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Education
Education
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Master of Science (2019-21)
Major: Robotics
National Institute of Technology Trichy
National Institute of Technology Trichy
Tiruchirappalli, TN, India
Bachelor of Technology (2015-19)
Major: Instrumentation and Control Engineering
Minor: Computer Applications
Kendriya Vidyalaya, IIT Madras
Kendriya Vidyalaya, IIT Madras
Chennai, TN, India
CBSE Class XII 2015
(Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English)
Work experience
Work experience
Automated Driving Algorithm Developer
Automated Driving Algorithm Developer
Aptiv LLC - Troy, USA
Aug 2021 - Current
Mapping and Localization algorithm development for Hands-free Highway driving pilot (L2+/L3), the industry's first Tier 1 supplier with such a product.
Designed and implemented vehicle localization using Camera-Map Fusion with Odometry and GPS fused pose.
Developed real time map processing and desegmentation for scene understanding and behavior planning.
Efficient and safety compliant algorithm development in C++ on constrained embedded production hardware.
Leading a platform redesign effort for scalability to urban settings and code modularity for a new service oriented architecture.
Also served as an acting product owner, in charge of charting out technical goals and roadmaps for the team, issue triage, leading technical discussions , resource management and task allocation.
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Data Driven Gait optimisation
Data Driven Gait optimisation
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
May 2020 - July 2021
Using Support vector machines to estimate the ’local connection’ dynamics of 3-link swimmer in a perturbed stokesian regime for rapid gradient estimation of the connection vector fields to generate optimal gaits
Supervised by Dr. Shai Revzen at the BIRDS Lab
Reinforcement learning for exoskeleton control
Reinforcement learning for exoskeleton control
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
January - April 2020
Feature identification for Reinforcement learning based exoskeleton control
Used the manipulator body jacobian of a 5 DoF lower limb exoskeleton for feature development.
Supervised by Dr. Robert Gregg
Labview Interface for upper limb rehabilitation robot
Labview Interface for upper limb rehabilitation robot
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
October - December 2019
Applications programmer for upper limb rehabilitation therapy using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
Developed Therapy protocol and application for Data acquisition in LabView.
Supervised by Dr. Chandramouli Krishnan. at the NeuRRo Lab
SMA-actuated SHape compliant gripper
SMA-actuated SHape compliant gripper
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, India
October 2018 - May 2019
Development of a Gripper actuated by shape memory alloys for compliant manipulation.
Potential applications in Personal healthcare and micromanipulation.
Supervised by Dr. Dhanalakshmi K.
Deep Learning for Ship Detection
Deep Learning for Ship Detection
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea
May - July 2018
Augmenting the Navigation System of an Autonomous Unmanned Surface vehicle developed at KAIST.
Used the Single-Shot Multibox Detector (SSD) Deep CNN framework in Pytorch to develop a high FPS perception system.
VOC2007 Dataset transfer learning with additional training on images extracted from RGB and IR video footage.
Supervised by Dr. Jinwhan Kim at MORIN
Human Visuomotor Coordination
Human Visuomotor Coordination
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
December 2017
Studied the control mechanisms underlying human visuomotor coordination in a trajectory tracking task.
Empirical analysis and PID Controller tuning to simulate this control.
Supervised by Dr. Varadhan SKM. at the Neuromechanics Lab
Human COmputer Interface
Human COmputer Interface
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
May - July 2017
Developed an online server in Java to log human interaction with an Air Traffic Control console, capturing eye tracking and mouse movement profile.
Used multithreading and OOP to synchronise multi-stream capture. Developed an offline server for graphical post-processing.
Supervised by Dr. Vinod A Prasad.
Publications
Publications
Anand Asokan, Vigneshwar M
5th Indian Control Conference (ICC) 2019
IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India
Anand Asokan, Allan Joseph Pothen, Raj Krishnan Vijayaraj
2016 International Conference on Robotics for Humanitarian Applications (RAHA)
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam, Kerala, India
Patents
Patents
Shape Compliant Robotic Gripper
Shape Compliant Robotic Gripper
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, India
A compliant actuator developed to serve as a robotic gripper for manipulation tasks in a personal healthcare scenario. Uses Shape memory alloy wires (NiTinol) for actuation. Allows for force compliant manipulation.
Invented a topology-optimised compliant gripper. A NARX network was trained in simulink for variable stiffness actuation.
Patent Granted: Indian Patent Office : 431069
Student Projects
Student Projects
HUmanoid RObotic System
A Bipedal walking robot with a static gait.
Development of a humanoid robot platform for research.
Developed at Robotics and Machine Intelligence Club, NIT Tiruchirappalli.
Assistive Rehabilitation ExoSkeleton
An Upper Arm 3 DoF assistive Exoskeleton. Suitable for use in Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy.
Feedforward control using patient's surface EMG (Electro-Myo-Graphy) signals.
Developed at Robotics and Machine Intelligence Club, NIT Tiruchirappalli.
ARMatron
ARMatron
8 DoF Mechanical Gesture Recognition Glove.
Capable of capturing finger flexion, and palm movements.
Potential applications in Physiotherapy, Remote robot operation.
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