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I am a Masters in Robotics student at Carnegie Mellon University, working on perception and motion planning algorithms for quadrotors at the Air Lab at the Robotics Institute, advised by Sebastian Scherer and working closely with Michael Kaess. Current focuses of my research are thin obstacle detection and mapping for UAVs, and marrying traditional sampling based motion planning algorithms with machine learning.

Prior to this, I worked as an Research Associate I in the Air Lab for a cumulative of 6 months in 2015-2016. Before that, in summer 2015, I was a Robotics Institute Summer Scholar in the Manipulation Lab. I worked on predicting the outcome of manipulative actions with Prof. Erol Sahin and Robbie Paolini, before intuitive physics became mainstream. I also have worked as a Google Summer of Code student with ROS-Industrial, on writing a library which utilizes OMPL for free space planning and the Descartes library for planning in constrained spaces. I graduated with a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 2015.

During times when I am tired of being a wannabe in robotics, I tend to come back to old hobbies or try to pick up some new ones. These include biking, reading (totally not adding books to my to-read list), playing the guitar and piano, sketching, and writing.

If anything on this website interests you, feel me to contact me at ratneshmadaan@gmail.com