Ravi Prakash Joshi | Lead Robotics Engineer | Ph.D.

About me

I am the lead engineer (robot motion) at FingerVision Inc. (a Japanese venture to expand the possibilities by enabling vision-based tactile sensing for robots). 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

M-Robo	Finibo	Electric Wheelchair-Humanoid Robot Collaboration for Clothing Assistance
Quantitative Evaluation of Clothing Assistance using Robotic Simulator	A Framework for Robotic Clothing Assistance by Imitation Learning	Robotic cloth manipulation for clothing assistance task using DMP

Publications

Ravi Prakash Joshi, Jayant Prasad Tarapure, and Tomohiro Shibata. “Electric Wheelchair-Humanoid Robot Collaboration for Clothing Assistance of the Elderly”. In: 13^th 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: 28^th 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 7^th International Conference on Informatics, Electronics Vision (ICIEV) and 2^nd 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 35^th 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: 28^th 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 34^th 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: 10^th 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: 4^th 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-countr...

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: 8^th International collaboration Symposium on Information, Production and Systems (ISIPS). Kitakyushu, Japan, 2014. URL: http://www.waseda.jp/assoc-ics/2014/program.html

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.

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Professional Experience

Employer	Job Title	Start Date	End Date
FingerVision Inc. Japan	Lead Engineer (Robot Motion)	January 05, 2023	Ongoing
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

Ravi Prakash Joshi
Lead Robotics Engineer | Ph.D. | ML Enthusiast