Mitarbeiter
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
Institut für Robotik und Mechatronik
Autonomie und Teleoperation
Oberpfaffenhofen
Münchener Str. 20
82234 Weßling
| Telefon: | +49 8153 28-1152 |
| E-Mail: | ashok.meenakshisundaram(at)dlr.de |
Short Bio
Ashok Meenakshi Sundaram works as a researcher on robotic grasping and manipulation in the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) since 2016. He received his master's degree in Autonomous Systems from Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences in 2016 and his bachelor's degree in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from Anna University in 2010. During his master studies, he also successfully participated in many RoboCup competitions as a member of the b-it-bots team. Between 2010 and 2013, he worked as a software developer at the Tata Consultancy Services.
Research Interests
- Grasp Planning
- Dexterous Manipulation
- Multi-contact Interaction
- Humanoid Robots
Awards
- DLR Idea Award 2018 - Smart Farming. Feinfühlinge Roboterhände zum greifen von Lebensmitteln (Sensitive robotic hands for gripping food).
- RoboCup@Work (2015 - 2nd place, 2014 - 3rd place), Robocup@Work GermanOpen (2015 & 2014 - 3rd place)
Videos
- The DLR CLASH hand - a soft gripper for commercial food handling
- Humanoid robot TORO at ILA Berlin Air Show 2018
- Team b-it-bots at RoboCup@Work 2015 and RoboCup@Work GermanOpen 2015
Journal Publications
[J1] Hussein Mnyusiwalla, Pavlos Triantafyllou, Panagiotis Sotiropoulos, Maximo A. Roa, Werner Friedl, Ashok M. Sundaram, Duncan Russell, Graham Deacon, "A Bin-Picking Benchmark for Systematic Evaluation of Robotic Pick-and-Place Systems", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), vol. 5 (2), pp. 1389-1396, 2020. [DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2965076]
Conference Publications
[C5] Ashok M. Sundaram, Werner Friedl, Maximo A. Roa, "Environment-Aware Grasp Strategy Planning in Clutter for a Variable Stiffness Hand", IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020. [Accepted]
[C4] Ashok M. Sundaram, Bernd Henze, Oliver Porges, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, and Maximo A. Roa, "Autonomous Bipedal Humanoid Grasping with Base Repositioning and Whole-Body Control", IEEE-RAS Int. Conf. on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pp. 395-402, 2018. [DOI: 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2018.8624998]
[C3] Ashok M. Sundaram, Oliver Porges, and Maximo A. Roa, "Planning Realistic Interactions for Bimanual Grasping and Manipulation", IEEE-RAS Int. Conf. on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pp. 987-994, 2016. [DOI: 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2016.7803392]
[C2] Maria Pozzi, Ashok M. Sundaram, Monica Malvezzi, Domenico Prattichizzo, and Maximo A. Roa, "Grasp Quality Evaluation in Underactuated Robotic Hands", IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 1946-1953, 2016. [DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759307]
[C1]
Book Chapter
[B1] Springer, pp. 106-125, 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27695-3_7]
Miscellaneous Publications
[M2] Ashok M. Sundaram, "Planning Realistic Force Interactions for Bimanual Grasping and Manipulation", Master Thesis, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, 2015.
[M1] Shehzad Ahmed, Padmaja Kulkarni, Oscar Lima, Arka Mallick, Alexander Moriarty, Deebul Nair, Ashok M. Sundaram, Santosh Thoduka, Rhama Dwiputra, Frederik Hegger, Nico Hochgeschwender, Jose Manuel Sanchez Loza, Sven Schneider, and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar, "b-it-bots RoCKIn@Work Team Description Paper", Robot Competitions Kick Innovation In Cognitive Systems and Robotics (RoCKIn), 2015.
Projects
- SMiLE2gether - Servicerobotik für Menschen in Lebenssitutationen mit Einschränkungen (Bayerisches Staatministerium für Wirtschaft und Medien, Engergie und Technologie, 2019-2024)
- SoMa - Soft-Bodied Intelligence for Manipulation (EU Project: H2020-ICT-645599, 2015-2019)
- COMANOID - Multi-contact Collaborative Humanoids in Aircraft Manufacturing (EU Project: H2020-ICT-645097, 2015-2018)
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