012024
PANDA Manipulator
MoveIt 2 pick-and-place on a 7-DOF arm.
- ROS 2 Humble
- MoveIt 2
- C++
- URDF / Xacro
- Gazebo
Robotics R&D / Software
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01Intro
Robotics R&D engineer.I build motion systemsand the firmware that runs them.ROS 2, MoveIt, custom CAN-bus actuator SDKs,real-time stereo perception, mobile teleop.Currently shipping at RoboJoe Dynamics.
M.Eng Robotics, University of Maryland.Based in Miami, Florida.
Nitish Ravisankar Raveendran/2026
02Index
By the numbers.
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Years in robotics
Industry · academic
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M.Eng GPA
UMD Robotics
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Robots deployed
FR5 · 6-DOF · 9-axis
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ROS 2 packages
Open source
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Custom firmwares
Teensy · Arduino · TI
03Projects8 entries
022024
Multi-Robot MCTS
Centralized + decentralized planning across TurtleBot3 swarms.
- ROS 2 Foxy
- Gazebo 11
- PyTorch
- TurtleBot3
- Docker
032024
Bipedal Walker
TQC + PPO + TRPO trained for hardcore-mode terrain.
- MuJoCo
- Stable-Baselines3
- PyTorch
- OpenAI Gym
042024
StereoSight
Real-time stereo planner on VOXL 2 + PX4.
- C++
- Python
- ROS 2
- OpenCV
- Dijkstra
- DBSCAN
052025
ARC-AGI QLoRA
Fine-tuning Qwen2.5-1.5B on the abstract reasoning corpus.
- Hugging Face transformers
- peft
- trl (SFTTrainer)
- bitsandbytes 4-bit nf4
- PyTorch
- A100
062026
MyActuator RMD SDK
C++17 + ROS 2 driver for X-series CAN bus motors.
- C++17
- Python 3.10+
- ROS 2 Humble / Jazzy
- pybind11
- PyQt6
- SocketCAN
072025
Dual-Gantry 6-Axis CNC
A Klipper-for-CNC fork running synchronized gantries.
- Klipper
- Python
- Custom firmware
- G-code
- LinuxCNC
04Manifesto
The robotis the easy part.The world itlives inis the hard part.
Field note·RoboJoe Dynamics, 2026
05Stack
Tools / grammar.
ROBOTICSROS 2
ROBOTICSMoveIt 2
ROBOTICSIsaac Sim
ROBOTICSOMPL
EMBEDDEDCAN Bus
EMBEDDEDModbus
EMBEDDEDKlipper
EMBEDDEDLinuxCNC
MLPython
EMBEDDEDC++17
MLPyTorch
INFRADocker
INFRAk3s
MLOpenCV
MLTensorFlow
MLCUDA
06The other side
You’ve seen the engineer.
Know the builderContinue/builderSlower. Warmer. Hands-on. Hardware tinkering, home-lab builds, jail-broken firmware, things made for the love of making them.