Naveen Bejagam

Technical leadership of algorithm developers in developing production-grade functions for various OEMs

Trajectory (motion) planning and control for Automated Driving

· Developed a novel model formulation and trajectory planning algorithm for system identification of space robots · Obtained state-of-the-art results by estimating maximum information about robot’s inertial parameters · 50-60% computationally efficient than the existing algorithms and scalable with increasing degrees-of-freedom · Publication in the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, a premier journal in aerospace engineering

· On-board software development for a remotely-operated, unmanned ground robot to detect and defuse land mines · Enabled a human to intuitively operate a 5-DOF robotic arm with path planning and control software · Developed a geometric path planner and a path tracking controller based on inverse kinematics · Improved the localization accuracy and precision by several times by implementing multi-sensor fusion software · Robot’s short demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQryHkPzTCo

· Used the momentum model for inertial parameter identification of a satellite/spacecraft that has robotic arms · Solved a nonlinear optimization problem to generate optimal fourier-parametrized joint trajectories · Adapted the maximum likelihood approach to momentum model and solved it for parameter estimation