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• Book published in the area of swarm intelligence-based optimization. K. N. Kaipa and D. Ghose. Glowworm Swarm Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 698, Springer-Verlag, 2017. ISBN: 978-3-319-51594-6 (Print) 978-3-319-51595-3 (Online).
• Best Paper Award. ASME Computer-Aided Product and Process Development Technical Committee's Prakash Krishnaswamy Best Paper Award, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE), Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2017.
• Outstanding Teaching Award. For the graduate course, Planning for Autonomous Robots, taught at the University of Maryland in spring 2016.

1. K. N. Kaipa, A. S. Kankanhalli-Nagendra, N. B. Kumbla, S. Shriyam, S. S. Thevendria-Karthic, J. A. Marvel, and S. K. Gupta (2016). Addressing perception uncertainty induced failure modes in robotic bin-picking. Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing 42(1), 17-38.
2. C. W. Morato, K. N. Kaipa, and S. K. Gupta (2014). Toward safe human-robot collaboration by using multiple Kinects based real-time human tracking. ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 14(1): 011006.
3. C. W. Morato, K. N. Kaipa, and S. K. Gupta (2013). Improving assembly precedence constraint generation by utilizing motion planning and part interaction clusters, Computer-Aided Design, 45 (11): 1349-1364.
4. K. N. Kaipa, J. C. Bongard, and A. N. Meltzoff (2010). Self-discovery enables robot social cognition: Are you my teacher? Neural Networks, Special Issue on Social Cognition: Babies to Robots, 23(8-9): 1113-1124.
5. K. N. Kaipa and D. Ghose (2009). Glowworm swarm optimization for simultaneous capture of multiple local optima of multimodal functions. Swarm Intelligence, 3(2): 87-124.

• Kuka LBR iiwa Robot
• NAO Social Robot
• object 30 Prime 3D Printer
• GoScan 3D Scanner

A significant thrust in the CRAMlab is to pursue experimental robotics research with a strong belief that research of this nature immensely benefits from a rich mix of in-house robotics platforms designed/manufactured from scratch and customization of commercially available robots. To realize this dream, the CRAMlab is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment including the KUKA LBR IIWA collaborative robot, the Sawyer collaborative robot, the Dobot collaborative robot, the Nao social robot, Object 30 Prime 3D printer, Bamboo Labs 3D printer, Go-Scan 3D Scanner, Turtlebot mobile robots, Sphero robots, Festo’s Bionics4Education kits, and Hummingbird robotics kits.