Amit Bhardwaj

Dr. Amit Bhardwaj

Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,

IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India - 342037

Under Review

  1. S. K. Gupta, K. Datta, M. Faizan, and A. Bhardwaj, "Correlation of Tool-Tip Acceleration Metrics with Auditory Perception of Roughness," submitted to Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces(under review).
  2. R. P. Meghwanshi, A. Bhardwaj and H. Kumar, "Perceived Intensity Model of Kinesthetic Force in Two-Dimensional Plane", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Interaction (under review).
  3. T. Roy, R. Nagar and A. Bhardwaj, "Haptic Driven Neural Visual Modeling of Object Deformations", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (under review).
  4. R. Harish, K. Datta and A. Bhardwaj, "Multi-modal Material Roughness Perception: Haptic vs Auditory vs Visual", to be submitted to Eurohaptics 2026.

Book

  1. Subhasis Chaudhuri and Amit Bhardwaj, "Kinesthetic Perception - A Machine Learning Approach", Springer, NY, ISBN 978-981-10-6692-4, 2017.

Journals

  1. A. Bhardwaj, O. Dabeer and S. Chaudhuri, "Design and Analysis of Predictive Sampling of Haptic Signals,"ACM Transactions on Applied Perception ,11, 4 Article 16 (December 2014).
  2. E. Steinbach, M. Strese, M. Eid, X. Liu, A. Bhardwaj, Q. Liu, M. Al-Jaa’afrah, T. Mahmoodi, R. Hassen, A. E. Saddik, and O. Holland, "Haptic Codecs for the Tactile Internet[40pt],"Proceedings of the IEEE, pp. 124, 2018.
  3. C. Bachhuber, A. Bhardwaj, R. Pries, and E. Steinbach, "On the Minimum Perceptual Temporal Video Sampling Rate and its Application to Adaptive Frame Skipping,"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, pp. 11, 2018.
  4. O. Holland, E. Steinbach, R. V. Prasad, Q. Liu, Z. Dawy, A. Aijaz, N. Pappas, K. Chandra, V. S. Rao, S. Oteafy, M. Eid, M. Luden, A. Bhardwaj, X. Liu, J. Sachs, and J. Arajo," The IEEE 1918.1 “Tactile Internet” Standards Working Group and its Standards,” Proceedings of the IEEE, pp. 124, 2019.
  5. A. Bhardwaj, H. Cha and S. Choi, "Data-Driven Haptic Modeling of Normal Interactions on Viscoelastic Deformable Objects Using a Random Forest,"IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (accepted for publication with ICRA’19 presentation option).
  6. H. Cha, A. Bhardwaj and S. Choi, "Data-Driven Haptic Modeling and Rendering of Viscoelastic Behavior Using Fractional Derivatives", IEEE Access, 10, 2022.
  7. R. P. Meghwanshi, A. Bhardwaj and H. Kumar, "Effect of Force-Rate on Continuous Haptic Force Discrimination", Experimental Brain Research (accepted, 2025).
  8. R. P. Meghwanshi, A. Bhardwaj and H. Kumar, "A Study of Deadzone Structure for Multi-Dimensional Haptic Force Perception", ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (accepted, 2025).
  9. K. Datta, A. Bhardwaj and M. Narwaria, "Does Attribute Space Driven Tactile Features Correspond to Overall Perceptual Similarity of Textures?", IEEE Sensors Journal (accepted, 2025).
  10. Z. Jin, T. Fei, X. Xu, Z. Wang, Z. Guo, S. Mukhopadhyay and A. Bhardwaj, "A Review of Next-Generation Sensor Technologies for Human-Machine Interaction", IEEE Sensors Journal (accepted, 2025).
  11. K. Datta, A. Bhardwaj and M. Narwaria, "Haptic-Sound Analysis of Materials's Clustering based on Tool-Tip Tapping Exploration", Multisensory Research (accepted, 2026).

Conferences

  1. A. Bhardwaj, O. Dabeer and S. Chaudhuri, "Can We Improve Over Weber Sampling of Haptic Signals,"in Information Theory and Applications Workshop, San Diego, 2013.
  2. A. Bhardwaj, S. Chaudhuri and O. Dabeer, "Deadzone Analysis of 2D Kinesthetic Perception,"in IEEE Haptic Symposium, Houston, 2014.
  3. A. Bhardwaj and S. Chaudhuri, "Does Just Noticeable Difference Depend on the Rate of Change of Kinesthetic Stimulus?,"in Euro Haptics, Versailles, France, 2014.
  4. A. Bhardwaj and S. Chaudhuri, "Estimation of Resolvability of User Response in Kinesthetic Perception of Jump Discontinuities", in IEEE World Haptic Conference (WHC), 2015.
  5. A. Bhardwaj, B. Cizmeci, E. Steinbach, Q. Liu, M. Eid, J. Arajo, A. El Saddik, R. Kundu, X. Liu, O. Holland, M. Luden, S. M. Oteafy, and V. Prasad, “A Candidate Hardware and Software Reference Setup for Kinesthetic Codec Standardization,” in 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments and Games (HAVE), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 2017.
  6. J. Xu, A. Bhardwaj, G. Sun, T. Aykut, N. Alt, M. Karimi, and E. Steinbach, “Learning-Based Modular Task-Oriented Grasp Stability Assessment," in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),pp. 34683475, 2018.
  7. A. Bhardwaj and S. Choi, "Time Order Error vs Inter-Stimulus Interval and Stimulus Level during Force Comparison," in Asiahaptics Conference, Songdo, Korea, 2018.
  8. H. Cha, A. Bhardwaj, C. Park and S. Choi, "Random Forest for Modeling and Rendering of Viscoelastic Deformable Objects," in Asiahaptics Conference, Songdo, Korea, 2018.
  9. S. Han, A. Bhardwaj, and S. Choi, "Automatic Transfer of Musical Mood into Virtual Environments," in Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, ser. VRST 18, 2018, pp. 33:133:5.
  10. H. Choi, A. Bhardwaj, G. Yun and S. Choi, "Perceived Hardness of Virtual Surface: A Function of Stiffness, Damping, and Contact Transient", in IEEE World Haptics Conference 2021.
  11. A. Bhardwaj, "Perceptual Deadband for Haptic Data Compression: Symmetric or Asymmetric?", in IEEE RO-MAN 2022.
  12. M. Chhabaria, G. Hemanth, A. Bhardwaj, "Limitations of the Perceptual Deadband Approach for Haptic Data Compression", Proc. National Conf. on Communication (NCC), IIT Guwahati, 2023.
  13. D. Kumar, A. D. Sharma, J. Reberio, A. Bhardwaj and S. Shah, "Investigating Teleoperation of UR5 Robot Using Haptic Device for Different Network Configurations" in AIR (Advances in Robotics) conference, IIT Ropar, 2023.
  14. G. Kumar, S. Prakash and A. Bhardwaj, "CatBoost for Haptic Modeling of Homogeneous Viscoelastic Deformable Objects", in IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Netherlands, 2023.
  15. G. Kumar, S. Prakash, H. Cha, A. Bhardwaj and S. Choi, "Data-driven Haptic Modeling of Inhomogeneous Viscoelastic Deformable Objects", in Eurohaptic Conference, Lille, 2024.
  16. R. P. Meghwanshi, A. Bhardwaj and H. Kumar, "Effect of Continuous Transition between Force Stimuli on Haptic Force Discrimination Tasks", in IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2025.