Ishir Roongta

Supervisor: David Guttendorf Internship Supervisor: Leanne Lisien · Implemented information transport modules for UGVs and analyzed and reverse engineered Bluetooth protocol for BMS. · Developed utility applications to transport Silvus radio network information for a swarm of UGVs and UAVs to a dashboard to further reduce downtime. · Integrated 2D Lidar scan and Visual odometry using custom implemented ROS2 wrappers to create global indoor mapping pipeline using Slamtoolbox with NVIDIA platform AGX Orin.

Department of Electrical Engineering Supervisor: Prof. Twinkle Tripathy Research Paper Title: Trajectory-Constrained Standoff Target Tracking using Barrier Lyapunov Functions • Designed Barrier Lyapunov functions-based control laws for a unicycle agent to perform intelligent target tracking and simultaneously avoid certain dangerous regions. • Analyzed the design methods of control barrier functions in different scenarios to incorporate multiple constraints.

Supervisor: Prof. Soulaimane Berkane • Investigated the problem of multi-UAV cooperative localization using inadequate Ultra-Wide Band module measurements for information degraded environments. • Experimented with state estimation algorithms like Extended Kalman Filter to localize a pair of Crazyflies in an indoor lab environment with inadequate ranging measurements.

→ Led a team of 30 members with aim of participating in aerial systems competitions and projects. → Mentored introductory projects for new members on autonomous FPV drone racing and tracking. More information in the "Projects" section

Gathered foundational understanding of basic concepts in robotics, vision, control, and path planning. Learned key frameworks and libraries like ROS, OpenCV, Boost, Eigen, PX4 necessary to work on open source aerial robot projects. More information in the "Projects" section. Also mentored junior team members and designed and taught lectures on ROS, Gazebo, setting up project pipeline, and OpenCV.

• Helped a group of students adjust to campus and provide emotional and academic assistance • Part of the organizing team responsible for the conduction of Orientation Program for the incoming batch of 2020

• Successfully organized introductory workshop on OpenCV for around 400 first year students • Mentored Undergraduate teams for tech‑week conducted by the Science and Technology council • Worked with fellow secretaries to create a ROS video lecture series aimed at the incoming students

Coursework ------------------------------------ → Computer Vision → SLAM → Robot Autonomy → Deep Reinforcement Learning and Control → Manipulation Estimation and Control → Visual Recognition and Learning → Systems Engineering → Robot Business

• Associate Head Teams 2022-23, Science and Technology Council • Team Head 2021-22, Aerial Robotics Team • Secretary 2020-21, Robotics Club ---------------------------------------- Coursework ---------------------------------------- → Cyber-Physical Embeeded Systems → Networked Dynamical Systems → Robust and Modern Control Systems → Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems → Data Structure and Algorithms → Linear Algebra → Digital Electronics