Raghav Sood Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Ohio, Us

• Led a cross‑functional team in pioneering a vision‑based robot tool calibration process, achieving a 3x boost in efficiency.• Led the integration of OpenTelemetry for enhanced observability in our robotics stack, enabling real‑time system performance insights and rapid resolution of critical issues.• Directing the development of a versatile, scalable robotics platform with state‑of‑the‑art AI and microservice architecture, focused on fully autonomous applications, realized by specialized teams.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

• Led a team of 7 engineers to research and develop motion planning algorithms for ambidextrous industrial robots, improving safety and scalability• Developed a versatile C++ motion planning library using optimization‑based, sampling‑based, and search‑based methods, successfully deploying it for automated assembly and welding tasks in diverse applications.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

• Developed core robotics motion planning algorithms for autonomous operation of industrial welding robots.• Developed an automated regression testing pipeline for the motion planning stack using Robot Framework

Pittsburgh, Us

Worked at Search-Based Planning Laboratory (SBPL) with prof. Maxim Likhachev.- Developed a Novel Search-Based Motion Planning framework for long soft underactuated robots with high degrees of freedom. (Research published IROS 2021)- Created a Topology Heuristic-based search algorithm that speeds up the higher dimensional search by 3x compared to the traditional 3D BFS heuristic.- Developed a closed-loop Networking Interface between ROS platform (Linux) and ADAMS Physics Simulator (Windows).

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Research Assistant at Search Based Planning Lab, Robotics Institute- Worked on development of novel planning algorithms for various Robotics domains (Navigation, Manipulation) under supervision of Dr. Maxim Likhachev.- Developed a Deep Learning based algorithm to efficiently employ dynamic motion primitives in heuristics search that achieved an average 4x speedup compared to baseline. (Research Published in IROS 2020)

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Course Assistant for 24-280: C++ Programming for Engineers

Bengaluru, In

- Intern at Aircraft Research and Development Centre with Flight Controls Systems group.- Project: Modeling and Simulation of Control Stick of a trainer fighter aircraft on DMU kinematics CATIA.

Master Of Science In Mechanical Engineering - Research, Robotics

Bachelor Of Technology, Mechanical Engineering