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🎌 Aryan Rai | Robotics | Autonomous Systems | Embedded Engineering | Robot Learning
📍 Based in: Sydney, Australia
🎓 University of Sydney: Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Mechatronic Engineering - Robotics & Intelligent Systems (2023-2027)
🛠 Building: Robot learning and manipulation systems at Imitation Machines, autonomous fleet operations at Perception, and ROS 2 perception with HowYouSeeMe.
I work across electronics, embedded firmware, perception, simulation and deployment to bring robotic systems into the real world.
- Imitation Machines - Robotics Systems Engineer, Intern | Mar 2026-present
Integrating the UR10e, Inspire RH56 hand and Elephant Robotics M750 with ROS 2, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo and Gazebo. Building motion control, VR teleoperation and demonstration-data workflows, and training and deploying ACT, Diffusion Policy and VLA policies with PyTorch and LeRobot. - Perception - Co-Founder, Hardware, Robotics & Embedded | 2026-present
Building Orbit for mission design, orchestration and real-time operations of autonomous drones and robots. Working across ArduPilot/MAVLink, video and telemetry pipelines, Wi-Fi HaLow mesh communications, edge compute and cloud infrastructure. Selected for the Antler AUS16 residency.
- Sydney Interplanetary Rover Initiative - Electrical Co-Lead | Mar 2024-Mar 2026
Led a 17-engineer electrical, embedded and controls team through the Australian Rover Challenge 2026. Designed rover power distribution and custom KiCad PCBs, developed Teensy/C++ firmware and CAN-based FOC motor control, and integrated sensing, cameras, Jetson compute and long-range telemetry. - ANT61 - Embedded Systems Intern | Jun-Jul 2025
Developed STM32/C++ firmware for Beacon RevG space robotics hardware, including GNSS/UART acquisition, DMA/interrupt-driven data handling, and CubeSat Space Protocol communications with libcsp, KISS framing and CRC32 validation. - USYD Rocketry Team - Embedded & Ground Control Engineer | Feb 2024-Jan 2025
Designed schematics and firmware for the team's first in-house STM32 datalogger, with RS485 and LoRa telemetry. Built LabJack-based tank-test instrumentation and custom test software. - Sydney UAV Engineering, Project FASTR - Drone Flight Engineer | Feb-Sep 2024
Built and calibrated a PX4/Pixhawk quadrotor with Raspberry Pi, ROS 2 and OpenCV; served as primary pilot for field flight tests.
| Area | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Robotics & autonomy | ROS 2, SLAM, navigation and planning, sensor integration, teleoperation, field testing |
| Simulation & robot learning | NVIDIA Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Gazebo, LeRobot, PyTorch, ACT, Diffusion Policy, VLA, URDF |
| Perception | OpenCV, RGB-D, LiDAR, ORB-SLAM3, YOLO, SAM2, Rerun |
| Embedded & electronics | STM32, Teensy, NVIDIA Jetson, Raspberry Pi, CAN/FDCAN, UART/RS485, I²C/SPI, LoRa, GNSS, power electronics, brushless FOC drives |
| Drone systems & networking | ArduPilot, MAVLink, PX4/Pixhawk, Wi-Fi HaLow, GStreamer, MediaMTX, RTSP, QGroundControl |
| Software & infrastructure | Python, C/C++, MATLAB, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Git, Linux, Docker, systemd, AWS, GCP, Azure |
| Design & instrumentation | KiCad, Altium, SolidWorks, instrumentation and DAQ |
🕹️ Robot learning: Teleoperation, demonstration datasets and sim-to-real manipulation.
📡 Autonomous fleets: Mission orchestration, edge networking and live operations with Perception.
👁️ Perception: Persistent semantic world state for robots with HowYouSeeMe.
- HowYouSeeMe - ROS 2 perception that combines RGB-D geometry, object detection, segmentation and face identity into a persistent semantic world state. Exposes that state through MCP, with Rerun visualisation; uses Kinect v2, ORB-SLAM3, YOLO11, SAM2/FastSAM, InsightFace and TSDF.
- Orbit at Perception - Mission planning, orchestration and fleet operations for drones and robotic systems, with operator-supervised execution, video, telemetry and simulation workflows.
- SatMap - Satellite uptime and communication-opportunity simulation between an ANT61 Beacon-equipped satellite and the Iridium constellation, with 2D/3D visualisation. First place at the USRC × ANT61 Space Handshakes Hackathon.
- Autonomous Warehouse Robotics - MTRX3760 (2025) - ROS 2 navigation, mapping and integration on TurtleBot, using LiDAR, cameras and SLAM in Gazebo/RViz for inspection and delivery.
- DroidCore - A customisable robotics platform.
- BlueLily - A configurable sensing, control, communications and real-time logic platform for robotics, rocketry, payloads and CubeSats.
- Comms - Centralised communications dashboards for control and ground stations.
- StarSim - An embedded/robotics physics library for simulation and real-time deployment.
- University of Sydney - BE (Honours), Mechatronic Engineering, Robotics & Intelligent Systems | Feb 2023-Nov 2027.
- Technische Universität Berlin - Winter School CanSat | Jan 2026.
- Antler AUS16, Sydney - Selected cohort participant as co-founder of Perception | 2026.
- 1st place, USRC × ANT61 Space Handshakes Hackathon - SatMap | May 2025.
- International Astronautical Congress - Attended with the SIRI rover display in Sydney | Sep 2025.
🀄 "A good design is one which conveys itself without the use of words" ~Aryan Rai 2024 🀄
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