Curriculum Vitae
Pulkit Rustagi
PhD in Robotics at Oregon State University
Email-ID : rustagi.pulkit@gmail.com
Email-ID : rustagip@oregonstate.edu
Fields of Interest
Reliable decision-making for Autonomous Systems
Reinforcement Learning algorithms for safety conscious Multiagent Systems
Robotics and Controls
Education
Ph.D. in Robotics,
Oregon State University, Oregon, USA
[2022 - Present]Masters of Science, Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA
[2018 - 2021]
Bachelor of Technology (Honours), Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
[SILVER MEDALIST - Graduated at the top of my class]
[2014 - 2018]
Research Experience
Potential Field Path Planning
Python-based Simulation for Potential Field based Path Planning with
known obstacle locations
Lidar based Mapping
Python Simulating a Lidar
programmed onto a mouse pointer for
Mapping an unknown environment
Wall Following Bot
Lidar equipped Clearpath Jackal programmed to detect and
follow walls in ROS Gazebo
Tethered-Drone UGV Control
UGV with onboard tethered UAV
for real-time object detection and
path planning in fields
L1 Adaptive Motion Planning
L1 Adaptive control with contraction
theory used in motion planning of aerial
vehicle in real-time
Multi-agent Localization
Multi-agent system of ground vehicles with aerial vehicles acting as beacons
to enable precise localization
Collision Recovery Controller
Collision Recovery Controller for a quadcopter to prevent crash failures
on collision with poles
Swarm persistent surveillance
Swarm algorithm for a time-minimization based surveillance by multi-UAV system
in a testbed simulated in MATLAB
Path Optimisation using GA
Genetic Algorithm based path
optimization geared toward flight
path planning for UAVs
Publications and Conference Proceedings
G. Dicker, I. Sharf and P. Rustagi, "Recovery Control for Quadrotor UAV Colliding with a Pole," 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018, pp. 6247-6254, doi: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8594512. (link)
Linkedin
Contact me on LinkedIn - link
GitHub
View my codes on my GitHub webpage - link
Complete CV
CV_Pulkit.pdf