Publications and Patents


Journal Publications

  1. Santhi Balaraman, Amaresh Chakrabarti, Balan Gurumoorthy, Dibakar Sen,"Automated identification of distinct events in an assembly process using tracking of body postures",Concurrent Engineering, Vol 26(2), pp. 198–207, 2018.

  2. Vikranth H. Nagaraja, Jeroen H.M. Bergmann, Dibakar Sen and Mark S. Thompson,"Examining the needs of affordable upper limb prosthetic users in India: A questionnaire based survey",Technology and Disability, Vol. 28 (3), pp. 101–110, 2016.

  3. Nitesh Bhatia, Dibakar Sen, Anand V Pathak,"A functional vision based human simulation framework for complex social system design."International Journal of Design Sciences & Technology 22.1 (2016).

  4. Onkar, Prasad S., Dibakar Sen,"Controlled direct 3D sketching with haptic and motion constraints." International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology 8.1-2 (2016): 33-55.

  5. K Ramakrishna, Dibakar Sen,"A note on enveloping curves in plane."Mechanism and Machine Theory 105 (2016): 510-514.

  6. G. Kalyan Ramana, Dibakar Sen,“Dynamic synthesis of single d.o.f. mechanisms”, Journal of Spacecraft Technology, Vol. 26(2), July 2015, pp. 1-10.

  7. K Ramakrishna, Dibakar Sen, "Transitory second-order reciprocal connection for two surfaces in point contact", Mechanism and Machine Theory 86, 73-87, 2015.

  8. Kumari Moothedath Chandran, Prajakta Prabhune, Dibakar Sen, "Sound Association for Product-Sound Design Using Semiotics", ICoRD’15–Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 1, 491-503, 2015.

  9. Abinash Kumar Swain, Dibakar Sen, B. Gurumoorthy, "Extended liaison as an interface between product and process model in assembly", Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing 30 (5), 527-545, 2014.

  10. K Ramakrishna, Dibakar Sen, "Curvature based mobility analysis and form closure of smooth planar curves with multiple contacts", Mechanism and Machine Theory 75, 131-149, 2014.

  11. Manan Deb, Dibakar Sen, "Design of double toggle switching mechanisms", Mechanism and Machine Theory 71, 163-190, 2014.

  12. Manan Deb, Dibakar Sen"Parametric study of the behavior of double toggle switching mechanisms."Mechanism and Machine Theory 63 (2013): 8-27.

  13. Vinayak, Dibakar Sen,"A vision modeling framework for DHM using geometrically estimated FoV."Computer-Aided Design 44.1 (2012): 15-28.

  14. Hariharan Krishnamurthy, Dibakar Sen,"Deriving statistical fit contours and shape of an aerosol mask from 3D head scans."International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation 2.4 (2011): 293-313.

  15. Prasad S.Onkar, Dibakar Sen,"Functional segmentation of strokes for product sketch understanding."International Journal of Shape Modeling 16.01n02 (2010): 9-38.

  16. Dhanannjay Deo, Dibakar Sen,"Mesh processing for computerized facial anthropometry."Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering 10.1 (2010): 011007.

  17. Avinash Dawari, Dibakar Sen,"Relation between part position and kinematic freedom: An expository survey."Mechanism and Machine Theory 45.2 (2010): 157-169.

  18. Vinayak and Dibakar Sen,"Geometric estimation of fov for vision modeling in DHM."SAE International Journal of Passenger Cars-Mechanical Systems 2.2009-01-2294 (2009): 1614-1625.

  19. Nagesh Singh and Dibakar Sen,"A geometric approach for determining inner and exterior boundaries of workspaces of planar manipulators."Journal of Mechanical Design 130.2 (2008): 022306.

  20. Dibakar Sen and T.K. Srikanth,"Efficient computation of volume fractions for multi-material cell complexes in a grid by slicing."Computers & Geosciences 34.7 (2008): 754-782.

  21. Dibakar Sen and Nagesh Singh,"Workspace Analysis of Planar Mechanisms"ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, February 2008,(doi:10.1115/1.2821385).

  22. Dibakar Sen and T.K. Srikanth,“Efficient Computation of Volume Fraction of Non-Manifold solids and 3D Cell Classification via Slice Representation”, Computers and Geosciences – In Press."

  23. Dibakar Sen and Vyankatesh Joshi,"Issues in geometric synthesis of mechanisms."Mechanism and machine theory 39.12 (2004): 1321-1330.

  24. Dibakar Sen, Sanjib Chowdhury and Shashank Ram Pandey,"Geometric design of interference-free planar linkages."Mechanism and machine theory 39.7 (2004): 737-759.

  25. Dibakar Sen and T.S. Mruthyunjaya,"Synthesis of workspaces of planar manipulators with arbitrary topology using shape representation and simulated annealing."Mechanism and Machine Theory 34.3 (1999): 391-420.

  26. Dibakar, Sen, and T. S. Mruthyunjaya,"A computational geometry approach for determination of boundary of workspaces of planar manipulators with arbitrary topology."Mechanism and Machine theory 34.1 (1999): 149-169.

  27. Dibakar Sen and T.S. Mruthyunjaya,"A centro-based characterization of singularities in the workspace of planar closed-loop manipulators."Mechanism and Machine Theory 33.8 (1998): 1091-1104.

  28. Dibakar Sen and T.S. Mruthyunjaya,"The question of minimax loop-size in planar homogeneous kinematic chains."Mechanism and machine theory 31.6 (1996): 821-829.

  29. Dibakar Sen and T.S. Mruthyunjaya,"A discrete state perspective of manipulator workspaces."Mechanism and machine theory 29.4 (1994): 591-605.

Conferences and Symposia

  1. Ramakrishna K, Dibakar Sen,"DFM for Non-Assembly RP of Mechanisms”, Proceedings of the 14th IFToMM World Congress, Taipei, Taiwan Oct 25-30, 2015, pp. 101-110.

  2. Nitesh Bhatia, Dibakar Sen, Anand V Pathak, “Modeling Visually Guided Hand Reach for Digital Human Models”, Procedia Manufacturing, Vol.3, pp.3820-3827, 2015.

  3. Nitesh Bhatia, Dibakar Sen, Anand V Pathak, “Visual Behaviour Analysis of Human Performance in Precision Tasks”, In: Proc. 12th International Conference, EPCE 2015, HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, pp.95-106. (DOI: 10.1007/978- 3-319-20373-7_10), Ed. Don Harris, LNCS Vol. 9174.

  4. B Santhi, B Gurumoorthy, Amaresh Chakrabarti, Dibakar Sen, “Assessment of Cause of Difficulty in Assembly Tasks”, Proc. ICoRD'15-Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 1, pp.563-572, 2015.

  5. B Santhi, Amaresh Chakrabarti, B Gurumoorthy, Dibakar Sen, “Identification of Distinct Events in an Assembly by Automatically Tracking Body Postures”, Proc. ICoRD'15-Research into Design Across Boundaries, Volume 2, pp.327-338, 2015.

  6. Chandran Kumari Moothedath, Prabhune Prajakta, Dibakar Sen, “Sound Association for Product-Sound Design Using Semiotics”, Proc. ICoRD'15-Research into Design Across Boundaries, Volume 1, pp.491-503, 2015.

  7. G. Kalyan Ramana, Dibakar Sen, “Detection of Fractionated DOF and its Varieties using Modular Kinematics”, Proc. of 1st International and 16th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms, iNaCoMM 2013, IIT Roorkee, India, Dec 18-20, 2013.

  8. C. Koteshwar Rao, R. Pandiyan, S. Ravishankar, H. N. V. Dutt, Dibakar Sen, B. Gurumoorthy, “One Way ANOVA for Evaluating 3D Scanners for Industrial Applications”, Coordinate Metrology Society Conference, San Diego, USA, July 22-26, 2013.

  9. Ramakrishna K., Dibakar Sen, “Infinitesimal Mechanisms Analogy for Immobilization”, Proc. of 1st International and 16th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms, iNaCoMM 2013, IIT Roorkee, India, Dec 18-20, 2013.

  10. Prasad S. Onkar, Dibakar Sen, “Issues in Sketch Based Collaborative Conceptual Design”, ICoRD’13, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engg. A. Chakrabarti and V. Prakash (eds.), Springer India 2013, pp. 655-666, DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1050-4_52.

  11. Sarath Reddi, Dibakar Sen, “Relation-Based Posture Modeling for DHM”, ICoRD’13, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engg. A. Chakrabarti and V. Prakash (eds.), Springer India 2013, pp. 463- 475, DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1050-4_37.

  12. Prasad S. Onkar, Dibakar Sen, “Behaviour Simulation in Computer Aided Product Concept Sketching”, CIRP Design 2012, A. Chakrabarti (ed.), Springer-Verlag London 2013, pp 181- 191.

  13. Prasad Onkar, Dibakar Sen, “Constrained 3D Sketching with Haptics and Active Motion Annotation”, In: , Proceedings of TMCE 2012, May 7-11, 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany, I. Horváth, et al (eds), pp. 527-540.

  14. Yoganand Garimella and Dibakar Sen, “Link Geometry Synthesis for Prescribed Inertia”, In: Proceedings of 15th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms, NaCoMM 2011, IIT Madras, India, Nov 30 – Dec 02, 2011.

  15. Abinash Swain, Dibakar Sen, B. Gurumoorthy, “Concurrent Evolution of Assembly Process Model with Product Model Towards Integrated Product Definition”, Proc. Int. Conf. Trends in Product Life Cycle, Modeling, Simulation and Synthesis (PSMSS 2011), December 5-7, 2011, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore (India).

  16. Sarath Reddi, Dibakar Sen, “A Novel Scheme for Modeling Kinematic Structures of DHMs with Mutable Fixations”, Proc. Int. Conf. Trends in Product Life Cycle, Modeling, Simulation and Synthesis (PSMSS 2011), December 5-7, 2011, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore (India).

  17. J.S. Vipin, Dibakar Sen, “Simulating Grasping Behavior of People Using the Relational Description Scheme”, paper no. 2170, 1st International Symposium on Digital Human Modeling, June 14-16, 2011 Lyon (France).

  18. Sarath Reddi and Dibakar Sen, “Geometry of Static Balancing During Posture Transition”, In: 1st International Symposium on Digital Human Modeling (DHM2011), June 14-16, 2011, Lyon, France.

  19. S. Moya, Dibakar Sen, A. Dawari, P.S. Onkar, Mapping Joint ROM on a Cube Using Electromagnetic Trackers In: 1st International Symposium on Digital Human Modeling (DHM2011), Lyon, France, June 14-16, 2011.

  20. Sreeram Nurani Ramasubramanian, Ramakrishna K., Dibakar Sen, Design for Additive Manufacturing of Products Containing Articulated Mechanisms”, In: Proc. 2nd International and 17th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms, iNaCoMM2015, IIT-Kanpur, India, Dec 16-19, 2015.

  21. Avinash Dawari, B Santhi, V Chandana, Amaresh Chakrabarti, Dibakar Sen, B Gurumoorthy, Howard Appelman, “Developing a virtual environment for aiding assessment and improvement of assemblability of aerospace structures, In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research into Design Engineering – ICoRD’11, Bangalore, India, 10-12 January 2011.

  22. Manan Deb, Dibakar Sen, "A Simulation Based Study of the Kinematic and Dynamic Behaviour of a Double Toggle Mechanism", Proc. First IFToMM Asian Conference on Mechanism and Machine Science.October 21 - 25, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.

  23. Avinash Dawari, Dibakar Sen, "Through the Screen 3D Interaction", Proceedings of TMCE 2010, April 12-16, 2010, Ancona, Italy, 1325-1326.

  24. Ashvinikumar Patil, Dibakar Sen, "Haptics Aided Kinematic Assembly Modeling and Efficient Determination of Joint Ranges of Motion", Proceedings of the 14th National Conference on Mechanisms and Machines NaCoMM 2009, Durgapur, 17-18 December 2009.

  25. Abinash Kumar Swain, Dibakar Sen, B. Gurumoorthy, "Associativity Between Product Model and Process Model", The 6th International conference on Product Lifecycle Management, University of Bath, Bath ,UK, 06th -08th July, 2009

  26. J.S Vipin and Dibakar Sen, "Relational Description to Parametric Evolution of Mudras", SAE Digital Human Modeling Conference, Gotenberg, Sweden, June 2009. DOI: 10.4271/2009-01- 2276

  27. Prasad S. Onkar, Dibakar Sen, “A Review of Product Sketching in Early Phases of Design”, International Conference on Research into Design ICoRD09, January 7-9 2009, Bangalore, INDIA

  28. Surbhi Pratap and Dibakar Sen, “Packaging for Usage: Seeds of Inspirations in Nature”, In 2nd Design Creativity Workshop DCW08, 22 June 2008, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.

  29. Venkatesh G.S, Dibakar Sen and Amaresh Chakrabarti, "Issues in Achievement of Haptic Realism", International Conference on Trends in Product Life Cycle, Modeling, Simulation and Synthesis PLMSS-2008.

  30. Sarath Reddy, Dibakar Sen: "Task Dependent Boundary Mannequins in Statistical DHM", SAE Technical Paper 2008-01-1890, 2008, doi:10.4271/2008-01-1890.

  31. Dibakar Sen, Vinayak, "On a Novel Geometric Representation of Rotation,"SAE Technical Paper 2008-01-1894, 2008, doi:10.4271/2008-01-1894.

  32. J.S. Vipin, Dibakar Sen, "Describing Hand Postures: Inspirations from Classical ‘Mudras’," SAE Technical Paper 2008-01-1904, 2008, doi:10.4271/2008-01-1904.

  33. Avinash Dawari, Dibakar Sen, “Relation of Part Positions and Kinematic Freedom: A Survey”, Proceedings of the 13th National Conference on Mechanisms and Machines NaCoMM 2007, Bangalore, 12-13 December 2007, pp. 53-65.

  34. B. Mukesh Prabhakar, Dibakar Sen, J.S. Vipin, “Modeling Human Hand for DHM Applications”, International Ergonomics Conference HWWE2007, Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal (INDIA), 10-12 December 2007.

  35. Sarath Reddy and Dibakar Sen, “On the Stochastic Nature of the Reach of People”, SAE Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering Conference and Exhibition, Seattle, USA, June 12-14, 2007, SAE paper number 2007-01-2479.

  36. Sarath Reddy and Dibakar Sen, “studies on Reach Probability of Stochastic Dyads for Digital Human Modeling”, Electronic Proceedings of the IFToMM 2007 World Congress 2007, http://www.iftomm2007.com/, Besancon France, June 17-21, 2007,

  37. Vinayak and Dibakar Sen, “Studies on the Steering of a Single-degree-of-freedom Hexapod”, Electronic Proceedings of the IFToMM 2007 World Congress 2007, http://www.iftomm2007.com/, Besancon France, June 17-21, 2007,

  38. Dibakar Sen, B.P. Nagaraj and S. Bathrinath: “Kinematic Design of a Large Deployable Rim Truss”, Conference on Advances in Space Science and Technology, CASST’2007, January 29- 31, 2007, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA.

  39. Yogesh Kumar Baghel and Dibakar Sen, “An Acoustical Enclosure for Noise Control of a Domestic Mixer Grinder”, Proceedings of International Ergonomics Conference HWWE-2005, December 10-12, 2005, IIT Guawahati (INDIA), pp. 168-173.

  40. Ashish Gupta and Dibakar Sen, “Mapping of Glare Affected Region (GAR) on an Eyewear for Selective Glare Protection in Night Driving”, Proceedings of International Ergonomics Conference HWWE-2005, December 10-12, 2005, IIT Guawahati (INDIA), pp. 186-194.

  41. Amit Kumar Singh and Dibakar Sen, “Experimental Determination of Thumb Workspace”, Proceedings of International Ergonomics Conference HWWE-2005, December 10-12, 2005, IIT Guawahati (INDIA), pp. 223-228.

  42. Dibakar Sen, “Ab Initio Design and Prototyping of a Tea Plucking Machine: A Case Study”, accepted for presentation in the 12th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms (NaCoMM-2005), December 16-17, 2005, IIT Guawahati.

  43. Rajeev Lochana and Dibakar Sen, “Studies on a Novel Constant Velocity Mechanism and Exploring its Use in Deployable Structures”, proceedings of the 5th National Seminar and Exhibition on Aerospace and Related Mechanisms, ARMS2005, ISAC (ISRO) Bangalore 18-19 November 2005. (Awarded “Best Paper” of the conference).

  44. Dhanannjay Deo and Dibakar Sen, “Mesh Processing for Computerized Anthropometry” proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information In Engineering Conference Long Beach, California (USA), September 24-28, 2005.

  45. Manish Agrawal and Dibakar Sen, “Voxelization of Polyhedral Solids via Slicing”, accepted for presentation at CAD’05, the 2005 International CAD Conference, Bangkok, Thailand 20-24 June 2005.

  46. Dhanannjay Deo and Dibakar Sen, “Automatic Recognition of Facial Features and Landmarking of Digital Human Head”, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer-Aided Industrial Design and Conceptual Design, TU Delft, The Netherlands 29-31 May 2005.

  47. Dibakar Sen, “Towards Automatic Design of Mechanisms”, National Symposium on Mechanisms and Design, IISc, Bangalore, July 25, 2003, (paper not peer reviewed).

  48. Tula Ram Ban and Dibakar Sen,”Graph Based Toplogical Analysis of Tessellated Surfaces”, Proc. 8th ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, Seattle, June 16-20, 2003, pp. 274-279.

  49. S. Adithya and Dibakar Sen, “Surface Reconstruction from Multi-Valued Grid Data”, Proc. 4th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, ICME2001, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 26-28, 2001. v3 sec. VII, pp. 29-33.

  50. Dibakar Sen and S.S. Venugopal, “Modular Kinematics of Spatial Mechanisms”, Proc. National Conference on Mechanisms and Machines, NaCoMM 2001, IIT Kharagpur, (eds. R. Bhattacharyya and A.R. Mohanty) Dec. 21-22, 2001, pp. 111-120.

  51. S. Srivastava, D. Sen, T.S..Mruthyunjaya and T. M. Rao, “Dynamic Force Analysis of Exhaust Nozzle Linkage Mechanism of Military Aero Gas Turbine”, Proc. Of the International Conference on Aerospace Sciences and Aviation Technology, Cairo, May 8-10, 2001.

  52. Dibakar Sen and K. Ratnakar, “A Simple Method for Automatic Sketching of Kinematic Chains”, Proc. Ninth National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms – NACOMM’99, Bombay, (eds. B. Seth and K.K. Issac), 1999, pp. 247-259.

  53. Dibakar Sen and T.S. Mruthyunjaya, “MMTOOL: A Software for Analysis and Synthesis of Planar Mechanisms and Workspaces”, Proc. Tenth World Congress on the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms – IFToMM’99, Oulu, Finland, June 20-24, 1999.

  54. Dibakar Sen and T.S. Mruthyunjaya, “Automatic Kinematic Analysis of Multi D.O.F. Planar Dyadic Mechanisms: A Geometric Approach”, Proc. Seventh National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms – NACOMM’95, January 1996, pp B17-B24.

  55. Dibakar Sen, Bhaskar Dasgupta and T.S. Mruthyunjaya, “A General Scheme for the Dynamic Force Analysis of Planar Mechanisms”, Proc. Ninth World Congress on the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms – IFToMM’95, Milan, Vol.2, 1995, pp 894-898.

  56. Dibakar Sen and T.S. Mruthyunjaya, “Effect of a Point-Obstacle on the Workspace of a Closed- Loop Manipulator”, Proc. Ninth World Congress on the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms – IFToMM’95, Milan, Vol.3, 1995, pp 1971-1976.

  57. Dibakar Sen and T.S. Mruthyunjaya, “Rotatability Analysis of Five-Bar Linkage”, Proc. National Conference on Design of Mechanical Systems – NACOMM’93, Kharagpur, (ed. B.C. Majumdar), 1993, pp 174-184.

  58. Dibakar Sen and T.S. Mruthyunjaya, “Studies on a New Snake-Like Manipulator”, ASME DEVol.45, Robotics, Spatial Mechanisms, and Mechanical Systems, 1992, pp. 423-438.

  59. Dibakar Sen and T.S. Mruthyunjaya, “New Graphical Methods for Transmission Angle Optimization and Satisfaction of Link Ratios in Synthesis of Crank-Rocker Mechanism” , Proc. National Conference on Design Engineering – NACOMM’91, Madras, (eds. N. Siva Prasad and M.A. Parameswaran), 1991, pp 249-256.



    60. Patents



    1. Dibakar Sen, Mona Sharma, Himanshu Mishra, "A harvesting machine and method thereof", Indian Patent No. 258738; Granted on: 03.02.2014; Sri Lanka Patent Application 16293.

    2. Dibakar Sen, J.E. Diwakar,Santosh Jagtap,Kishore Tikale, "A geometric construction device for visually impaired and methods thereof", Indian Patent No. 262786; Granted on: 12.09.2014

    3. Dibakar Sen, J.E. Diwakar,Aniruddh Jain, Rachna Miskin, "Multi-Positional Chair" Indian Patent Application 710/CHE/2011.

    4. Dibakar Sen, J.E. Diwakar, V. Vinay, Nilesh Walke, "Multi-Grasping And Articulated Trans-radial Prosthesis", Indian Patent Application 1554/CHE/2013.

    5. Dibakar Sen, Mukunda Madhava Nath, Nitin Gupta, "A Bicycle Seat Assembly", Indian Patent Application 2105/CHE/2013.

    6. Dibakar Sen, J.E. Diwakar, Mukunda Madhava Nath, Nitin Gupta, "Device for Wrapping and Collection of Fibrous Material", Indian Patent Application 3547/CHE/2013.