Arpit Agarwal

Arpit Agarwal

San Francisco, California, United States
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Hi, I am currently working as Robotics Engineer in Compute Acceleration team.
I…

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Experience

  • Dexterity, Inc. Graphic

    Dexterity, Inc.

    Redwood City, California, United States

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    Greater Pittsburgh Area

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    Santa Clara, California, United States

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    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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    Ithaca, New York Area

Education

  • Carnegie Mellon University Graphic

    Carnegie Mellon University

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    Expert in Tactile sensing, Robotic simulation and Robotic Manipulation
    Dissertation Title: A Modularized Approach to Vision-based Tactile Sensor Design Using Physics-based Rendering

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Licenses & Certifications

Courses

  • Computer Vision

    16-720

  • Convex Optimization

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  • Data Structure and Algorithms

    ESO 207

  • Deep Reinforcement Learning

    10-703

  • Kinematics, Dynamics and Control

    16711

  • Machine Learning

    10-701

  • Machine Learning in Computer vision

    CS679

  • Matrix Theory and Linear estimation

    MTH 415

Projects

  • Improving the efficiency of Deep Q Learning

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    The projects to improve the data efficienfy of Deep Q Learning agent for the first person shooting game.

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  • Object recognition in cluttered indoor environment

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    --Examined 3DOP, MCG and UCM pipelines for object detection and segmentation
    –Evaluation of the algorithms was performed on challenging indoor NYUD2 dataset
    –New methodology was built by using the individuals modules of the above pipelines which couldused in indoor environments
    –Evaluation of the new methodology was performed using matlab and Caffe

  • Optimization techniques comparison for Deep Learning Architectures

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    --Different variations of the SGD was studied namely vanilla SGD, SGD with momentum, AdaDelta,AdaGrad and ADAM
    –3 simple Neural Network Architecture were optimized using all the above techniques
    –Simulation studies were carried out on MNIST dataset for 20k iterations
    –Results were reported for the cross-entropy and test set error against iterations for all the combination of algorithm and NN architecture

  • Visual Place recognition for long term autonomy

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    --Implemented FABMAP in matlab to learn about the basics of visual place recognition
    –Evaluated its performance on Ford Dataset and VPrice Dataset
    –Developed a new approach using autoencoders to learn the season independent representation
    –Evaluated performance using the deep representation for visual place recognition

  • RaQueL: Robot Query Language

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    --Rich set of retrieval functions and programming constructs to perform traversals on RoboBraingraph.
    –Support for Neo4j and Weaver(distributed) graph data-base system.
    –Developed online system for proof-of-concept

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  • UAV localization using monocular vision

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    --Studied and implemented the localization techniques using monocular vision.
    –TheRobot Operating System(ROS)was learned and implemented.
    –Implemented thePTAMMandSemi-Visual Odometrypackages available under ROS forlocalisation and state estimation of the Quadrotor.
    –A Simulator was analysing the performance ofBack-stepping controltechnique of the Quadro-tor was build using OpenGL and Python.
    –Currently I have been working onAsctec Technologies Pelicanfor the implementation of the…

    --Studied and implemented the localization techniques using monocular vision.
    –TheRobot Operating System(ROS)was learned and implemented.
    –Implemented thePTAMMandSemi-Visual Odometrypackages available under ROS forlocalisation and state estimation of the Quadrotor.
    –A Simulator was analysing the performance ofBack-stepping controltechnique of the Quadro-tor was build using OpenGL and Python.
    –Currently I have been working onAsctec Technologies Pelicanfor the implementation of the algorithm

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • German

    Elementary proficiency

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

    Research Assistance

    - Present

    My research focuses on building robots with integrated vision, control and planning techniques.

  • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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  • RoboBrain

    Research Scholar

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    Following projects were under the organization as part of summer intership --Seq2Seq Learning for Robots --RaQuel: Robot Query Language --PlanItDave: Natural Language to Planning

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