Tejas Anilkumar P.

Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute

Moon Ranger Rover Project (CMU and NASA)
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• Wi-Fi Subsystem Lead, worked on designing the communication between rover and lander.
• Implemented Wireless File Transfer over TCP sockets, modified as an API.
• Implemented Wireless Joystick control of rover in ROS (Nvidia Jetson TX2i + Spacely Board)
• Designed GUI in PyQt5 for command and control of Rover wirelessly.
• Demonstrated Serial IP protocol on TI Hercules board.
• Involved in Thermal and Radiation testing of components.

IntelliTech Systems

Startup based on IOT Home Automation
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• Designed a REST API based Node JS Server and Android App acting as control panel. ESP8266 Microcontroller (Relay control unit) receives command from app and triggers switching of the relay of respective appliance accordingly.
• Integrated IFTTT, a third-party service was used for providing voice control feature via Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant via Webhooks.
• Designed 2-layer PCB for the Relay control unit.

Carnegie Mellon University

GPA: 3.79 / 4.00

University of Mumbai - Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering

GPA: 8.75 / 10.00

MSBTE - Thakur Polytechnic

Percentage: 85.83%

Computer Engineering Projects

Fastbit Neural Network (Spring 2021)
Advanced Digital Integrated Circuit Design Group Project (Group of 4)
• Wrote the Verilog code for Memory Control logic and testbench for Fingerprint Scanner and Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Data Detection Channel.
• Helped in debugging the RTL-to-GDSII flow to obtain the final chip in Cadence software with TSMC PDK.

Greatest Common Divisor Chip Design (Spring 2021)
Advanced Digital Integrated Circuit Design Project
• Wrote the Verilog code for Datapath and Control logic.
• Performed RTL-to-GDSII flow to obtain the final chip in Cadence software.

16-bit Processor Design with Iterative Multiplication (Fall 2020)
Digital Integrated Circuit Design Project
• Designed the Layout and Schematics for the 16-bit register file (using SRAM 6T cell).
• Wrote the assembly code for 8bit multiplication.
• Debugged the Verilog code for the 16-bit processor successfully.

Transimpedance Amplifier Design (Fall 2020)
Analog Integrated Circuit Design Group Project-I (Group of 2)
• Helped in the design of Schematics for Transimpedance Amplifier and calculated the Hand Analysis for Transimpedance Amplifier Design

Operational Amplifier Design (Fall 2020)
Analog Integrated Circuit Design Group Project-II (Group of 2)
• Designed the Layout of the Operational Amplifier and helped in the design of Schematics and Hand Analysis.

Electrical and Computer Science Projects

Arduino based board PCB Design (2021) Link
• Designed a 2-layer PCB board based on Arduino Microcontroller.

Machine Learning Course (10-601) Projects (Spring 2020)
• Designed Decision Trees, Hidden Markov Model, Neural Network, Logistic Regression and Reinforcement Learning Agent for Mountain Car Problem.

Virtual Mouse control using OpenCV (2018)
• Wrote a virtual mouse control using OpenCV library in Python.
• Mouse functions can be performed using different colors.

Quadcopter Design (2017) Video Link
• Designed quadcopter using KK V2.0 board with wiring of ESC and power supply.

Wall Climbing Surveillance Bot (2017) Video Link 1 Video Link 2
Undergraduate Final Year Project
• Designed Wall Climbing bot based on Differential Pressure mechanism which produces vacuum using an Electric Ducted Fan and designed a webpage to control it.
• Used an IP camera to access the surveillance feed.

IOT + Voice Recognition based Home Automation (2017) Video Link
• Designed an MQTT based IOT system with MQTT Server provided by Adafruit for IOT Control of Appliances using ESP8266(MQTT Client)
• Integrated Alexa Voice Engine for Voice Recognition on Raspberry Pi 3, connected to Adafruit MQTT Server for voice control of appliances.

GSM Based Motor Control (2017)
• Designed an GSM based system for 1.5HP motor controlled by call or SMS.
• Improved security of the system by allowing control of the motor only from recognized mobile number.

Gesture Controlled Bot (2016)
• Designed a bot control system based on Accelerometer ADXL335 and Flex Sensor
• Designed an Android App to utilize Mobile phone’s accelerometer for control of the bot via Bluetooth HC-05.

Bluetooth Home Automation (2016)
• Designed a bluetooth home automation system using Arduino + Bluetooth HC-05
• Designed an Android App for pairing the Mobile phone’s bluetooth to the control unit for switching the appliance's state.

Graduate Level

Undergraduate Level