Atharv Nale

I’m a Robotics & Automation engineer in my final-year, working on production-ready ROS2 systems for industrial robots. At Intuitive Research and Development Pvt. Ltd. (IRDPL), I help turn planning and control logic into reliable motion that performs on the shop floor.

In my current role, I designed and deployed ROS2 motion execution pipelines for a 6-DOF industrial robotic arm, cutting task cycle time by 20%. I refactored MoveIt2 planning parameters and trajectory controllers, eliminating 95%+ of path-planning failures for industrial pick-and-place. I also built ROS2 feature modules from scratch and achieved a system-level latency target of under 50ms while improving uptime during prototype-to-production handoff.

Earlier, during my Robotics Engineer internship at Neelay Industries, I integrated and calibrated sensors and microcontrollers for automated production line machinery. I assisted in programming and testing localized industrial robot trajectories to reduce operational bottlenecks and downtime, while collaborating on documentation, wire schematics, and system testing logs.

My projects reflect how I like to solve hard constraints: I engineered an Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) optimizer for a precedence-constrained assembly line, raising efficiency from 33% to 85% in under 200 iterations. I also built a custom drone flight controller with STM32F7 bare-metal firmware and FreeRTOS, delivering 1kHz attitude estimation with under 2° error using complementary filter + EKF sensor fusion. I round it out with autonomy and perception work—Nav2 docking with ±2cm accuracy and a vision-guided robotic arm that improved pick success from 70% to 94% via camera feedback and hand-eye calibration.