Specialization

Micro-robotics, Magnetic micromanipulation, Path planning, and Parallel manipulators

Email

dharmveer.agarwal@thapar.edu

Contact No.

+91-9572604760

Biography

Dharmveer Agarwal is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of TIET, Patiala. Before taking this faculty position, he has worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur. He is a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (class of 2013) from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi. Upon graduation, he worked at Gmmco Limited as a GET for about nine months catering to the CAT marine engines and gensets installed onboard Indian Coast Guard and Indian Navy ships. He left the corporate sector to pursue his interests in academia. He joined the ME in CAD/CAM Engineering programme (class of 2016) at Thapar University, Patiala wherein he carried out his dissertation in the area of modelling and simulation of planar parallel manipulators under the guidance of Prof. Tarun Bera. He went on to pursue his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology Patna. His dissertation titled ‘Robotic Nonprehensile Magnetic Micromanipulation of Large Microscopic Biological Objects’ is in the broad area of magnetic micromanipulation and was carried out under the guidance of Dr. Atul Thakur. His research interests include micro-bio-robotics, bio-inspired robotics, and path planning of mobile robots.

Academic Profile

• Ph.D. in Micro-bio-robotics, Indian Institute of Technology Patna
  • January 2017 – May 2024
• M.E. in CAD/CAM Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala
  • 2014 – 2016
• B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi
  • 2009 – 2013

Work Experience

• Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala
  • October 2024 – contd.
• Research Associate, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  • June 2023 – May 2024
• Graduate Engineer Trainee, Marine Power Division, Engines Business Group, Gmmco Limited, Mumbai
  • August 2013 – May 2014

Research Interests

• Micro-bio-robotics
• Mobile robotics
• Bio-inspired robotics

Publications in Peer Reviewed International Journals (4)

SCI (2)

• D. Agarwal, A. D. Thakur, and A. Thakur, “A feedback-based manoeuvre planner for nonprehensile magnetic micromanipulation of large microscopic biological objects,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 148, pp. 103941, 2022.
• R. Arora, D. Agarwal, and T. K. Bera, “Workspace analysis and trajectory tracking of a planar hybrid manipulator with ball screw feed drive,” Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, vol. 41, pp. 1-18, 2019.

ESCI/SCOPUS (02)

• D. Agarwal, Y. Kamble, A. Raj, A. D. Thakur, and A. Thakur, “Biomechanical parameter estimation using untethered nonprehensile magnetic microbot,” Journal of Micro and Bio Robotics, pp 59 – 70, 2023.
• D. Agarwal, A. D. Thakur, and A. Thakur, “Magnetic microbot-based micromanipulation of surrogate biological objects in fluidic channels,” Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics, pp. 1-15, 2022.

Conference Paper (1)

• D. Agarwal, A. D. Thakur, and A. Thakur, “A Robotic Tool for Magnetic Micromanipulation of Cells in the Presence of an Ambient Fluid Flow,” in ASME 2019 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, vol. 59223, pp. V004T08A017, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019.

Invited Talks

• Delivered an invited talk at the 8th Annual Symposium on Cyber Physical Systems organised by RBCCPS, IISc, Bengaluru, Karnataka (July 2024).
• Delivered an invited talk at the SERB-sponsored workshop organised by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Jamshedpur, Jharkhand (March 2024). 
• Delivered an invited talk under the ‘Robophiles Tech Talk Series’ organised by the Robotics Club, IIT Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh (February 2024).

Research Collaborations

Foreign Visits