BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Asim Kumar Naskar Obtained his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering and M.Tech in Control Systems both from the Electrical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, India, He received a Ph.D. degree in Control Systems from the Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He joined NIT Rourkela as an Assistant Professor in the year 2014. He is currently working as an Assisociate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela. His research interests include Robust Control, Control Allocation, Convex optimization, and Consensus-based Control.
EXPERTISE INFORMATION
Research Group
- Control and Automation
Areas of Interest
- Consensus, Formation, Robust control, Kalman filtering, Localization, Convex Optimization, Control allocation
Asim Kumar Naskar
असीम कुमार नस्कर
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
naskara@nitrkl.ac.in
0661 - 246 2408
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP)37
PUBLICATIONS4
SPONSORED PROJECTS9
DOCTORAL STUDENTS2
CONTINUING EDUCATIONPERSONAL INFORMATION
Asim Kumar Naskar
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
Room Number: EE-226
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008
Ph.D. (IIT., Kharagpur)
Robot-Assited automated and behavioral inventions system for children with autism spectrum disorder. Science & Engineering Research Board(SERB)
- Co-Investigator
- 36
- Completed Sponsored
Localization of autonomous underwater vehicle for offshore monitoring maintenance and exploration. SERB
- Co-Investigator
- 36
- Completed Sponsored
Robot operating system (ROS) based reconfigurable flight control module design for multirotor dromes. SERB
- Principal Investigator
- 36
- Completed Sponsored
Design, development and prototyping of state of the art Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) based high power high speed Electric Vehicle (EV) drive train for a Multy Utility Vehicle (MUV). SERB, DST
- Co-Investigator
- 36
- Completed Sponsored
A. Nandy, S. Biswas, and A. K. Naskar,"ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR INDOOR HUMAN INTERACTION AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING THEREOF",IN 574589, Granted to NIT Rourkela, 2025 << Patent >>
A. Nandy, S. Biswas, A. K. Naskar, and S. Sahoo,"ASSISTIVE ROBOTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING SOCIAL SKILLS IN USER WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER",IN 579221, Granted to NIT Rourkela, 2026 << Patent >>
Total Publications: 37
S. Biswas, S. Mahapatra, A. Nandy, and A. K. Naskar,"Edge-based robot-assisted hand gesture recognition for autism intervention using hybrid keyframe selection and contrastive learning", IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, vol.8, no.2, pp.811-822, IEEE, May 2026, 10.1109/TMRB.2026.3680976 Article
S. Biswas, S. Biswas, A. Biswas, A. Nandy, and A. K. Naskar,"Embedded AI-Driven multimodal human activity recognition Using RGB–D sensor data and cross-modality attention", IEEE Sensors Journal, vol.26, no.9, pp.13818-13829, IEEE, May 2026, 10.1109/JSEN.2026.3673365 Article
S. Biswas, G. H. Reddy, A. Nandy, and A. K. Naskar,"ATR-Net: Attention-based temporal-refinement network for efficient facial emotion recognition in human–robot interaction", Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, pp.104720, Elsevier, March 2026, 10.1016/j.jvcir.2026.104720 Article
S. Biswas, A. Nandy, and A. K. Naskar,"Lightweight multimodal feature fusion and spatiotemporal learning for human action recognition on edge devices", IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, vol.1, no.1, pp.982-995, IEEE, February 2026, 10.1109/TETCI.2025.3616054 Article
S. Biswas, R. Saw, A. Nandy, and A. K. Naskar,"Attention-enabled hybrid convolutional neural network for enhancing human–robot collaboration through hand gesture recognition", Computers and Electrical Engineering, vol.123, Elsevier, April 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2024.110020 Article
Three Days Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Robotics Applications Computer Science and Engineering (Workshop)
- Coordinator
- 21 Jun 2024 - 23 Jun 2024
- Brochure
OPTIMIZATION AND ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES IN CONTROL APPLICATIONS Electrical Engineering (Short-term Course)
- Co-Coordinator
- 12 Jun 2018 - 16 Jun 2018
- Brochure
- Basic Electrical Engineering {Theory}
- Industrial Process Automation {Theory}
- Linear System Theory {Theory}
- Optimal and Robust Control {Theory}
- Optimal Control {Theory}
- Optimization in Systems and Control {Theory}
- Optimization Techniques {Theory}
- Principles of Control Systems Engineering {Theory}
- Robotics and Automation {Theory}
- Robust Control {Theory}
- Systems and Control Theory {Theory}
- Advanced Control System Laboratory {Practical}
- Automation Technology Laboratory {Practical}
- Basic Electrical Engineering Laboratory {Practical}
- Control Systems Laboratory {Practical}
- Control Systems Simulation Laboratory {Practical}
- Control Systems Simulation Laboratory - I {Practical}
- Control Systems Simulation Laboratory - II {Practical}
- Electrical Engineering Laboratory {Practical}
- Embedded Control Laboratory {Practical}
- Embedded Systems Laboratory {Practical}
- Product Development Laboratory - I {Practical}
- Product Development Laboratory - II {Practical}
Ph.D. Students [9]
Developing Multimodal Deep Learning Framework for Human Robot Interaction
Sougatamoy BiswasEnrolled: May 2022Graduated : Jun 2026Co-Supervisor
Model Order Reduction Methods: Improvements and Applications
Bala Bhaskar DuddetiEnrolled: Jul 2019Graduated : Sep 2025Supervisor
Distributed Robust Formation Control for Multi-Agent Systems: An LMI Approach
Arnab PalEnrolled: Jul 2018Graduated : Oct 2025Supervisor
Design and Development of Current-Sensorless Peak Current Mode Controlled Switched Converters
Subhrashree PritichhandaEnrolled: Jul 2016Graduated : Sep 2024Co-Supervisor
Design and Real-time Implementation of Robust Control Schemes for Twin Rotor Multivariable System
Smruti Ranjan JagadebEnrolled: Jul 2014Graduated : Jan 2024Co-Supervisor
Machine Learning Based Sensor Fault Detection Schemes for Plasma Position Control in Tokamak
Debashish MohapatraEnrolled: Jan 2016Graduated : Jun 2021Co-Supervisor
Critical Delay Computation, Overlapping Interaction Selection and Output Feedback Design for Decentralized Control Systems
Pradosh Ranjan SahooEnrolled: Jul 2012Graduated : Apr 2019Co-Supervisor
PID Controller Design for Integrating Plus Time-Delay Processes
Sudipta ChakrabortyEnrolled: Jul 2014Graduated : Dec 2018Supervisor
Battery Management System
Swastik AcharyaEnrolled: Nov 2023ContinuingCo-Supervisor
Memberships / Fellowships
- IEEE, 10
- PIC - Centre for Industrial Electronics and Robotics