Publications & Patents

40+ contributions across journals, conferences, books, and intellectual property

Patents

US Patent

Compliant manipulators for medical devices

D. B. Santosh Bhargav, T. J. Ramnath Babu

United States patent on compliant mechanism-based manipulators

Patent Pending

RoboICSI — Robotic intracytoplasmic sperm injection system

D. B. Santosh Bhargav, T. J. Ramnath Babu

Compliant mechanism-based manipulators for automated IVF procedures

Patent Pending

MicroN — Micro-Newton force sensor

BendFlex® Research and Development Pvt. Ltd.

Precision force sensing for micro-scale applications including IVF

Patent Pending

Micro-grippers for biological cell manipulation

BendFlex® Research and Development Pvt. Ltd.

Compliant mechanism-based grippers for immobilizing and palpating biological cells

Patent Pending

CUTT — Compliant uni-axial tissue tester

BendFlex® Research and Development Pvt. Ltd.

Portable, immersible, low-cost tissue testing device

Patent Pending

Design Innovation Kit (Compliant Mechanism Kit)

BendFlex® Research and Development Pvt. Ltd.

Educational toolkit for mechanism design exploration

Book Chapters

2024

Preprocessing and integration of reproductive health data

Y. S. Jambunath, K. D. Patil, T. J. Ramnath Babu, D. B. Santosh Bhargav

Data-Driven Reproductive Health (Ch. 3), Springer Singapore

 2024

Future directions and emerging trends in reproductive health

K. D. Patil, K. S. K. Bharadwaj, D. B. Santosh Bhargav, T. J. Ramnath Babu

Data-Driven Reproductive Health (Ch. 12), Springer Singapore

 2011

Cell-grasping compliant mechanisms with real-time haptic feedback

D. B. Santosh Bhargav, G. K. Ananthasuresh

Micromechanisms and Microactuators (Mechanisms and Machine Science, Vol. 2), Springer

Journal Papers

2023

Bulk stiffness and recovery time — A measure of development of mouse embryos

K. D. Patil, P. Kumar, K. K. S. Bharadwaj, S. Hegde, S. A. Dharamkar, B. Gupta, T. J. Ramnath Babu, D. B. Santosh Bhargav

Journal of Reproductive Healthcare and Medicine, Vol. 4

 2022

A novel device to micromanipulate oocytes during intracytoplasmic sperm injection

K. K. S. Bharadwaj, S. V. Rokade, G. B. S. V. Yaswanth, V. Venkatraman, P. Kumar, B. Gupta, P. S. Kusure, D. S. Abhishek, T. J. Ramnath Babu, D. B. Santosh Bhargav, C. Joshi

Journal of Reproductive Healthcare and Medicine, Vol. 3

 2019

A novel technique of using mechanical grippers to immobilize embryo during biopsy

D. B. Santosh Bhargav, T. J. Ramnath Babu, S. Chandarkar et al.

Fertility and Sterility, Vol. 112, No. 3, pp. e291–e292

 2017

A micro-mechanical device for in-situ stretching of single cells cultured on it

D. B. Santosh Bhargav, G. K. Ananthasuresh et al.

Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics

 2015

Micro-scale composite compliant mechanisms for evaluating the bulk stiffness of MCF-7 cells

D. B. Santosh Bhargav, N. Jorapur, G. K. Ananthasuresh

Mechanism and Machine Theory, Vol. 91, pp. 258–268

 2015

A scalable perfusion culture system with miniature peristaltic pumps for live-cell imaging assays

S. Balakrishnan, M. S. Suma, S. R. Raju, D. B. Santosh Bhargav, S. Arunima, S. Das, G. K. Ananthasuresh

BioResearch Open Access, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 343–357

 2014

A vision-based micro-Newton static force sensor using a displacement-amplifying compliant mechanism (DaCM)

G. S. Baichapur, H. Gugale, A. Maheshwari, D. B. Santosh Bhargav, G. K. Ananthasuresh

Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, Vol. 42, No. 2

 2012

A compliant end-effector to passively limit the force in tele-operated tissue-cutting

D. B. Santosh Bhargav, S. Chakravarthy, G. K. Ananthasuresh

ASME Journal of Medical Devices, Vol. 6, No. 4

Conference Papers & Presentations

2020

A machine-learning based decision support framework for frozen-embryo-transfer IVF for patients with PCOS

T. J. Ramnath Babu, V. S. Roy, Y. Jambunath et al.

ESHRE 2020 Annual Meeting

 2019

Combination of mechanics-based modelling and machine-learning techniques for automated oocyte assessment

T. J. Ramnath Babu, D. B. Santosh Bhargav et al.

ISAR 2019

 2018

Introducing the novel device — RoboICSI

D. B. Santosh Bhargav, T. J. Ramnath Babu

ESHRE 2018 Annual Meeting, Barcelona

 2017

Non-dimensionalized feasibility maps for designing compliant mechanisms

D. B. Santosh Bhargav, G. K. Ananthasuresh et al.

iNaCoMM 2017, BARC Mumbai — Springer Proceedings

 2013

Evaluating bulk stiffness of MCF-7 cells using micro-scale composite compliant mechanisms

D. B. Santosh Bhargav, N. Jorapur, G. K. Ananthasuresh

iNaCoMM 2013, IIT Roorkee — Best Paper Award

 2013

Non-dimensional kinetoelastostatic maps for compliant mechanisms

D. B. Santosh Bhargav, H. I. Varma, G. K. Ananthasuresh

ASME IDETC 2013, Portland, Oregon, USA

 2013

Composite and multi-scale compliant mechanisms for manipulation

D. B. Santosh Bhargav, G. Singh, G. K. Ananthasuresh

ASME IDETC 2013, Portland, Oregon, USA

 2011

A compliant end-effector to limit the force in tele-operated tissue-cutting

D. B. Santosh Bhargav, S. Chakravarthy, G. K. Ananthasuresh

NaCoMM 2011 — Best Paper Award

 2010

Design and fabrication of miniature PDMS grippers

D. B. Santosh Bhargav, G. Ramu, G. K. Ananthasuresh

1st IFToMM Asian Conference on Mechanism and Machine Science

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