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About Me

I currently work as Lead Robotics Research Engineer at Dyson, mainly working on control and planning for mobile manipulation robots intended for helping in domestic tasks and environments. My current research focus is on developing a control framework for enabling intelligent and environment-aware locomotion planning and control for different robot formats.

Previously, I was a PhD student in the Intelligent Robotics Lab at the University of Birmingham, working on "Machine Learing for Dexterous Robot Manipulation". The main area of my research was applying Machine Learning techniques to develop a framework that can aid robots to perform changing-contact manipulation tasks in dynamic and unknown environments using different objects.

My Interests

  • I like creating robot interfaces and implementing algorithms for testing the capabilities of intelligent robot systems.
  • I especially enjoy working with mobile robots and manipulators in the context of assembly tasks involving challenging interaction dynamics and complex control strategies.
  • I also like discovering things (codes, algorithms, languages, music, etc.) and trying them out in my own way.

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  1. panda_simulator panda_simulator Public

    A Gazebo simulator for the Franka Emika Panda robot with ROS interface, supporting sim-to-real code transfer (Python). Exposes customisable controllers and state feedback from robot in simulation.

    C++ 212 61

  2. pyrcf pyrcf Public

    A Python Robot Control Framework for quickly prototyping control algorithms for different robot embodiments.

    Python 1

  3. mujoco_panda mujoco_panda Public

    Model definitions and Python API for controlling a Franka Emika Panda robot in the mujoco physics simulator.

    Python 51 16

  4. franka_ros_interface franka_ros_interface Public

    A ROS/Python API for controlling and managing the Franka Emika Panda robot (real and simulated).

    Python 172 59

  5. pybullet_robot pybullet_robot Public

    A generic Python interface class for robot simulations using PyBullet. Also provides an IK interface for multi-end-effector robots that uses bullet physics as a solver.

    Python 28 12

  6. monocular_visual_graph_slam monocular_visual_graph_slam Public

    An implementation of Graph-based SLAM using only an onboard monocular camera. Developed as part of MSc Robotics Masters Thesis (2017) at University of Birmingham.

    C++ 7 2