Basil Jamal

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ABOUT BASIL JAMAL

Robotics engineer with a strong research foundation and hands-on experience building industrial-grade manipulation systems; some running non-stop for years, including some exceeding 1Billion picks. I specialize in high-throughput, high accuracy UPH) robotic manipulation using a hybrid of imitation learning, ML-based approaches, and classical control techniques on industrial arms. Skills-> Robotic System Design, Algorithm, Software Development: C, C++, Python, Object-Oriented Programming, and Concurrency: Strong experience in C++, Python, and object-oriented concurrent programming. I\'ve developed and architected reliable low latency control robotic systems deployed for numerous robots worldwide for automation and teleportation-> Robotics, Control, and Automation: Strong experience in developing controllers for different robotics systems such as manipulators and mobile platforms. I have a strong understanding of linear and nonlinear control and deep knowledge of robotic topics such as manipulation, kinematics, dynamics, control, etc. with very strong knowledge in ROS2 (MoveIt, ros2_control), Drake for Robotics, and Pinocchio for rigid body kinematics-> Motion and path planning: I\'ve extensively worked on novel motion planning pipelines and real-time control frameworks to enable smooth trajectory execution, and reliable, responsive remote teleopration for robot manipulators-> ML: I possess a decent background in machine learning, imitation learning for the automation of various industrial processes. I am extremely familiar SoTA machine learning approaches for Behavioural Cloning including Diffusion, ACT, VLAs and their variations in both simulation and real world rollouts. I\'ve worked with complex systems for autonomous box cutting that involve multimodal input such as multi camera setup and force feedback. I read papers on a weekly basis, present them to my team, assess their value to the business and recommend direction to take-> Embedded systems programming: As a hobby, I like to tinker with embedded systems software for control applications, mostly using PIC32 and STM32 microcontrollers. Specifically, I\'ve designed systems that use EtherCAT for real-time communication-> Importantly, I have a solid research background where I am publishing more than 5 robotics related-papers as an MSc student. The papers are related to control systems, automation, computer vision, and imitation learning.