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Saif Sidhik
Bristol, United Kingdom

I currently work as a Senior Robotics Research Engineer at Dyson, mainly working on control and planning for mobile manipulation robots intended for helping in domestic tasks and environments. I completed my PhD from the Intelligent Robotics Lab at the University of Birmingham. The main area of my research was applying Machine Learning techniques to develop a framework that can aid robots to perform changing-contact manipulation tasks in dynamic and unknown environments using different objects.

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Dyson
Dec 2021 - Feb 2024 (2 years 2 months)
Hullavington, United Kingdom
Senior Robotics Research Engineer
I am currently a Senior Robotics Research Engineer at Dyson, focussing on developing different software and control components to enable intelligence to mobile-manipulator robots to perform home-safe tasks in human-occupied environments.
Robotics Control machine learning ros c++ tensorflow python cuda pytorch
University of Birmingham
Sep 2017 - Jun 2021 (3 years 9 months)
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Research Student
- Thesis Topic: Learning Generalisable Policies for Changing-Contact Manipulation Tasks
- Project funded by Honda Research Institute, EU

- Conducted tutorial sessions on Java for undergraduate students for the Software Workshop module.
- Supervised and provided technical support to MSc students working on learning and robot manipulation for their MSc projects.
- Worked as a teaching assistant for modules including Intelligent Robotics, Robot Programming, Intelligent Data Analysis, Data Structures and Algorithms, Software Workshop, and Graphics.
machine learning robotics control dynamics python ros c++
Obi Robotics
Jun 2017 - Jun 2021 (4 years)
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Software Developer (Part-time)
- Working part-time in the development of an algorithm for multi-sensor hand-tracking and wireless communication for the Obi Reach glove.
- Helped in 3D CAD modelling and designing of the product.
c++ python sensor-fusion computer-vision visual-tracking

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Panda Simulator
Nov 2019 - Present
A Gazebo simulator for the Franka Emika Panda robot with ROS interface, supporting sim-to-real code transfer (Python). Exposes customisable controllers and state feedback from robot in simulation.
ros Gazebo c++ python
Franka ROS Interface
Nov 2019 - Present
A ROS/Python API for controlling and managing the Franka Emika Panda robot (real and simulated). Contains exposed controllers for the robot (joint position, velocity, torque), interfaces for the gripper, controller manager, coordinate frames interface, etc. Provides almost complete sim-to-real / real-to-sim transfer of code.
c++ python ros
Monocular Visual Graph-based SLAM on a 6-DoF Aerial Robot
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
University of Birmingham
An implementation of Graph-based SLAM using just a sequence of image from a monocular camera. It performs feature-based visual odometry, loop closure and graph optimisation to create an accurate map of its surroundings.
c++ ros computer vision machine learning data analysis data visualization

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University of Birmingham
Master of Science (MSc), Robotics
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
TKM College of Engineering
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Mechanical Engineering
Jan 2012 - Jan 2016
University of Birmingham
PhD, Robotics
Nov 2017 - Nov 2021
I was a PhD student in the Intelligent Robotics Lab at the University of Birmingham, working on "Machine Learing for Dexterous Robot Manipulation". The main area of my research was applying Machine Learning techniques to develop a framework that can aid robots to perform changing-contact manipulation tasks in dynamic and unknown environments using different objects.
Masters
Sep 2017
BTech, Mechanical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Doctor of Philosophy
Jun 2022

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