Debal Saha

Kalpataru Arcade, Flat A-503, Sector-4, New Panvel (E), Navi Mumbai , Maharashtra, India 410206. Ph no. +91 22 27482769 Cell no. +91 7382622681 email id: sahadebal@gmail.com Skype : debal_saha Career Objective : To attain in-depth knowledge in the field of robotics and intelligent control of such dynamic systems, develop new ideas to tackle prevalent issues in this field like nonlinearity in system models and devise out various application of these ideas for the betterment of society Areas of interest: Robotics, adaptive control of systems with nonlinear dynamic model. Education : Bachelor of Technology , Mechanical Engineering Department, 2008-2012 batch, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India Cumulative Grade Point Average : 8.54 (on 10 point scale) Class XIIth (Central Board of Secondary Education) : 91.4% Class Xth (Central Board of Secondary Education) : 96.6 %

Conference Publications : Debal Saha, N.B. Hui, Generalized Framework for working with Multiagent Systems, WASET International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Florence, Feb. 2012 Debal Saha, Ranjit Ray, S. Bhaumik, Dynamic modelling of a Skid Steered twelve wheeled Mobile Robot using a slip friction coefficient relationship and its Trajectory Tracking Control, IEEE International Conf. on Advances in Engineering, Science and Management, Chennai, March 2012 Nandan Banerjee, Debal Saha, Atikant Singh, G. Sanyal, A Simple Autonomous Robotic Manipulator for Playing Chess against any Opponent in Real Time, International Conference on Computational Vision and Robotics, Bhubaneshwar, Sept. 2012

Projects : Mathematical formulation of the Kinematic (holonomic and nonholonomic constraints) and dynamic (Euler Lagrange) equations of motion of Skid Steered 12-wheeled mobile robot (designed for stair climbing), linearization of nonlinear feedback equations (by Lie algebra) of the dynamic system for its trajectory tracking control and finally simulation of the tracked path using SIMULINK (MATLAB 2009a). Guide: Dr. Ranjit Ray, Sr. Scientist, School of Mechatronics, Central Mechanical Research Institute (CMERI) Durgapur, India Computer Aided Designing of mechanical structures of robots in Wildfire Pro Engineering for ROBOCON competition depicting the implemented mechanisms and materials, helping pin proper integration of sensors and actuators, analysing the stress distribution in various loading conditions and thus continuously bettering the design and finally manufacturing them in our institute. Guide: Dr. Indrajit Basak, Professor & Head of Dept., Mechanical Engineering Department, NIT Durgapur, India. Development of a motion planner program for Multi-Agent Systems focussing on collision avoidance by using a game theory based approach. A cost function from the time taken by robots (to reach their individual destinations) was used to create a payoff table on the basis of which the motion planning scheme was decided. Experiments were carried out on micro-robots (which are utilized in Soccer Robotics) and this

Game theory based Motion Planner was compared with those based on other approaches especially Neural networks, fuzzy logic and potential field based methods in terms of the degree of coordination, cooperation, robustness and minimum path tracking time of the Guide: Dr. N. B. Hui, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Dept., NIT Durgapur Development of a simple (3 degrees of freedom) Serial manipulator capable of playing chess in real time against any opponent by implementation of adaptive control and image processing. A webcam mounted over the chess board was used to grab images and the open source frame work named Qt was used to develop a GUI for applying image processing techniques utilising the OpenCV image processing library. CATIA was used for designing and simulation. Guide: Dr. G. Sanyal, Professor & Head of Dept., Computer Science & Engineering Dept., NIT Durgapur

Industry Exposure : Summer Training in Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Ltd.s Uran Plant (Maharashtra, India) which included the plant visit and study of the Gas Turbines manufactured by General Electric (GE) which is installed in their co-generation plant and is used for generating both power and steam. Currently working as Management Trainee (Technical) in Vizag Steel Plant which is and undertaking of Government of India with Rashitriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.(RINL) being its corporate entity. In my training in this integrated steel plant I came to know about the working of the main units like blast furnace, convertor, rolling mills and also witnessed how the various auxiliary units like gas cleaning plant, sintering plant, calcination and refractory material plant, provide the vital assistance for the plants continuous operation.

Software Skills: Programming Languages: C, C++, Visual C++ CAD Package: CATIA, Pro Engineering, Autodesk Inventor Computational Tool: MATLAB 2009b, Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7, Ubuntu 11.0 Text editor: MS Office 2010 Scholastic Achievements : Secured 3rd rank in Mumbai region and 1st rank in Navi Mumbai region in Xth Board Examination Got 0.1% Merit Certificate in English in C.B.S.E. Xth Board examination. Won Second Prize in ISTE (Indian Society for Technology and Engineering) Group Discussion Competition. Won 1st prize in Debate Competition organized by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.(O.N.G.C.) Won 2nd Prize in Quiz Competition organized by OUTREACH group of IIT Bombay in IIT Bombay. Got 6th rank in Maths Olympiad organized in 2005 by The Association of Mathematics Teachers of India.

Extra-Curricular : Head (mechanical) of ROBOCON 2011(an International Robotics competition) Team of NIT Durgapur, Hosted the workshop and orientation programs organised by ROBOCON Team in NIT Durgapur. Participated in College tournaments for Basketball and Football.

I hereby declare that the information above is true to the best of my knowledge. Debal Saha.