JATINSATYAM

Robotics, Mechatronics and Automation Engineer

Jatin Satyam

I build machines that move and think.

I am a mechanical engineer who crossed into robotics and stayed. My work runs from cryocooler mechanisms and rotor dynamics on defence hardware to robot arms, drones, and autonomous systems at Arizona State. The engineering I care about is physical: designed, built, tested, and proven on real machines.


EDUCATION

Arizona State University

MS Robotics & Autonomous Systems

Expected May 2027

University of Mumbai

BE Mechanical Engineering with Major (Honors) in Electric Vehicles

2020 · 2024

AWARDS & CREDENTIALS

Invention Disclosure Filed

Skysong Innovations, ASU · SipSafe Smart Cup

Apr 2026

Winner · Best Use of Auth0

Major League Hacking · Innovation Hacks 2.0, ASU

Apr 2026

MATLAB for the MathWorks Certified MATLAB Associate Exam

Self-paced exam-preparation path · 14 courses

Sep 2025

MathWorks Academy · Self-Paced Training

MATLAB programming, machine learning, deep learning, Simulink

Sep 2025

2nd Prize · National Poster Presentation

Institution of Engineers (India) · CALIBRE 2k24, FCRIT Vashi

Apr 2024

Founding Leadership · IEI Mechanical Students Chapter

Institution of Engineers (India), Navi Mumbai Local Centre · FCRIT Vashi

Apr 2024

Publication

Development of Solar-Powered Electric Vehicle Prototype

Recent Advances in Operations Management and Optimization · Select Proceedings of CPIE 2023 · Springer, Singapore

2024

CURRENTLY BUILDING

Right now

In progress · Phase 1 closed, Phase 2 bench-proven in Isaac Sim 6.1 · updated 29 Sep 2026

A wafer cell, and its shadow

A two-robot semiconductor wafer-handling cell at ASU's Robotics Systems Instructional Lab, and the simulation that mirrors it. I work the simulation track: the Gazebo and Isaac Sim scenes, both joint mappings, and the read-only bridge. Phase 1 closed on 17 September 2026, when the mirror first ran live in Gazebo against both physical arms on the bench; Phase 2 was bench-proven on 28 September 2026, the same two arms live in NVIDIA Isaac Sim 6.1.

  • One generated description for the whole cell - both arms and the conveyor axis, 11 joints under a single controller manager - running the full pick-transfer-place wafer cycle autonomously in simulation, on ROS 2 Jazzy and Gazebo Harmonic.
  • A read-only real-to-sim digital shadow: the M1 Pro's 1440-byte feedback packet decoded at 123 Hz beside the session already commanding it, and republished as a simulator-agnostic JointState interface at 50 Hz. The laptop writes nothing back to either robot.
  • Both joint mappings solved; the M1 Pro's verified to 0.1 degrees against every taught waypoint. On the 17 September bench run it tracked within 1.9 degrees / 7.6 mm and the Pro 600 within 4.4 degrees over a full cycle - figures noted at the bench that day.
  • One-way, real to sim: a digital shadow rather than a bidirectional twin. Phase 2, bench-proven on 28 September 2026: the same two arms mirrored live in NVIDIA Isaac Sim 6.1, tracking within 0.5 degrees (M1 Pro) and 2.2 degrees (Pro 600) over a 461 s recorded cycle. The physical cell build and the PLC program - including the taught poses the arms run here - are teammates' work.

Live real-to-sim in NVIDIA Isaac Sim 6.1, the current milestone

Live real-to-sim in Gazebo, Phase 1

The full simulated cycle, for context

SELECTED WORK

The work

MANIPULATION · MACHINE VISION

Robot Arm Manipulation Lab

Hands-on robot arm work on the Dobot Magician Lite: natural language control, a tic-tac-toe playing robot, vision guided maze runs, YOLO palletizing, kinematics from first principles, and end effector studies. Six projects, each with its own page.

HOVER OVER A PROJECT · CLICK TO EXPLORE ↗

FLIGHT CONTROL · REAL DRONE

Vision-Guided Aerial Autonomy

Simulink flight controllers deployed to a physical Parrot Mambo minidrone: stable hover, trajectory tracking, vision guided line following, area scanning, and autonomous landings, including touchdown on a moving platform. Five flights, each with its own page.

HOVER OVER A PROJECT · CLICK TO EXPLORE ↗

PLANETARY AUTONOMY · ROS 2 JAZZY

Space Robotics & AI

Autonomy on planetary terrain, all physics simulated on real archival data: cooperative drone and rover missions on HiRISE Mars terrain, lunar reconstruction from Apollo archives, and the control theory underneath. Five projects, each with its own page.

HOVER OVER A PROJECT · CLICK TO EXPLORE ↗

STATE-SPACE · FORMALLY PROVEN

MuJoCo Mobile Manipulation

A Stretch3 mobile manipulator modeled analytically, the modeled axes formally proven controllable, observable, and stable, then driven through 8-DOF pick-and-place in MuJoCo with a tuned PD controller and an LQR proof of concept on the modeled axes.

HOVER OVER THE PROJECT · CLICK TO EXPLORE ↗

SIMULATION

STATE-SPACE CONTROL · LQR

Stretch3 Pick & Place

ROTORDYNAMICS · BE INDUSTRIAL PROJECT

Gyro Motor for Gyro-Stabilized Platforms

My BE industrial final year project with TriQual Cryogenics: an indigenous gyro motor rotor for stabilized defence platforms. Eight designs screened in ANSYS rotordynamics, the winner built and FFT validated on an instrumented bench at a 28,000 rpm operating point.

HOVER OVER THE PROJECT · CLICK TO EXPLORE ↗

HARDWARE

ROTORDYNAMICS · INDUSTRY SPONSORED

Gyro Motor Development

AI AGENTS · MLH HACKATHON WINNER

Meridian: AI Academic Copilot

A team-of-four build that won MLH's Best Use of Auth0 at Innovation Hacks 2.0: a multi-agent copilot unifying Canvas and Google Workspace. My pieces were the voice agent and the approval flow that gates every irreversible action behind a human yes.

HOVER OVER THE PROJECT · CLICK TO EXPLORE ↗

MLH WINNER

AI AGENTS · AUTH0 · VOICE

Meridian AI Copilot

ASSISTIVE DEVICE · WITH DIGNITY HEALTH

SipSafe Smart Cup

An assistive smart cup for dysphagia patients, built with a clinical team at Dignity Health. I owned the initial concept and the complete mechanical design. Details stay under wraps while the invention disclosure is with ASU's technology transfer office. Ask me about it in person.

INVENTION DISCLOSURE FILED
10robots & systems built
03engineering internships
28,000rpm rotor built & proven
±2 mmvision guided pick precision

THE ENGINEER

Experience

AUG 2026 · PRESENT

Research Assistant · Robotics Systems Instructional Lab, Arizona State University

Simulation track of a two-robot semiconductor wafer-handling cell in Dr. Sangram Redkar's lab: a Dobot M1 Pro SCARA loads wafers onto a conveyor, an Elephant Robotics myCobot Pro 600 unloads them, a Micro850 PLC sequences the cycle.

Built the cell's simulation model in ROS 2 Jazzy and Gazebo Harmonic with both vendor arm descriptions repaired on import: 11 joints under one controller manager, full wafer cycle running autonomously in simulation; the same two arms then mirrored live in NVIDIA Isaac Sim 6.1, bench-proven 28 September 2026.

Brought up a read-only real-to-sim digital shadow, both arms mirrored live at 50 Hz, the SCARA tracking within 1.9 degrees / 7.6 mm on the bench; a read-only Modbus TCP client rebuilds the PLC's six-state sequence, tested so far against a protocol-accurate simulator.

JAN 2025 · JUL 2025

Mechatronics Engineer · Paras Defence & Space Technologies

Full time at graduate engineer scope on cryogenic cooling hardware for defence and space platforms: Gifford-McMahon cryocooler mechanisms designed and iterated in SolidWorks and NX.

Led performance testing across 3 cooling assemblies and 25+ instrumented thermal runs. The loss data drove mechanism level design changes that cut prototype rework by 12%.

Built a vacuum insulated LN2 generation unit, ran a UAV lightweighting study to an 8% mass cut, delivered 30+ CAD releases with review turnaround down 20%, and owned PLM lifecycles across 3 projects.

AUG 2024 · NOV 2024

CFD Intern · MARS Exploration

3D CFD of NACA 23012 vs 4412 airfoils in ANSYS Fluent: aerodynamic efficiency of an aircraft wing at 10° angle of attack and 48 m/s.

Ran the full workflow end to end: geometry, boundary layer meshing with quality checks, solver convergence, and post processing of pressure, turbulence, and pathline fields.

MAY 2023 · AUG 2023

R&D Engineer Intern · TriQual Cryogenics

Stirling cycle cryocoolers operating near 70 K. Mechanical design and vibration control on reciprocating assemblies, alongside senior engineers.

The gyro motor thread here became my year long BE industry project: 8 rotor designs screened in ANSYS, the winner built and run at its full 28,000 rpm operating speed on the bench, with FFT placing the critical speed safely below at 19,462 rpm.

TOOLBOX

Skills

OPEN TO INTERNSHIPS FROM DEC 2026 AND FULL-TIME FROM MAY 2027.