2023 to present
IIT Tirupati
B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering
Mechatronics, controls and Theory of Machines, modelled hands-on in MATLAB, Simulink and Simscape.
- Public repositories on GitHub
- 24
- Simulators used: Gazebo, PyBullet, Webots, Simulink, Simscape and PySimVerse
- 6
- Arms driven with IK and RL: the Kinova Gen3 and the KUKA iiwa
- 7-DOF
- Test accuracy on the breast cancer classifier
- 97%
01About
Where software meets physics.
I'm Kanishk, a mechanical engineering student at IIT Tirupati who is happiest where code meets hardware. Alongside my B.Tech I'm working through the BS in Data Science and Applications at IIT Madras, which grounds my machine learning in statistics.
Most of what I build lives in simulation first: ROS 2 robots in Gazebo, arms planned with inverse kinematics in MATLAB, agents trained with reinforcement learning in PyBullet. The goal is always the same, autonomous systems where algorithms meet actuators.
01
Understand it, then rebuild it
I take a problem apart until every piece makes sense, then put it back together in code.
02
Systems that think and move
The interesting part is the loop: perception feeding decisions feeding actuators.
03
Precision and flexibility
Mechanical precision matters to me as much as the flexibility of software.
04
Skills compound
Every simulator, solver and model I learn makes the next build faster.
Education
Online degree, ongoing
IIT Madras
BS, Data Science and Applications
Machine learning, statistics and analytics in a Python-based curriculum.
Focus areas
- Robotics and control
- Computer vision
- ML and simulation
- Industry 4.0
Open to
- ML internships
- Robotics R&D
- Research collaboration
- Computer vision
- Simulation engineering
- Autonomous systems
02Projects
Robots that sense, plan and learn.
Fifteen builds from my GitHub, from ROS 2 simulations and inverse kinematics to reinforcement learning, computer vision and the web. Each one has a write-up and a link to its code.
Showing 15 projects
Robotics · Computer vision
RoverX
A ROS 2 rover that maps its surroundings with lidar, watches the road with a camera and names what it sees with YOLOv8.
- Drive
- Differential, 2 wheels and a caster
- Lidar
- 360° GPU lidar on /scan
- Camera
- 640×480 at 30 fps
- ROS 2 Humble
- Gazebo Fortress
- RViz2
- YOLOv8
- OpenCV
- URDF
Computer vision · Machine learning · Robotics
Synthetic CV Pipeline
Renders 3D models into randomised, auto-labelled datasets, trains YOLOv8 on them and deploys the detector as a ROS 2 node that fuses detections with lidar range.
- Python
- pyrender
- trimesh
- YOLOv8
Robotics · MATLAB & Simulink
Kinova Gen3 Trajectory
A MATLAB motion pipeline that solves inverse kinematics for Cartesian waypoints with its own damped least-squares solver, then blends them into a C¹-continuous joint trajectory.
- MATLAB
- Robotics System Toolbox
- Damped least squares
- Cubic polynomials
Robotics · Computer vision
ROS 2 Camera Arm
A ROS 2 package that models a two-joint arm with a camera on its own link, drives it along a square trajectory in Gazebo Fortress and visualises joint states and TF in RViz2.
- ROS 2 Humble
- Gazebo Fortress
- RViz2
- URDF / Xacro
Machine learning · Robotics
KUKA Reach with PPO
A Gymnasium environment around a simulated KUKA iiwa, trained with Stable-Baselines3 PPO to bring its end-effector within 5 cm of a randomly placed target.
- PyBullet
- Gymnasium
- Stable-Baselines3
- PPO
Machine learning
Snake DQN Arena
A multi-agent DQN trainer for Snake with a custom Gymnasium environment, a live Pygame panel for every agent, resumable runs, fine-tuning and a showcase of the best agent.
- Stable-Baselines3
- DQN
- Gymnasium
- Pygame
Robotics · Machine learning
Q-Learning Line Follower
A differential-drive simulator with five IR sensors trained by tabular Q-learning, then ported into a Webots world with downward cameras as the line sensors.
- Python
- Pygame
- NumPy
- Q-learning
MATLAB & Simulink
Shaper Quick Return Mechanism
Course project that models a shaper machine's quick return mechanism in MATLAB R2025b Simscape Multibody and studies the ram's position, velocity and acceleration.
- MATLAB R2025b
- Simscape Multibody
- Simulink
- Kinematic analysis
MATLAB & Simulink · Robotics
Simulink 2-DOF Arm
MATLAB and Simulink models of a planar two-link arm that follows sine references in joint space and traces a square with its end-effector using analytical IK.
- MATLAB
- Simulink
- Simscape Multibody
- Inverse kinematics
Machine learning
Breast Cancer Classifier
A complete scikit-learn pipeline that classifies tumours as benign or malignant from 30 cell-nucleus features, reaching about 97% test accuracy and 98% recall.
- scikit-learn
- NumPy
- Pandas
- Matplotlib
Web & tools · Robotics
RoboLab Web
Co-built with Atharva Bhosale: assemble a robot joint by joint, then explore DH parameters, kinematics, Jacobians, trajectories, dynamics and workspace with nothing to install.
- JavaScript
- Three.js
- HTML and CSS
- Node.js tests
Robotics
Drone Trajectory Sim
A PySimVerse drone that takes off, tunes its speed and alternates forward and sideways moves to approximate a diagonal route, with a keyboard teleop script alongside.
- Python
- PySimVerse
Computer vision
YOLO11 Object Detection
A Python detection script built on the YOLO11 medium model and OpenCV that draws labelled boxes with confidence scores, frame by frame.
- Python
- YOLO11
- Ultralytics
- OpenCV
Computer vision
Point Cloud Toolkit
Python scripts that read a PLY scan and render it with Open3D, PyVista and PyntCloud, plus voxel-grid downsampling with a tunable voxel size.
- Open3D
- PyVista
- PyntCloud
- NumPy
Web & tools
Gutter
A no-backend web app that downloads comics from Google Drive, renders them with pdf.js, caches them in IndexedDB, remembers your page and groups series automatically.
- JavaScript
- pdf.js
- IndexedDB
- Service worker
Also on GitHub
- ml-prediction
Course project notebook for supervised learning, from preprocessing and feature engineering to tuned Random Forest and XGBoost models.
Jupyter Notebook · 2025
- Folder_Organizer
Python utility that tidies a folder by sorting its files, with the sorting logic kept separate from its desktop interface.
Python · 2026
- Room-Bookings
Experimental workspace that pairs a Python app with a C++ module and a URDF robot model.
Python · 2026
- Kanishk
An earlier portfolio site, hosted on GitHub Pages.
HTML · 2026
03Toolkit
The tools behind the builds.
Everything here shows up in at least one repository, from simulators and solvers to the libraries that train and see.
Robotics and simulation
- ROS 2 Humble
- Gazebo Fortress
- RViz2
- URDF / Xacro
- PyBullet
- Webots
- PySimVerse
- colcon
Machine learning and RL
- PyTorch
- Stable-Baselines3
- PPO
- DQN
- Q-learning
- Gymnasium
- scikit-learn
- TensorBoard
Computer vision and 3D
- OpenCV
- YOLOv8
- YOLO11
- Ultralytics
- Open3D
- PyVista
- trimesh
- pyrender
MATLAB and mechanics
- MATLAB
- Simulink
- Simscape Multibody
- Robotics System Toolbox
- Kinematic analysis
- Trajectory planning
Languages and tools
- Python
- MATLAB
- JavaScript
- HTML and CSS
- C++
- NumPy
- Pandas
- Matplotlib
- Jupyter
- Google Colab
- Git
Learning now
- C++
- Deep learning and CNNs
- Sensor fusion
- Nav2 and MoveIt 2
What the repositories are written in
Primary language of each of the 24 public repositories, as GitHub detects it.
Other covers Simulink and Simscape models and README-only repositories, which have no detected language.
04Journey
A build log, one simulator at a time.
From a first classifier to ROS 2 rovers and reinforcement learning: how the work has grown since I started engineering in 2023.
2023
Started Mechanical Engineering at IIT Tirupati
Picked up Python and the basics of machine learning alongside core mechanical coursework.
2024
A first end-to-end ML pipeline
Built a logistic regression classifier for breast cancer diagnosis with a full evaluation pipeline, reaching about 97% test accuracy.
2025
Mechanisms and control in MATLAB
Simulated a 2-DOF arm with trajectory tracking in Simulink, and modelled a six-link quick return mechanism in Simscape Multibody for Theory of Machines.
Jan to Mar 2026
Into ROS 2
Brought a URDF arm up in RViz2 and Gazebo, then gave it a live camera and a square trajectory. Ran first real-time detection experiments with YOLO11.
Apr to May 2026
Mobile robots, drones and 3D data
Built RoverX with lidar, a camera and YOLOv8, flew scripted routes in PySimVerse, worked with point clouds in Open3D and wrote a damped least-squares IK solver for the Kinova Gen3.
Jun 2026
Reinforcement learning
Trained a KUKA iiwa to reach targets with PPO in PyBullet, and ran up to twelve DQN agents side by side on Snake.
Aug to Sep 2026
Sim-to-sim and synthetic data
Ported a Q-learning line follower into Webots, built a pipeline that trains YOLOv8 from rendered 3D meshes, and shipped Gutter, an offline-ready comic reader.
Oct 2026
RoboLab Web
Co-building a browser-based robotics analysis studio with Atharva Bhosale.
Next
Perception meets control
Sensor fusion and closed-loop feedback on the ROS 2 arm, a real-time YOLO and OpenCV pipeline, deep learning and C++.
05Contact
Let's build something that moves.
Open to ML internships, robotics R&D and research collaborations in 2026. Send a message here, or reach me directly.
GitHub
@KanishkPatel0206