During Summer'22, I worked an an robotics engineering intern at Calvary Robotics, Rochester, NY. My project was a solar panel placement robotic system comprising of two KUKA robots mounted on a trailer (which was to be towed using a tractor with a driver/operator). The trailer also housed a separate section for placing the Industrial PC, the NVIDIA board, the PLC, the electrical circuit and the batteries. The whole system was controlled using the Robot Operating System (ROS) middleware/framework which interfaced with the various subsystems of the robotic system.

My responsibilities were:

• Improved the usability and operability of a robotic system consisting of two KUKA robots mounted on a vehicular platform, used for the solar panel placement application.
• Coordinated with other engineers and project manager to identify field issues and enhance test plan/cases based on the customer feedback into the robotic system.

• Added user-centric functionalities to the vision system using rospy based scripts and rosbridge websocket server for the Javascript based user interface.
• Added customer-centric functionalities to the robotic position estimation and manipulator motion planning process using statemachine library in Python to improve the transition between processes.