Publications

Highlights

Subject-Specific Gait Intervention Using WeARS
Dual-Motor-Task Analysis of Healthy Individuals
Human-Quadcopters Interaction for Aerial Transportation
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Publications

On Google Scholar

Patents

  • Agrawal, S.K., Vashista, V., Jiyeon, K. and Jin, X., Columbia University of New York, 2019. Human movement research, therapeutic, and diagnostic devices, methods, and systems. U.S. Patent 10,406,059.
  • Agrawal, S.K., Kurbanhusen, M.S. and Vashista, V., University of Delaware, 2012. Pelvic orthosis systems and methods. U.S. Patent Application 13/358,959.

Peer-Reviewed Papers

2023

  • Nakka, S., and Vashista, V., “External Dynamics Dependent Human Gait Adaptation Using a Cable-Driven Exoskeleton,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 6036-6043, August 2023, DOI:10.1109/LRA.2023.3302189.
  • Prajapati, P., and Vashista, V., “Aerial Physical Human Robot Interaction for Payload Transportation,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 4903-4910, June 2023, DOI:10.1109/LRA.2023.3290410.
  • Shaik, A., Bhardwaj, S., and Vashista, V., “Learning Complex Upper-limb Movements through Practicing Movement Elements,” in Human Movement Science, vol. 90, p. 103121, June 2023, DOI:10.1016/j.humov.2023.103121.
  • Nakka, S., and Vashista, V., “Manipulability Analysis of Cable-Driven Serial Chain Manipulators,” in Caro, S., Pott, A., Bruckmann, T. (eds) Cable-Driven Parallel Robots CableCon 2023, Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol. 132, pp. 16-29, June 2023, Springer, Cham, DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-32322-5_2.
  • Bhardwaj, S., Shinde, A., Singh, R., and Vashista, V., “Manipulating Device-to-body Forces in Passive Exosuit: An Experimental Investigation on the Effect of Moment Arm Orientation Using Passive Back-assist Exosuit Emulator,” Wearable Technologies, vol. 4, no. e17, May 2023, DOI:10.1017/wtc.2023.12.
  • Prajapati, P., and Vashista, V., “Motion Planning and Control of Two Quadcopters with Cable-Suspended Point Mass Payload,” in: Gupta, V. K., Amarnath, C., Tandon, P., Ansari, M. Z. (eds) Recent Advances in Machines and Mechanisms, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, pp. 577-585, October 2022, Springer, Singapore, DOI:10.1007/978-981-19-3716-3_46.
  • Nakka, S., and Vashista, V., “Effect of Passive Springs on Taskspace Stiffness of a Cable-Driven Serial Chain Manipulator,” in: Gupta, V. K., Amarnath, C., Tandon, P., Ansari, M. Z. (eds) Recent Advances in Machines and Mechanisms, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, pp. 601-612, October 2022,  Springer, Singapore, DOI:10.1007/978-981-19-3716-3_48.

2022

  • Sanjeevi, N. S. S., and Vashista, V. (June 20, 2022). “Stiffness Modulation of a Cable-Driven Serial-Chain Manipulator Via Cable Routing Alteration.” ASME. J. Mechanisms Robotics. April 2023; 15(2): 021009. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4054612
  • S. Bhardwaj, A. B. Shinde, R. Singh and V. Vashista, “Passive Exosuit Emulator for Material Handling Applications,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 7605-7611, July 2022, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3183748.
  • C. Jategaonkar, Y. Singh and V. Vashista, “Effect of External Damping on Ankle Motion During the Swing Phase of Walking,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 7612-7619, July 2022, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3184781.
  • Y. Singh, S. K. Agrawal and V. Vashista, “Throwing Strategy in a Dual-Motor-Task of Aiming at the Bullseye While Walking in Virtual Reality,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 9091-9098, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3189820.
  • Y. Singh and V. Vashista, “Gait Classification With Gait Inherent Attribute Identification From Ankle’s Kinematics,” in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 30, pp. 833-842, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2022.3162035.
  • Bhardwaj, S., Negi, V. & Vashista, V. Vibratory cue training elicits anticipatory postural responses to an external perturbation. Exp Brain Res (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-022-06313-x
  • Prajapati, P., Parekh, S., & Vashista, V. (2021). On-board cable attitude measurement and controller for outdoor aerial transportation. Robotica, 1-15, doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574721001302

2021

  • Vineet Vashista and Yogesh Singh. 2021. Single-Joint Angle Computation using Inertial Sensors with Feedback on Smartphone. Advances in Robotics – 5th International Conference of The Robotics Society. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 30, 1–6. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3478586.3480647
  • Vineet Vashista and Sanjeevi Nakka. 2021. Lower-limb Muscle Force analysis for a Knee Joint Intervention Strategy. In Advances in Robotics – 5th International Conference of The Robotics Society (AIR2021). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 41, 1–6. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3478586.3480646
  • Sanjeevi, N. S. S., Singh, Y., & Vashista, V. (2021). Recent Advances in Lower-Extremity Exoskeletons in Promoting Performance Restoration. Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, 100338.
  • Sanjeevi, N., & Vashista, V. (2021). Stiffness modulation of a cable-driven leg exoskeleton for effective human–robot interaction. Robotica, 1-21. doi:10.1017/S0263574721000242
  • Modi, H., & Vashista, V. (2020). Development and Demonstration of a Wheat Harvester for Small Farms of India. In Mechanism and Machine Science (pp. 459-470). Springer, Singapore.

2020

  • Singh, Y., Rodrigues, V., Prado, A., Agrawal, S. K., & Vashista, V. (2020, September). 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.
  • Y. Singh et al., “Dual-Motor-Task of Catching and Throwing a Ball During Overground Walking in Virtual Reality,” in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 28, no. 7, pp. 1661-1667, July 2020, doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2020.2999352.
  • Prajapati, P., Parekh, S., & Vashista, V. (2020, June). On the Human Control of a Multiple Quadcopters with a Cable-suspended Payload System. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE. (in press)
  • Iyer, S. S., Joseph, J. V., & Vashista, V. (2020). Evolving towards Subject Specific Gait Rehabilitation through Single Joint Resistive Force Interventions. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 14, 15.

2019

  • Prajapati, P., Parekh, S., & Vashista, V. (2019, October). Collaborative Transportation of Cable-Suspended Payload using Two Quadcopters with Human in the loop. In 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
  • Singh, Y., Kher, M., & Vashista, V. (2019, October). Intention detection and gait recognition (IDGR) system for gait assessment: a pilot study. In 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 1-6). IEEE. Best Indian Students (Finalist) Award.
  • Iyer, S. S., Joseph, J. V., Sanjeevi, N. S. S., Singh, Y., & Vashista, V. (2019, October). Development and Applicability of a Cable-driven Wearable Adaptive Rehabilitation Suit (WeARS). In 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 1-6). IEEE. Best Research Award (Finalist) Award.
  • Lanje, S., and Vashista, V. (2019). Minimum Swing Controller for Quadrotor Suspended Load System. In Proceedings of the Advances in Robotics 2019 (pp. 1-6).
  • Sanjeevi, N. S. S., & Vashista, V. (2019). Effect of Cable Co-sharing on the Workspace of a cable-Driven Serial Chain Manipulator. In Proceedings of the Advances in Robotics 2019 (pp. 1-6).
  • Parab, A., Sonar, C., Mane, P., Kiran, J. S., Saini, P. L., & Vashista, V. (2019). Design and development of an efficient onion harvester for Indian farms. In Machines, Mechanism and Robotics (pp. 541-548). Springer, Singapore. (Book – chapter)

2018

  • Modi, H., & Vashista, V., (2018, December). Development and Demonstration of a Wheat Harvester for Small Farms of India. IFToMM Asian Mechanism and Machine Science, December 17-20, 2018, Bengaluru, India (in press).
  • Panchal, N., Sanjeevi, N. S. S., & Vashista, V. (2018, August). Lower limb musculoskeletal stiffness analysis during swing phase as a cable-driven serial chain system. In 2018 7th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (Biorob) (pp. 934-939). IEEE.

2017

  • Kang, J., Martelli, D., Vashista, V., Martinez-Hernandez, I., Kim, H., & Agrawal, S. K. (2017). Robot-driven downward pelvic pull to improve crouch gait in children with cerebral palsy. Science Robotics, 2(8), eaan2634.
  • Kang, J., Vashista, V., & Agrawal, S. K. (2017). On the adaptation of pelvic motion by applying 3-dimensional guidance forces using TPAD. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 25(9), 1558-1567.
  • Narayanan, T., Vishnu, R. S., Bhavani, R. R., & Vashista, V. (2017, September). A cable driven parallel robot for coconut farm. In 2017 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI) (pp. 864-870). IEEE.
  • Sanjeevi, N. S. S., & Vashista, V. (2017, July). On the stiffness analysis of a cable driven leg exoskeleton. In 2017 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) (pp. 455-460). IEEE.
  • Sanjeevi, N. S. S., & Vashista, V. (2017). Workspace Analysis of a Cable Driven Leg Exoskeleton. In Proceedings of the Advances in Robotics (pp. 1-6).
  • Mazumder, A., & Vashista, V. (2017). Development of an adaptive gait characterizer. In Proceedings of the Advances in Robotics (pp. 1-6).

2016

  • Vashista, V., Khan, M., & Agrawal, S. K. (2016). A novel approach to apply gait synchronized external forces on the pelvis using A-TPAD to reduce walking effort. IEEE robotics and automation letters, 1(2), 1118-1124.

2015

  • Martelli, D., Vashista, V., Micera, S., & Agrawal, S. K. (2015). Direction-dependent adaptation of dynamic gait stability following waist-pull perturbations. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 24(12), 1304-1313.
  • Vashista, V., Martelli, D., & Agrawal, S. K. (2015). Locomotor adaptation to an asymmetric force on the human pelvis directed along the right leg. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 24(8), 872-881.
  • Duan, Q., Vashista, V., & Agrawal, S. K. (2015). Effect on wrench-feasible workspace of cable-driven parallel robots by adding springs. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 86, 201-210.
  • Martelli, D., Vashsita, V., Micera, S., & Agrawal, S. K. (2015, August). Locomotor adaptations following repeated waist-pull perturbations. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) (pp. 636-641). IEEE.
  • Kang, J., Vashista, V., & Agrawal, S. K. (2015, August). A novel assist-as-needed control method to guide pelvic trajectory for gait rehabilitation. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) (pp. 630-635). IEEE.
  • Aggarwal, R., Behari, M., Agrawal, S., Pretzer-Aboff, I., Winfree, K., Dhankar, G., Shiva, T. & Vashista, V. (2015). Clinical outcomes of step synchronized vibration training in Parkinson’s disease patients: 1092. Movement Disorders, 30.
  • Bishop, L., Stein, J., Vashista, V., Khan, M., Hinds, S., & Agrawal, S. (2015). Stroke Survivor Gait Adaptations Using Asymmetric Forces with the Tethered Pelvic Assist Device. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 96(12), e20.

2014

  • Park, J. H., Zanotto, D., Vashista, V., Jin, X., Stegall, P., & Agrawal, S. K. (2014, August). Second Spine: a Device to relieve stresses on the upper body during loaded walking. In 5th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (pp. 689-694). IEEE.
  • Vashista, V., Jin, X., & Agrawal, S. K. (2014, May). Active tethered pelvic assist device (a-tpad) to study force adaptation in human walking. In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 718-723). IEEE.
  • Lenzo, B., Zanotto, D., Vashista, V., Frisoli, A., & Agrawal, S. (2014, May). A new Constant Pushing Force Device for human walking analysis. In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 6174-6179). IEEE.

2013

  • Vashista, V., Agrawal, N., Shaharudin, S., Reisman, D. S., & Agrawal, S. K. (2013). Force adaptation in human walking with symmetrically applied downward forces on the pelvis. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 21(6), 969-978.
  • Vashista, V., Reisman, D. S., & Agrawal, S. K. (2013, June). Asymmetric adaptation in human walking using the tethered pelvic assist device (TPAD). In 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
  • Park, J. H., Stegall, P., Zanotto, D., Vashista, V., Jin, X., & Agrawal, S. K. (2013, January). Design of the second spine: A secondary pathway to transfer loads from the shoulders to the pelvis. In ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection.
  • Vashista, V., Chen, X., & Agrawal, S. K. (2013). Adult-Human Learning on a Robotic Wheelchair Using a Force Feedback Joystick. In Proceedings of the 1st International and 16th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms (iNaCoMM2013) (pp. 794-799).

2012 and Earlier

  • Vashista, V., Agrawal, N., Shaharudin, S., Reisman, D. S., & Agrawal, S. K. (2012). Force adaptation in human walking with symmetrically applied downward forces on the pelvis. In Conference proceedings: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference (Vol. 2012, p. 3312).
  • Vashista, V., Mustafa, S. K., & Agrawal, S. K. (2011, June). Experimental studies on the human gait using a tethered pelvic assist device (t-pad). In 2011 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
  • Vashista, V., Jere, A., Rane, S., Grover, V., & Saha, S. K. (2007). Synthesis and analysis of a new mechanism for sheep shearing machine. In 13th National Conference on Mechanisms and Machines, Bangalore, India, 7 pages, 12-13 December 2007.
  • Rane, S., Grover, V., Vashista, V., Jere, A., & Saha, S. K. (2007). Computer aided analysis of a sheep shearing machine. Nat. Conf. on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering ETME-07, NIT-Surat.