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Jills Babu - System Design and Safety Lead- Robotics in Brooklyn, United States

Jills Babu

Junior Mechatronics Engineer specializing in robotics, embedded systems, and safety-critical automation

New York UniversityNYUBrooklyn, United States2 Years ExperienceJunior LevelWorks On-Site

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Robotics software engineer who worked on NYU’s Medi Assist robot, owning navigation sensor bring-up (LiDAR/radar/IMU) and SLAM stability, plus delivering a safety-critical braking system. Built a YOLOv8 perception pipeline on Jetson Nano and wrote STM32 firmware to actuate brakes, achieving ~50ms reaction time, and implemented diagnostics/health checks and reliable inter-board comms (ROS2 + UART with checksums/heartbeats).

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Key Strengths

  • End-to-end safety braking system delivery (Jetson YOLOv8 pipeline + STM32 actuator firmware)
  • Reduced obstacle-detection-to-brake reaction time to ~50ms
  • Strong ROS 2 integration across navigation stack, tf2, sensor fusion, SLAM, costmaps, planners, and behavior trees
  • Hands-on sensor bring-up and calibration (LiDAR/radar/IMU) including time sync and transform alignment
  • Methodical debugging using rosbag and control tuning (velocity limits, PID, costmap) to eliminate overshoot/jerky motion
  • Robust heterogeneous system communication design (ROS2 between compute boards + UART protocol to MCU with checksums/heartbeats)
  • Simulation-to-hardware workflow using Gazebo/Isaac Sim plus Dockerized deployments and basic CI checks

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Experience

System Design and Safety Lead- RoboticsASAS LABS NYU Research Project-Medi Assist Robot · Sep 2024 – May 2025part-time
Mechatronics Systems & Controls EngineerGreat Dreamers Ltd · Jul 2021 – Apr 2022
Mechatronics Engineering InternSoftronics · Aug 2019 – Nov 2019internship

Education

NYUmaster, Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation Engineering (2025)
Anna Universitybachelor, Mechatronics (2021)

Languages

English

Publications

1 publication

Gyroscope-based balancing systemsHybrid mobility systemsMechatronics system design

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