Hydraulic Gear Pump for Bio-Medical Application

Cite this Research Publication : Nath, A.G., Sarath Krishnan, E., Cheriyan, S., Vishnu, P.S., Krishnan, A.,Sreedharan, P., Udupa, G., “Design and Manufacture of Miniature Hydraulic Gear Pump for Bio-Medical Application”, Materials Today: Proceedings 5(11), pp. 25570-25580, 2018, 2nd IConAMMA2017, Amrita University, Bengaluru,17-19 Aug 2017

Publisher : Materials Today: Proceedings

Year : 2017

Design, Analysis, Manufacturing and Testing of Artificial Hand with Fingers made of Rubber Actuators

Cite this Research Publication : Rachakonda Praneeth, N V Sai Kiran, Aditya S, Anjai Krishnan, Pramod Sreedharan, Ganesha Udupa, “Design, Analysis, Manufacturing and Testing of Artificial Hand with Fingers made of Rubber Actuators”, International Conference on Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Applications, 2nd IConAMMA2017, Amrita University, Bengaluru, 17-19 Aug 2017

Publisher : Materials Today: Proceedings

Year : 2016

Design and Manufacture of 3D Printed Myoelectric Multi-Fingered Hand for Prosthetic Application

Cite this Research Publication : Jeethesh Pai U, Sarath N P, Sidharth R, Anu P Kumar, Pramod Sreedharan and Ganesha Udupa, “Design and Manufacture of 3D Printed Myoelectric Multi-Fingered Hand for Prosthetic Application” RAHA, Dec 18-20, 2016

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2016

Fluidic Deflection ofAsymmetric Flexible Pipes and its Control for Robotic Applications

Cite this Research Publication : Pramod Sreedharan, Ganesh Sundaram, Ganesh Udupa, “Fluidic Deflection ofAsymmetric Flexible Pipes and its Control for Robotic Applications”, at NAFEMS2016, Aug 29-31, 2016, at NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore

Year : 2015

An Advanced Spider like Rocker-Bogie Suspension System for Mars Exploration Rovers

Cite this Research Publication : Ajithkumar, N., Kalathil, S. T., Simon, A., VJ, U., Mathew, D. P., Basil, P., Dutt, K., and Dr. Ganesh Udupa, “An Advanced Spider like Rocker-Bogie Suspension System for Mars Exploration Rovers”, in The 4th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RITA) 2015, Bucheon, Korea, 2015.

Publisher : The 4th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RITA) 2015

Year : 2011

Innovative micro-walking robot using flexible microactuator

Cite this Research Publication : PaSai Dinesh, Raveendra, Rb, Aditya, Kb, Sreedharan, Pb, and Udupa, Gb, “Innovative micro-walking robot using flexible microactuator”, in Proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, ISARC 2011, Seoul, 2011, pp. 1178-1183.

Publisher : ISARC

Year : 2011

Development of Bio-machine based on the plant response to external stimuli

Cite this Research Publication : K. Aditya, Chen, Y., Kim, E. - H., Dr. Ganesh Udupa, and Lee, Y. K., “Development of Bio-machine based on the plant response to external stimuli”, in Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, Karon Beach, Phuket, 2011, pp. 1218-1223

Publisher : IEEE

Year : 2010

Robotic gripper driven by flexible microactuator based on an innovative technique

Cite this Research Publication : Dr. Ganesh Udupa, Pramod Sreedharan, and Aditya, K., “Robotic gripper driven by flexible microactuator based on an innovative technique”, in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, ARSO, Seoul, 2010, pp. 111-116.

Publisher : ARSO

Journal Article

Year : 2020

Design and development of soft robotic hand for vertical farming in spacecraft

Cite this Research Publication : Aswath Suresh, Ganesha Udupa, Dhruv Gaba, Design and development of soft robotic hand for vertical farming in spacecraft, IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA), Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science, 2020, https://doi.org/10.11591/ijra.v9i1.pp6-16

Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Year : 2020

Design of Rover and Robotic Arm

Cite this Research Publication : Ravi kiran Bollineni, Sidharth S. Menon, Ganesha Udupa, Design of Rover and Robotic Arm, Materials Today: Proceedings, Elsevier BV, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.04.450

Publisher : Elsevier BV

Year : 2016

Design and manufacture of 3D printec myoelectric multi-fingered hand for prosthetic application

Cite this Research Publication : J. Pai U, N.P., S., N.P., S., R., S., A.P., K., S, P., and G, U., “Design and manufacture of 3D printec myoelectric multi-fingered hand for prosthetic application”, International Conference on Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications, RAHA 2016, 2017.

Year : 2016

Design and simulation of lunar soft lander

Cite this Research Publication : A. Krishnan, Dr. Ganesh Udupa, and Pramod Sreedharan, “Design and simulation of lunar soft lander”, International Journal of Control Theory and Applications, vol. 9, pp. 5835-5843, 2016

Publisher : International Journal of Control Theory and Applications, Serials Publications.

Year : 2015

Design of Spider Mechanism for Extraterrestrial Rover

Cite this Research Publication : Abin Simon, Kailash Dutt, Praveen Basil, Sreekuttan T.K., Adithye Suresh, Arun M., Ganesha Udupa and Pramod Sreedharan, “Design of Spider Mechanism for Extraterrestrial Rover”, in International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, pp 18-22, Vol.4, Special Issue 12, September 2015

Publisher : International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology

Year : 2015

Design and Development of an Intelligent Rover for Mars Exploration (Updated)

Cite this Research Publication : A. S, VJ, U., Kalathil, S. T., Simon, A., CM, H., Mathew, D. P., Maya Menon, Basil, P., Ramachandran, R., Sengar, A., Balakrishnan, A., Dutt, K., Murali, A., Tilak, C. Krishna, Suresh, A., Suresh, A., B. Shankar, and Dr. Ganesh Udupa, “Design and Development of an Intelligent Rover for Mars Exploration (Updated)”, The Mars Society with permission, 2015

Publisher : The Mars Society with permission

Year : 2014

Asymmetric bellow flexible pneumatic actuator for miniature robotic soft gripper

Cite this Research Publication : Ganesha Udupa, Pramod Sreedharan, Dinesh Parvathaneni, Doik Kim, “Asymmetric Bellow Flexible Pneumatic Actuator for Miniature Robotic Soft Gripper” in Journal of Robotics, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, USA, Volume 2014, Article ID 902625, pages 1-11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/902625.

Publisher : International Journal of Robotics

Year : 2013

Design and Development of Mobile Operated Control System for Humanoid Robot

Cite this Research Publication : S. Aswath, Krishna, T. Chinmaya, Abhay, S., and Ganesha, U., “Design and Development of Mobile Operated Control System for Humanoid Robot”, International journal of Advances in Computing, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 50-56, 2013.

Publisher : International journal of Advances in Computing

Year :

Design and Fabrication of a Novel Anthropomorphic Hand for Prosthetic Application

Cite this Research Publication : U. Ganesha, Aravind, K., and Pramod, S., “Design and Fabrication of a Novel Anthropomorphic Hand for Prosthetic Application”, Journal of Medical Devices.

Publisher : Journal of Medical Devices

Journal

Year : 2013

An Intelligent Plant EMG Sensor System for Pre-detection of Environmental Hazards

Cite this Research Publication : A. K, Freeman, J., and Udupa, G., “An Intelligent Plant EMG Sensor System for Pre-detection of Environmental Hazards”. 2013.

Publisher : (2013).

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