Graduate Research Assistant

August 2023 - Present

Research Intern

August 2021 - February 2022

• Selected and received funding from the Ministry of Heavy Industries – Govt. of India, to work on an autonomous robotic development project for the removal of plastic waste from beaches, in collaboration with the Maxelerator Foundation.
• Designed a visual inspection system making use of a 3D camera for object detection, and a LiDAR for range determination.
• Collected and annotated over 1000 images using Roboflow, and implemented Transfer Learning using pre – trained models from Tensorflow 2 Model Zoo running on a NVIDIA Jetson Nano Processor. Also compared their relative performances.
• Collaborated with the Autonomous Guidance and Digital Twin teams, working in parallel to create a Digital Twin of the robot, and integrated a ESP32 WiFi Module to the Jetson Nano to enable real – time data analytics.
• Simulated the navigation of the Robot using Unity3D, with further work to be carried out in the robotic arm simulation and the implementation of ROS for autonomous navigation.
• Co – authored a manuscript with collaborators from the Digital Twin and Autonomous Guidance teams, documenting the results.