Mahendra L Seervi

AI and Robotic Engineer

I am an Automation and Robotics engineer who loves working on robotic systems operated using artificial intelligence and robot operating system (ROS), currently working on Autonomous vehicles/robots.

Along with this, I also love to design and develop new products, which could help the people around me for their better tomorrow.

Expertise

Robotics

Robotic Arm - Scara, Gantry and Articulated Robots.
Mobile Robots - Differential, Omni and Meccanum drive robots.
Intellegent Robots - Autonomous Navigation, Reinforce learned and Service robots.

Industrial Automation

Programmable logic contorllers - Beckoff, Panasonic and FANUC PMC's.
Pneumatics systems - Shunk, Zimmer, Festo and SMC.
Robot system engineering - Indexers, Slat and belt conveyor and Rails ETC

Robot operating system(ROS)

Autonomous navigation robot - Both for simulation and hardware.
Ros simulation - Gazebo.

Machine Learning

Supervised Learning - Tensorflow, Scikit-learn etc.
Reinforcement learning - Q-learning, DQN.

Skills

Designing - (Solidworks and Auto-cad)
80%
Manufacturing - (Machining, CNC, Lathe and Milling etc)
60%
ROS - (Robot Operating System)
70%
Programming - (Python, C++, Basic HTML and Cuda)
60%
Machine learning - (Reinforcement and supervised learning)
70%
Simulations - (Roboguide, Robotstudio and Gazebo etc)
70%
Electronics - (Eagle and Proteus for schematic diagrams and layouts)
60%

Work Experience

May 2020 - Dec 2020

Robotics software Engineer

Botsync Technologies Private Limited

Bangalore, India

* Autonomous mobile robot operated using AI and ROS
* Currently working on Autonomous docking of mobile robot

Sept 2019 - Apr 2020

Engineer, vehicle Autonomy

Cellprop Private Limited

Bangalore, India

* Design and fabrication of two wheel differential drive rover
* Electronics and Control system programming (cruise and pose control of the rover )
* Currently working on Deployment of Reinforcement learning algorithms on the Rover both on simulation (Gazebo) and on physical rover

June 2018 - June 2019

Robot System Engineering, GET

FANUC India Pvt Ltd

Bangalore, India

* Worked in proposals - robot division
includes (Concept generation for wide variety of different robotic applications, preparing layouts using Auto cad and Robotic simulation using Roboguide)
* Sound exposure on the shop floor (Robot installation and commissioning support)

Education

2014 - 2018

Bachelor of Technology, Automation and Robotics

B V B College of Engg. & Technology

Grade : 8.8 CGPA

Hubli, Karnataka

2012 - 2014

Pre-university , PCME

St Joseph's P U College

Grade : 88.08%

Bangalore, Karnataka

2002 - 2012

Karnataka State Board

Anekal Public School

Grade : 88.80%

Anekal, Karnataka

Service

2016 - 2017

Team Leader; Robocon 2017

• Robotic system which was able to throw Frisbee to the specified location and height
• Throwing mechanism was placed on the Omni wheeled base chassis which could navigate in any direction at a given point of time
• Wired joystick was used to control the robot
• National level competition which was held at Pune ,India
• Team of 24 members

2015 - 2016

Team Member; Robocon 2016

• Renewable energy transferring robots (one robot will generate energy and will be transfered to the another robot without in contact to perform some activity)
• Pole climbing robotic system was developed
• Wind energy based locomotion robot
• National level competition which was held at Pune ,India

Courses

Mar 2020 - Apr 2020

Robotics software Engineer - Nanodegree program udacity

- Udacity

Credentials
Mar 2020 - mar 2020

Python - university of michigan

- Coursera

Credentials
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020

Control of Mobile Robots - Georgia Institute of Technology

- Coursera

Credentials
June 2017

Beckoff PLC Training

June - Aug 2018

Fanuc Simulation Software - Roboguide

June - Aug 2018

Training on Fanuc Robots

Projects

Jul 2017 – Apr 2018

1. Wheel based Humanoid robot:

• Design and development of Humanoid torso with arms and head, which will be placed on the wheeled base chassis and could perform the following tasks:
      o Autonomous navigation (uses Intel realsense camera and differential drive basechassis)
      o Hand gestures like : Waving hands, Hold a tray, shake hand and many
      o speech and voice recognition
      o screen touch display to interact with robot
• Complete robot was build on Robot Operating System(ROS)
• ROS packages like (MoveIt, Navigation stack, Dynamixel SDK Etc) were used to build the system
• Dynamixel motors and faulhaber motors were used to provide motion the links
• Team of 14 members

Jul 2017 – Dec 2017

2. Crawling robot using Reinforcement learning:

• Q-learning was implemented to a dual armed robot
• The robot was able to crawl by itself with max speed
• Both Simulation and hardware implementation was done

Jan 2017 – Apr 2017

3. Selective Compliance Articulated Robot Arm (SCARA robot):

• 4 DOF scara based robotic arm was designed and fabricated in house
• Stepper motor with the timer pulleys were used for the link motion
• Web based UI was created to control the robotic arm
• Linear and circular interpolation were produced using the inverse kinematic equation which were derived
• Application like pick and place with good repeatability was tested

Dec 2016 – Mar 2017

4. Frisbee Throwing Robot (Robocon 2017):

• Robotic system which was able to throw a Frisbee discs to the specified location and height
• Thrower mechanism was placed on the Omni wheeled base chassis which could navigate in any direction at a given point of time
• Wired joystick was used to control the robot
• National level competition which was held at Pune ,India
• Team of 24 members

Jul 2016 – Dec 2016

5. Design, Development and analysis of single Axis Linear Motion control system (mini project):

• The mechanical system consisted of linear slider unit, timer belt and pulley system and a rigid frame to hold the complete system
• Maxon motor EC-max 30 was used for the motion
• Using PID control logic the position and the speed of the linear slider was controlled with good accuracy
• The complete system was designed and fabricated in house

Interests

Reading

I like reading books which help me grow better
Few books my favourite books are - 1) Start with Why - Simon sinek 2)The Magic of thinking Big - david j. schwartz etc

Sports

I Like playing sports like - Shuttle badmition, Basketball and cricket etc
• Was Awarded as the best sportsman in school
• Had participated in 3 sports at district level and was captain in 2.

Art

In my free time I like travelling and doing Nature photography

Contact

Address
Bangalore, Karnataka
India. 562106
Mobile Number
+91 8123691913
Email
lmahendra55@gmail.com