Mihir Acharya Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Lead the roadmap for Isaac Perceptor, a core component of Isaac ROS for robot perception in localization, mapping, and SLAM.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions for enhancing robot perception capabilities.

Worcester, Massachusetts, US

- Providing industry insights to help bridge the gap between academia and industry needs. - Presented a talk for the students to learn about types of career pathways in robotics area, especially for product roles.https://wp.wpi.edu/forwrd/external-advisory-board-eab/

Natick, MA, US

Leading the technical product management and product marketing activities in the Robotics & Autonomous Systems group at MathWorks, focusing on Navigation Toolbox and UAV Toolbox.

Natick, MA, US

Technical Product Management and Product Marketing for Autonomous Navigation and UAV solutions

Natick, MA, US

• Led the launch of a new product, "Navigation Toolbox" and managed the product marketing activities.
• Worked with development teams as well as Product and Industry Marketing Managers for Robotics and Signal Processing Products to create product demos and perform market research.
• Promoted MathWorks robotics products by - - Creating content: demos, applications, web-pages, videos, examples etc. - Engaging with customers: attended conferences and visited customer sites

Zurich, ZH, CH

• Research on different actuation systems to solve a constrained mechatronics problem
• Design and prototype gripper mechanisms for ABB Robot Arm

Hoffman Estates, IL, US

• Implemented D* Lite algorithm for path planning of mobile robots in C++, with visualization in OpenGL and compared Adept’s ARNL path planning with D* Lite, resulting in improved re-planning time
• Developed a debugging tool GUI in MATLAB to visually analyze path planning grids
• Velocity data acquisition and timing synchronization for better path following of mobile robots
• Wrote automated tests using shell scripting in Linux to test maximum speed of Lynx mobile platform
• Analyzed CPU usage of robot by flame-graph visualization that helped in performance optimization
• Collected sensor data and visualized in MATLAB to compare performances of different OS configurations

Worcester, Massachusetts, US

• Designed state-of-the-art Musical Robots (Interactive platforms to generate music) using SolidWorks and prototype by 3D printing & laser cutting
• Circuit building and programming with Arduino
• Install and run lab equipments, manage lab, conduct sessions and organize events

• Studied depth perception algorithms using Python and openCV to obtain distance of an object from camera
• Collection of training data for the algorithm from real-time situations
• Assisted in implementation of the algorithm for parking assistance system

• Analyzed the performance of the products (machineries) with regard to client’s needs & expectations
• Compared the product with other such available equipments in the Refrigeration & Cold Storage market and documented the results
• Established and maintained the relationship with the client by regular follow-up on the product

Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN

• Modeling of SCARA robot
• Prototyped the model using Vex robokits

Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN

• Studied and modeled the inverse kinematics of a 6 DOF Parallel Manipulator
• Developed a GUI in MATLAB using GUIDE toolbox to run the simulations of the model

Master Of Science (M.S.), Robotics Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering