I am Satya Sai, a 4th-year undergraduate student in the Engineering Design Department, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. I am an undergraduate student researcher in the Autonomous Systems Lab at IIT Madras under Prof. Bijo Sebastian.

As part of my research, I am passionate about working on solving real-world industrial-oriented multi-robot collaboration problems as they offer me the opportunity to go deep and wide in different interconnected topics mentioned below:

• Kinematics
• Localisation
• Path Planning and Navigation
• Collaborative Control
• Linear and Non-Linear Control methods
• Model Predictive Control
• ROS integrated frameworks
• Mechanical Design
• PCB Designing

I have been working in the Autonomous Systems Lab for the last 2 years, completed a set of projects, and decided on my current research goal. I've worked on

1. Teleoperation of an outdated P3AT robot using ROSARIA bridge (Status:=Completed)
2. Optimizing Artificial Landmark Placement for Improving Indoor Localization of Mobile Robots (Status:=Completed)
3. Outdoor Autonomous Robot (Status:=Paused)
4. Multi-Robot Systems (Status:=Current)

Outside of my above project-specific interests, I am currently interested in

• Robot Learning (Deep Reinforcement Learning)
• Non-linear controls
• Hardware Design (manufacturability)
• Product Design
• ROS2
• Simulations for robotics (Issac sim, gazebo, etc)
• Sim-to-Real & Real-to-Sim

1. Current senior mentor and former head of iBot club at Centre For Innovation
2. Founded Team Chetak (Robocon team of IIT Madras) and Team Lead
3. Coordinator and Project member of iBot club at [Centre For Innovation]
4. Centre For Innovation Finance team manager
5. Coordinator in Saarang (Anual Cultural fest of IIT Madras)
6. Junior Consultant at ShARE IIT Madras Chapter

1. "Optimizing Artificial Landmark Placement for Improving Indoor Localization of Mobile Robots", Venkata Naren Devarakonda, Tankala Satya Sai, and Bijo Sebastian. IDETC ASME(2024). [Accepted. To be published online.]
2. "InnoGuideGPT: Integrating conversational interface and command interpretation for navigation robots", Rahul Sundar, Shreyash Gadgil, Tankala Satya Sai, ... . AIMLSystems (2023).

Reach out to me and let me know how I can assist you in making your day brighter and better! I would love to serve/ guide/ collaborate with any passionate individual working/ seeking to work in similar areas or who requires a skill set that I can offer. Email: satyasai2004.edu@gmail.com