Name M. Ramakumar Awards Padma Shri | Known for Robotics | |
Occupation Roboticist
Nuclear physicist | ||
Mallasamudram Subramanyam Ramakumar was an Indian nuclear physicist and roboticist, known for developing robotic and automation technologies for Indian defence purposes. He was the director of the Department of Nuclear Fuels, Automation and Manufacturing Group of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, (BARC) Trombay and, later, headed the Division of Remote Handling of Robotics at the organization. Ramakumar was one of the key people behind the Pokhran-II test, conducted by India in 1998. It was his team which developed the online fuelling and coolant channel inspection systems for the power reactors for the 1998 tests.
Ramakumar published several articles on Robotics and Remote handling technologies in peer reviewed journals of international repute. He was a member of the advisory board of the Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, organised by Space Applications Centre of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), at Ahmedabad, in 2002 and was an external examiner of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri in 1999.