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╚═════╝ ╚═════╝ ╚═╝╚══════╝╚═════╝ ╚══════╝╚═╝ ╚═╝╚═╝ ╚═╝╚═╝ ╚═╝ ╚═╝
name: Vedant K. Naik
location: San Francisco Bay Area
tagline: "building smart systems and solving hard problems."
industry:
- company: Tesla
role: Drive Inverter Firmware Engineer
stack: [ SiC inverters, field-oriented control, embedded C, real-time firmware ]
- company: Lucid Motors
role: ADAS Sensor Hardware Engineer
stack: [ camera bring-up, autonomous pipeline arch, DoIP, gPTP, TC10 ]
research: Smart Microsystems Lab, MSU · PI: Dr. Xiaobo Tan
→ soft-robotic sensing, ML for nonlinear actuator dynamics,
6-DOF blimp dynamics, EHGO disturbance rejection
open_to: [ motor control, autonomous systems, firmware/dynamics boundary problems ]| 📄 |
BiPneu: Design and Control of a Bipolar-Pressure Pneumatic System for Soft Robots |
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Nonlinear Compensation of Stretchable Strain Sensors with Application to Proprioceptive Sensing of Soft Robotic Arm |
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Traction Inverter v2 — SiC FOC inverter for MSU Solar Car |
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Autonomous Blimp Robot — micro-ROS firmware, 6-DOF Lagrangian dynamics, EHGO disturbance rejection, RPi CM4 + Teensy avionics |
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LiDAR Opponent Localization — RANSAC + ICP sensor-fusion refinement for IAC autonomous racing |
Firmware & Embedded
Robotics & Autonomy
Hardware & Tools
Dev
If you're working on motor control, autonomous systems, or anything where firmware and dynamics collide — let's talk.


