•Led the engineering team with agile practices to build a robot for vineyard winter pruning
and pilot it at the customer’s site
The projects that have been accomplished under my supervision:
•Utilized Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for model training and prediction
•Simulated a virtual vineyard in Blender and generated synthetic data for pre-training and
data augmentation
•Applied supervised transfer learning and retrained Mask-RCNN, U-NET, and MMRotate for
segmentation of highly overlapping branches (PyTorch)
•Filtered and manipulated pointclouds in Open3D, registered pointclouds from multiple
viewpoints using ICP and RANSAC optimization
•Evaluated the accuracy of stereo depth estimation from OpenCV block matching, HITNet,
and CREstereo on the synthetic dataset
•Simulated robot’s manipulation in ROS and benchmarked +10 trajectory planners from
MoveIt package
•Integrated, calibrated, and tested ZED2i, RealSense D435i, Analog Device ToF, Occipital, and
Leopard WDR Camera for outdoor sensing and data record
•Developed React-based teleoperation dashboard and utilized roslibjs and WebRTC to
stream real-time video from the robot and transfer messages between the robot and teleop
dashboard through WebSocket and P2P communication