Rishikesh Vanarse Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Role - R&D in GPS-denied visual navigation for autonomous UAVs.Currently working on the following:- Exploring different methods to improve GPS-denied visual-inertial odometry for long distance/ low light missions without using LIDARs.- Terrain-relative navigation and relocalization- VIO initialisation strategies and dynamic in-flight initialisation- Fusion of different sensor modalities for localisation, formulating factor graphs and writing new GTSAM factors- Localization strategies for precision takeoff and landing- Multimodal navigation (EO + thermal)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Role - SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) and sensor fusion for ‘Bolt’, an autonomous warehouse robot. Designed a sensor fusion pipeline that handles partial state updates with asynchronous & high-latency measurements. Designed a novel method for covariance calculation for out-of-order sensor measurements. Worked on mitigation of localization drift and erroneous relocalizations.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Lab: CMU Biorobotics LabAdvisors: Prof. Howie Choset & Matt TraversProjects:(1) Autonomous robotic disassembly of electronic devices for e-waste recycling (in collaboration with Apple)Role - perception. Designed & trained networks for semantic understanding in X-ray images of electronic devices. Trained networks to segment components of unknown & deformed electronic devices in real-time. Contributed to work in RGB-Xray fusion, device tracking, synthetic image generation, etc.(2) Computer vision for paper recyclingDesigned & trained networks for classifying a large number of nearly-identical looking classes of paper for a recycling facility. Trained CNNs with domain adaptation for classification with very limited and skewed datasets. Helped write drivers and set up communications for the dataset collection system.(3) Misc - performed the ROS integration for different projects in the lab. Designed state machines to govern the behaviour of robots. Led demos & presentations to sponsors

Remote

Santa Cruz, California, United States

Organization: Centre for Research in Open Source Software, UC Santa CruzProject with Autonomous Systems Lab, UCSCProject: A method for calibration and sensor fusion based self-correction of Inertial Measurement Units for Autonomous Vehicle ControllerMentors: Aaron Hunt, Pavlo Vlastos

Reno, Nevada, United States

Advisor: Dr. Kostas AlexisLab: Autonomous Robots LabProjects:(1) Visual Inertial SLAM for Autonomous Underwater Robots(2) Registration of Multispectral drone-images for Precision Agriculture

South Goa, Goa, India

Role as Sub-Coordinator:- Technical & non-technical management of the projects - project decisions, project finances, funding, inventory, inductions, orientations/seminars , training, media/PR, etc. of the club

South Goa, Goa, India

Projects:(1). Modular Robots: Role in project: Electronics head, PCB designing, Communication & Motion of modules, Mechanical designing(2).Autonomous Delivery RobotRole in Project: Navigation, Obstacle avoidance, Localization, Environment Mapping(3). SwarmbotsRole: Project Leader(4). LED GlobeA fast-rotating arc lined with RGB LEDs that turn on/off in a timed manner to display a 3D hovering image similar to a hologram.Role in Project: PCB designing

Goa, India

Part of a team of 3 students to design and teach the courses Introduction to Robotics and Intermediate Robotics. Designed and conducted lectures on topics such as motion planning, Robot Operating System (ROS), sensor fusion, forward/inverse kinematics, etc. Conducted hands-on sessions for sensor interfacing, building simple robots, etc. Conducted seminars, hackathons, etc.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Electronics & Robotics Club

Thesis, Autonomous Robotics, 10.0

Undergraduate thesis on perception for autonomous robots in challenging environment Advisor: Dr. Kostas Alexis

Education record

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