• Architected the platform software of a robot with multiple degrees of freedom by partitioning of real-time and non-real-time functions to NxP i.MX RT-1170, Nvidia AGX Xavier, and Intel LINUX host.

• Designed the real-time network architecture with PTP and PoE support for connecting compute, sensing and actuation subsystems.

• Lead a team to integrate multiple hardware-synced depth and wide-angle cameras such as Intel Realsense D435i, Luxonis OAK-D-POE, FLIR Chameleon cameras using respective SDKs.

• Improved the FPS performance of depth cameras by offloading depth alignment and other intensive vision processing to CUDA-enabled GPUs thereby reducing CPU overhead.

• Eliminated more than 20-30ms communication latency with 40 servo motors by replacing LINUX USB-to-Serial (485) with FreeRTOS Ethernet-to-Serial (485) on NxP i.MX RT-1060 and LPUARTs with eDMA.

• Prototyped several reward sensors for automatically rewarding robots executing tasks.

• Lead a team to develop the QoS enabled Pub/Sub communication interface over DDS.

• Developed real-time robust frameworks for autonomy compute communication (sensing, compute, and controller inter-ECU communication).

• Developed a real-time EDR that records critical AD events with images and contextual logs for an L2-EV enabled with tri-focal cameras and MobileEye (EQ4) vision chip.

• Was invited as a speaker to talk on EDR - state of the art at Wayne State University's Graduate Research class.

• Developed an automated validation framework for camera calibration by emulating simultaneous image and message replays to the autonomous domain (AD) controller.

• Lead the development of the 2-wire BroadR-Reach Automotive Ethernet with NxP TJA1100 PHY and Marvell 88Q5050 switch. First in the company to deliver a full stack time-triggered real-time communication for Electrified Powertrain (ePT) Network.

• Architected, designed, and implemented a generic Inverter State Machine (ISM) to support inverter application behavior when interacting under normal, standby, fault, and limp states.

• Lead engineer responsible for requirements, design, development, and successful delivery of a generic application platform for DCDC 800/400 within a short turnaround time of 4 weeks.

• Responsible for architecting other platform features such as multicore IPC, EEPROM, PWMs using GTM (Generic Timer Module), Emergency Stop (ESTOP), VADC support for Current Sensors, Signal Qualifier Module (SQM), LIN stack with python auto code for message serialization and deserialization.

• Evangelist for tools development and automation within the ePT team. With an intern developed a $25 sniffer tool for CAN and two-wire Ethernet using COTS like Raspberry Pi, PiCAN2 shield, Android tablet, and opensource Python libraries (cantools, socketCAN, pyshark). Established automotive tool vendors charge over $25000 per seat license for such tools.

Developed an IoT-based contextually-aware embedded sensing and communications platform for providing a unified, seamless, and anytime/anywhere connected experience to end-user solar customers.

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