Faculty

Areas of Interest: 

Precision machine design, Flexures, Medical devices, Robotics

Education

• Ph.D., University of Twente, Netherlands
• M.T.D., National University of Singapore & TU/e, Netherlands
• M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
• B.E., University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee)

Academic/Industrial Experience

• Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi, 2014-present
• Sr. Design Engineer, ASML, Veldhoven, Netherlands, 2013-2014
• PhD Researcher, University of Twente, Netherlands, 2009-2013
• R&D Engineer, Sunscreen (Singapore) Pte Ltd, Singapore, 2007-2008
• Research Engineer, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, A-STAR, Singapore, 2005-2008
• Research Intern, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, A-STAR, Singapore, 2004-2005
• Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2003-2003
• R&D Engineer, Daewoo Motors India Limited, 2000-2001

Selected Publications

1. 1. J.P. Khatait, D.M. Brouwer, R.G.K.M. Aarts, & J.L. Herder (2015). Improved Force Transmission of a Flexible Surgical Instrument by Combining Input Motion. Journal of Medical Devices. 9(1), 011009(Mar 01, 2015) (11 pages). [DOI: 10.1115/1.4029418]
2. J.P. Khatait, D.M. Brouwer, J. P. Meijaard, R.G.K.M. Aarts, & J.L. Herder (2013). Flexible Multibody Modeling of a Surgical Instrument Inside an Endoscope. Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics. 9(1), 011018(Dec 09, 2013) (11 pages). [DOI: 10.1115/1.4026059]
3. J.P. Khatait, D.M. Brouwer, H.M.J.R. Soemers, R.G.K.M. Aarts, & J.L. Herder (2013). Design of an Experimental Set-Up to Study the Behavior of a Flexible Surgical Instrument Inside an Endoscope. Journal of Medical Devices. 7(3), 031004(Jul 03, 2013) (12 pages). [DOI: 10.1115/1.4024660]
4. J.P. Khatait, D.M. Brouwer, R.G.K.M. Aarts, & J.L. Herder (2012). Modeling of a flexible instrument to study its sliding behavior inside a curved endoscope. Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics. 8(3), 031002(Oct 30, 2012) (10 pages). [DOI: 10.1115/1.4007539]
5. J.P. Khatait, S. Mukherjee, & B. Seth (2006). Compliant design for flapping mechanism: A minimum torque approach. Mechanism and Machine Theory. 41(1), January 2006, Pages 3-16. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2005.06.002]