Syed Usama Bin Sabir

Experience

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  Aro Robotic Systems

  Jun 2020 - Mar 2023

  Robotics Engineer

  1) Implementing Navigation stack of ROS2 (Nav2) on an in-house developedAMR to follow defined way-points.2) Fusing wheel odometry and IMU data for localizing accurately a mobile robotin a warehouse environment.3) Implementing Baye’s filter to reduce uncertainty in sensor measurements to achievemaximum quality of given sensor suite.4) Realtime obstacle avoidance by generating dynamic occupancy grid coming from thetoolbox.5) Reconstructing the message in a unity interface for planned movement of robot. Show less

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  AutoCanvas

  Aug 2020 - Oct 2020

  Mechatronics Engineer

  My responsibilities during this period were :1) Hardware interfacing to get CAN data from embedded devices and automobiles. 2) Performing QA on output generated by our company's product.3) Performing corrections on generated maps made in OPENDrive format.4) Corrections included but were not limited to EGO trajectory deviations and Lane counts.5) Optimisation of sensor configuration on self driving vehicles.6) Understanding and implementing ROS for integrating different modules. Show less

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  Maanz AI

  Nov 2020 - Mar 2023

  In this role , I did development on following :1) Optimizing EGO vehicle’s perception model for precise localization using in-house and 3rd party modules.2) Minimizing blind spots of sensors (cameras/LIDARs) using optimal sensor placement ondata-gathering vehicle.3) Developing tools to visualize both final and intermediate output of pipeline using ROS. 4)Converting custom ROS messages of customers to ROS standard types compatible with our pipeline and using them for localization and mapping. 5)Used multiple smoothing(SAVGOL) and fusing algorithms(Kalman) to get precise and smooth sensor reading and state estimation.6) State estimation of EGO vehicle in 3D. Show less In this role , I was assigned following tasks:1) Providing hardware support for CAN bus to log vehicle's positional stats.2) Assisting in developing perception for autonomous vehicles by providing optimal sensor configuration.3) Running data pipeline on raw data to clone scenarios from actual drive data. 4) Performing QA on output generated by our company's product.5) Performing corrections on generated maps made in OPENDrive format.6) Corrections included but were not limited to EGO trajectory deviations and Lane counts.7) Worked on creating digital drive twin of measurement drives from Porsche , AUDI , BMW , AVL and ZF.8) Road User Trajectory Analysis and Correction9) Performing QA on output generated by our company's product.10) Corrections included but were not limited to EGO trajectory deviations and Lane counts.11) Bulk processing of our in-house data gathering vehicle to identify room of improvement of process and our cloning pipeline.14) Quality Analysis and correction of HD Maps in OPEN Drive format. Show less

  • Intern Product Owner

    Feb 2023 - Mar 2023

  • Perception Engineer

    Feb 2022 - Feb 2023

  • Support and Service Engineer

    Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
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  Center for Precision & Automated Agricultural Systems

  May 2023 - Jan 2025

  Research Assistant
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  Cornell University

  Jan 2025 - now

  Graduate Research Assistant

  PhD student focusing on Agricultural Robotics.