Divyam Sood

Building resource-aware robust autonomy for real robotic systems

Undergraduate student working on robotics, control systems, and embedded hardware, with a focus on resource-efficient sytems and sim2real transfer. My current interests broadly include model predictive control, reinforcement learning, multi-agent communication, and real-world robotic systems.

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Publications

SHIELD: Safe Hybrid Integration of PPO and MPC for Reliable Trajectory Tracking || Oral presentation at RITA 2025, London. To be published in Springer LNSS: Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 10

TRaCe: Trajectory Tracking with Budgeted Localization using Meta-RL and Belief-Aware MPC || Oral presentation at RITA 2025, London. To be published in Springer LNSS: Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 10

COAST: Altitude as a Coupled Perception Variable in Shared-Camera Aerial-Ground Tracking || Accepted for Oral Presentation at ACODS 2026, NIT Warangal.

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 & Simulation: Robot Operating System (ROS2), Gazebo, Crazyflie, TurtleBot3, Sim-to-Real Workflows like SITL

Control & Learning: Model Predictive Control (MPC), Reinforcement Learning, Resource-Constrained Navigation

Programming & Embedded: Python, C++, Verilog, Assembly

Digital Design & Hardware: FPGA Development, Digital Logic Design, Sensor Integration, Analog Circuits

Engineering Tools: Linux, Git, PlatformIO, LTSpice, Fusion 360, AutoCAD, LaTeX

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Additional Stuff

Click here for a list of colleges and universities I have visted till date.

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