Jan 2024 – Aug 2024 · 7 mos · Downers Grove, Illinois, United States · On-site

• I worked on developing autonomy features for outdoor utility rovers. My tasks include development of ROS 2 wrappers for sensors and application hardware and building custom Nav2 plugins for autonomous navigation. I also worked on setting up a behavior tree and creating custom behaviors as per client requirements. Other responsibilities include testing and tuning of various modules on autonomous rovers and documentation. I built a gazebo ignition simulation for the Rover from ground up.

Sep 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Corvallis, Oregon, United States · On-site

• I am working on F1tenth cars or miniature autonomous racing vehicles. My goal is to devise a computationally cheap motion planning algorithm with a high replanning rate and the ability to avoid dynamic obstacles.

Oct 2020 – Mar 2021 · 5 mos · Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

• I worked on building an object-specific collision risk estimation module for an autonomous vehicle (AV). I proposed novel probabilistic motion models to obtain the reachability of vehicles and pedestrians detected in the scene. Further, the probability of collision risk was estimated using the reachable sets of road users, along with the expected ego-vehicle trajectory. Proposed approach showed real-time performance and gave excellent results on the KITTI dataset and multiple collision scenarios simulated in the CARLA simulator. I recently presented this work at IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2021.

Jul 2020 – Aug 2020 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developed robotics software for remote clients. Specifically, I applied multiple SLAM techniques and compared the results to suggest a good fit for the client's robotic platform.

Jul 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr · Nagpur Area, India · On-site

• Managed multiple robotics projects and secured funding from IEEE student chapter to sponsor projects. I served as a communication link between professor incharge and student teams. Also mentored junior students in their robotics related projects.

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

• My goal was to develop collision avoidance features and lane-change capability. I improved the local planner and updated the behavior-state machine with lane change states for behaviors like overtaking.

Apr 2017 – Apr 2019 · 2 yrs · Nagpur, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Received hands-on training in different aspects of robotics and automation like mechanical design, Embedded systems, programming, search and sort algorithms, sensor interface etc. Worked on a research project under the guidance of Prof. Shital Chiddarwar from mechanical engineering.