About me

I am the Chief Applied Scientist - Medical Robotics at Addverb Technologies (India). Prior to that, I worked as a Lead Engineer (Robot Motion) at FingerVision Inc. (Japan) and as a Senior Robotics Engineer at TechMagic KK (Japan). I received Ph.D. degree from the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan). I developed robotic clothing assistance (a robotic system to assist the elderly in getting them dressed up) during my Ph.D.

Projects

Dishwashing Automation
M-Robo
Finibo
Electric Wheelchair-Humanoid Robot Collaboration for Clothing Assistance
Quantitative Evaluation of Clothing Assistance using Robotic Simulator
ROS OpenPose

Publications

Ravi Prakash Joshi, Jayant Prasad Tarapure, and Tomohiro Shibata. “Electric Wheelchair-Humanoid Robot Collaboration for Clothing Assistance of the Elderly”. In: 13th International Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI). Tokyo, Japan, 2020, pp. 300-306. DOI: 10.1109/HSI49210.2020.9142645. URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/HSI49210.2020.9142645

Ravi Prakash Joshi, Nishanth Koganti, and Tomohiro Shibata. “A Framework for Robotic Clothing Assistance by Imitation Learning”. In: Advanced Robotics 33.22 (2019), pp. 1156–1174. DOI: 10.1080/01691864.2019.1636715. URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2019.1636715

Ravi Prakash Joshi, Tomohiro Shibata, Kunihiro Ogata, and Yoshio Matsumoto. “Quantitative Evaluation of Clothing Assistance using Whole-Body Robotic Simulator of the Elderly”. In: 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). New Delhi, India, Oct. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN46459.2019.8956308

Ravi Prakash Joshi, Jayant Prasad Tarapure, and Tomohiro Shibata. “A Study on the Electric Wheelchair-Humanoid Collaboration for Clothing Assistance of the Elderly”. In: Late Breaking Results at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Macau, China, 2019. URL: https://www.iros2019.org/LBRposter

Salvador Blanco Negrete, Ravi Prakash Joshi, Rollyn Labuguen, Jumpei Matsumoto, and Tomohiro Shibata. “Mouse Anatomical Cardinal Planes and Axes Towards Augmentation for Behavior Analysis”. In: Joint 7th International Conference on Informatics, Electronics Vision (ICIEV) and 2nd International Conference on Imaging, Vision Pattern Recognition (icIVPR). Kitakyushu, Japan, June 2018, pp. 195–199. DOI: 10.1109/ICIEV.2018.8641000

Ratan S. Othayoth, Rajeevlochana G. Chittawadigi, Ravi P. Joshi, and Subir K. Saha. “Robot Kinematics Made Easy using RoboAnalyzer Software”. In: Computer Applications in Engineering Education 25.5 (2017), pp. 669–680. DOI: 10.1002/cae.21828. URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/cae.21828

Riby Abraham Boby, Ravi Prakash Joshi, Subir Kumar Saha, Takafumi Matsumaru, Pratyusha Sharma, and Siddhartha Jaitly. “Calibration and Statistical Techniques for Building an Interactive Screen for Learning of Alphabets by Children”. In: International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems 14.3 (2017), p. 1729881417703939. DOI: 10.1177/1729881417703939. URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1729881417703939

Ravi Prakash Joshi, Nishanth Koganti, and Tomohiro Shibata. “Robotic Cloth manipulation for Clothing Assistance Task using Dynamic Movement Primitives”. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Advances in Robotics. AIR ’17. New Delhi, India: ACM, 2017, 14:1–14:6. ISBN: 978-1-4503-5294-9. DOI: 10.1145/3132446.3134878

Ravi Prakash Joshi, Rithul Perathara, Rolyn Labuguen, Nishanth Koganti, and Tomohiro Shibata. “Estimating 3D Hand Location for Clothing Assistance Initialization Using Dynamic Movement Primitives”. In: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of Robotics Society of Japan. Kawagoe, Japan, 2017. URL: http://rsj2017.rsj-web.org/RSJ2017_pg02.pdf

Krati Saxena, Rollyn Labuguen, Ravi Prakash Joshi, Nishanth Koganti, and Shibata Tomohiro. “A Study on Human-Robot Collaboration for Table-setting Task”. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO). Macau, China, Dec. 2017, pp. 183–188. DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2017.8324415

Ratan Sadanand, Ravi P. Joshi, Rajeevlochana G. Chittawadigi, and Subir Kumar Saha. “Virtual Experiments for Integrated Teaching and Learning of Robot Mechanics using RoboAnalyzer”. In: 28th International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future. Kolaghat, India: Springer, 2016, pp. 59–68. ISBN: 978-81-322-2740-3

Nishanth Koganti, Ravi Prakash Joshi, Tomoya Tamei, Tomohiro Shibata, and Kazushi Ikeda. “Motor-skill Learning in Latent Spaces for Robotic Clothing Assistance”. In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of Robotics Society of Japan. Yamagata, Japan, 2016. URL: http://rsj2016.rsj-web.org/data/RSJ2016_pg.pdf

Ravi Prakash Joshi, Pratyusha Sharma, Riby Abraham Boby, Subir Kumar Saha, and Takafumi Matsumaru. “Use of Kinect Sensor for Building an Interactive Device”. In: 10th International collaboration Symposium on Information, Production and Systems (ISIPS). Kitakyushu, Japan, 2016. URL: http://www.waseda.jp/assoc-ics/2016/program.html

Ravi Prakash Joshi, Nishanth Koganti, and Tomohiro Shibata. “Robotic Cloth Manipulation for Clothing Assistance Task using Dynamic Movement Primitives”. In: 4th International Symposium on Applied Engineering and Sciences (SAES). Tobata, Japan, 2016. URL: http://www.life.kyutech.ac.jp/~saes2016/SAES3.html

Vishal Gaurav, Nishanth Koganti, Riku Nakata, Ravi Prakash Joshi, and Tom Shibata. “Cloth Extremity Detection from a Clutter of Clothes using Bayesian GPLVM”. In: International session on Robotics, Mechatronics and Control, Robotics Society of Japan. RSJ. Yamagata, Japan, 2016. URL: http://rsj2016.rsj-web.org/data/RSJ2016_pg.pdf

Vishal Gaurav, Nishanth Koganti, Riku Nakata, Ravi Prakash Joshi, and Tom Shibata. “Extremity Detection from a Pile of Garments using Bayesian GPLVM”. In: Workshop on Assistive and Service Robotics in a Human Envionment, IEEE/RSJ IROS. IEEE. Daejeon, Korea, 2016, pp. 1–6. URL: https://research02.jimu.kyutech.ac.jp/html/100000703_knkyu_prsn_en.html

Arun Dayal Udai, Subir Kumar Saha, Ravi Prakash Joshi, and Rattan Sadanand. “Force Control of Robot Manipulator using Industrial Servo Drives”. In: International Conference on Evolution in Manufacturing (ICEM). Ranchi, India, Nov. 2016, pp. 313–318. ISBN: 978-93-86256-11-9

Arun Dayal Udai, Ravi Prakash Joshi, and Subir Kumar Saha. “Depth-based Localization for Robotic Peg-in-Tube Assembly”. In: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE. Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 2015, pp. 3538–3543. DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353871

Ratan Sadanand, Rajeevlochana G. Chittawadigi, Ravi P. Joshi, and Subir Kumar Saha. “Virtual Robots Module: An Effective Visualization Tool for Robotics Toolbox”. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Advances In Robotics. AIR ’15. Goa, India: ACM, 2015, 26:1–26:6. ISBN: 978-1-4503-3356-6. DOI: 10.1145/2783449.2783475

Ravi Prakash Joshi, Riby Abraham Boby, Subir Kumar Saha, and Takafumi Matsumaru. “SAKSHAR: An Image-projective Desktop Varnamala Trainer (IDVT) for Interactive Learning of Alphabets”. In: Developing Countries Forum, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE. Washington, USA, 2015. URL: http://icra2015.org/conference/forums/11-conference/37-developing-count…

Pratyusha Sharma, Ravi Prakash Joshi, Riby Abraham Boby, Subir Kumar Saha, and Takafumi Matsumaru. “Projectable Interactive Surface using Microsoft Kinect v2: Recovering Information from Coarse Data to Detect Touch”. In: IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII). IEEE. Nagoya, Japan, Dec. 2015, pp. 795–800. DOI: 10.1109/SII.2015.7405081

Ravi Prakash Joshi, Riby Abraham Boby, Subir Kumar Saha, and Takafumi Matsumaru. “SAKSHAR: An Image-projective Desktop Varnamala Trainer (IDVT) for Interactive Learning of Alphabets”. In: 8th International collaboration Symposium on Information, Production and Systems (ISIPS). Kitakyushu, Japan, 2014. URL: http://www.waseda.jp/assoc-ics/2014/program.html

Research interest

Human-Robot Interaction

Motor Skills Learning

Assistive Robotics

Robot Kinematics

Computer Vision

Certificates

Advanced Robotics Excellent Paper Award
Best Paper - Finalists Award in HSI 2020
First Prize in HEBI Robotics Hackathon

Academics

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Graduate School of Life Science and System Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Japan.

Master of Engineering (M.E.) from Graduate School of Life Science and System Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Japan.

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Higher Secondary Education from H.G.S.S.V.M.I.C., Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India.

Secondary Education from H.G.S.S.V.M.I.C., Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India.

Professional experience

Employer Job Title Start Date End Date
Addverb Technologies, India Chief Applied Scientist (Medical Robotics) July 22, 2024 Ongoing
FingerVision Inc. Japan Lead Engineer (Robot Motion) January 05, 2023 July 03, 2024
TechMagic Corporation, Japan Senior Robotics Engineer December 01, 2020 November 22, 2022
OMRON SINIC X Corporation, Japan Internship April 01, 2020 June 30, 2020
IIT Delhi, India Senior Research Fellow May 21, 2014 August 10, 2015
IIT Delhi, India Project Staff February 05, 2014 May 04, 2014
Altair® Engineering, Bangalore, India Software QA Engineer June 18, 2012 January 31, 2014