Tahsin Khan · Robotics Engineer

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

Currently working at the ERTS Lab (e-Yantra), IIT Bombay a robotics outreach programme where i develop theme stacks that students across India compete on through the e-Yantra Robotics Competition , currently developing Niti Vahan, an Ackermann vehicle that has to drive a scaled city from a single forward-facing camera. Previous year worked on Krishi Cobot, a greenhouse automation system where two industrial robots a mobile robot and a UR5 manipulator collaboratively doing tasks. The whole system was given remote acess through our platform all over India

My ongoing reseach work is towards cooperative non-holonomic mobile manipulation: Two mobile manipulators carrying a shared payload . Previous work involves visual SLAM (Mapping) written from scratch, 3D LiDAR SLAM flown on a Holybro UAV and lately, exploring learning for manipulation, navigation

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Aug 2026

Ongoing research with two faculty advisors on cooperative mobile manipulation — 2–3 mobile manipulators transporting a shared payload with decentralized localization, local sensing and QP-based whole-body control.

Jul 2026

Guided two summer intern projects at ERTS Lab: bimanual stacking with LeRobot SO-101 arms (ACT and SmolVLA), and a VLA grasping pipeline on a UR5 with AgileX Pika Sense teleoperation — the second still running.

Jun 2026

Took part in the LeHome Challenge at ICRA 2026 — bimanual cloth folding from demonstrations — my way into modern imitation learning: ACT, diffusion policy, SmolVLA, π0 and X-VLA.

May 2026

Mapped an area with LIO-SAM flown on a Holybro drone carrying a 3D LiDAR and a Jetson Orin Nano, after building the platform's power distribution end to end.

Mar 2026

Niti Vahan's perception pipeline is up — bird's-eye-view homography → colour segmentation → polynomial lane fitting, with an obstacle layer driving lane switching. Localization is next.

Jul 2025

Joined the ERTS Lab (e-Yantra), IIT Bombay as a Senior Project Technical Assistant, working on e-Yantra Robotics Competition theme development.