Divyam Sood
EECS Undergraduate interested in Control and Robotics
Undergraduate student working on robotics, control systems, and embedded hardware, with a focus on resource-constrained autonomy and sim2real transfer. My interests include model predictive control, reinforcement learning, and real-world robotic systems.
Publications
SHIELD: Safe Hybrid Integration of PPO and MPC for Reliable Trajectory Tracking
Oral presentation at RITA 2025, London.
TRaCe: Trajectory Tracking with Budgeted Localization using Meta-RL and Belief-Aware MPC
Oral presentation at RITA 2025, London.
Research
Undergraduate Researcher — MuSiC Lab, IISER Bhopal
Jan 2025 – Present
- Developed ROS2–Gazebo simulation pipelines for UGV and UAV systems.
- Implemented sim-to-real control and RL policies on TurtleBot3 and Crazyflie.
- Analyzed robustness of hybrid RL–MPC systems under localization uncertainty.
- Modeled soft robotic actuators using finite element analysis in COMSOL.
- Designing event-triggered and resource-aware control frameworks.
Skills
Robotics & Control: MPC, Reinforcement Learning, Sim-to-Real Transfer, ROS2, Gazebo
Programming: Python, C++, AVR Assembly
Hardware: Sensor Integration, Digital Logic, Analog Circuits
Tools: Linux, LaTeX, LTSpice, Fusion 360, AutoCAD
Writing
I write about my experiences here at college, about the workshops I attend and the ones I organize, about the troubleshooting I had to do, and about my technical experiences among other things. Visit the blog.