I'm

Manan Tayal

PhD Student@ IISc Bangalore, IIT Bombay Graduate, Robotics Engineer
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About Me

Hi! I am Manan, a Research Scholar at Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems (RBCCPS) in Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, working on Safety Critical Controls using Control Barrier Functions in the Stochastic Robotics Lab under the guidance of Prof. Shishir N. Y. Kolathaya and collaborating with Prof. Pushpak Jagtap and Prof. Andrew Clark

My recent works include developing a novel CBF formulation called Collision Cone Control Barrier Function (C3BF) which combines the concepts of Collision cone and CBFs to come up with a real-time safe controller, using on-board computing. Currently, I am interested in extending my work in the stochatic world and generation of an optimal barrier function using Neural networks. Earlier, I worked on the development of a lightweight control framework for robust proprioceptive bipedal walking, in Stochastic Robotics lab, in collaboration with Prof. Ayonga Hereid (Ohio State University)

I completed my B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). I actively work in the fields of Robotics, Controls and Learning. In my undergraduate years, I have also worked on various robotics projects like control of Quadruped Bot, Force controlled gripper, FLORENCE (A Robotic Nurse), etc.
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My Resume

Working Experience

Aug'21 - Present

Research Scholar

Stochastic Robotics Lab

Apr'20 - May'20

Research Intern

Siemens Technology and Services Pvt. Ltd

Aug'19 - Mar'20

Robotics Control

Team Stride, IIT Bombay

Apr'19 - Mar'20

Manager

Tinkerers' Laboratory, IIT Bomaby

Oct'18 - Apr'19

Team Member,Robocon team IITB

ABU Robocon'19

Jul'18 - Jun'19

Freelance Educator

Toppr

Apr'18 - Mar'19

Convenor

Tinkerers' Laboratory, IIT Bombay

My Education

Aug'21 - Present

Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore

PhD, Cyber Physical Systems

CPI: 9.30/10

Aug'17 - July'21

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay(IITB)

BTech, Mechanical Engineering

CPI: 9.13/10

Apr'15 - Mar'17

S.D.Jain Modern School, Surat

Intermediate/+2

Percentage(12th Board): 94%

Apr'13 - Mar'15

S.D.Jain Modern School, Surat

Matriculation

CGPA (10th Board): 10/10

My Projects

My Projects

  • All
  • Robotics
  • AI
  • Mechanical Design
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Safe Reinforcement Learning Using Robust Control Barrier Functions

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Offline Reinforcement Learning with Implicit-Q-Learning

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FLORENCE (Robotic Nurse)

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Parallelisation of TSP

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Bone Conduction Headphone

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PANACEA

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Sleep Detector

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Quadruped in Pybullet

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Titanium Nanotubes

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Force Controlled Gripper

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