Souravik Dutta, PhD
Personal Website: https://www.souravikdutta.com/
Contact
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering Dept
- souravik@ualberta.ca
- Address
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5-380 Donadeo Innovation Centre For Engineering
9211 116 StEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Construction Robotics Construction Automation Planning and Control Underactuated Systems Computational Intelligence Multi-Objective Optimization Evolutionary Computation Reinforcement Learning
About
Souravik is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Laboratory (SMART LAB) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is working on intelligent solutions for generative design and robotic manufacturing to automate the prefabricated construction of mass timber buildings, with the research group of Dr. Rafiq Ahmad.
Souravik completed his Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore and B.E. (Honours) from Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata, respectively. He has worked at the Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) Visualization Lab under the supervision of Dr. Yiyu Cai at NTU Singapore. His doctoral thesis was on Intelligent Lift Motion Planning for Autonomous Tower Cranes in Dynamic BIM Environments. The primary goal of Souravik's research work is the transformation of fundamental yet least automated industries, such as construction and agriculture, with functional applications of intelligent robotics and autonomous systems.
To learn more about Souravik and his research, please visit his Personal Website.
Research
Souravik's research is motivated by the fact that both Construction and Agriculture are the fields yet to harness the power of the integration of Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Both industries are still at the nascent stage of deploying autonomous systems to ensure higher productivity, safety and precision of task executions. Souravik is particularly interested in generating intelligent solutions to motion and/or manipulation planning and control problems of potential robotics and autonomous systems employed in the aforementioned industries.
Souravik's vision is to pave the path for Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Systems by bringing together design, mathematical modeling, optimization and learning. His aspiration is to conduct research towards building a Sustainable Autonomous Planning and Control Ecosystem, leveraging digitalization, robotics, and computational intelligence, via the amalgamation of knowledge-driven and data-driven approaches.
Souravik's current Research Interests include the following:
Robotics
- Industrial Robots
- Mobile Robots
- Legged Robots
Autonomous Systems
- Motion Planning and Control
- Collaborative Task Planning
- Underactuated Systems
Computational Intelligence
- Multi-Objective Optimization
- Evolutionary Computation
- Reinforcement Learning
Featured Publications
Souravik Dutta, Yiyu Cai
arXiv. 2024 April; 10.48550/ARXIV.2404.05581
Souravik Dutta, Yiyu Cai, Jianmin Zheng
arXiv. 2023 May; 10.48550/ARXIV.2305.18745
Souravik Dutta
Nanyang Technological University. 2022 March; 10.32657/10356/155999
Lihui Huang, Roshan Pradhan, Souravik Dutta, Yiyu Cai
Automation in Construction. 2022 January; 10.1016/j.autcon.2021.103999
Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware. 2020 April; 10.1016/j.vrih.2020.04.003
Automation in Construction. 2020 January; 10.1016/j.autcon.2019.102998
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. 2018 January; 10.1145/3208159.3208186
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