Kadhiravan Umasankar
About Kadhiravan Umasankar
Kadhiravan Umasankar is an Autonomy for Hypersonics Intern at Sandia National Laboratories with a background in aerospace engineering and experience in image recognition and drone vision systems.
Title
Currently serves as the Autonomy for Hypersonics Intern at Sandia National Laboratories, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States.
Previous Experience
Has previously worked in various roles: Image Recognition Team Member at Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Austin from 2018 to 2020, Recovery Team Member at Texas Rocket Engineering Lab in 2019, Activity Supervisor at UT RecSports in 2019, Cashier at CVS Health from 2018 to 2019, Crew Member at Einstein Bros Bagels in 2017, and Cashier at Kroger in 2016.
Education and Expertise
Holds a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical Engineering from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, completed from 2017 to 2021. Also studied Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Projects and Technical Skills
Developed a 'drone_vision' ROS package implementing computer vision on a drone using an Intel RealSense depth camera. Has proficiency in using Python for object detection tasks, such as utilizing YOLOv4 to detect objects in RGB images and overlaying centroids on depth images to compute vectors in the inertial frame. Experienced with the Gazebo 3D simulation environment and deep learning.
Current Contributions and Learning
Currently part of the controls team at Sandia National Laboratories, gaining knowledge in Reinforcement Learning to support future projects in this domain.