Karthik Swaminathan

Hi!! I am currently in final year of my B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. I have an experience in Designing, Manufacturing, Coding, ROS, and Simulation. I am a Robotics enthusiast and would love to explore varied domains like soft robotics, bioinspired robotics, swarm robotics and SLAM.

Summer Research Intern, Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIR), DRDO

I worked at DRDO for 2 months in the months from June to July 2022 under the guidance of Scientist 'D' Shri. Ramachandra Kodi
My topic for the internship was "Multi-Grasp Arm Manipulation" where a single arm was used to manipulate varied size objects using multiple grasping positions
The project was done in simulation using ROS, Gazebo.
MoveIt was used for trajectory planning and 6D Pose of an object with multiple grasping positions/possibilities were determined using GraspNet.

Research Intern, Stochastic Robotics Lab, IISc

The internship was done from December 2021 till March 2022 under Prof. Shishir Kolathaya
I was involved in developing responsive foot of the quadruped made out of TPU.
Along with that, I created the design for strengthing the abduction link of the quadruped

Research Intern, Centre of Excellence in Complex and NonLinear Dynamical Systems (COE-CNDS), VJTI

The Pick, Sort and Place Robot was developed for 7th Delta International Automation Contest(mentioned in detail at the Projects & Competition Section).
The complete setup was used for research purpose aiming to create fast, accurate system for packaging of products.
This project was continued under the support and guidance of Dr. Faruk Kazi at VJTI
All the automation components were powered by Delta Electronics.