Tahsin Khan

Robotics engineer at e-Yantra, ERTS Lab, IIT Bombay.

Senior Project Technical Assistant
ERTS Lab · e-Yantra
IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076

tahsin.khan@e-yantra.org

I work on autonomous ground and aerial systems across perception, state estimation, planning and control. My work spans the mechanical, electrical and software sides of robotics: designing chassis and mechanisms, building power distribution and embedded control hardware, and writing the stacks that run on them.

Recent work includes decentralised cooperative mobile manipulation, LiDAR and visual SLAM on UAVs and ground vehicles, monocular Ackermann autonomy, and imitation learning policies on bimanual manipulators.

Broadly, my research interests are in multi-robot systems, motion planning and control, and hybrid architectures that combine model-based estimation and control with learned policies, with a further interest in soft robotics and biomimetic design.

news

Sep 2026
Niti Vahan, the eYRC 2026-27 theme, is live — an autonomous car under city road rules, selected by 1500 teams nationally, running a monocular lane-detection and docking stack on a Raspberry Pi against a matched CoppeliaSim digital twin.
Jul 2026
Mentored and co-mentored two eYSIP research projects with four interns — imitation learning on bimanual SO-101 and UR5 arms — plus a third on 3D LiDAR SLAM flown on a Holybro X500.
Mar 2026
Ranked 32 of 62 teams internationally in the LeHome Challenge at IEEE ICRA 2026 — bimanual cloth folding in Isaac Sim, comparing specialist and generalist SmolVLA policies.
Feb 2026
Started research on decentralised cooperative mobile manipulation — two nonholonomic mobile manipulators transporting a shared payload with onboard vision only, an invariant EKF on SE(3) and a 14-DoF whole-body QP.
Jan 2026
Soft autonomous mobile manipulators in agricultural automation – a review published in Industrial Robot, Vol. 53 No. 2, pp. 376–398.
Aug 2025
Joined the ERTS Lab (e-Yantra), IIT Bombay as a Senior Project Technical Assistant, working on e-Yantra Robotics Competition theme development.