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Woodinville, Washington, United States

Woodinville, Washington, United States

College Park, Maryland, United States

• Developed motion tracking system which tracks 20+ drones using motion capture cameras. This system tracks drone movements using reflective markers and Kalman filtering.• Designed a communications setup for reliable low latency data transfer for 20+ drones over bluetooth low energy radios. • Developed the C++ code which helps in performing group operations like takeoff and landing, drones use VIO poses for localization. • Developed a drone to drone tracking system which leverages re-trained YOLOv5 model to identify neighboring drones in the swarm.• Developed a sensor fusion algorithm for the tracking system which fuses Object detection & point cloud at 30 FPS real time speed.• Designed a tracking system which uses C++ & Tflite libraries which leverage the power of Adreno GPU on board the drone.• Leveraged libraries like Eigen3 for implementation of CV based Kalman filter for predicting acceleration & velocity of tracked drones.• The goal of this project is to deploy a decentralized flock of swarms which leverage poses of drones calculated by fusion of RGB & Time of flight cameras.

College Park, Maryland, United States

Worked at Daikin Energy Innovation Lab on the Factory Comforter (FacCo) project:FacCo is a personalized cooling system for workplace environments like factory workstations where the unit is fixed and it provides targeted cooling air by gimbaling the nozzle based on it's advanced perception capabilities.->Developed the Electro mechanical CAD design of the Gimballing Nozzle along with it's various Transitioning parts around the heat exchanger.->Developed the control circuit design which consisted of a Teensy duino, fan controller and a Sparkfun MLX IR camera. ->Written the control algorithm in teensy duino (Arduino) to filter the target object (i.e., human head at 38 deg C) using thresholding like Otsu's thresholding and used it to reorient the nozzle based on the region of interest->Working on improving the tracking by prototyping algorithms and sensor hardware, some of the combinations include EO/IR sensing where dual sensors triangulate the person's head position another prototype includes a stereo sensor which gives the 3d position of the human body based on the YOLO v5 tracking algorithm running in the background.

College Park, Maryland, United States

Work at Collective Dynamics and Control Laboratory, Maryland Robotics Center:● Working with Maryland DOT on a literature review for robotic pipeline inspection. The work involves testing of existing pipeline inspection drones like Elios 3 and UGVs and to come up with fact sheet for an end to end inspection solution.● Developing an automated inspection system for Steam manhole covers in collaboration with Facilities management team at UMD. The inspection system uses a FLIR thermal camera mounted on vehicle dashboard, coupled with GPS and other sensors for logging data and uploading it to the GIS server.

Production engineering-Press, Building the machine which makes the machine.Key Projects-> Worked with a multi cultural team to build New Stamping Press shop of capacity 250K Veh/yrinstallation and commissioning of 5200T Servo type transfer press line, 400T Press Blanking line, EOT cranes, Slat conveyors, Scrap conveyors in collaboration with local and Japanese vendors.-> Supported in Production acceptance and quality acceptance trials of the New Factory and introduction of New Car model.-> Worked on and established SCADA data collection systems to collect key parameters that affect part quality, like Stamping loads, Washing oil Viscosity, Suspended particle counts.-> Used Stamping load data to establish SPC type process control to control defect outflow. Worked on hardware and software automation systems to alert Line Operators using those defects.-> Worked on Quality improvement and defect reduction projects, collecting data related to stamping panel defects and performed RCA, Fish bone to identify key QC parameters like Stamping load, Viscosity of Washing oil etc.-> Designed Tools, Material Handling trolleys and Plant layout considering ergonomics, Machine capacity and production efficiency.-> Worked on Productivity and Machine trouble reduction projects to identify Downtime using Pareto charts, FMEA to find out Root cause, Machine Component Life cycle parameters by coordinating with Local and Japanese Machine Makers.-> Experienced in Creating Specifications, Request for Quotation/Proposal (RFQ/RFPs) that documents the design requirements of the automated equipment, tools, Material handling trolleys and pallets including delivery schedule, PO terms, required documentation and qualification for acceptance in our production facility-> Other projects, which include sheet metal inline crack detection system which detects sheet metal defects using RGB vision cameras. Press part traceability system which would allow back tracing of defects from vehicle->coil

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Production engineering- Press

We participate in Association of Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) Student Unmanned Aerial Systems Challenge.Acting as the team lead I have following Roles and Responsibilities:1) Integration and Flight reliability of Airframe2) Integration of all subsystems of the competition( i.e., Autopilot, Imagery and Interop)3) Design lead for wing plane sizing and airframe4) Responsible for interop architecture and GCS integrationThe team consists of 12 students working in various subsystems to integrate ultimately in a UAV which is Fully autonomous, has long duration flight characteristics and performs SEARCH and RESCUE tasks by surveying through high tech imagery systems. Integrating Embedded electronics and on board computing requirements to a drone which includes use of machine learning algorithms and deep learning architectures The team is the first ever team from India to have an all composite body of the UAV including rohacell sandwich matrix and plain twill carbon fibre reinforcement ensuring ruggedness and long life of the aircraft.

The team was co-founded by me and four other batchmates from electrical and mechanical engineering. We participate in SAE India Southern Section Aero Design Challenge in Micro Class with the aim of fabricating the lightest possible aircraft which can lift the maximum payloadExperiences and Roles:- Acted as team lead for 2 years and fabricated and flied more than 10 micro scale RC aircrafts- Design lead which included tasks like wing plane design and fuselage- Explored new materials like Carbon Fibre, HD thermocol, Balsa Wood etcAchievements:- 5th rank overall and Best Design Award in SAE India Southern Section Micro Category during the first edition of the competition held at RCPA Flying Field, Chennai. 2015-16.- 4th rank overall SAE India Southern Section Micro Category during the first edition of the competition held at Anna University, Chennai. 2016-17Innovations:Full scale 3d printed fuselage with design trade-offs like weight balancing, aerodynamics, and weight reduction. This was developed for 2016-17 SAE ADC edition. The material used was fully biodegradable PLA.

Ahmedabad Area, India

This was a part of 6 month internship at Artem Energy. Key highlights of this project were:1.) Study of Various Charger topologies and schemes2.) Study of Battery charging cycles of different batteries3.) Detailed study and simulation of Basic Power Electronic Converters4.) Calculation and Semiconductor selection based on power rating of charger.5.) Detailed Simulation design of Unity Power factor converters.6.) Detailed study of Single stage Buck conversion charger hence eliminating UPFC Boost and removing high voltage components to reduce form factor of charger.7.) Detailed Control system design and tuning for Unity power factor converters with Transfer function modelling using references from NPTEL courses.8.) Hardware implementation of 24V charger using Texas Instrument LM5116 which follows the same control topology.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Robotics, 4.0/4.0

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineering

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