Robotics, Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer

Rumit Kumar

Roboticist and Control Law Design Engineer

Phone: 513-***-****

Website: kumarrt.github.io

Email: adijf5@r.postjobfree.com

EXPERIENCE

University of Cincinnati, Ohio

Research Assistant September 2016 - Present

● Position, attitude, and fault-tolerant control of the tilt-rotor quadcopter using PID and sliding mode control techniques

● Development of flight software and hardware implementation using Pixhawk Pilot Support Package (PSP) by Mathworks

● Computation and analysis of tra c flow parameters using computer vision and deep learning techniques. Tra c videos were obtained by DJI Matrice-100/210, tethered DJI Matrice-100 UAVs using Zenmuse Z3, Z30, X5S cameras

● Surveying and validation of GPS-RTK systems for 3D terrain reconstruction using photogrammetry

● Telehealth aerial robot for medical logistic operations and assisting patients during a quarantine situation

Aeronautical Development Establishment, Bangalore

Senior Research Fellow November 2012 - July 2015

● Projects : Rustom-I MALE UAV, Rustom-II HALE UAV

● Development of aircraft mathematical dynamic models using actual wind tunnel data, aircraft structures and propulsion data

● Control law design of aircraft using Root locus, Bode, and Nyquist methods, six-DOF and Monte-Carlo simulations

● Performance evaluation of inertial navigation system, aircraft sensors and actuators on three-axes motion simulator

● Verification and validation by Hardware in the loop (HIL) testing of duplex flight software using OPAL-RT simulators

● Development of flight telemetry and post flight data analysis EDUCATION

University of Cincinnati, Ohio GPA: 3.92/4.0

Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering August 2017 - April 2021 Research : Flight Dynamics & Fault-Tolerant Control, Ground and Aerial Robotics, Computer-Vision & Deep-Learning Techniques University of Cincinnati, Ohio

MS in Aerospace Engineering August 2015 - April 2017 Academic Courses : Modern Control, Decision Engineering, Advanced Flight Mechanics, Analytical Dynamics, Flight Testing, Optimization Methods, Systems Engineering, Complex Systems, Robot Control and Design, Optimal Control, Unmanned Aerial Systems SKILLS

Programming : Python, MATLAB and

Simulink, OpenCV, TensorFlow

Software : RT-Lab, Motive, Gazebo SITL,

PX4, APM, QGC, ROS, MS O ce, LaTeX

Hardware : Pixhawk Autopilot, Piksi

GPS-RTK Module, Decawave UWB Radios,

Raspberry-pi, OptiTrack Mocap, Intel

RealSense, Nvidia Jetson

Robots : Tilt-rotor UAV, DJI Flamewheel

quadcopter, 3DR experimental quadcopter

for SLAM, tethered DJI Matrice-100 drone,

DJI Matrice-100/210 drones

Control Design : PID control, Time and

frequency domain control system design,

Pole placement control, LQR and LQG

control, State estimation, Back-stepping

control, Sliding mode control

AWARDS

Top Publications in Robotics and Control

conferences: IROS, ACC, DSCC

Graduate Student Research Fellowship,

University of Cincinnati, 2020

Graduate Student of the Month, University

of Cincinnati, June-2020

Most Collaborative Team and Project

Award, Kent State University, 2019

Best Presentation Award in Student

Lightening Talks, AIAA Intelligent

Systems Workshop, 2019

Best Technical Presentation Award, AIAA,

Dayton - Cincinnati, Aerospace Science

Symposium, 2017

Best Student Paper Award, Robotics

Technical Committee, ASME, 2016

Graduate Incentive Award, University of

Cincinnati, 2015-20

LANGUAGES

English, Hindi, German

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