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Kovvali Sai Sourya Varenya

Kovvali Sai Sourya Varenya

Full-stack Roboticist

Location
8051, Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Website
http://sourya.me
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Sourya Varenya

Education

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MSc in Robotics, Systems and Control from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich with GPA of 5.05

Courses

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    BTech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras with GPA of 9.51

    Courses

      Experience

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      Software Lead at AMZ Driverless

      Fully autonomous electric racing team from ETH Zürich, participating in FSG

      Highlights

      • Developing ‘AMZ Playground’ – extensible web application for visualization, simulation, and analysis
      • Overseeing software infrastructure, autonomous computer, and track-tools work packages
      • Developed ‘amz-tool’ to aid developers with updating dependencies, formatting, linting, and other functions
      • Coordinated autonomous software development, maintained FSSIM (Formula Student Simulator)
      • Setup and maintained self-hosted continuous integration (CI) servers for automated testing and feedback
      • Designed and built ground truth mapping device (GTMD) to tag racetrack using Real-time kinematic (RTK) service

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      President at Team Anveshak

      The Mars rover team of IIT Madras which engineers a powerful semi-autonomous all-terrain vehicle for the scientific exploration of Mars

      Highlights

      • Lead the Chassis Design for the first version of the rover
      • Successfully headed the team and participated in the University Rover Challenge 2017
      • Conducted a successful crowdfunding campaign, raising INR 1.75L ($2700) and efficiently administered team finances
      • Networked with companies - Maxon and Pololu - for accessing excusive discounts on their products
      • Co-heading the design of TeRA – Tele-operated Robotic Arm, a unique manipulator constructed for rover with end-to-end design analysis

      – present

      Research Assistant at Intelligent and Dynamic Systems Lab, IIT Bombay

      Design of Biped Test Bench for underactuated control

      Highlights

      • Designed bipedal robot and a rotating testbench for conducting experiments on locomotion
      • Setup simulation environment and interfacing hardware and developing control architecture for the biped

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      Undergraduate Researcher at R2D2 Lab, IIT Madras

      Knee joint mechanism for providing natural gait among patients with weak knee extensors

      Highlights

      • Devised an electromechanical clutch-based mechanism for achieving selective unlocking the orthoses and performed FEA for load verification
      • Prototyped a sample knee joint with necessary electronics for validating the mechanism and the control strategy
      • Developed purely mechanical system to perform selective locking of knee joint
      • Currently testing performance on UTM and able-bodied subjects

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      Undergraduate Researcher at Robotics Lab

      Novel serial chain manipulator robot with locomotion and hybrid grasping

      Highlights

      • Simulated PID control on model - Lagrangian Mechanics in Mathematica
      • Designed and fabricated a prototype containing 2 grippers linked serial chain providing the ability to locomote, grasp and perform in-hand manipulation enabled by intricate roller belt grasping mechanism
      • Experimented on the grasping force for objects of different sizes and shapes to use it as a parameter for comparison across grippers

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      Product Development Intern at Skillveri Pvt Ltd

      Development of an arc welding simulator

      Highlights

      • Designed and fabricated Arc Welding Torch for VR simulator setup that utilizes a retracting rod mechanism for the electrode feed
      • Integrated and programmed microcontroller for PID controlled retraction rate and IMU orientation feedback

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      Product Development Intern at Detect Technologies

      Design and Fabrication of casings

      Highlights

      • Ported thermal camera core to GoPro form-factor for compatibility with existing gimbals on surveillance drones
      • Adopted iterative designing and manufacturing cycles for achieving accurate tolerances and optimized weight distribution

      Volunteer

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      Tutor at CBSE Udaan

      Recorded Lectures on topics - Conic sections and Calculus for distributing to unprivileged girl population of India

      Highlights

        Publications

        GraspMan – A Novel Robotic Platform with Grasping, Manipulation, and Multimodal Locomotion Capability

        Accepted for ICRA 2018

        Skills

        Programming
        Level: Master
        Keywords:
        • Python
        • C/C++
        • ROS
        • Docker
        • Jenkins
        CAD modelling
        Level: Intermediate
        Keywords:
        • Fusion 360
        • Autodesk Inventor
        Digital Electronics
        Level: Intermediate
        Keywords:
        • Raspberry Pi
        • Nvidia Jetson
        • ESP32/8266
        Web Development
        Level: Intermediate
        Keywords:
        • HTML/CSS/JS
        • Svelte
        • Flask

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