Graduated from WPI with a Master's in Robotics Engineering. Recently, worked at Open Robotics on the Gazebo development team and the NASA Viper team. Previously, worked at Symbotic LLc as an Advanced Controls Engineer in Mobile Robotics. Former Robotics Intern at Waypoint Robotics Inc. Co-organizer of Women In Robotics Boston Chapter.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Robotics Engineering

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA

Relevant Courses:

  • Deep Learning for Advance Robotic Perception
  • Synergy of Human and Robot
  • Foundations of Robotics
  • Robot Control
  • Robot Dynamics
  • Swarm Intelligence
  • Motion Planning
  • Computer Vision Nano-degree(Udacity)

Experience

Internships

Projects

Graduate Projects

Automated Cinematography Motion Planning for UAV's

WPI

Implemented a Motion Planning algorithm on a quadrotor to find a path in an environment.Code

Collective Transport of Concave Objects

WPI

Occlusion based collective transport strategy is being used for complex concave objects.Code

Facial Keypoint Detection

Udacity

Created CNN to detect facial key points on eyes, nose and mouth using image processing and deep learning.

Robot Learning from Demonstration: Trinia via MoCap

WPI

Tele-operated a nursing robot (Baxter) using MoCap system. Used Reinforcement learning for grasping objects.

Tele-operation of A Robotic Arm Using IMU

WPI

Integrated an IMU sensor with the Arduino and used it to communicate with a robotic arm in simulation via ROS.

Fuzzy Logic Control of Indoor Navigation of Mobile Robots

WPI

Designing a Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) for a mobile robot navigation in an unknown indoor environment using the Tracking FLC and Obstacle Avoidance FLC.Code

Face Recognition

WPI

Built a neural network to detect and recognize a face from among 6 people with 5 different backgrounds. The dataset was created from scratch by obtaining images from videos.Code

Detection, Recognition & Pose Estimation of Tabletop Objects

WPI

This project focused on the problem of cleaning a messy table using Deep Neural networks. Developed a convolutional neural network that determined the orientation of the object placed on a table.Code

Baxter Kinematics and Dynamics Library

WPI

Developed a python library for pose and velocity kinematics and dynamics for Baxter robot.Code

Atlas's Escape

WPI

The purpose of this project was to develop behavior of the Atlas humanoid robot to autonomously detect and approach doors in Gazebo.

ASIA PACIFIC ROBOTICS CONTEST- ROBOCON

Badminton Playing Robot

University of Pune

Two badminton playing mobile robots were developed for the competition. Our team ranked 4th in the super league matches in India.

Hybrid Robot driving Eco robot through an indirect energy source

University of Pune

An underactuated eco robot is being driven by an autonomous Hybrid robot to make the eco robot pass through a predefined path.

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