ABOUT RESOURCE PERSON:
Dr. Elango Natarajan is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer (CEng.) who specialises in Mechanical Engineering Design and Soft Robotics. He has been teaching Engineering courses since 1999, he has gained extensive knowledge and experience in engineering design, soft robotics relevant to soft actuator and soft robot hand. He was working as a Post doctoral research fellow for a year in Malaysia. He is a co-researcher of two funded grants under Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), Malaysia, both in Soft robotics. He has published about 10 research papers in ISI/Scopus journals. He has been involved in curriculum development, accreditation, professional membership etc. His membership details as follows
• Member of Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK (MIET, No. 1100248974).
• Member of IEEE society, (No.92273161).
• Life member of Association for Machines and Mechanisms, India. (A20110033).
• Senior Member of International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT), (No. 80337165).
• Senior Member of Singapore Institute of Electronics (SIE), (No. 80090014).
• Life member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), India (No. 38366)
Report;
The department of Mechanical engineering conducted a guest lecture on SOFT ACTUATORS FOR ROBOTIC APPLICATIONS by Dr. ELANGO NATARAJAN, Asst. Professor, Faculty of Engineering, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. on 19.12.2017. The lecture covered the topic of soft actuators for different robotic applications which clearlely explained types of soft actuators and how the soft actuators are fabricated and used suitably in the appropriate applications.
