Research Assistant (Master Thesis) at Fraunhofer IPM (2025-03 – 2025-10)
3D reconstruction of railway infrastructure
- Designed and implemented a multi-modal Structure-from-Motion pipeline combining LiDAR and monocular RGB camera data for accurate large-scale 3D reconstruction.
- Built automated pipelines for large-scale image and point cloud processing.
- Increased performance over other state-of-the-art methods for the Railway setting / low parallax reconstruction by 3.57%, 2.2%, and 2.19% in Completeness, Chamfer distance, and Hausdorff distance.
Research assistant at Chalmers University Technology (2024-07 – 2025-01)
Cloud operated pendulum
- Designed single and double pendulum with integrated BLDC motor-controlled pendulum setups using CAN bus for cloud-operated units with real-time control and streaming.
- Tested different advanced non-linear control algorithms like gravity compensation, LQR, and iLQR-MPC across continents with live streaming.
- Developed real-time control and data acquisition pipelines using distributed systems.
Summer Intern at Volvo Technology AB (2024-06 – 2024-07)
Battery cell testing and simulation
- Conducted battery test chamber thermal analysis during charge cycles for various configurations of battery stacking and chamber sizes.
- Simulated LiFP batteries using PyBamm for test data generation for various charging configurations and failure cases.
Summer Intern at OSPO, UC Santa Cruz (2023-06 – 2023-08)
High Fidelity simulation using Unreal engine
- Developed a simulation for a custom propeller-based balancing bot with physics simulators like Gazebo and Unreal Engine, which is co-designed together with hardware for HIL-SIL testing.
- Created an example for balancing a propeller-based balancing bot with PD controller using Gazebo and ROS1.
Research Assistant at Robotics Research Center (RRC), IIIT-H (2022-07 – 2023-05)
Identification of Salient Structural Elements in Buildings and UWB-based indoor navigation
- Developed a real-time detection model (LEDNet) to track small targets (pipes) in video data, achieving 88% accuracy.
- Developed an unsupervised learning-based approach for segmenting building cracks by analyzing drone imagery.
- Designed and implemented a robust autonomy stack for drone navigation in GPS-denied indoor environments, utilizing UWB localization and inertial odometry.
- Implemented EKF sensor fusion for data from UWB and IMU sensors to improve navigation robustness and situational awareness, validating performance on micro-drones.
Assistant Manager - Maintenance Department at Hero MotoCorp Ltd (2020-08 – 2022-04)
Paint and Weld Shop operations and ISO standards certification
- Worked on breakdown and preventive maintenance of Paint and Weld shop equipment, including machines like Manipulators, Paint kitchen and treatment equipment, Welding stations, Fine boring and brazing stations.
- Part of a cross-functional team for conducting a feasibility study for the operation of industrial IOT with existing machinery in the Paint and weld shop.
- Handled the first time certification of the maintenance department for successful certification in safety, operation, and environmental management standards (ISO45001:2018, ISO9001:2015, and ISO14001:2015).
- Internal ISO auditor for Process Approach Concept, Aspect Impact Analysis, Hazard Identification, and Risk Assessment methodologies.
