Nikhil Chopra

Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering and ISR 2149 Glenn L. Martin Hall University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 301/405-7011 TEL 301/314-9477 FAX nchopra@umd.edu Personal web site News stories about Dr. Chopra

Research Interests

Control of networked robotic systems, synchronization of dynamical systems, bilateral teleoperation and control of semi-autonomous systems

Background Information

Nikhil Chopra received his Bachelor of Technology (Honors) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 2001 and his Ph.D. degree in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering in 2006 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2006-2007. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland at College Park.

His research interests are in developing a fundamental understanding of synchronization and control of networked dynamical systems interacting over unreliable communication networks. This work is important in practical applications such as semi-autonomous telerobotic networks, robot networks and unmanned air vehicles.

He was awarded the William A. Chittenden Award for outstanding graduate research and the Vodafone Graduate Fellowship in 2003.  Co-Chair, IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Telerobotics, Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Automatica, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Asian Journal of Control and Mechatronics.

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