About Me

Hello everyone! My name is Aryaman Shardul. I recently completed my Master's in Robotics (ECE Concentration, GPA 3.96) from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and my undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute in Mumbai, India.

My research interests span control systems, trajectory optimization, state estimation, sensor fusion, SLAM, and autonomous navigation. I enjoy working across the full robotics stack: from mathematical modeling and algorithm design to simulation and hardware validation.

For my Master's thesis on Agile Flight of a Morphing Robot Using Posture Manipulation and Thrust Vectoring at the Silicon Synapse Lab under Prof. Alireza Ramezani, I worked on agile trajectory tracking for the Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot (M4), a 6 kg morphing aerial robot capable of transitioning between ground and aerial configurations. I proposed a hierarchical control framework and implemented key components: an NMPC trajectory optimizer for high-speed aggressive maneuvers, a QP-based real-time thrust allocator validated under active posture reconfiguration, and a thrust-to-PWM mapping pipeline integrating actuator dynamics for hardware deployment. I demonstrated in simulation that actively reconfiguring the robot's appendages during flight outperforms fixed-geometry baselines in tracking error and thrust redistribution.

Prior to this, I was a Research Intern at the Multi-Robot Autonomy Lab at IISER Bhopal under Dr. P. B. Sujit and Dr. M. K. Tripathi, where I developed a wind-aware NMPC path planner for UAVs integrating PINN-based wind field estimation. I also interned at the Embedded Real-Time Systems Lab at IIT Bombay as part of the e-Yantra Summer Internship Program where I built Prota: The ROS Bot, a low-cost open-source autonomous ground vehicle designed to teach ROS, SLAM, and navigation from the ground up, integrating LiDAR, IMU, depth camera, and proximity sensors on a Raspberry Pi, with the full navigation stack validated in Gazebo and on physical hardware.

I am currently seeking full-time roles in robotics software, controls, motion planning, or perception in the US.