Varun Velpula Email & Phone Number

Newark, California, US

Austin, Texas, US

- Created a lightweight detection and tracking algorithm in C++ to identify and track objects with robust state tracking in real time on embedded devices (NVIDIA Xavier/NX) with keypoint based optical flow tracker and deep learning tracker using OSNet and YOLO, which were built with ONNX/TensorRT- Developed a multi-modal action recognition model in Python.

Philadelphia, PA, US

Teaching Assistant for CIS 522 Deep Learning for Data ScienceI am responsible for content creation for the classes, grading and for guiding a group of 10 students during the classes every week.

Philadelphia, PA, US

I am currently working in mLab under Prof. Rahul Mangharam on a project on the F1tenth racing car and simulator.I am working on implementing the Model Predictive Control (MPC) stack for the autonomous F1tenth racecar. The aim is to integrate a number of MPC methodologies with the current software stack as an API which gives the user an option to choose.

Philadelphia, PA, US

Research Assistant in ModLab under Prof Mark Yim. I worked on the modular aerial robots project - ModQuadAs part of research work during the summer in ModLab, I worked on a simulation based project to learn suitable trajectories for quadcopters attached with a gripper. I developed a policy search algorithm to determine these suitable trajectory waypoints.

Part of the mechanical design, development and prototyping team for the team

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

Worked under the guidance of Prof Ashwini Ratnoo. I worked on the control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in an indoor environment. A motion capture system set up in the lab was used to localize the UAVs. The noise from the IMU sensor (accelerometer and gyroscope) data was removed using a Kalman filter. The UAV parameters were controlled using PID.

Zurich, ZH, CH

Worked on the integration of humanoid robotic arm with ABB robot IRB 1600. The finger motion of the arm was based on the principle of underactuation. Nylon string wounded onto the servo motorhead on one side and attached to the tip of the finger on the other end was used to achieve this. A hierarchical control scheme was implemented. The signals for the.

Master Of Science - Ms, Robotics

Bachelor’S Degree