Eight years of mechanical design and R&D on autonomous mobile robots — drivetrains, braking, and thermal systems. Before that, aerospace research; alongside it, a published poetry collection.
I work on autonomous mobile robots at ATI Motors — eight years on mechanical design and R&D, across drivetrains, braking, and thermal systems.
Much of it is building AMRs from the drawing board up, along with the systems around them — a load-cell hitch that measures pull force, motion-based fail-safe braking, image-sensor-guided auto-hitching, three of them filed as pending US patents. In the SkunkWorks R&D wing I started in 2024, the work is early-stage: taking ideas from zero to one.
I coordinate the vendor partnerships behind these systems. Before robotics, I worked in aerospace research; alongside it, I write, and published a poetry collection.
A hitch that feels the load. An integrated load cell reads the force a trolley exerts, so the robot knows what it's actually pulling — and can react before something gives.
Braking that triggers off motion itself, as a last line of defense. If a trolley moves when it shouldn't, the system stops it — no command required.
Vision-guided coupling. An image sensor lines up vehicle and trolley and completes the hitch automatically — taking a fiddly manual step out of the loop.
Before the robots, the research. A three-part series of peer-reviewed papers on the thermodynamic analysis of SCRAMjet engines — supersonic-combustion propulsion, worked through from first principles.
A collection of poetry, published on Amazon under the pen name Sai Saketh Ram. The other side of an engineer's discipline — the same attention to structure, pointed somewhere quieter.