👋️ Hello there! I’m Ashwin

📚️ I’m a master’s student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) majoring in Robotics Engineering with a keen interest in Computer Vision, Motion Planning, Controls and State Estimation. I completed my bachelor’s in Aeronautical Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, India.

🦾️ Currently, I am part of Perception and Autonomous Robotics group at WPI (https://pear.wpi.edu/index.html) under the guidance of Dr. Nitin Sanket. The lab focuses on advancing autonomy on tiny aerial robots using on-board sensing, perception and computation by building algorithms based on Active Perception, Interactive Perception, Novel Perception and Novel Sensing. I am working on depth map prediction from ultrasound for obstacle avoidance of miniature drones.

✈️ Previously, I worked at the Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad in collaboration with Arka Aerospace as an intern under the supervision of Dr. Spandan Roy, where I worked on a decentralized multi-agent system of drones for FOD (Foreign Object Debris) detection on runways focusing on path planning and obstacle avoidance.

🥇️ I participated in the E-Yantra Robotics Competition 2021-22 hosted by IIT, Bombay. Our team won the competition out of 242 teams in the DairyBike theme. Subsequently, I got an opportunity to work at E-Yantra’s summer internship program, where my team implemented a PID controller on an Omnidirectional Micro Aerial Vehicle (OMAV) in simulation environment.

🏎️ Apart from this, I love watching snooker and Formula 1 racing (Forza Ferrari). I also enjoy solving Rubik’s cube, photography and going to the gym.