Nirmal K A

About Nirmal K A

Robotics Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing and deploying real-time perception and navigation systems for autonomous robots. Strong background in SLAM, multimodal sensor fusion, and 3D perception for mobile robots and manipulators. Proven expertise in delivering robotics software using ROS2 and C++, with successful deployment on embedded edge platforms including NVIDIA Jetson, Renesas, TI, Qualcomm, and Intel architectures.

Experience

1. Senior Robotics Engineer

   Ignitarium

   Dec 2022 — Present · Kochi, IN

   Architected and deployed real-time perception pipelines using LiDAR, RGB-D, stereo, and monocularcameras for autonomous mobile manipulators.2. Designed hardware-accelerated AI inference pipelines, achieving up to 50% improvement in perceptionruntime performance on embedded platforms.· Developed RGB–Depth-based 6DOF object tracking and pose estimation modules for robotic manipu-lation.3. Built robust navigation and localization systems combining 2D/3D cameras with 2D/3D LiDAR fordynamic and unstructured environments.4. Implemented semantic scene understanding and 3D perception modules enabling task planning andobstacle-aware navigation.5. Optimized deep learning object detection models for real-time deployment on NVIDIA, Renesas, andTI edge platforms.

Education

• TocH INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communication

  2012 — 2016

• Cochin University of Science and Technology

  Master of Technology - MTech, Robotics and Intelligent Systems

  2018 — 2020