Internal

Statement of PurposeI am a fi nal year undergraduate student in the Indian Insti tute of
Technology Bombay, pursuing a Bachelor of Technology course in Mechanical
Engineering. I am seekingadmission to the M.S. program in Robotics in Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Inthis statement, I shall describe in brief my research interests, experience and factors
thatmotivated me to apply to the graduate school at your esteemed university.The fi eld of Roboti cs
has drawn my att enti on right from childhood. My fascinati on 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 learnmore fostered a keen understanding of the
applications of robotics and controls in
today’sw o r l d .   T h e   fi e l d   o ff e r s   a   p l e t h o r a   o f   o p p o r t u n i ti e s   f o r   i n n o v a ti o n   a n d   d e v
e l o p m e n t . Reading pertinent journals and magazines has helped me stay up-to-date with the
recentadvances 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 Automati c Control. I went on to
do courses in Linear Systems Theory, Discrete Data and Digital Control. I did a Junior Home Paper
on “