Bhuvana Tej Kanigiri is an undergraduate student from Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology studying electrical engineering with a GPA of 6.98/10. His research interests include mobile robotics, autonomous drones, reinforcement learning, and autonomous vehicles. He has research experience implementing an autonomous quadcopter for indoor pick up and drop off using Pixhawk and ROS. Additionally, he has worked on image recognition using ZED stereo camera and visual SLAM localization. Bhuvana has published papers on wind turbine robotic control and home automation using IoT. He is currently working on projects involving an autonomous human carrying hexacopter and deep reinforcement learning on a P3DX robot.

1. BHUVAN TEJ KANIGIRI
11-6-296/305,Cherukuthota colony , Dilsukhnagar,Hyderabad,India
(+91)-9966340969 bhuvan1996kanigiri@gmail.com
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Mobile Robotics * Autonomous Drones * Reinforcement Learning * Autonomous Vehicles
EDUCATION
Chaitanya Bharathi Institute Of Technology September 2014 -May 2018
Senior Undergraduate Overall GPA: 6.98/10
Department of Electrical Engineering
Sri Chaitanya Junior College April 2012 -May 2014
Maths Physics Chemistry Overall Score: 917/1000
Bhashyam High School April 2011 - March 2012
SSC Overall GPA: 9.0/10
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Autonomous Quadcopter , IIIT HYDERABAD Aug 2018
Implemented Autonomous Drone for pick and drop for indoor purposes with pixhawk flight controller
and ROS as software platform.
Image recognition using ZED stereo camera and Localization through visual SLAM Odometry.
ROS implementation on Husky and P3DX , IIIT HYDERABAD
Pose of each robot is found out using image processing &Path planning of the mobile robots to reach
desired point.
Wall Climbing Bot -Followed by Line Following Agent , IIT Guwahati Aug-Sep,2016
Wall-Locking mechanism with simultaneous Climbing.
Used Computer vision for object recognition & IR sensors for lane detection in Line following Robot.
MicroController based Home Automation , EmbeddedRF Technologies Oct 2017-Feb 2018
Implemented HomeAppliances related Project by ”Internet of Things” with Arduino and RaspberryPi
RFID based Attendance system & Self balancing bots using IMU sensors and distance calculation by
Ultrasonic sensor
RESEARCH PROJECT
Autonomous Human Carrying HexCopter (inprogress)
protyping drone which is used for agricultural purposes
Deep Reinforcement Learning- on P3DX (inprogress)
Trying to get the Agent P3DX from Stimulated environment to Realworld for obstacle Avoidance and
person following .

2. PUBLICATIONS
”Design and Robotic Control of Modern Wind Turbine”
International Journal for Research in Science Engineering Technology”, ISSN 2394-739X , 2018
”APPLIFI- Appliances Controlled Using Wifi”
International Journal of Engineering and Techniques - Volume 4 Issue 2, Mar-Apr 2018
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
2nd Prize in ESCALADE PRELIMS competition for TECHNICHE which the Technical event of
IIT Guwahati in 9/2016.
1st place for SHRUTHI POSTER DESIGN competition for three consecutive years Shruthi (2015-
17)
TECHNICAL STRENGTHS
Programming C++,Python,Embedded C,Arduino IDE
Packages ROS
Stimulation Tools MATLAB/Simulink,AdobePhotoShop
others Machinelearning, Reinforcement Learning.
RELEVANT COURSES
Core Courses Other Courses
MicroController & Microproccessor Machine Learning- Andrew Ng
Digital Electronics Logic Design DeepLearning - Andrew Ng
Internet Of Things ReinforcementLearning- David Silver (DeepMind)
C++ SLAM- Cyril Stachniss
Linear Control System
POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITY
Robotics and Innovation Club - Head Co-oridnator,CBIT August 2015 - March 2017
Conducted Workshops with capacity of 100+ students on Microcontroller based IOT devices.
Organized Speech Robo Workshop conducted by I3indya in CBIT.
Chaitanya Bharathi Cultural Club - Chief Designer Sep 2015-2017
Served for three years in Design field on AdobePhotoshop CS6 in various Cultural and technical
Carpediem CBIT - Deputy Executive Board member April-2016
Head for Design Team-biannual cultural Fest on CBIT
CBIT-Model United Nation (MUN)-Deputy Head Of Logistics April-2015
Design team member for 2015 as a part of OC(organizing committee)
EXTRA-CURRICULAR
”Certificate of Appreciation” from Navneet Publication (india) Limited
”Certificate of Appreciation” from Bhashyam Intra Sports meet Competition.
”Certificate of Excellence” by JayaSimha Mind Dynamics(Guinness record holder)