Papers
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Total Citations
578
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About
Anirban Mazumdar is a robotics researcher whose work spans inspection robotics, legged locomotion, underwater vehicles, and wearable assistive devices. His research is united by a focus on mechanical ingenuity — designing systems that are efficient, maneuverable, and purpose-built for challenging real-world environments. Mazumdar made early contributions to infrastructure inspection robotics, developing the Mag-Foot robot (81 citations), a magnetically adherent legged system capable of traversing steel bridge surfaces, and a series of compact, jet-propelled underwater robots designed for inspecting nuclear power piping and reactor interiors (59 and 25 citations). These spheroidal, appendage-free vehicles demonstrated that feedback-controlled hydrodynamic stability could replace passive fins, enabling precision multidirectional maneuvering in confined spaces. In parallel, his work on legged locomotion has been highly influential. His research on parallel elastic elements for the STEPPR bipedal robot (65 citations) showed meaningful energy savings without sacrificing locomotive versatility, a theme continued in the WANDERER biped project. His contributions to actuator design — including synthetic fiber capstan drives and series elastic actuator-based hip exoskeletons (44 citations) — reflect a consistent drive to improve torque control efficiency in dynamic robotic systems. Altogether, his portfolio represents a rigorous and broad approach to embodied robotic intelligence.
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- 1Mag-Foot: A steel bridge inspection robot81 citations · 2009
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- 9Achieving Versatile Energy Efficiency With the WANDERER Biped Robot25 citations · 2020
- 10Control-Configured Design of Spheroidal, Appendage-Free, Underwater Vehicles24 citations · 2014