Hi! I am Rahul Vernwal. I am a 4th year undergrad at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. I am interested in motion planning and vision for robots and their intersection with machine learning. My work has been deployed/tested on prime air robots, UR10 and manipulators.
As a part of Kharagpur RoboSoccer Students' Group I work to build autonomous soccer playing robots. In particular, I work on path planning, controls and vision. I am working under Prof. Jayanta Mukhopadhyay for my undergraduate thesis.
News
- July 2020: I finished my intern at Wadhwani AI, working to build a paramterized 3D model for new born babies. Really impressed by the type of work and the huge potential for the social impact that it posses.
- June 2020: Our paper on Robotic Motion Planning using Learned Critical Sources and Local Sampling got accepted at MLPC Workshop, ICRA 2020.
- Nov 2019: I presented my work on Robotic Motion Planning at IRoS 2019, Macau, China.
- July 2019: I interned at Amazon Robotics, Seattle where I worked to demo Box stacking through a robotic arm.
- June 2019: Our paper on Learning Sampling Methods got accepted at IRoS 2019, Macau, China!
- July 2018: I spent a lovely summer at Personal Robotics Lab, University of Washington working with Prof. Siddhartha Srinivasa, Sanjiban Choudhury and Aditya Mandalika on Learning Sampling methods for constrained space motion planning.
- Jan 2018: Our research group KRSSG qualified for RoboCup SSL 2018, Montreal.