July 5, 2018
I am a Masters student in the Robotics Engineering Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA. I did my Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Pune University in India where I was heavily involved in designing of robots for ABU Robocon Contests.
I believe the possibility of robots coexisting with humans at comparable intelligence levels is quite fascinating. This is the dream I constantly work towards. Accordingly, my research interests in robotics lie in the field of physical Human-Robot Interaction (pHRI) and Robot Navigation.
I work on the Telerobotic Intelligent Nursing Assistant (TRINA) for achieving seamless human-robot collaborative tasks. Currently, I am working on learning the task plan for a human-robot locomanipulation task. My previous work was focused on human-robot robot handovers, which still are a significant part of my research. Going forward, I am interested in navigation of mobile robots with a special inclination towards planetary rovers and space assistance robots.
Besides robotics, I enjoy playing soccer, watching the Premier League and writing music.
For any assistance, questions or collaboration, you can reach me via email (hsnemlekar@wpi.edu).
H. Nemlekar, M. Merlin, J. Chiodini and Zhi Li, “High Level Representation of Kinesthetically Learned Motions for Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks”, RSS 2018 Workshop on Learning from Demonstrations for High Level Robotic Tasks, Pittsburgh, June 2018.
H. Nemlekar and A. Patil, "Mechanisms for Preventing Traction Loss in Mobile Robots Operating on Sparingly Flat Surfaces", in International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology, March 2017