Sanjeevi Nakka

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Monday, June 2, 2025

Professional Experience: 

- Assistant Professor, NITK Surathkal (Jun 2025 - Present)
- Assistant Professor, Mahindra University, Hyderabad (Aug 2023 - May 2025)
- Research Associate, Human-Centered Robotics Lab, IIT Gandhinagar (Sep 2022 - July 2023)
- Visiting Research Scholar, ReNeu Robotics Laboratory, UT Austin (May 2019 - Aug 2019)

Contact Details

E-mail: 

sanjeevinakka@nitk.edu.in
nsssanjeevi@gmail.com

Mobile: 

+91-9902273630
Academic Background

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – IIT Gandhinagar Gujarat, India (Jun-2023)
M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering – IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India (July-2017)
B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering – Amrita University - Bangalore, Karnataka, India (May-2014)

Areas of Interest

- Wearable & Rehabilitation Robotics
- Cable Driven Robotics
- Exoskeletons
- Musculoskeletal Simulations
- Human-Robot Interaction

Significant Projects

- Design and Development of Cable-Driven Leg Exoskeleton
- Design and Development of Planar 2-link Cable-Driven Manipulator
- Modelling and Control of Upper limb Cable-Driven Exosuit

Significant Publications

Journals:
- Alapati, Sreejan, Deep Seth, Sanjeevi Nakka, and Yannick Aoustin. "Validation of Cable-Driven Experimental Setup to Assess Movements Made with Elbow Joint Assistance." Applied Sciences 15, no. 4 (2025): 1892.
- Nakka, Sanjeevi, and Vineet Vashista. "External dynamics dependent human gait adaptation using a cable-driven exoskeleton." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 8, no. 9 (2023): 6036-6043.
- Sanjeevi, N. S. S., and Vineet Vashista. "Stiffness modulation of a cable-driven serial-chain manipulator via cable routing alteration." Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics 15, no. 2 (2023): 021009.
- Sanjeevi, N. S. S., and Vineet Vashista. "Stiffness modulation of a cable-driven leg exoskeleton for effective human–robot interaction." Robotica 39, no. 12 (2021): 2172-2192.
- Sanjeevi, N. S. S., Yogesh Singh, and Vineet Vashista. "Recent advances in lower-extremity exoskeletons in promoting performance restoration." Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering 20 (2021): 100338.

Conference Proceedings:
- Nakka, Sanjeevi. "Lower Limb Musculoskeletal Stiffness Analysis of Crouch Gait During Swing Phase Modelled as a Cable-Driven Serial Chain System." In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 250-261. Springer, Cham, 2025.
- Nakka, Sanjeevi, and Vineet Vashista. "Manipulability Analysis of Cable-Driven Serial Chain Manipulators." In International Conference on Cable-Driven Parallel Robots, pp. 16-29. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.
- Singh, Randheer, Nakka Surya Satya Sanjeevi, and Vineet Vashista. "Upper limb musculoskeletal stiffness analysis during planar motions as a cable-driven serial chain manipulator." In Proceedings of the 2023 6th International Conference on Advances in Robotics, pp. 1-7. 2023.
- Nakka, Sanjeevi, Raima Sen, and Vineet Vashista. "Lower-limb Muscle Force analysis for a Knee Joint Intervention Strategy." In Proceedings of the 2021 5th International Conference on Advances in Robotics, pp. 1-6. 2021.
- Sanjeevi, N. S. S., Bharg Mehta, and Madhu Vadali. "Preliminaries on dynamic modelling of flexible manipulators." In 2019 Sixth Indian Control Conference (ICC), pp. 356-360. IEEE, 2019.
- Iyer, S. Srikesh, Joel V. Joseph, N. S. S. Sanjeevi, Yogesh Singh, and Vineet Vashista. "Development and applicability of a cable-driven wearable adaptive rehabilitation suit (WeARS)." In 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2019.
- Sanjeevi, N. S. S., and Vineet Vashista. "Effect of cable co-sharing on the workspace of a cable-driven serial chain manipulator." In Proceedings of the 2019 4th International Conference on Advances in Robotics, pp. 1-6. 2019.
- Panchal, Nevilkumar, N. S. S. Sanjeevi, and Vineet Vashista. "Lower limb musculoskeletal stiffness analysis during swing phase as a cable-driven serial chain system." In 2018 7th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (Biorob), pp. 934-939. IEEE, 2018.'
- Sanjeevi, N. S. S., and Vineet Vashista. "On the stiffness analysis of a cable driven leg exoskeleton." In 2017 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), pp. 455-460. IEEE, 2017.
- Sanjeevi, N. S. S., and Vineet Vashista. "Workspace analysis of a cable driven leg exoskeleton." In Proceedings of the 2017 3rd International Conference on Advances in Robotics, pp. 1-6. 2017.

Book Chapters:
- Sanjeevi, N. S. S., and Vineet Vashista. "Effect of passive springs on taskspace stiffness of a cable-driven serial chain manipulator." In Recent Advances in Machines and Mechanisms: Select Proceedings of the iNaCoMM 2021, pp. 601-612. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022.

Achievements

- Travel grant to attend CableCon conference by SERB ITS, 2023.
- SP Mehrotra Research Fellowship, IIT Gandhinagar, 2022
- Fully funded grant to visit University of Texas Austin as Visiting Scholar, SPARC 2019
- Best Young Speaker, Human Centered Robotics Workshop, University of Jaffna, 2019

 

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Professor and Head

Department of Mechanical Engineering

National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK)

Surathkal

P. O. Srinivasnagar, Mangaluru - 575 025 Karnataka, India.

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