Dr.

Ashish Singla
Designation : Assistant Professor
Education
PhD in Robotics, IIT Kanpur.
M.E. in CAD/CAM & Robotics, Thapar University, Patiala

B.E. Mechanical, SLIET Longowal, PTU.

Experience: Total Experience 7 years

4-1/2 Years of Teaching
1 Year of Research
1-1/2 Years of Industry
Teaching Interests:
Robotics, Dynamics of Multi-Body Systems, Modern Control of Dynamic Systems
Mechanical Vibrations, Applied Optimization, Mechatronics.
Research Interest:
Flexible Manipulators: Vibration Suppression and Control of Lightweight
manipulators.
Redundant Manipulators: Task priority, redundancy resolution, obstacle avoidance,
singularity avoidance.
Medical Robotics, Modular manipulators, Underactuated systems.
Publications:
AshishSingla,AshishTewariandBhaskarDasgupta,Commandshapedclosedloop
control of flexible robotic manipulators. (Accepted in Journal of Vibration
EngineeringandTechnologies,JVETv4n23),2014.

A.Kumar,A.Tondon,S.Paul,A.Singla,S.Kumar,P.VijayandU.D.Bhangale,
Influence of Tyres Dimensional Characteristics on TyrePavement Noise
Emission,PhysicalReviewandResearchInternational,Vol1No4,pp.124137
(2011).

Ashish Singla, Sandeep Kumar, Prasad Kulkarni, Bhaskar Dasgupta, Highindex

normredundancyresolutionschemeforkinematicallyredundantrobotmanipulators,
International Journal of Computational Science (IJCS), Vol 1 No 4, pp. 351370
(2007).
Amanpreet Singh, Ashish Singla and Sanjeev Soni, DH Parameters Augmented
withDummyFrames forSerialManipulatorscontainingSpatialLinks,The23rd
IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
(ROMAN2014),August2529,2014,Edinburg,Scotland,UK(Accepted)

AshishSingla,HighIndexNormApproach:ARedundancyResolutionSchemeFor

Inverse Kinematics of Redundant Serial Manipulators, Proceedings of 6 th

InternationalIEEEConferenceonRoboticsandMechatronics (ROBMECH2013),
pp.4045,Oct3031,2013,DurbanSouthAfrica(2013).

AshishSingla,VibrationSuppressionofaCartFlexiblePoleSystemUsingaHybrid
Controller,Proceedingsof the1stInternationaland16thNationalConferenceon
Machines and Mechanisms (iNaCoMM2013), pp. 375382, Dec 1820, 2013, IIT
Roorkee,India(2013)

Ashish Singla, Ekta Singla, Input Shaped OpenLoop Control for Vibration
Suppression of Lightweight Flexible Manipulators, Proceedings of International
ConferenceonEmergingTechnologiesMicrotoNano(ETMN2013),pp6970,
Feb2324,2013,BITSGoa(2013).

R.Singh,R.S.Panwar,O.P.Pandey,A.SinglaandP.Sharma,Electricdischarge
machiningparameterselectionforAl/ZrcompositeusingTaguchiL27orthogonal
design, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in
CompositeMaterials(ICRACM2013),Feb1821,2013,IITBHU,GOA(2013).

Ashish Singla, Vibration Control of a CartFlexible Pole System using a ZVD

Shaper,Proceedingsof26th InternationalConferenceonCAD/CAM,Roboticsand
Factories of Future (CARs&FOF2011), pp 777788, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
(2011).

EktaSingla,AshishSingla,PerformanceIndicesforSerialRoboticManipulators,
Proceedingsof26thInternationalConferenceonCAD/CAM,RoboticsandFactories
ofFuture(CARs&FOF2011),pp747754,KualaLumpur,Malaysia(2011).

EktaSingla,AshishSinglaandBhaskarDasgupta,AutomatedStaticForceAnalysis
forRedundantManipulators,IndoRussianSeminaronComputationalIntelligence
andModernHeuristicsinAutomationandRobotics,1012September,Novosibirsk,
Russia(2011).

Ashish Singla, Bhaskar Dasgupta, Ashish Tewari, Modeling and Control of

UnderactuatedRedundantManipulators,ProceedingsofInternationalConferenceon
Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS09), pp. 1623, Orlando, FL,
USA.(2009).

VikashGupta,AshishSingla,BhaskarDasgupta andAnjaliKulkarni,Designand
Development of an 8R Snakelike Manipulator, IISc Centenary International
ConferenceonAdvancesinMechanicalEngineering(ICICAME),IISc Bangalore,
India(2008).

AshishSingla,SandeepKumar,PrasadKulkarni,BhaskarDasgupta,Redundancy
control of robot manipulators using task priority, Proceedings of International
Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems
(ACODS'2007),IISCBangalore,pp.7278India(2007).

AshishSingla,AnilSingla,AnandVaz,Developmentofsingleaxismanipulatorfor
roboticapplications,NationalConferenceofMechanicalEngineering(NCME2003)
atTIETPatiala,India(2003).

Achievement, Awards and Recognitions:

YANTRIKA:Significantcontributioninthedevelopmentofasoftwareplatformfor
IGCAR,Kalpakkam.
WonthirdprizeforoutstandingperformanceatTridentGroup.
Bestpaperpresentation(session)award,ACODS2007,IIScBangalore.
Stategovt.(PSEB)scholarshipatmetriclevel.
Message to Students & Community
Yourtimeislimited,dontwasteitlivingsomeoneelseslife.Dontbetrappedby
dogma,whichislivingtheresultofotherpeoplesthinking.Dontletthenoiseof
othersopiniondrownedyourowninnervoice.Andmostimportant,havethecourage
tofollowyourheartandintuition,theysomehowalreadyknowwhatyoutrulywantto
become.Everythingelseissecondary.SteveJobs.

Successconsistsofgoingfromfailuretofailurewithoutlossofenthusiasm.
WinstonChurchill.

Street:
P.O. Box 32
Postcode: 147004
City:
Patiala
Country: India
Email:
ashish.singla@thapar.edu
Located in: Mechanical Engineering Department