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Education, experience, competitions and the technical stack.

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education

2021 — 2025
B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), SurathkalMinor in Electronics and Communication EngineeringCGPA 8.22 / 10 (major) · 8.25 / 10 (minor)

research experiencedetail →

2026 — Present
Cooperative Mobile Manipulation of a Shared Payload Researcher · IIT Bombay
Jul 2025 — Present
e-Yantra Robotics Competition — Theme Development Senior Project Technical Assistant · ERTS Lab, IIT Bombay
May 2024 — Jul 2024
Field Exploration with ROS-Powered Vehicles Robotics Research Intern · Autonomous Robots and Multi-Systems (ARMS) Lab, IIT BombayAdvised by Prof. Arpita Sinha
Sep 2024 — 2025
Soft Autonomous Mobile Manipulators in Agriculture Undergraduate Researcher · NITK SurathkalAdvised by Prof. Mervin Joe Thomas

competitions

Aug 2023 — Dec 2023

Mumbai, India

Rank 16 / 500 teams

Navigation · Manipulation · Perception

e-Yantra Robotics Competition 2024 — Cosmo Logistic

Team Captain · e-Yantra, IIT Bombay

  • Led a warehouse-automation solution on ROS 2, Nav2 and MoveIt 2 — SLAM-based navigation, ArUco pose detection and arm manipulation.
  • 16th nationally out of roughly 500 teams, deployed onto real hardware remotely in e-Yantra's arena.
  • ROS 2
  • Nav2
  • MoveIt 2
  • OpenCV
  • ArUco
  • SLAM

Jul 2023

Delhi, India

National qualifier · Top 50

Hardware

DD Robocon 2023

Mechanical Subsystem — Chassis & Mechanism Design · CSD Robocon, NITK

  • The institute's first-ever ABU Robocon qualification, top 50 in the country.
  • Two semi-autonomous robots throwing rings onto poles at up to 12 m, via catapult and dual-roller launchers.
  • Mechanism Design
  • Fabrication
  • Dual-Roller Launcher

Oct 2022 — Apr 2023

Mumbai, India

Finalist

Navigation · Perception

e-Yantra Robotics Competition 2023 — Sentinel Drone

Team Member · e-Yantra, IIT Bombay

  • PID attitude-and-position control stabilising a simulated quadrotor in Gazebo.
  • OpenCV colour segmentation for object detection, with QGIS georeferencing to real coordinates.
  • PID Control
  • OpenCV
  • Gazebo
  • QGIS

technical skills

Autonomy & Planning

Getting a robot from where it is to where it should be.

  • ROS
  • ROS 2
  • Nav2
  • Global & local planners (A*, APF, DWA, MPPI)
  • Pure Pursuit
  • Ackermann & Differential Drives
  • Mecanum & Holonomic Drives
  • Autoware
  • Gazebo

Perception, SLAM & Estimation

Working out where the robot is and what is around it.

  • Visual SLAM
  • LiDAR SLAM (LIO-SAM, FAST-LIO, KISS-ICP)
  • ICP
  • Pose-Graph Optimization
  • Loop Closure
  • Bag of Words
  • EKF
  • Particle Filter / AMCL
  • Visual Odometry
  • OpenCV
  • Open3D
  • ArUco & Pose Estimation
  • Homography
  • RealSense D435/D455/D405

Manipulation & Control

Arms, mobile manipulators and the control that coordinates them.

  • MoveIt
  • Analytical & Numerical IK
  • Weighted DLS
  • Jacobians & Null-Space Control
  • Singularity Handling
  • Visual Servoing
  • QP Whole-Body Control
  • MuJoCo
  • UR5
  • SO-101

Learning

Imitation learning and vision-language-action models for manipulation.

  • LeRobot
  • ACT
  • Diffusion Policy
  • SmolVLA
  • π0
  • X-VLA
  • Action Chunking
  • Flow Matching
  • Teleoperation & Dataset Collection

Embedded & Hardware

The electronics and low-level control everything else runs on.

  • ESP32
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Arduino
  • NVIDIA Jetson Orin
  • Circuit & Power-Distribution Design
  • UART / Serial
  • LiDAR, IMU & Depth-Camera Integration
  • Siemens TIA

Mechanical Design

Earlier work — chassis, mechanisms and rapid prototyping.

  • Fusion 360
  • Onshape
  • SolidWorks
  • ANSYS (FEA & CFD)
  • Mechanism Design
  • 3D Printing
  • Laser Cutting
  • Rapid Prototyping