Seminar by Dr. Jagannath Raju
Robotics Arm - Made in India
Dr. Jagannath Raju
Director, Systemantics India, Bangalore
and
ED and CTO, Aditi Technologies, Bangalore
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2002
Time: 10:00 AM
Venue: CS-101
Abstract
The talk will first focus on their SCARA Robot Arm with backlash-stabilized harmonic drives and miniaturized control circuitry that eliminates external control boxes and directly plugs into a Control Area Network. This arm is being exported to Japan and other western countries. The second part will focus on challenges of mechatronic design and education, and leveraging these to attempt indigenous development; similar opportunities for leveraging high-tech entrepreneurship in India; and other related issues.
About the Speaker
Dr. Jagannath Raju serves as the Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer of Aditi Technologies, and as the Director of Systemantics India Pvt. Ltd. Both companies are located in Bangalore. Aditi Technologies is a software services company founded in 1995 that incubated one of India's first software product companies, Talisma Corporation. Systemantics is a robotics and automation company founded in 1995 that has been involved in the indigenous development of custom automation solutions.
He is a B. Tech. From IIT Madras, M.S. from the Univ. of California at Berkeley and a M.E., and Sc.D. from MIT. He has been a Visiting Scientist to the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan, under a fellowship from MITI, Government of Japan.
In his consulting work in Boston, Jagannath has been involved in various projects sponsored by NASA, NSF, Department of Energy, and the private sector, in the areas of space robotics, flexible automation for manufacturing, system design, motion control, remote manipulation for underground and underwater exploration and object-oriented software design.
He repatriated to Bangalore in 1993 and served as a consultant to the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in the development of a gantry robot for the Light Combat Aircraft structural composite component inspection. He founded Systemantics in 1995, which has built custom robotic and automation solutions for a diverse range of applications. Jagannath joined the board of Aditi Technologies in 1995.
Outside his professional life, Jagannath is an active sportsman, and escapes to nature for a trek whenever the opportunity presents itself.