Dr. Mohit LawThe Machine Tool Dynamics Lab at the IIT Kanpur conducts research in the areas of machine tools, cutting tools, machining dynamics, dynamic substructuring, high-performance machining, and control of machine tool vibrations.
Our research is a combination of theoretical and experimental methods, and is informed by the challenges faced by the manufacturing enterprise. We take great efforts to identify and work on use-inspired fundamental research questions and endeavor to yield solutions that are technically elegant and practically useful.
We believe that the push from advances made in fundamental use-inspired research that we undertake will help meet the pull from industry, thus allowing us to work at the intersection of academia and industry.
The lab is headed by Dr. Mohit Law, who received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, Canada, his MSc. from the Michigan Technological University, U.S.A., and his B.E. from Pune University, India. Dr. Law did his post-doctoral work at the Fraunhofer IWU in Germany. Dr. Law has previously worked as a machine tool designer.
If you would like to learn more about our work, or you would like to join our group, or would like to collaborate with us, please feel free to contact us.
Dec. 2023: Delivered an invited talk at the AIMTDR2023 conference at IIT BHU.
April 2023: Delivered an invited talk at the Smart Manuf. conclave at IIT Gandhinagar.
Jan. 2023: Delivered an invited talk at the IMTEX2023 international seminar.
Jan. 2023: Presented and won the best paper award (Arjun Patel, PhD scholar) at the ICOVP2023 in Qatar.
Dec. 2022: We hosted the COPEN12 conference at IIT Kanpur, and presented seven papers as a group.
April 2022: Our work was accepted in the CIRP Annals (2022), in the JVET (on sawing and active damping), and in the HardwareX.
Dec. 2021: Govind's paper on emulations on a HiL simulator presented at the AIMTDR 2021 conference was awarded the best paper.
Oct. 2021: Our paper on tuning absorbers for rotating tools was accepted in the JSV.
Oct. 2021: Our paper on adaptive control to damp bistabilities was accepted in JVC
Sept. 2021: Our paper with Dr. Kilic, Univ. Manchester, on generalized stability models for serrated end mills was accepted in the Int. J of Machine Tools and Manuf.
Sept. 2021: Our paper with collaborators at IITM on characterizing joint dynamics was accepted in the J. of Vib. Engg. & Tech.
Nov. 2020: Our paper on vison-based modal analyis was accepted for publication in the CIRP JMST.
Nov. 2020: Our paper on emulating bistabilities on a HiL simulator was accepted for publication in the CIRP JMST.
Oct. 2020: Pulkit Gupta, BT-MT student was awarded the 'Cadence Gold Medal' and the 'Proficiency Prize' for his work. He's made the lab prouder.
Oct. 2020: Our paper on finish turning using texured PcBN tools was accepted for publication in the JMP.
Sept. 2020: Our paper on non-standard serrated end mills was accepted for publication in the JAMT.
June 2020: Our paper on electro-hydraulic actuators was accepted for publication in 'Actuators'.
June 2020: Our paper on 'Output-only modal analysis' was accepted for publication in the CIRP JMST.
June 2020: Our paper on the 'Design of chatter-reistant damped boring bars' was accepted for publication in the J. Manuf. Mater. Process.
April 2020: Our paper on 'Visual vibrometry' was accepted for publication in the CIRP Annals.
March 2020: Our paper on validating a new HiL simulator was accepted for publication in the CIRP JMST.
Oct. 2019: Our paper on the 'Investigations on machinability and machining stability of turning super duplex stainless steel" was accepted for publication in the International Journal of Machining and Machinability of Materials (IJMMM).
Oct. 2019: Sunny Singhania and Pritam Bari, two of our PhD students received the best paper awards for their respective papers at the ICCMM 2019 conference in Guwahati.
Oct. 2019: Our paper on nonlinear finite amplitude chatter instabilities was accepted for the UTIS 2019 conference in Turkey. Govind, Pulkit and Sarthak will be attending UTIS to present their work.
April 2019: Pritam Bari, our PhD student was awarded the prestigious SHASTRI Doctoral fellowship to Visit the Manufacturing Automation Lab at UBC in Canada for three months.
March 2019: Our paper on Improved chip thickness model for serrated end milling was accepted in the CIRP JMST, May 2019
Pritam Bari, our PhD student received the best paper award at the AIMTDR 2018 conference in Chennai.