Abhijit Makhal
Staff Software Engineer, Machine Vision And Robotics at Locus Robotics
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAbhijit Makhal is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in machine vision and robotics with a PhD in grasping and manipulation and a decade of experience building perception, motion planning, and control systems. He has driven advanced robotics software at Locus Robotics and Honeywell, translating research-grade algorithms into robust, production-ready code using ROS, OpenRAVE, PCL, C++, and Python. His research background in superquadric-based grasp planning and work on reachability and base placement (Reuleaux) give him deep intuition for robot-environment interaction and practical deployment constraints. Comfortable moving between prototyping and scale, he blends reachability analysis, whole-body control, and data-driven perception to solve cluttered, real-world manipulation problems. Based in Pennsylvania, he pairs academic rigor with industry delivery, often surfacing non-obvious solutions born from formal reachability and base-placement insights.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Idaho State UniversityBachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Bengal Insitute of Technology and ManagmentMaster's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Master's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad
Github Skills (24)
reachability10
robot10
robotics9
rviz8
cpp6
ros6
catkin6
plugin6
qtcreator5
urdf3
robot-control3
sparkfun3
firmware2
imu2
opencv2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jontromanab/fetchpy
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:99 commits, 96 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
jontromanab/reuleaux
May 2017 - Sep 2019
GSoC Project for robot reachability
Contributions:9 commits, 77 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 4 months
roboticsgsocreachabilityrobot
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