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General Information

Full Name Afzal Ahmad
Languages English, Hindi, Urdu, Ukranian (on the way)

Education

  • 2022
    Masters of Science (M.Sc.) in Artificial Intelligence
    Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2019
    Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India

Experience

  • 2022 - Present
    Research Fellow
    Multi-Robot Systems Lab, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Designing a simulator for learning high-speed, safe flight for a swarm of UAVs.
    • Improving and maintaining existing open-source libraries and code-base for other projects.
  • 2019 - 2022
    Research Assistant
    Multi-Robot Systems Lab, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Designing decentralised control algorithms for a swarm of UAVs using virtual potential field approach.
    • Focus on self-organised flocking and path planning in an obstacle-rich environment (forests).
  • 2018 - 2019
    Undergraduate Researcher
    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India
    • Introduced a path planning method based on rapidly exploring random tree (RRT) algorithm for UAV navigation in an obstacle-rich urban environment.
    • Introduced a framework for cooperative locomotion of a decentralised group of UAVs using the newpath planning approach.
  • 2018
    Research Intern
    MIST Lab, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
    • Developed a ROS based architecture for path planning and control of multi-UAV systems.
    • Developed a framework for long term autonomy of a multi-robot system using adaptive locomotion.
  • 2017
    Undergraduate Researcher
    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India
    • Developed a model-based learning technique for locomotion of a nonholonomic snake robot (ASROA).
    • Used the learned model to implement obstacle avoidance in a simulated environment

Open Source Projects

  • 2017 - 2019
    ARLE
    • Autonomous robot for library enhancement.
  • 2016 - 2017
    HIVE
    • Distributed swarm system.

Honors and Awards

  • 2022
    • Top 6 masters thesis in Cena Wernera von Siemense awards under the Industry 4.0 category.
  • 2018
    • Shastri Research Student Fellowship for undergraduate research in Canada .