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Akash Patel

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As a researcher my main interests are at the intersection of Robotics, Deep Learning, and Controls. In terms of Robotics, I am interested in and have contributed to realistic physic engines and simulators such as DART and Gazebo, IPC communication libraries like ach, as well as the entire stack, such as the Robot Operating System. As for Deep Learning, I follow Pytorch heavily and have created a small utility repository (nn-utils-pytorch) that trains simple models like MLPs or RNNs.

The main focus of my current research is in Controls. I have created an Octave/Matlab MPPI library (mppi) which is a sampling based stochastic optimal controller. MPPI essentially simulates thousands of future trajectories and generates a control sequence with the weighted average of the simulated trajectories. My next plans involve learning GPGPU programming so I can leverage next generation compute devices for my projects, especially for the parallelizable MPPI and computationally heavy Deep Learning. I have taken interest in the hipSYCL project, since it allows code to be run on vendor-agnostic hardware unlike the popular, but monopolistic CUDA library by NVIDIA.

My undergrad was in Aerospace and such I still keep up with the aerospace software I used in my curriculum. This includes packages like OpenVSP, 42, and fprime. All of these projects are sponsored by NASA and I try to contribute however I can.

I also want to make these software code-bases widely available. As such I am an avid Arch User Repository maintainer for the Arch Linux Distribution and package/maintain many of the aforementioned projects and more (link). One my proudest accomplishments so far has been in fixing and debugging ROS packages, such that ROS can now be installed on Arch Linux (see ros-melodic-arch), whereas before it was only limited to Debian based systems.

For fun, I also rice around. This means I like to customize my Linux workstation to look real fancy and clean. Playing around with the design or optimizing my system workflow makes it really pleasant to get back to work. Check out my dotfiles and webhub repositories!

Code free (in spirit and in principle), code fun, and most importantly code together!

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Featured work

  1. acxz/pkgbuilds

    PKGBUILDs for Arch Linux

    Shell 24
  2. rocm-arch/rocm-arch

    A collection of Arch Linux PKGBUILDS for the ROCm platform

    Shell 364
  3. acxz/mppi

    A simple and extensible Octave/Matlab library for Model Predictive Path Integral control scheme.

    MATLAB 15
  4. acxz/dotfiles

    Linux config dotfiles

    Shell 6
  5. acxz/pl-utils

    Some models and trainer scripts created using pytorch-lightning.

    Python 3
  6. acxz/webhub

    A custom web startpage

    CSS 1

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