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Het Patel

Robotics Engineer & AI Researcher

Building intelligent autonomous systems that navigate, perceive, and act in the real world.

$ cat about.txt

class HetPatel:
    def __init__(self):
        self.location    = "Urbana-Champaign, IL"
        self.education   = "MS Autonomy & Robotics — UIUC"
        self.prev        = ["ISRO", "Samsung PRISM", "VIT University"]
        self.interests   = [
            "Vision-Language-Action Models",
            "Visual SLAM & Semantic Mapping",
            "6D Object Pose Estimation",
            "Edge AI & Real-Time Inference",
            "Humanoid Locomotion & Planning",
        ]
        self.building    = "VLA models for commercial robot navigation"
        self.open_to     = "Robotics roles & collaborations — Spring 2026"

    def philosophy(self):
        return "If it doesn't work in the real world, it doesn't work."

Impact Areas

Space Satellite systems & mission ops at ISRO

Construction Autonomous surveying & real-time SLAM

Conservation Wildlife monitoring drones in Kaziranga

Healthcare AR + robotics for mobility assistance

Featured Work

Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Language-guided task execution on humanoid robots using VLA models and whole-body control in OmniGibson simulation. ROS2 Isaac Sim PyTorch VLA	6D Pose Estimation Language-guided zero-shot 6D object pose tracking achieving 88.31% ADD-S AUC using SAM-3 + foundation models. Python OpenCV SAM-3 CUDA
Autonomous Navigation Stack Full SLAM pipeline with <15cm localization drift — sensor fusion across LiDAR, RGB-D, and IMU on mobile robots. ROS2 C++ Nav2 LiDAR	Solar Panel Cleaning Robot Autonomous maintenance robot achieving 45% water reduction through intelligent path planning and coverage optimization. Arduino OpenCV Python CAD

Tech Stack

Domain	Technologies
Core
Robotics
AI / ML
Infra

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"If it doesn't work in the real world, it doesn't work."

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