ACTIVITIES | Thiyagarajan R

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Invited talk on 'Underwater Robots - Challenges in Design and Control' at IEEE MAS Symposium held at Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore (24 January 2019)
Course instructor for Robotics Training Program to the engineers from TVS Sundaram Clayton
Teaching Assistant for courses on Mechatronics System Design and Field and Service Robotics.
Guided various projects, majorly on system design and electronics.
Internee at Combat Vehicle Research and Development Establishment, Defence Research and Development Organisation (CVRDE-DRDO)
Member, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

Head, Industrial collaborations – Aero club, Centre for Innovation, IIT Madras.
Organised a two-day Workshop on Embedded Robotics and Image Processing, and served as a course instructor for the whole session.
Secretary of a student chapter e-SAT during my bachelor's program and organised two National level technical Symposia (Quantaz’10 & Xet’09).
Chairman of IEEE student chapter and organised a National level conference ‘Globanario-10’.
Guiding interns at Robotics Laboratory, IIT Madras with various projects.

Finalist in MICAV 2014, a National level MAV competition organized by National Aeronautics Laboratory (NAL) – CSIR, Bangalore, representing IIT Madras.
Finalists of NI-YANTRA’11, a National level Embedded Robotics competition conducted by National Instruments and demonstrated two of our projects.
o Developed vision-based tracking algorithm using LabVIEW and implemented in a tracked vehicle.
Participated in a tech event Pragyan’11 at NIT, Trichy and implemented a leader-follower algorithm on a pair of differential drive robot.
o Developed an algorithm in follower robot to track the real-time odometry information of the leader.
Participated in a robotics competition in Kurukshetra’10 at Anna University, and implemented a maze solver algorithm for a differential drive robot.