Kiran Ramachandra

Domain: LIDAR - Automotive Software Development for Autonomous Driving - Extrinsic Calibration for LIDAR sensors mounted on the car - Algorithm Development – Pose Estimation for End of Line Static Calibration - Software Architecture for Calibration modules - Process: Agile methodologies – Scrum

Topic: Drivability Classification of Static Objects based on Occupancy Data in AD Domain: Perception technologies - Autonomous driving - Drivability classification of detected potential static objects in free space - CNN based features from the grid maps computed from RADAR & LIDAR - Applied methods: ROS, OpenCV, TensorFlow, Keras, Python and C++

Topic: 3D Time of Flight camera calibration in Autonomous Driving Domain: Optical technologies - Autonomous driving - 3D Time of Flight based camera calibration & image processing - Development of camera specific software evaluation library - Applied methods: Python, Matlab programming, digital signal processing, file containers

Domain: Automotive Embedded Software Development for Braking Systems – ABS/ESP - Application SW Development for Automated Parking Brake/Electric Parking Brake (APBMi-X) in accordance to ASPICE, VDA 1.0 & VDA 2.0 - Basic SW development (AUTOSAR) for Diagnostics and System State Management - Sensor Signal Processing, Safety Rating analysis – ISO26262 & SIL - Process: V-Model & Agile methodologies

- Requirement Engineering and Design of Application SW development for APBMi-X - Interaction with customer & 3rd Party SW vendor for requirements & SW Integration

Major Subjects: AUTOSAR, Automotive communication CAN & FLEXRAY Protocols, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics

Major Subjects: Electronics Circuits, Logic Design, Power Electronics, VLSI, Microcontrollers, Modern Automotive Engineering, Mechatronics, Control Systems, Embedded Systems, DSP