Projects

Graduate Research Assistant- Vehicle Dynamics Lab, U.C. Berkeley, (Aug ‘03- Present):

Cold-start emissions control in an SI engine (Aug. 03- Present)

Advisor: Prof. JK Hedrick, Univ of California, Berkeley

DARPA Grand Challenges Berkeley Team (2005 and 2007):

The grand challenge competitions required a completely autonomous vehicle! The 2007 Urban challenge was tougher since it involved designing complex controllers so that the vehicle follows by itself all the urban traffic rules. I designed high-level path planner and low level controllers (steering, throttle, brake) as part of the Berkeley Sydney Driving team.

Biped robot prosthetic knee design and control (U.C. Berkeley, Fall 2004):

Worked on the design of a humanoid thigh that connects to a prosthetic knee. Designed a controller to control the gait of the biped robot. Integrated all the sensors and implemented the controller in real time using C.

Advisor: Prof. H. Kazerooni, U.C. Berkeley

Design of a Microhardness testing machine (summer research, Indian Institute of Science, 2001):

Designed a new mechanism for micro indentation on the specimen surface using ANSYS and ProE. Analyzed and resurrected an existing old out-of-order hardness machine.

Advisor: Prof. Satish V Kailas, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Digital circuit design (U.C. Berkeley, Fall 2005):
Designed and implemented a Digital Etch-a-Sketch paint machine using Verilog+Xilinx tools

Advisor: Prof. Randy Katz, Computer Science Dept, U.C. Berkeley

Robot arm motion tracking (U.C. Berkeley, Fall 2003):
Designed the real-time software architecture and implemented using Java for real-time robot arm motion path tracking and control

Advisor: Prof. David Auslander, U.C.Berkeley

System and Network Administrator- Vehicle Dynamics Lab, U.C. Berkeley (Aug ‘03- Present)

Active Suspensions for Tracked Vehicles (Undergraduate project, IIT-Madras, 2003):
Advisor: Prof YG Srinivasa, IIT-Madras

Automatic Amphibious Vehicle (IIT-Madras, 2002 )

This robot was designed and manufactured as part of the Robotics workshop that I had organized in Shaastra, the technical symposium of IIT-Madras, the biggest of its kind in South India. More details to follow...

Wall climbing robot (IIT-Madras, 2002)

Autonomous light tracking rover (IIT-Madras, 2002)