Souravik Dutta, PhD

Area of Study / Keywords

Construction Robotics Construction Automation Planning and Control Underactuated Systems Computational Intelligence Multi-Objective Optimization Evolutionary Computation Reinforcement Learning

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About

Souravik is a Postdoctoral 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 in Dr. Rafiq Ahmad's research group on intelligent solutions for generative design and robotic manufacturing to automate structural steel prefabrication for offsite construction.

Previously, Souravik worked at the Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) Visualization Lab under the supervision of Dr. Yiyu Cai at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. The primary goal of Souravik's research work is to transform fundamental yet least automated industries, such as construction and agriculture, with functional applications of intelligent robotics and autonomous systems. His doctoral thesis was on Intelligent Lift Motion Planning for Autonomous Tower Cranes in Dynamic BIM Environments.

Experience

• 2017-2021 | Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
• 2015-2017 | Junior Research Fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kgp), India

Education

• 2017-2022 | Ph.D. in Construction Robotics and Automation from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
• 2010-2014 | B.E. (Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University (JU), Kolkata, India

To learn more about Souravik and his research, please visit his Personal Website.

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Research

Souravik's research is motivated by the fact that both Construction and Agriculture are plagued by time-energy wastage and have yet to harness the power of integrating Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Both industries are still at the nascent stage of deploying autonomous systems to ensure higher productivity, safety and sustainability. 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 these industries.

Souravik's vision is to pave the path for Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Systems by integrating design, mathematical modelling, optimization and learning. He aspires to conduct research toward 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 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

Souravik Dutta, Yiyu Cai

arXiv. 2024 April; 10.48550/ARXIV.2404.05581

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Souravik Dutta, Yiyu Cai, Jianmin Zheng

arXiv. 2023 May; 10.48550/ARXIV.2305.18745

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Souravik Dutta

Nanyang Technological University. 2022 March; 10.32657/10356/155999

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Lihui Huang, Roshan Pradhan, Souravik Dutta, Yiyu Cai

Automation in Construction. 2022 January; 10.1016/j.autcon.2021.103999

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Lihui Huang, Souravik Dutta, Yiyu Cai

Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware. 2020 April; 10.1016/j.vrih.2020.04.003

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Souravik Dutta, Yiyu Cai, Lihui Huang, Jianmin Zheng

Automation in Construction. 2020 January; 10.1016/j.autcon.2019.102998

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Lihui Huang, Yuzhe Zhang, Jianmin Zheng, Panpan Cai, Souravik Dutta, Yufeng Yue, Nadia Thalmann, Yiyu Cai

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. 2018 January; 10.1145/3208159.3208186

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• ResearchGate
• SMART Lab Website