Robotics

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Technoxian quadcopter Team at IRL Technoxian Quadcopter Challenge
Avionics Technician
IRL Technoxian Quadcopter Challenge
World Robotics Championship, International Robotics Council (IRC), 2017

We built an indigenous Light-Weight Sandwich Composite Multirotor System. As the Avionics Technician on the project, I was responsible for designing, integrating and testing the quadcopter's propulsion system and tuning the Naze flight controller.

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UAS Lazarus in flight UAS Lazarus fixed-wing aircraft UAS Lazarus off-axis gimbal target capture
UAS Lazarus
AUVSI Student Unmanned Air Systems Competition
Maryland, USA, 2017

Developed a customized Ardupilot firmware algorithm to capture the off-axis target using 2-axis gimbal stabilization for Lazarus. Did extensive flight testing of this feature for the AUVSI-SUAS competition.

Journal Paper (Team UAS-DTU) AUVSI-SUAS

Mentor: Prof. Rajesh Rohilla
Robotics and Machine Intelligence Laboratory

Real-time object recognition system for autonomous navigation. Used the YOLO architecture and ZED stereo camera on Nvidia's Jetson TX1 module to develop a system that provides real-time information about the identity of objects and their distance from the car using audio.

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