Prof. Diwakar Vaish is a robotics scientist and the inventor of Manav (India's first indigenous humanoid robot), the world's first mind-controlled wheelchair, brain cloning, and the world's cheapest ventilator. He has also been a guest lecturer at over 13 IITs and various other institutions. He is the founder of A-SET Robotics, a leading robotics research company based in New Delhi.
A huge thank you to the open source community for their contribution. I would like to thank my family who has supported and given me the freedom to follow an unexplored path. Also, thanks to Packt, who has helped me through all the stages of writing, my team and especially Ms. Udita Dua, who has worked hard to implement the projects. Finally, thank you God for giving me the power to do everything I am doing right now.
Ruixiang Du is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He currently works in the Autonomy, Control, and Estimation Laboratory, with a research focus on the motion planning and control of autonomous mobile robots in cluttered and dynamic environments.
Ruixiang has general interests in robotics and in real-time and embedded systems. He has worked on various robotic projects with robot platforms, ranging from medical robots and unmanned aerial/ground vehicles to humanoid robots. He was a member of Team WPI-CMU for the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
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