Resume

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

SLURM Labs, University of Southern California

Carried out research on latent space representations for robot manipulation with Professors Daniel Seita and Lars Lindemann
Set up a robosuite simulation scene in a Linux environment for precise modeling and simulation of a Franka Panda 6-DOF robotic arm
Built a Vector-Quantised Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE) in PyTorch to capture latent space representations of object configurations
Fine-tuned loss functions and hyperparameters to reduce dimensionality from 307,200 to 2 while retaining 100% of task-relevant features

Chirathe Robotics, IISc Bengaluru

Conducted research on robot leg dynamics and BLDC motor control under the supervision of Professor Shishir N Y Kolathaya
Interfaced an ODrive Pro motor driver with Python to control position, velocity, and torque of a U12II Type 2 UAV motor
Performed gravity compensation under varying loads for both 1-DOF and 2-DOF linkages; tuned gains for optimal response
Implemented inverse kinematics in C++ for following specified end-effector trajectories; accomplished semi-elliptical motion

Control Systems Lab, IIT Kharagpur

Conducting research on optimal control theory and non-linear systems under the supervision of Professor Ashish R Hota
Implemented data-driven control in MATLAB for the Autonomous Driving Control Benchmark Challenge (IEEE CDC 2023)
Applied sensor fusion methods on data from multiple sources for accurate state estimation of autonomous ground vehicles

Aerial Robotics Kharagpur, IIT Kharagpur

Conducting research on autonomous control and path-planning for UAVs under the supervision of Professor Somesh Kumar
Benchmarked standard control algorithms in MATLAB, Simulink, and ROS; fabricated robotic manipulators for drones
Trained 50+ first-year students in robot programming and controller design for the Winter School of AI and Robotics 2023