Ak

Hi! I am currently pursuing a Master degree in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
.

I am passionate about Robotics and Computer Science. My research interests include manipulation, trajectory optimization and real-time nonlinear model predictive control.

Education and Research Experiences

April 2021 - Present

Visiting student at PRISMA Lab, University of Naples Federico II, Italy. I am working under the mentorship of Prof. Bruno Siciliano .

September 2019 - Present

Graduate Student in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

September 2018 - May 2019

Research Assistant at Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS) of the Örebro University, Sweden. I worked under the mentorship of Prof. Henrik Andreasson and Prof. Federico Pecora .

July 2018 - August 2018

Research Intern at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India. My supervisor was Prof. P.B. Sujit.

January 2018 - March 2018 & June 2017 - August 2017

Research Intern at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India. My supervisor was Prof. K. Madhava Krishna.

August 2014 - July 2018

Bachelor degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Delhi Technological University(Formerly Delhi College of Engineering), India.

Skills

Operating Systems

Linux, ROS


Programming Languages

C/C++, MATLAB, Python


Numerical Optimization Tools

CasADi, ACADO, acados


Hardware Platforms

Arduino, Pixhawk, SLAMDUNK, Parrot Bebop, ZED Stereo Camera


Key Projects

[click on project image to learn more]

Collision avoidance for torque-controlled robots under joint and Cartesian inequality constraints

Robotics II course project

Multi-robot spatial coordination

AASS,Örebro University

Augmentation GAN

Vision & Perception course project

Steganography with GANs

Neural Networks course project

Autonomous collision avoidance on a quadcopter [video]

DTU

Team Unmanned Aerial Systems

DTU

SpaceY - Space Mission Game [demo]

Interactive Graphics course project

Probabilistic obstacle avoidance and object following [video]

IIIT Hyderabad

Research

Below are my publications


  • "Probabilistic obstacle avoidance and object following: An overlap of Gaussians approach" Dhaivat Bhatt, Akash Garg, Bharath Gopalakrishnan and K. Madhava Krishna. 28th IEEE International Robot & Human Interactive Communication, October 2019. [pdf]
  • "Chance Constraints Integrated MPC Navigation in Uncertainty amongst Dynamic Obstacles: An overlap of Gaussians approach" Dhaivat Bhatt, Akash Garg, Bharath Gopalakrishnan and K. Madhava Krishna. arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.09929, June 2018. [pdf]
  • "Delhi Technological University, Unmanned Aerial Systems Project" Team UAS-DTU. Journal paper for AUVSI’s Student UAS Competition - 2017. [pdf]
  • "Autonomous Payload Drop System using mini-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" Rohan Pratap Singh, Akash Garg. International Journal of Innovations in Engineering and Technology (IJIET)-Volume 7 Issue 3, October 2016. [pdf]

Contact

Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering (DIAG) "Antonio Ruberti" at Sapienza University of Rome. Via Ariosto, 25. 00185 Rome, Italy

Contact me at: garg[dot]1892171[at]studenti[dot]uniroma1[dot]it