Vineet Vashista
Department : Mechanical Engineering (Affiliated to Cognitive and Brain Sciences)
Research Interests
● Wearable & Rehabilitation Robotics
● Human-robot Interaction
● Cable-driven Robotics
● Human Movement Adaption
Professional Summary
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Sep 2023 to present)
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Nov 2015 to Sep 2023)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University, USA (Jun – Jul, 2016)
Project Scientist, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (2008 – 2009)
Publications
1. Singh, Yogesh, Sunil K. Agrawal, and Vineet Vashista. “Throwing Strategy in a Dual-Motor-Task of Aiming at the Bullseye while Walking in Virtual Reality.” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7, no. 4 (2022): 9091-9098.
2. Jategaonkar, Chinmay, Yogesh Singh, and Vineet Vashista. “Effect of external damping on ankle motion during the swing phase of walking.” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7, no. 3 (2022): 7612 – 7619.
3. Bhardwaj, Siddharth, Akshayraj B. Shinde, Randheer Singh, and Vineet Vashista. “Passive exosuit emulator for material handling applications.” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7, no. 3 (2022): 7605 – 7611.
4. Sanjeevi, N. S. S., and Vineet Vashista. “Stiffness modulation of a cable-driven serial-chain manipulator via cable routing alteration.” Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics 15, no. 2 (2022): 021009.
5. Singh, Yogesh, and Vineet Vashista. “Gait Classification With Gait Inherent Attribute Identification From Ankle’s Kinematics.” IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 30 (2022): 833-842.
6. Bhardwaj, Siddharth, Vikram Negi, and Vineet Vashista. “Vibratory cue training elicits anticipatory postural responses to an external perturbation.” Experimental Brain Research 240, no. 4 (2022): 1105-1116.
7. Prajapati, Pratik, Sagar Parekh, and Vineet Vashista. “On-board cable attitude measurement and controller for outdoor aerial transportation.” Robotica 40, no. 5 (2022): 1650-1664.
8. Sanjeevi, N. S. S., Yogesh Singh, and Vineet Vashista. “Recent advances in lower-extremity exoskeletons in promoting performance restoration.” Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering 20 (2021): 100338.
9. Sanjeevi, N. S. S., and Vineet Vashista. “Stiffness modulation of a cable-driven leg exoskeleton for effective human-robot interaction.” Robotica 39, no. 12 (2021): 2172-2192.
10. Singh, Yogesh, Antonio Prado, Dario Martelli, Fitsum E. Petros, Xupeng Ai, Sudipto Mukherjee, Anil K. Lalwani, Vineet Vashista, and Sunil K. Agrawal. “Dual-motor-task of catching and throwing a ball during overground walking in virtual reality.” IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 28, no. 7 (2020): 1661-1667.
11. Singh, Yogesh, Vinayvivian Rodrigues, Antonio Prado, Sunil K. Agrawal, and Vineet Vashista. “Lower-limb strategy assessment during a virtual reality based dual-motor-task.” In 2020 8th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), pp. 252-257. IEEE, 2020.
12. Prajapati, Pratik, Sagar Parekh, and Vineet Vashista. “On the human control of a multiple quadcopters with a cable-suspended payload system.” In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 2253-2258. IEEE, 2020. Core 2021 ratings: 4.6.
13. Iyer, S. Srikesh, Joel V. Joseph, and Vineet Vashista. “Evolving toward subject-specific gait rehabilitation through single-joint resistive force interventions.” Frontiers in neurorobotics 14 (2020): 15.
Complete List of Publications
Patents
Agrawal, Sunil K., Vineet Vashista , K. A. N. G. Jiyeon, and Xin Jin. “Human Movement Research, Therapeutic, and Diagnostic Devices, Methods, and Systems.” U.S. Patent Application 15/304,147, filed February 2, 2017.
Agrawal, Sunil K., Mustafa Shabbir Kurbanhusen, and Vineet Vashista. “Pelvic orthosis systems and methods.” U.S. Patent Application 13/358,959, filed August 2, 2012.