Publications

Journal Papers/Book Chapters/Technical Reports

1.      Sachin Chitta and Vijay Kumar, “Biking Without Pedaling”, in preparation for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.

2.      Sachin Chitta, Frederik Heger and Vijay Kumar, “Design, Analysis, Simulation and Experimental Results for a Rollerblading Robot”, in preparation for the International Journal of Robotics Research.

3.      Sachin Chitta, Peng Cheng and Vijay Kumar, RoboTrikke: A Novel Undulatory Locomotion System”, in preparation for the International Journal of Robotics Research.

4.      Michael Park, Sachin Chitta, Alex Teichman and Mark Yim, “Automatic Configuration Recognition Methods in Modular Robots”, under review for the International Journal of Robotics Research.

5.      Jimmy Sastra, Sachin Chitta and Mark Yim, “Dynamic Rolling for a Modular Loop Robot”, under review for the International Journal of Robotics Research.

6.      Sachin Chitta, “Dynamics and Control of a Class of Modular Locomotion Systems”, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, May 2005. (PDF)

7.      Sachin Chitta and J. Ostrowski, “Technical Report MS-CIS-01-08: Enumeration and Motion Planning for Modular Mobile Robots”, Technical Report, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2001. (PDF).

8.      Sachin Chitta, William Sacks, Jim Ostrowski, Aveek Das, and P. K. Mishra., “The University of Pennsylvania RoboCup Legged Soccer Team”, in A. Birk, S. Coradeschi, S. Tadokoro (Editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2377: RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V, Springer Verlag, 2001. (PDF)

9.      Jim P. Ostrowski, Ken A. McIsaac, Aveek Das, Sachin Chitta, and Julie Neiling, “The University of Pennsylvania RoboCup Legged Soccer Team”, in P. Stone, T. Balch, G. Kraetzschmar (Editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2019: RoboCup 2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV, Springer Verlag, 2000. (PDF)

Refereed Conference Papers

10.  Sachin Chitta, Paul Vernaza and Daniel Lee, “Proprioceptive Localization for a Quadrupedal Robot on Known Terrain”, accepted to the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy. (PDF)

11.  Sachin Chitta, Mustafa Karabas, Kevin Galloway and Vijay Kumar, “RoboTrikke: Design, Modeling and Experimentation with a Robotic Trikke”, in Proceedings of the 2006 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2006. (PDF)

12.  Jimmy Sastra, Sachin Chitta and Mark Yim, “Dynamic Rolling for a Modular Loop Robot”, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Rio Di Janerio, Brazil, 2006. (PDF)

13.  Sachin Chitta, and Vijay Kumar, "Biking Without Pedaling", in the International Design Engineering and Technology Conference, Long Beach, 2005. (PDF)

14.  Sachin Chitta, Peng Cheng, Emilio Frazzoli and Vijay Kumar, "RoboTrikke: A Novel Undulatory Locomotion System ", in the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, 2005. (PDF)

15.  Sachin Chitta, Frederik Heger and Vijay Kumar, “Design, Analysis, Simulation and Experimental Results for a Rollerblading Robot”, in Proceedings of the  2004 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2004.

16.  Sachin Chitta, Frederik Heger and Vijay Kumar, “Design and Gait Control of a Rollerblading Robot”, in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, 2004. (PDF)

17.  Sachin Chitta and Vijay Kumar, "Dynamics and Generation of Gaits for a Planar Rollerblader", in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, 2003. (PDF)

18.  Sachin Chitta and James P. Ostrowski, “Motion Planning for Heterogeneous Modular Mobile Systems”, in Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington D.C., 2002. (PDF)

19.  Sachin Chitta and James P. Ostrowski, “New Insights into Quasi-Static and Dynamic Omnidirectional Quadruped Walking”, in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Maui, Hawaii, 2001. (PDF)