Prabhakar M. Naik

adf6ed@r.postjobfree.com linkedin.com/in/p-naik pmnaik.com 646-***-**** New York, NY, 10027 Education

Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Specialization: GPA: 3.66/4.00 Expected Dec ‘20

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Robot Dynamics and Control, Control Theory, Mechatronics.

College of Engineering Pune Maharashtra, India

Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering: GPA: 8.33/10.00 Aug ’14 - Jun ’18

Robotics, Synthesis and Analysis of Mechanisms, Finite Element Analysis, Operations research, Machine Dynamics, Electrical System Design, Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer. Experience

FloraBot, Intern, EOT Engineer Sep ’20 - Present

Designed a gripper capable of grasping variety of flowers and placing them intricately in intricate floral arrangements.

Simulated the manipulation from parts tray to the vase in MATLAB Simulink. Eaton India Innovation Centre, Associate Engineer (Hydraulics) Aug ’18 - Jul ’19

Designed hydraulic circuits and Manifolds for Earth Mover applications using AutoCAD and Creo.

Built a competitor product cross-over database, to reduce customer technical query resolution time by about 23%.

Analysed and Validated hydraulic product test data using Automation Studio.

Assisted Filtration Product Team for Sustaining-Engineering activities of Hydraulic Strainers and Multi-Bag filters. Hyster- Yale Group Intern, Modelling and Simulation May ’17 - Aug ’17

Simulated standard stability tests for lift trucks in Motion-Solve environment and validated the results with the experimental data within 1.5% error margin.

Relevant Projects

Autonomous Sidewalk Cleaning Robot: Sep ’19 - Present

Designed the differential base drive and the structure of the Robot in SolidWorks.

Simulated the Robot in Gazebo (ROS) to analyse various localization and sensor fusion algorithms.

Implemented SLAM using Raspberry Pi, LiDAR and camera for navigation in unstructured environment Wall Climbing Robot: https://pmnaik.com/411-2/#Klime Dec ’16 – Jun ’18

Designed and Manufactured a robot capable of climbing and transitioning to the smooth surfaces up to 1300 inclination with horizontal, with payload of 2 kg and max. speed of 7 cm/s.

Designed the Embedded Master-Slave configuration of Arduino Mega-Uno package for the control of the Robot.

Presented a paper titled ‘Design and Fabrication of Wall and Roof Climbing Robot’ at International Conference on Innovations in Engineering, Technology and Sciences (ICIETS), 2018. Soft Humanoid Robotic Arm: https://pmnaik.com/411-2/#SPanda Sep ’17 – Jul ‘18

Designed Multi-chambered twist actuator, centre-less elbow actuators and pneumatic network actuator.

Performed the hyper-elastic modelling and DOE of the actuators in ANSYS APDL to validate the concepts.

Vacuum Casted the actuators by Room Temperature Vulcanization of PDMS HT33 elastomer in 3D printed moulds.

Implemented the Proportional Pressure and Flow Regulation for force and joint parameter control.

Submitted a paper titled ‘Development of Multi-Chamber Pneumatic Twist Actuator for Soft robot’ which is accepted at 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its SOcial Impacts (ARSO). Analysis of Surface Water Bodies using Satellite Imagery: https://pmnaik.com/411-2/#WaterSense

Devised an algorithm to acquire a scene from LANDSAT- 8 satellite and identify the Water body near the user specified coordinates, using Image processing and geodesic projections and Unsupervised learning algorithm, wekaKmeans. Skills

Software: SolidWorks, ANSYS workbench, Fluent, AutoCAD, Creo, Motion Solve, MATLAB Simulink. Programming and libraries: Python, Assembly C; TensorFlow, ROS, Scikit-learn, OpenCV, NumPy Embedded Platforms: PIC 8-bit and 16-Bit Family, Arduino, Raspberry Pi. Notable Achievements

Recipient of Govt. of Maharashtra Scholarship for Foreign Education 2019.

Won 3rd prize among 1088 teams for presenting Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Powered Exoskeleton at DRUSE 2018.

Qualified in top 50 in SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition 2018.

Won 3rd prize among 1500 teams for presenting Wall Climbing Robot at KPIT Sparkle 2017.