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AQUABOT — River Cleaning Robot
Semi-autonomous surface robot designed to collect floating waste from rivers using a front mesh trap and conveyor mechanism.
ArduinoEmbedded CMotor controlSensors
Robotics Engineer · Autonomous Systems
Sarthak Varchasvi
Designing, building, and deploying autonomous robotic systems that perceive, decide, and act reliably in the real world.
[1]SLAM pipeline initialized
[2]multi-agent coordination active
[3]sensor fusion online
[4]localization stable
[5]planning horizon 5.0s
Perception · Planning · Control · Deployment
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Advanced Line Follower Robot
High-speed competition robot using closed-loop control and custom sensor arrays for precise line tracking at race speeds.
CEmbedded controlPIDQuadrature encoders
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Micromouse Maze Solver
Autonomous maze-navigation robot designed for Micromouse events, focusing on robust wall sensing and exploration behaviour.
Embedded CIR sensingMotion control
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Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Platform
Early-stage AUV platform work at Blackvolt Technologies focusing on navigation, propulsion, and embedded autonomy stack for maritime scenarios.
NVIDIA JetsonEmbedded LinuxC++Python
Interactive robotics systems
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Photogrammetry reconstruction viewer
Interactive reconstruction viewer demonstrating point-cloud based scene reconstruction from aerial imagery.
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Autonomous agent coordination
Visualization of coordinated multi-agent navigation with collision-aware path following.
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system_log :: key_milestones
[2017]robotics exploration initiated
[2019]qualified for World Robot Olympiad nationals
[2022]winter intern in embedded systems and robotics at IIT Bhubaneswar
[2022]proposed autonomous afforestation concept with drone systems at IBM program
[2024]joined VIT Chennai and autonomous vehicle initiative control team
[2024]underwater robotics work with encoder feedback and live FPV at Mafkin Robotics
[2025]photogrammetry internship at DRDO CAIR using drone imagery
[2025]student satellite systems work for VITSAT initiative
[2025]founded Blackvolt Technologies to build autonomous underwater vehicles
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