justagist / gazebo_panda

A standard bare-bone ROS Gazebo simulator for the Franka Emika Panda robot built using inbuilt Gazebo ROS controllers and RobotHW interfaces. Robot controllable using standard ROS control interfaces. No dependencies on franka_ros or libfranka.

About Me

I currently work as Lead Robotics Research Engineer at Dyson, mainly working on control and planning for mobile manipulation robots intended for helping in domestic tasks and environments. My current research focus is on developing a control framework for enabling intelligent and environment-aware locomotion planning and control for different robot formats.

Previously, I was a PhD student in the Intelligent Robotics Lab at the University of Birmingham, working on "Machine Learing for Dexterous Robot Manipulation". The main area of my research was applying Machine Learning techniques to develop a framework that can aid robots to perform changing-contact manipulation tasks in dynamic and unknown environments using different objects.

My Interests

• I like creating robot interfaces and implementing algorithms for testing the capabilities of intelligent robot systems.
• I especially enjoy working with mobile robots and manipulators in the context of assembly tasks involving challenging interaction dynamics and complex control strategies.
• I also like discovering things (codes, algorithms, languages, music, etc.) and trying them out in my own way.

Get in touch

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• 🌎     saifsidhik.page
• ✉     [email protected]
•     www.linkedin.com/in/saifsidhik/

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