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Statement of Purpose I am a final year undergraduate student in the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, pursuing a Bachelor of Technology course in Mechanical Engineering. I am seeking admission to the M.S. program in Robotics in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In this statement, I shall describe in brief my research interests, experience and factors that motivated me to apply to the graduate school at your esteemed university. The field of Robotics has drawn my attention right from childhood. My fascination for this line grew with the exposure I had to industrial robots from an early age. Frequent visits to the Machine Tool company owned by my parents backed by a curiosity to learn more fostered a keen understanding of the applications of robotics and controls in today’s world. The field offers a plethora of opportunities for innovation and development. Reading pertinent journals and magazines has helped me stay up-to-date with the recent advances in this fast-moving field. I was formally introduced to the fascinating field of Control Engineering in my third year at IIT Bombay, in the course on Automatic Control. I went on to do courses in Linear Systems Theory, Discrete Data and Digital Control. I did a Junior Home Paper on “Cable Suspended Robots” in the 6th semester under Prof. Ravi Banavar and Prof. Shashikanth Suryanarayanan. As a part of this project, I did a literature survey and review of the developments in this new field of Robotics. This led to me taking up my BTech Project on “Modeling and Dynamics of Cable Suspended Robots” under the same guides. The project attempts to analyze a new configuration of cable suspended robots. The proposed configuration is a combination of four linear actuators and four cables to suspend a work platform. Control algorithm for cable suspended robots poses a major challenge as cables can only pull and not push. This exigent project has given me a good appreciation of the mathematics involved in Robotic...