GAUTHAM ANIL OPEN TO WORKROBOTICS SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Robots, end to end.

I design the mechanism, write the firmware, wire the ROS 2 stack, and debug what breaks in between.

Automation & Robotics engineering at Amrita, class of 2026 — heading into robotics software.

ISRO — URSC · IEEE ICRM 2025 · 3 INTERNSHIPS · 7 SYSTEMS

Kerala, India — open to relocation, including internationally.

[ THE TRACE, 2010 → 2026 ↓ ]

The seven-joint PAAMB snake robot performing its serpentine gait — real hardware
The Coco robot — four-wheel differential drive with a manipulator arm — in a Gazebo Classic world
PAAMB · SEVEN-JOINT LATERAL UNDULATION — REAL HARDWARE
SYSTEM
7-JOINT SERPENTINE SNAKE
STATUS
PHYSICAL · REAL ROBOT
ISRO SIM · THREE ROBOTS, ONE GRID — SIMULATOR OUTPUT
SYSTEM
3-ROBOT GRID PLANNER
STATUS
SIMULATED · PYTHON / PYGAME
COCO · GAZEBO CLASSIC ERA — HARMONIC LOOP PENDING
SYSTEM
4WD DIFF-DRIVE + 3-DOF ARM
STATUS
SIMULATED · HARMONIC LOOP PENDING

// THE TRACE · 2010 → 2026

  1. 2010–2022Loyola School, ThiruvananthapuramWhere the schooling — and the tinkering — started.
  2. 2022–2026Amrita — B.Tech Automation & RoboticsFour years of building robots toward a degree.
  3. APR 2024Sound-Sensing Line-FollowerSEM 3 — my first robot that reacted to more than a line.
  4. OCT 2024Raspberry Pi Four-Wheel RoverSEM 4 — moving off the microcontroller and onto Linux.
  5. JAN 2025Solar Panel Cleaning RobotA design-thinking build for a real maintenance problem.
  6. JAN–FEB 2025Evolve Robotics — Embedded InternshipFirst firmware internship: Arduino UNO, PIC, Embedded C in MPLAB.
  7. MAR–APR 2025Hut Labs → Coco RobotA team ROS 2 + Gazebo build that grew into my IEEE paper.
  8. JUN 2025Gesture-Controlled Bionic HandA 3D-printed hand that followed a flex-sensor glove.
  9. JUL–AUG 2025ISRO · URSC — Multi-Robot PlanningComparing path planners for dark-factory navigation at a satellite centre.
  10. SEP 2025 – MAR 2026PAAMB — Bioinspired Snake RobotSeven joints, three gaits, a pipeline to inspect from the inside.
  11. JAN 2026IEEE ICRM 2025 — Published ↗A reproducible differential-drive test platform, peer-reviewed.
  12. FEB 2026LeRobot 6-DOF Arm — Teach & ReplaySix serial-bus servos, no microcontroller, kinesthetic teach-and-replay.
  13. 2026You are here — robotics softwareOpen to work, and to the next system that doesn't behave as expected.

01 — SELECTED SYSTEMS

Selected Systems

  1. 01 · PHYSICAL · 2025–26

    PAAMB — Bioinspired Robotic Snake

    Bioinspired pipeline-inspection snake robot

    MY SCOPE — Mechanical design of the 7-joint serpenoid mechanism

    [ OPEN SYSTEM → ]

  2. 02 · SIMULATED · 2025–26

    Coco Robot — ROS 2 Simulation Platform

    ROS 2 differential-drive + manipulator simulation platform

    MY SCOPE — The manipulator — 3-DOF arm and gripper, its URDF from CAD-derived meshes, and joint control

    [ OPEN SYSTEM → ]

  3. 03 · SIMULATED · 2025

    Multi-Robot Pathfinding Simulator

    Autonomous Robot Navigation in a Factory Environment Using Comparative Pathfinding Algorithms

    MY SCOPE — Unified A* / Dijkstra search core — heapq priority queue, came_from / g_score dicts

    [ OPEN SYSTEM → ]

[ ALL SYSTEMS + EARLIER BUILDS → ]

02 — EXPERIENCE

Experience

  1. ISRO — U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC)Summer Intern — Mission Planning & OperationsJUL–AUG 2025Multi-robot path-planning simulator for mission planning & operations
  2. Hut LabsRobotics Simulation InternMAR–APR 2025ROS 2 + Gazebo simulation platform — published at IEEE ICRM 2025
  3. Evolve Robotics LLPEmbedded Systems InternJAN–FEB 2025Firmware for Arduino + PIC microcontrollers; sensor interfacing

[ FULL EXPERIENCE → ]

03 — PUBLICATIONIEEE ICRM 2025 · XPLORE · SCOPUS

Design and Implementation of the Platform for Testing a Differential Drive Robot Using ROS2

Gautham Anil et al. — Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamDOC 11349105

[ READ ON IEEE XPLORE ↗ ][ RELATED SYSTEM: COCO ROBOT → ]

A reproducible ROS 2 + Gazebo test platform that validates differential-drive navigation and 3-DOF manipulation entirely in simulation, before any hardware is committed.

04 — THINGS THAT DIDN'T WORK

Things That Didn't Work

Every one of these taught me more than the demos did.

  1. THE TOPICS DISAPPEARED.

    After migrating to ROS 2 Jazzy and Gazebo Harmonic, `ros2 topic list` returned nothing. The robot was fine; my mental model of the sim–ROS bridge wasn't.

    → Coco Robot

  2. THE MODEL RAN. IT DETECTED NOTHING.

    The dashboard's TFLite inference was silently wrong until I matched the model's real contract: grayscale, 96×96, INT8, softmax.

    → PAAMB

  3. THE BUS LIED.

    Six daisy-chained serial-bus servos, intermittent faults, no microcontroller to blame. Debugging happened at the protocol level.

    → LeRobot arm

  4. ONE ARDUINO WASN'T ENOUGH FOR ONE HAND.

    The bionic hand's first power architecture browned out under the full actuator load. The fix wasn't code: the servo class changed (high-torque MG-series → SG-series) and the system split across two Arduino boards.

    → Bionic Hand (Archive)

05 — INFO

Info

I got into robotics through things that didn't behave the way I expected. A simulated rover became a published test platform. A final-year project became a snake robot with seven joints and three gaits. An internship at ISRO turned "shortest path" into a negotiation between robots.

Most of my work sits in the messy middle — where a URDF meets a real motor, where a control loop meets a serial-bus fault. I like getting a system running. I like even more finding out why it wasn't.

B.Tech Automation & Robotics, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, 2026.

BASE KERALA, IN · RELOCATION OPEN, INCL. INTERNATIONAL

OUTREACH — LED AN ARDUINO WORKSHOP FOR ~50 SCHOOL STUDENTS

Gautham Anil

06 — CONTACT

Have a robot problem worth thinking about?

gauthamanil888@gmail.com