Hareesh Chitikena

Tilknyttet UiA

Department of Engineering Sciences

Email: hareesh.chitikena@uia.no
Phone: +47 37233791
Mobile phone: +4748671291

Office D3062 (Jon Lilletuns vei 9, 4879 Grimstad, Norway)

Research groups

Areas of responsibility

I have a background in Mechanical Engineering and a Master's degree in Mechanical System Design. I have experience working as a Mechanical Design Engineer in an Automation company and working on research projects at IIT Madras, where I focused on automation, system design and development. Further, I have worked on different technologies (3D printing, Hydrogen IC engine). I also held a management position as a Project Officer at IIT Madras. I currently work in the Robotics and Mechatronics field, specifically towards Snake Robotics.

Research

Snake Robotics: Design, Modelling, and Control (Traditional and ML)

Selected publications

Robotics in Search and Rescue (SAR) Operations: An Ethical and Design Perspective Framework for response phase

Tuition

MAS601 - Design, Modelling and Simulation of Mechatronic Systems (UiA)

TTK4150 - Nonlinear Control Systems (NTNU)

IKT725 - Deep Reinforcement Learning (UiA)

ENE701 - Applied Statistics Course for Engineering (UiA)

Robotic teleoperation (University of Siena)

EX-603 - Theory of Science and Ethics (UiA)

Publications

Scientific articles and book chapters

Chitikena, Hareesh; Sanfilippo, Filippo & Ma, Shugen (2023). Robotics in Search and Rescue (SAR) Operations: An Ethical and Design Perspective Framework for Response Phase. Applied Sciences. ISSN 2076-3417. 13(3). doi: 10.3390/app13031800. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Every year, especially in urban areas, the population density rises quickly. The effects of catastrophes (i.e., war, earthquake, fire, tsunami) on people are therefore significant and grave. Assisting the impacted people will soon involve human-robot Search and Rescue (SAR) operations. Therefore, it is crucial to connect contemporary technology (i.e., robots and cognitive approaches) to SAR to save human lives. However, these operations also call for careful consideration of several factors, including safety, severity, and resources. Hence, ethical issues with technologies in SAR must be taken into consideration at the development stage. In this study, the most relevant ethical and design issues that arise when using robotic and cognitive technology in SAR are discussed with a focus on the response phase. Among the vast variety of SAR robots that are available nowadays, snake robots have shown huge potential; as they could be fitted with sensors and used for transporting tools to hazardous or confined areas that other robots and humans are unable to access. With this perspective, particular emphasis has been put on snake robotics in this study by considering ethical and design issues. This endeavour will contribute to providing a broader knowledge of ethical and technological factors that must be taken into account throughout the design and development of snake robots.

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