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Sumanth Kandala

Undergraduate Student
Mechanical Engineering
IIT Bombay

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About Me

I am currently a final-year undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay pursuing a major in Mechanical Engineering (with Hons.) and a minor in Computer Science and Engineering. I am currently the Core Team Member of Innovation Cell, IIT Bombay.

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in the fields of Robotics, Automatic Control Systems and Artifical Intelligence. During my undergrad, I have worked on autonomous vehicles and multi-agent robotics. I wish to hone my skills in these skills and explore new areas of robotics such as robot-learning, humanoid-robotics and field-robotics.

Research Work and Projects

Multi Agent Robot Patrolling

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Designing an automated patrolling system with multiple agents that monitor a given environment with nodes of interest. Specific focus on minimizing maximum idleness of the nodes and visiting specific nodes with different frequencies.


SeDriCa (Fully Autonomous Driverless Car) (Ongoing)

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SeDriCa is currently one of the top 11 teams in the Mahindra RISE Driverless Car Challenge out of a total of 259 teams.

I am the project manager of Team SeDriCa and mainly involved in Motion Planning and Decision Making subsystems of the vehicle.


For more on my projects have a look at my resume

Education

  • B. Tech, Indian Institiute of Technology Bombay | Expected 2020

    Major: Mechanical Engineering | Minor: Computer Science | GPA: 8.7/10.0

  • Senior Secondary School (Class XII), CBSE | Percentage: 95.2%
  • Mentorship

  • Department Academic Mentor at Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay
  • Institute Technical Summer Project Mentor:
    • Reconstructing surfaces by depth data acquisition using LiDAR data
    • Snake bot created by first-year undergrads
  • Talks and Lectures

  • Talk on Autonomous Vehicles: "Spirit of Innovation", Ted Talks, J.P. Morgan Chase, invited speaker
  • Lecture on path planning algorithms for the Summer Induction Program, Innovation Cell