Fun Learning, Robotics for Students, and 
Multibody Dynamics for Advanced and Rural Industries
Dr. S. K. Saha, Associate Professor
Dept. of Mech. Engg., IIT Delhi, INDIA
saha@mech.iitd.ernet.in; http://web.iitd.ac.in/~saha

Abstract
After the introduction to the IIT system, R&D activities at IIT Delhi, and the Mechatronics Laboratory, the speaker will share his experiences as an educator, a researcher, and a designer. This will cover his new way to teaching in a class-room set-up. Dr. Saha plays three games, namely, ‘Word Antakshari,’ ‘Dumb Charades,’ and ‘Jigsaw Puzzle’ in order to make the scientific and technical subjects like Mechanics, Design, etc., more interesting. In order make the students also interested in creative activities, he has been guiding about 20 member student team every year to take part in the international cum national robot design competition called ROBOCON. Besides, his approach to model a mechanical system, e.g., a robot manipulator, using the Decoupled Natural Orthogonal Complement (DeNOC) matrices will be presented. The DeNOC matrices have got the attention of international researchers working in the area of Multibody Dynamics due to their ability to provide efficient and numerical stable simulation algorithms. In the last part of his presentation, he will present his experience of modeling and designing several systems, for example, rack and pinion steering system for an automobile company in India, and carpet loom, scrapping machine, etc. for the carpet industries of India.

About the author
Dr. S. K. Saha has completed his undergraduate studies from Regional Engineering College (now called National Institute of Technology), Durgapur in 1983, followed by his Masters study in 1985 from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagapur. In 1991, he finished his Ph. D. from McGill University, Canada. After having about four years of research experience at Toshiba’s R&D Center in Japan, Dr. Saha returned to India in 1995. He has been a Humbled Fellow in the University of Stuttgert, Germany during 1999-2000, and visited several universities abroad as a Visiting Researcher (McGill Univ., Canada, 2002) and a Visiting Academic (Monash Univ., Australia, 2004). Dr. Saha has more than 85 publications with about 25 in the referred journals, and has been very active with sponsored projects and consultancies for the Govt. agencies and private companies (~US$0.6 million).