About Me

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I'm Hemanth Patel from IIT BHU Varanasi. I’m passionate about Human-Robot Interaction, building intelligent robotic software, and AI-applied robotics. I recently completed my B.Tech, and have worked with Drobot.Inc for the past two years as a Robotics Software Engineering Intern.

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Research Publication

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINN)-based Obstacle Avoidance
Rudrashis Majumder, Hemanth Patel, Sri Siddarth Chakaravarthy P, Samahith S A, Suresh Sundaram.
"OA-PINN: Efficient Obstacle Avoidance for Autonomous Vehicle Safety With Physics-Informed Neural Networks,"
Accepted and presented at IEEE CONECCT 2024.
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Timeline

2021–2025

B.Tech Student – IIT BHU Varanasi

2023 (3 months)

Research Intern – Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory, IISc Bangalore (Prof. Dr. Suresh Sundaram)

2023–2025 (2 years)

Robotics Software Engineer – Drobot.Inc

2023–2024

Secretary, Robotics Club – Science and Technology Council, IIT BHU

Projects

Keyword Recognition Project

Keyword Recognition in Streaming Audio

Compared LSTM, GRU, and CNN on Mel spectrogram and MFCC features, achieving up to 95% accuracy. Used Librosa preprocessing and real-time speech enhancement. Mel spectrogram data outperformed wav2vec2 on meta-audio features.

Demo Video
Pendubot RL

Swing up for Acrobot and Pendubot using Reinforcement Learning

Winner of AI Olympics International (Simulation stage). Implemented SAC with MLP policy and custom energy-based rewards for effective swing-up and stabilization within 20 seconds in OpenAI Gym.

GitHub | Demo Video
Vision-Language Entity Prediction

Vision-Language Entity Recognition for Amazon ML Competition

Developed a model combining TrOCR for visual feature extraction and T5-small for entity prediction on 250K images. Utilized Hugging Face Transformers for fine-tuning, achieving an F1 score of 0.68 through iterative training.

GitHub
Vision-Guided Robotic Arm

Vision-Guided Robotic Arm — Flipkart Grid 5.0 National Finalist

Developed a robotic arm with 5 cm pick-and-place precision using MoveIt, ROS, and YOLOv8 for 360° inspection.

Implemented voice command control with 90% accuracy. B.Tech project supervised by Dr. Amit Tyagi, IIT (BHU) Mechanical Department.

GitHub | Report | Video presentation
Human-Friendly Mini Quadruped Robot

Human-Friendly Mini Quadruped Robot

3D-printed quadruped designed for seamless human-robot interaction with fast response software.

Implemented purely in Python without ROS, focusing on simplicity and real-time control.

Demo Video
Meta-Learning Enhanced Drone Flight

Enhancing Drone Flight with Meta-Learning and MPC

Led a team to integrate Neural-Fly model using Domain Adversarially Invariant Meta-Learning for wind-aware control with minimal data.

Implemented MPC to handle actuation limits, enabling precise trajectory tracking and robust performance in varying wind conditions. Supervised by Dr. Shyam Kamal, IIT (BHU) Electrical Dept.

GitHub | Report

Leadership & Achievements

Tech Stack

PythonROS1 & ROS2PyTorchOpenAI Gym PyBulletDockerSQLMatplotlib PandasNumPyTinkerLinux

Contact

Email: hemanth.patel.mec21@iitbhu.ac.in

Phone: +91 9010765370

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/hemanth-patel-721361235