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AUTONOMY ONLINE · aeroKLE · KLE TECH

Building drones
that think in flight.

Autonomous UAV systems end-to-end — OpenVINS GPS-denied navigation, ROS 2 + PX4 integration, and agentic RL pipelines that train in simulation before flying real hardware.

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MODEOFFBOARD / VIO
STATE ESTOpenVINS @ 200Hz
FCPX4 · MAVLink
COMPANIONRaspberry Pi 5
ALT HOLDTF02-Pro @ 100Hz
EKF HEALTHNOMINAL
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Mission Summary

Numbers speak in telemetry too

#All-India Rank · Aerothon 2025
#All-India Rank · ADDC 2026
#VIO state-estimation rate
#Open-source repos, guides & drivers
Mission Showcase

Systems I've engineered

Flight-proven autonomy, competition hardware, and open-source tooling — full archive on GitHub ↗

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AeroForge — The Agentic Flight Engineer

Natural-language drone mission in, validated flight policy out. A multi-agent pipeline: Mission Analyst → Autonomy Architect (strategy selection: MPC / RRT* / PPO / SAC) → Experiment Engineer (PX4 SITL + Gazebo training) → Verification Agent (safety thresholds) → Crash Analyzer (auto-diagnoses .ulg logs, retries). Built for the Google All Things Agentic Hackathon 2026.

PYTHONPPO / SACPX4 SITLGAZEBOROS 2GCP
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GPS-Denied UAV Navigation

OpenVINS visual-inertial odometry fused into PX4 via ROS 2 + MAVLink on a Raspberry Pi 5 — flying without GPS. Also shipped a Benewake TF02-Pro UART driver (100 Hz ranging) for rangefinder altitude hold.

OPENVINSPX4MAVLINKSENSOR FUSION
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PX4 + ROS 2 + Gazebo Guide ★4

The setup guide I wish existed: clean Distrobox-based workflow for the full PX4 sim stack — community-tested, zero confusing steps.

DISTROBOXGAZEBOQGROUNDCTRL
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COMPETITION

UAV–UGV Cooperative Autonomy

Multi-vehicle PX4 control with LiDAR point-cloud mapping and thermal-camera integration for search-and-rescue — aerial + ground robots coordinating over ROS 2.

MULTI-ROBOTLIDARTHERMAL
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FOC BLDC Torque Optimization

Field-oriented control with Clarke / Park transforms + SVPWM modeled in Simulink, with a realtime embedded implementation strategy for STM32.

SIMULINKSTM32SVPWM
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INDUSTRIAL

ML Robot Cycle-Time Optimizer

RAPID parser extracting ABB motion trajectories → ML path optimization → applied back via RobotStudio RWS API to cut cycle time on real industrial arms.

ROBOTSTUDIORAPIDML
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Kalibr Camera–IMU Calibration

Docker + ROS 1 workflow for reproducible camera–IMU calibration — the boring setup steps, reliably packaged.

DOCKERROS 1KALIBR
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Jetson AGX Xavier — Arch Linux Guide

Complete patch-flash-boot pipeline for L4T R35.5.0 on Arch Linux — from empty board to CUDA-ready flight computer.

JETSONL4TARCH

Also on GitHub → imu-allan-variance-calibration · codex-luna-routing · n8n-Local-Setup

Payload Manifest

Full stack, flight to factory

AUTONOMY & ROBOTICS

ROS 2PX4 AutopilotMAVLinkGazeboAirSimOpenVINS (VIO)Nav2Sensor Fusion

MODEL-BASED DESIGN

SimulinkMATLABROS ToolboxControl System ToolboxSimscapeSystem Validation

EMBEDDED & COMPUTE

STM32Raspberry Pi 5Jetson AGX/XavierPixhawk 6XOAK-DRTOS concepts

PROGRAMMING

PythonC++CMATLABBashGit / GitHub

AI FOR AUTONOMY

PPO / SAC (SB3)Reinforcement LearningComputer VisionLLM toolingSensor Fusion

MECHANICAL & DESIGN

SolidWorksEasyEDA (PCB)ANSYS (basic FEA)Payload engineering

SYSTEMS & OPS

UbuntuArch / GarudaJetson LinuxShell scriptingDockerDistrobox

FLIGHT OPS & TEST

QGroundControlSITL / HITLMAVLink routingULog analysisReal-flight validation
Mission Log

Experience & education

Automation & Robotics Engineer @ aeroKLE — Hubballi

🏆 DEC 2024 — PRESENT
  • All India Rank 1 — SAEINDIA Aerothon 2025: designed and integrated a fully autonomous UAV — avionics, real-time processing, end-to-end mission flow.
  • All India Rank 2 — SAEISS ADDC 2026: engineered a servo-driven 3-finger payload mechanism for precise, damage-free egg grasp-and-drop.
  • Lead integration: flight controller, companion computer, sensors & power systems with reliable inter-subsystem comms.
  • Built perception-to-control pipelines improving responsiveness and stability of autonomous operations.

GPS-Denied Navigation — Flight-Test Program @ aeroKLE R&D

2025 — ONGOING
  • Real-world flight testing of the OpenVINS + PX4 navigation stack; iterating on reliability and accuracy under real conditions.

B.E. Automation & Robotics @ KLE Technological University, Hubballi

EXPECTED AUG 2027CGPA 8.5

Certifications @ MathWorks

MATLAB ONRAMP · SIMULINK ONRAMP · CONTROL SYSTEM TOOLBOX · SIMSCAPE ONRAMP
OPEN TO INTERNSHIPS · RESEARCH · COLLABS

Ground control to Nagaraj

Looking for UAV autonomy, robotic embedded systems, or simulation-first robotics work? Let's talk.

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