I work at the intersection of robotics, control, and artificial intelligence, building intelligent systems that can
perceive, plan, and interact with the physical world.
My current focus is on robot learning, teleoperation, simulation-to-real transfer, and multi-modal robotic control.
- 🎓 M.S. Data Science (Robotics & AI) @ Illinois Institute of Technology
- 🤖 Robotics Researcher — haptic teleoperation, exoskeletons & sim-to-real pipelines
- 🧠 Interests: Embodied AI, Robot Learning, RL, SLAM, Motion Planning
- 🧪 Hands-on with ROS2, Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Digital Twins, Edge AI
- 🌍 Open to full-time roles in Robotics AI & Autonomous Systems
🔗 Portfolio: harshithdeshalliravi.us
📂 Projects: github.com/HarshithDR
- Robotics Systems: Kinematics, Dynamics, Control (PID, MPC), Motion Planning (RRT*)
- Robot Learning: Reinforcement Learning (DQN, PPO), Imitation Learning, Foundation Models
- Perception: Computer Vision, 3D Point Clouds, LiDAR, Sensor Fusion, SLAM
- Simulation & Digital Twins: NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Gazebo, Sim-to-Real Transfer
- Edge AI: Jetson, Raspberry Pi, model optimization for real-time inference
- Human–Robot Interaction: Haptics, teleoperation, wearable robotics, CAD/CAM
- 🦾 5-DOF Wearable Exoskeleton — haptic teleoperation with <100ms force-feedback latency
- 🤖 Multi-Modal AI Manipulator — fine-tuned NVIDIA Groot N1.5 on custom Isaac Sim data
- 🗺️ 3D LiDAR SLAM & Autonomous Navigation — ROS2 + Nav2 + nvblox in Isaac Sim
- 🧠 Emotion-Aware Social Robots — autism therapy deployment @ IIT Bengaluru
- ⚡ Edge AI Vision Systems — real-time detection on Jetson & Raspberry Pi
📧 Email: harshithdr10@gmail.com
