Akash Verma

Experience

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  Jul 2019 - May 2023

  Undergraduate Student in Engineering Physics Department
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  Unmesh Mashruwala Innovation Cell

  Sept 2020 - May 2023

  Led a 4-tier team of 90+ members to build autonomous ground and aerial vehicles. Led a multidisciplinary team of 23 members working on autonomous cars ∣ Level 4 autonomy

  • Overall Coordinator

    May 2022 - May 2023

  • Team Manager and Motion Planning Lead

    Jun 2021 - Aug 2022

  • Sr. Engineer in Motion Planning Subsystem

    Sept 2020 - Aug 2022
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  ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers)

  Dec 2020 - Apr 2021

  ASME-SDC 2021

  - Ranked 4th in the world finals of SDC '21 by innovating a bot running on a single AAA battery having solar and wind harvesting capabilities.

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  Ati Motors

  May 2022 - Jul 2022

  Summer Intern

  Robotics Software R&D Intern- Received a Letter of Recommendation for exemplary performance during Summer Internship1. Navigation Control Algorithms and Path Planning- Enhanced MPC, and validated with on-site testing achieving a improvement of 10x in manoeuvrability2. Localization and Mapping- Developed an infrastructure to enable comparative study of state-of-the-art SLAM with 3D LiDAR data towards a 3D map generation capabilities

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  NewSpace Research and Technologies

  Jun 2023 - now

  Robotics Software Engineer 1