Hello! I'm Parag
I like to make devices and algorithms that can make human work easier and am highly interested in developing and designing various autonomous tools and robots. I love to learn new things and concepts. Currenlty, I am apusuing my PhD at KTH. sweden in human-robot interaction. You can read about my current work here
Parag Khanna
Roboticist
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Email:
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Address:
Sweden, Stockholm
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Date of Birth:
June 26th, 1996
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EXPERIENCE
May 2021- current
Doctoral Student
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KTH=Teaching Assistant
Robotics, Perception and Learning (RPL), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Research on Human-Robot Interaction, Human-Robot Handovers, Explanation for robotic failures in human-robot collaboration.
Introduction to Robotics (DD2410)
Machine Learning (DD2421),
Artificial Intelligence (DD2380)
Nov 2019-May 2021
Research Engineer
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), at LS2N lab, Nantes France
Project on developing a bird-neck inspired tensegrity based manipulator {paper}
May 2016-July 2016
Internship
PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY, UK
Project on applying Machine Learning Algorithms(NSM: Reinforcement Learning) on real world tasks being performed by a robot, under Prof. Torbjorn Dahl.
Nov 2015-Dec 2015
Internship
ROBOTIC LABS ,MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT VNIT NAGPUR, INDIA
Project on Autonomous Quadcopter under Prof. S.Chiddarwar.
May 2015-July 2015
Internship
CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE, VNIT NAGPUR, INDIA
Project on Design, control and fabrication of low cost prosthetic hand under Prof. K.M. Bhurchandi, Electronics Department, VNIT.
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EDUCATION
2021- current
PhD
KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
PhD in Computer Science, Specialization in Robotics and Machine Learning
2017-2019
Masers's Degree
ECOLE CENTRALE DE NANTES, FRANCE
UNIVERSITY OF GENOA, ITALY
Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree on Advanced Robotics
2013-2017
Bachelor's Degree
VISVESVARAYA NATIONAL INSTITUE OF TECHNOLOGY, NAGPUR
Bachelor of Technology In Mechanical Engineering
2008-2011
High School
DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL, HISAR, INDIA
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PUBLICATIONS
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“How do Humans take an Object from a Robot: Behavior changes observed in a User Study “, accepted in International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) 2023.
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“A Multimodal Data Set of Human Handovers with Design Implications for Human-Robot Handovers”, IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2023 {paper}
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“Detecting the Intention of Object Handover in Human-Robot Collaborations: An EEG Study”, IEEE RO-MAN, 2023.
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“Effects of Explanation Strategies to Resolve Failures in Human-Robot Collaboration”, IEEE RO-MAN 2023, {paper}
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“User Study Exploring the Role of Explanation of Failures by Robots in Human Robot Collaboration Tasks”, The Failure Workshop, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2023 {paper}
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“Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning for Power System Operation under Scheduled Unavailability”, IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), 2023 {paper}
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“Human inspired grip-release technique for robot-human handovers”, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2022 {paper}
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“Data-driven Grip Force Variation in Robot-Human Handovers”, Advances in Close Proximity HumanRobot Collaboration Workshop, IEEE-Humanoids, 2022 {paper}"
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“Identification and control of a 3-X cable-driven manipulator inspired from the bird’s neck”, Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 2022 {paper}
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“A bio-inspired 3-DOF light-weight manipulator with tensegrity X-joints”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020. {paper}
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“Prototype of a tensegrity manipulator to mimic bird necks”, 24th French Congress of Mechanics, Aug 2019, Brest, France {paper}.
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" Explicit Sequence Proximity Models for Hidden State Identification”, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2018) ,Workshop on Reinforcement Learning under Partial Observability.{git} {paper}
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"Design Analysis and Development of Low Cost Underactuated Robotic Hand", IEEE ROBIO Conference, Dec’2016; indexed IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Paper on explanation for robotic failures, presented at IEEE-ROMAN 2023 in Busan.
Published a dataset of handovers Handovers@RPL which includes over 8000 handovers. It is a first-of-its-kind dataset that includes both the human-motion tracking and forces involved in handovers
Related paper presented at IEEE-ROMAN 2023.
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3 papers selected for presentation at IEEE RO-MAN 2023, Busan, South Korea
My first paper from PhD selected accepted for presentation at IEEE-Humanoids 2022 in Okinawa, Japan.
Tensegrity manipulator {paper} selected to be presented at International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) ,Paris 2020. As the research engineered the project, I have been selected to present the robot.
I was awarded VNIT Excellence Award, 2017 for exhibiting a Successful and outstanding work in the field of Science and Technology (Innovative Projects). Given for the Flying-Snake project.
I have been nominated for reperesenting VNIT for THE MEETING OF NATIONAL INNOVATION CLUBS, 2017 to be held at The Rashtrapati Bhavan (President's house), New Delhi.
I authored a paper on "Design Analysise and Development of Low Cost Underactuated Robotic Hand" which got accepted in IEEE ROBIO Conference,2016 at Qingdao, China.
The project "Prosthetic Hand" was selected for the MEETING OF INNOVATORS, 2016 held at The Rashtrapati Bhavan (President's house), New Delhi.
