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.

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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

Contact

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Writing

I write about my experiences here at college, about workshops I attend and organize, troubleshooting experiences, and technical work.

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