Sanjeev Sharma @sanjeevs_iitr Twitter profile

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Sanjeev Sharma

4 years

Meditating on Sri #Ram #siyaram , Ma Kali, Durga, Mahadev or their forms r most powerful #meditation forms. They r 2nd to none. Evrythng else's a sub-standard. Regular meditators cn chant/listen #OM b4 meditation 2 accelerate progress. Evry form of meditation leads 2 smthng +ve

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

5 months

Autonomous driving through very dense dynamic traffic, with extremely tight-complex-stochastic traffic-dynamics on sub-urban roads, connecting to an open ground, with absolutely zero traffic-rules. This is the most heavily cluttered environment where we have tested our

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Sanjeev Sharma

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Autonomous driving through tight, dynamic, stochastic, and adversarial traffic-dynamics on sub-urban roads in India, as well as through partially unstructured environments. This demos showcases the robustness of our motion planning and decision making algorithmic frameworks in

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Sanjeev Sharma

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5 months

I am humbled to know that my years of mathematical research in motion planning, reinforcement learning, and decision making under uncertainty, and our cutting-edge pioneering research at @swaayatt in enabling #autonomousvehicles to negotiate extremely complex, stochastic, and

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@anandmahindra

5 months

Evidence of tech innovation rising across India. An engineer who’s not building yet another delivery app. @sanjeevs_iitr is using complex math to target level 5 autonomy. I’m cheering loudly. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 And certainly won’t debate his choice of car!

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

8 months

Presenting autonomous driving in complex, stochastic and adversarial traffic-dynamics, on the roads in #India . Over the course of last year, we enabled #autonomousdriving in conditions and in situations no one in the autonomous driving industry considered was possible, and in

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

5 months

Autonomous driving through extremely-tight-dynamic environments with complex, stochastic, and adversarial traffic-dynamics, or simply through an absolute chaos, on sub-urban unstructured roads in India. This kind of traffic and environment has never been attempted in the history

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

3 months

Jai Sri Ram 🙏 Jai Maa Kali 🙏 Om Namah Shivay 🙏

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@Analyticsindiam

3 months

Bhopal-based Indian AI and Robotics startup Swaayatt Robots (स्वायत्त रोबोट्स) recently raised $4 million at a valuation of $151 million from US investors. The company will further raise $11M at a valuation of round $175M-$200M. Read more -

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

2 months

With the recent closure of $4M funding, we will be scaling up autonomous driving to new heights. This will being with significantly capabilities enhancements in our (i) Toll-Plaza navigation framework, (ii) Bidirectional traffic negotiation on single lane roads framework,

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

3 months

We have closed $4M in funding, which is part of much larger round we are raising with investors in the US. This round was closed at $151M valuation, and remainder of the funds will be around that as well (around $175M). Over the past few years we have

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

6 months

High-speed off-roads autonomous driving, with bidirectional dynamic traffic, paving the road for military and several other off-roads autonomy operations. The demo and tech-capabilities addresses several of the requirements of not just Indian armed forces, but also addresses the

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

4 months

Thanks so much @pitdesi for sharing our research and our autonomous driving demos with the world. We have been researching on all frontiers of autonomous driving, and have been demonstrating our technology since 2016 on the roads in India. There are four different paradigms

Sheel Mohnot

@pitdesi

4 months

I always wondered how autonomous vehicles could work in the absolute chaos of driving in India- people don’t always follow the rules, humans and animals are often on roads, etc. This co only raised $3M & is in a tier 2 city (Bhopal) not known for tech. Very impressive.

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

3 months

Autonomous driving off-roads is an extremely challenging problem. Here's our autonomous vehicle at @swaayatt navigating off-road terrains, while there was an active construction going on. Navigating such terrains autonomously is unthinkable and is beyond the capability of any

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

2 months

This lecture covered the topic of Robust Feature Matching, focusing on the use of Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) algorithm for Fundamental Matrix. RANSAC is an iterative algorithm that estimates model parameters, where this estimation process involves a set of observed data

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

6 months

Two weeks back, on Feb 26, I got the chance to meet the Minster of State, Sri Rajeev Chandrasekhar ji, who heads Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology as well as Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, India, in his office in New Delhi. It was a

Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳

@RajeevRC_X

6 months

Mr. Sanjeev Sharma @sanjeevs_iitr , Founder & CEO, @swaayatt , called on me at my office @GoI_MeitY today. Discussions revolved around spreading PM @narendramodi ji’s vision of making India an innovation hub and a leading partner in cutting-edge R&D.

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

7 months

Autonomous driving at high-speeds off-roads, with our new autonomous driving test vehicle, Autonomous Thar! On 22nd of January, Sri Ram ji's birthplace temple is being inaugurated in Ayodhya. To honour him, we launch Autonomous Thar on Indian roads, which perhaps one day will

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

5 months

Our R&D in AI and autonomous navigation, to enable L5 #autonomousdriving is based on a principled mathematical approach that we have taken since the inception of @swaayatt The data-efficient #reinforcementlearning based foundational models, frameworks,

'We're Already a Competitor to Tesla': Bhopal Startup CEO, Whose Automated Mahindra Bolero Went...

Competitor to Tesla Bhopal startup CEO automated Mahindra Bolero viral social media; Swaayatt Robots founder CEO Sanjeev Sharma startup demonstrated technology ready to navigate Indian streets more...

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

5 months

@ALifeing Robotics, AI, or Autonomous Driving, is nothing but pure- and applied-mathematics, combined with learning frontiers of theoretical computer science. A first step is to ensure that you understand Linear Algebra very-very well. Second, you need to ensure multi-variate calculus.

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

5 months

In pursuit of Level-5 #autonomousdriving technology development, we treated the problem of autonomous navigation as a generic mathematical research problem. We did not differentiate among the verticals like on-roads, off-roads, highway-navigation for

Swaayatt Robots: An Indian autonomous vehicle on road in Bhopal

Introduction Swaayatt Robots, is a Bhopal-based company was founded in 2014 by Sanjeev Sharma, an alumnus of IIT Delhi. Swaayatt Robots is focused on developing autonomous vehicle technology,...

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

3 months

Going forward, with this new fund raise of $4M, which is a part of larger fund we are raising with global investors, we will actively be inventing new AI capabilities to solve the problem autonomous general navigation. My core beliefs, and that of

Swaayatt Robots Raises $4 Mn To Make Autonomous Cars A Reality

Autonomous driving startup Swaayatt Robots has bagged $4 Mn in funding from unnamed US-based investors at a valuation of around $151 Mn

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

7 months

Expanding on our objective of bringing Level-5 autonomy globally, that is tested in the most adversarial and complex traffic-dynamics, and environmental and weather conditions imaginable, we present #autonomousdriving in very dense fog at night, with negotiation of incoming

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

5 months

I was interviewed by the Free Press Journal, MP, where we discussed the foundations of our R&D, and my personal journey, and the journey of @swaayatt in solving Level-5 autonomous driving problem. The interview was in Hindi, and we discussed both the on- and off-roads

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

5 months

@KennethPLewis My research statement since my undergrad days has been to solve the problem of autonomy (which is the toughest AI problem of this decade, and was the toughtest problem back then as well) in absolute chaos. While this may be horrendous, as a researcher, that is somehow, a boon

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

7 months

On 21st January we launched our new autonomous vehicle platform, based on Thar, for the purpose of off-roads autonomous driving R&D, and we showcased it driving off-roads at high-speeds. Going forward we will be doing the kind of off-road demos that are considered impossible as

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

5 months

@aarkayn @swaayatt @VGK_India @HQ_IDS_India @IDSAIndia @CAPS_INDIA @India_iDEX @adgpi @IAF_MCC @indiannavy @OfficialCLAWSIN @USIofIndia @nmfindia @vifindia @DefProdnIndia Unfortunately, collaborations of military happen easily only outside India :) It is easier to reach DARPA, and US DoD, than to reach their counterparts in India.

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

4 months

@Gordonswaby I am glad to know that :) 🙏 Thank you so much for sharing our work with the world! This was our 83rd demo on the roads in India, and our August 2024 demo will change the way autonomous driving is perceived globally.

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

9 days

On this Independence Day, at @swaayatt we pledge to bring autonomy to all frontiers, i.e., Civil, Military, and Industrial, both on the ground and in the air. Over the years, specifically in the past 9 months, we have demonstrated our #autonomousdriving technology conquering

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

6 months

Enabling autonomous vehicles to execute end-to-end military operations is an arduous undertaking. It can be seen in this demo that our autonomous vehicle doesn't wait for incoming vehicles to abide by the driving rules, and can handle both left and right negotiation, as per the

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@swaayatt

6 months

Off-roads autonomous driving at high-speeds with dynamic-stochastic traffic negotiation. Our R&D on this front focuses on enabling end-to-end military operations. Adversarial negotiation capabilities enables AVs to avoid getting stuck as can be seen in this demo.

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

4 months

@AnidhyaAhuja @malpani Anidhya, can't help it man. Dr Malpani used to talk about frugal innovation a lot on LinkedIn. PS: I had $62.5M acquisition offer in Jan 2021, nearly the peak of COVID, when I was doing another startup to just save Swaayatt somehow. Decided not to sell. No investor in India

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

2 months

Thank you so much Sir 🙏 We will keep doing our level best going forward, and make L5 autonomous driving a global reality.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳

@RajeevRC_X

2 months

Congratulations @swaayatt - power ur way to the cutting edge of vision, AI and Autonomous Driving Vehicles #NewIndia #IndiaTechade #AI

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@sanjeevs_iitr

5 months

@DarthPlagueisNL It is more of a risk for us than to anyone else. It is career at stake. We wouldn't do anything for a cheap fame. Unless the tech is rigorously tested, we wouldn't do anything. Yesterday media came to do live demo off-roads. We realized there was a construction going on with

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

6 months

Our recent demo at the Kankali Kali Mata temple, where our vehicle negotiated stochastic, dynamic, complex and adversarial traffic dynamics got covered by many media houses. Here's one from local news paper in Bhopal in Hindi! Today we also did a live

भोपाल में दौड़ी ड्राइवरलेस बोलेरो कार, यूएस से मिली थी 22 करोड़ की फंडिंग

भोपाल से लगभग 22 किमी दूर कंकाली काली माता के मंदिर के पास लोग उस समय चौंक गए जब एक बोलेरो कार बिना ड्राइवर के सड़क दौड़ती नजर आई। कभी साइकिल सवार से बचते हुए तो कभी दूसरी गाड़ियों के अचानक सामने आने पर...

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

4 months

Wishing everyone a very blessed Sri Ram Navmi 🙏 Jai Sri Ram 🙏 Jai Maa Kali 🙏

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

6 months

NDTV has covered our recent Kankali Kali Mata demo in complex dynamic environments. Going forward we will be showcasing this framework working in much more complex environments and traffic-scenes.

Swaayatt Robot CEO Reveals Success In Autonomous Driving On Indian Roads

Sanjeev Sharma, Founder & CEO of Swaayatt Robot, has announced a significant milestone in autonomous driving technology.

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

8 months

Can autonomous vehicles learn to cross toll-plaza, that may be as unstructured as the ones in India, while also negotiating complex traffic-dynamics at the toll-gates? In our pursuit of achieving Level-5 autonomy, we started asking these very tough questions. In this demo we

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

7 months

Thank you so much Sir @Rajeev_GoI for sharing our work and cutting-edge research in enabling autonomous driving in the most complex of traffic-dynamics and environmental conditions. We will keep pushing the boundaries of the research frontiers in AI and autonomous driving to

Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳

@RajeevRC_X

7 months

PM @narendramodi ji's vision of innovation has spread all across the country - Bhopal based Sanjeev Sharmas AI and algos powered Autonomous driving system hosted on a Thar 👍🏻💪🏻 #NewIndia #IndiaTechade @OfficialINDIAai

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

1 year

Autonomous driving through chaotic unruly traffic in #India via reinforcement learning based driving policy. The vehicle was tasked with end-effector constraints parking through such traffic -- the complexity is humongous as no one follows traffic-rules on such open environments.

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

10 months

Demonstrating ECAN in our autonomous vehicle at @swaayatt , which is one of the foremost algorithms allowing to formulate the mathematical optimization problem for autonomous navigation and obstacles avoidance as convex program. ECAN also allows navigation in previous unknown

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

5 months

Wishing everyone a very Happy Holi! Jai Sri Ram 🙏 Jai Ma Kali 🙏

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

5 months

Wishing everyone a very happy ongoing Chaitra Navrati, leading to Sri Ram Navmi 🙏 Jai Sri Ram 🙏 Jai Ma Kali 🙏

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

10 months

Bringing sustainable #autonomousdriving to India and to the world. This marks the beginning of our #autonomousvehicles trials to bring autonomous transportation to the part of the world no expected, i.e., in #India . Currently our city trials are restricted to performing

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

1 year

To enable #autonomousdriving in environments as unpredictable as in #India , to make #autonomousvehicles globally safe, we've bn testing our tech, & R&D behind it, in chaos. Here our vehicle is negotiating tight-dynamic-stochastic obstacles with soft lane constraints. @elonmusk

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

5 months

@Mankaran32 @protosphinx @karanmgandhi Hi @Mankaran32 A key difference between us and Waymo, Cruise, Tesla, Comma (if comma is still doing behavioural cloning, it is already a deadend, any mathematician would be able to tell that, or anyone who has gone through even the basics of theoretical computer science and

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

7 months

Glad to share my interview with the Analytics India Magazine where we discussed our recent Level-5 Toll-Plaza navigation demo, and much more! #autonomousdriving #autonomousvehicles #deeplearning #India #machinelearning #reinforcementlearning

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@Analyticsindiam

7 months

A few weeks back, @swaayatt , an Indian autonomous driving company, claimed Level 5 autonomy. The company announced this big achievement through a video, showcasing autonomous driving of the car at night at a toll plaza amid complex traffic dynamics. The video was still not

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Sanjeev Sharma

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4 months

@malpani @AnidhyaAhuja We are going to opening it for public on our Autonomous Thar. One can book a demo via our website :) Hope that helps.

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

5 months

@MalfoyVoldy Thank you so much! This is only a beginning, a lot more to come soon. Our demo and technology in August will change the way autonomous driving will work in future.

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

2 years

Autonomous driving off-roads, through dense fog, using a single VLP-32C LiDAR, in India. We at @swaayatt are one of the 3 companies in the world to achieve both on- and off-roads autonomy! :) @elonmusk @anandmahindra @RNTata2000 @DRDO_India @DARPA @swaayatt

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

2 years

Autonomous driving trials on urban and sub-urban roads in #india . Soon we @swaayatt exhibit, in Q2-2023, autonomous driving in chaotic traffic scenarios in the cities. @elonmusk @anandmahindra @PMOIndia @DRDO_India @RNTata2000

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

11 months

Driving where no Autonomous Vehicle has driven before! At @swaayatt we have been pushing the boundary of what is considered possible in autonomous driving, and proving the safety and robustness in the most adversarial traffic and complex environments imaginable for autonomous

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

1 year

Autonomous driving off-roads, at high-speeds, reaching 44 KM/H on this road, which is near the limit of humans driving safely on this road, without risking drift or side-skids at turns. #india @PMOIndia @DARPA @DRDO_India @elonmusk @swaayatt

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Sanjeev Sharma

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6 months

@madeinap For sure Amar. Currently this classical decision making and motion planning algorithmic framework that I had designed for such negotiation tasks is going to be scaled up with inverse-RL, which will drastically improve the performance. It is an ongoing pursuit, and there are

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@sanjeevs_iitr

4 months

@pitdesi @swaayatt This is autonomous :) This was our 82nd demo on the roads in India. We do both on- and off-roads autonomous driving -- the only startup who has both the capabilities. Plus our 83rd demo, the latest one, was done in even more complex situation -- here --

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@sanjeevs_iitr

5 months

Autonomous driving through very dense dynamic traffic, with extremely tight-complex-stochastic traffic-dynamics on sub-urban roads, connecting to an open ground, with absolutely zero traffic-rules. This is the most heavily cluttered environment where we have tested our

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6 years

In newspaper today. Thanks @YogeshKhakre @schandramauli and @BNest5 for providing us the platform #AutonomousVehicles #StartupIndia @bhopal_bscdcl

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

4 months

@Scobleizer Thank you so much Robert!! This was our 83rd demo on the roads in India, this was the densest scenario, in terms of the number of obstacles and pedestrians present on the road, even though most of them static. We are going to showcase a paradigm for autonomous vehicles in August,

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@sanjeevs_iitr

10 months

Changing the rules of engagement for Autonomous Driving! Bidirectional traffic negotiation on a single lane road, in India, with unpredictable incoming traffic dynamics. #autonomousdriving #india @elonmusk @swaayatt

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@sanjeevs_iitr

6 years

Our vehicle, Swaayatt-1, Autonomous driving at @BNest5 campus today. @YogeshKhakre @schandramauli @1DebaratiSen . We are preparing for full highway autonomous driving in the month of June and July. Next: Night driving at @BNest5 Campus. @bhopal_bscdcl @swaayatt @mohitdubey

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@sanjeevs_iitr

11 months

@svembu Sir, we at @swaayatt have been doing fundamental R&D in mathematics, theoretical computer science and robotics, to create cutting edge autonomous driving tech that is far ahead of startups in the West. Never got any backing from anyone in India, not even Govt. That is quite

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

2 years

This demos shows our campus autonomous driving software, being prototyped @swaayatt , showing autonomous parking, execution of tight S-Curves and generic campus autonomous driving. @elonmusk @anandmahindra @nitin_gadkari Next we will b blending it w/ RL (S-MDP) @alexgkendall

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11 months

Ability to negotiate tight stochastic-dynamic obstacles on any kind of roads and in environmental conditions is one of the key ability autonomous vehicles should demonstrated. Here our autonomous vehicle encountering one such scenario during a generic on- and off-roads

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5 months

@RightValSathish Following rules are logics written over on top of AI layers, not following rules is a pure stochastic process, that is where the capability of AI is tested. Traffic doesn't follow rules there, our vehicle navigated this in a, what I call, just manner -- which rule you see our

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

2 years

Autonomous driving, executing U-Turns at high-speeds, i.e., near-drift speeds, and lane-change operations, via #reinforcementlearning #AutonomousVehicles -- our tech demo at Swaayatt Robots @swaayatt @elonmusk @anandmahindra

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2 years

Our new vehicle platforms r getting ready 4 both on- & off-roads autonomy demos, on Indian roads. Left is new platform, right our is old platform (now dedicated 2 off-roads & defense applications). Fortuner based platform will b unveiled soon for 100 KM/H #autonomousdriving demo

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3 years

In 2019 I taught an #ML course @swaayatt . It's available as 7-weeks legacy course at @DeepEigen . I've decided to make it free & available to every1. From Dussehra, i.e. Oct' 15 onward, it will b freely available @ DeepEigen. Jai Sri Ram _/\_ Best wishes 2 every1 for learning!

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6 years

I have been invited as a Keynote Speaker by Dept. Of Computer Science at IIT Kharagpur. Hosted by the Autonomous Vehicles Research Group at IIT Kgp. I will be speaking at IIT Kgp's initiative , and their workshop on AI for Social Good :) Oct 6-7.

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7 months

I had a chance to discuss our Level-5 #autonomoudriving research with Priyakshi Gupta, co-founder of EV Reporter, and differentiate our work with the major players in the domain. This interview covered our prior and current work in enabling autonomous

Sanjeev Sharma - Founder, Swaayatt Robots on developing autonomous...

Have a look at the autonomous driving demos at - https://www.youtube.com/@swaayattrobots1827In this video:00:56 - Technical Background04:12 - Why the focus o...

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Sanjeev Sharma

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6 months

@DrShuklaHere Thank you so much Saurabh! 🙏 We will definitely do Sabji Mandi by July, although not sure about mela :) We are only a $3M funded startup (raised in 2021). But we will definitely solve sab-mandi -- only problem is we don't do demos where there are infants and small kids -- like

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10 months

This Diwali, we will be showcasing readiness of our #autonomousdriving technology @swaayatt to work in world's most difficult of traffic and environmental scenarios, by demonstrating it on the roads in the city of Bhopal in #india , starting with night operations. With this

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5 months

@Crudeoilist Thank you so much Vishal!! 🙏 Yes, navigating through the corridor was a challenge, and this is the narrowest road (if we can call it a road) we have tested this motion planning and decision making framework. Over the past few years, since undergrad days, my research focused on

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5 months

@13pranav13 This is at 2x for brevity, else the video will become very-very long. One can watch HQ video on our YT channel at 1x.

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@sanjeevs_iitr

3 years

New demo of our deep net on a single lane road, with cameras mounted on front bumper / roof of our vehicle, for short / far range perception. This is a section of the road where we'lll b conducting 101KM/H #autonomousdriving demo in few months, perhaps by EOY 2021. @elonmusk

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6 months

@Intrinsic_cycle Thank you so much Nikhil for sharing our work with the world 🙏

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@sanjeevs_iitr

6 years

Glad to announce that we're part of BBC Click's ( @BBCClick ) live show in Delhi --- this is Click's first live show in Asia. Our self-driving vehicle demo and technology will be covered in this show in Delhi. Special thanks to David Reid :) @1DebaratiSen

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India should help Israel in whatever way possible, including providing military assistance if needed. Israel is one of the most wonderful countries I have lived in, when I was interning at the @arieluniversity , and Israelis are one of the most friendliest of people. India and

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Testing our generalized semantic segmentation and obstacles detection algorithm (DGN-I) on sub-urban roads in #India #autonomousdriving #autonomousvehicles #deeplearning Computations: 15.66 GFlops @elonmusk @anandmahindra @johnkrafcik @RNTata2000 @dkhos @swaayatt

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2 years

Finally, Times of India @TOIIndiaNews has taken a note of the incident, i.e., of the attack on Swaayatt Robots, its autonomous driving research vehicle. I now hope that @DGP_MP and @CP_Bhopal to whom wrote letters for an investigation, will take action

Bhopal: IITian claims deliberate attack on his research AI vehicle, cops say it’s drunk-driving...

Sanjeev Sharma, an IITian carrying out cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous driving (driverless-vehicles) technology i

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@sanjeevs_iitr

1 year

Autonomous Driving demo at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration campus. I was invited to give a talk on "AI & Autonomous Driving" on the 20th of March, and demo our AV at the academy. Demo was done during this visit. Happy Ram Navmi! Jai Sri Ram! Jai Ma Kali!

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@sanjeevs_iitr

6 years

I was invited as a speaker at TIA Summit (), July 20. Title of my talk was "Enabling Driverless Mobility: A Vision Towards Sustainable India" Thnx Jan Kunne for inviting me & @1DebaratiSen Ma'am for all opportunities @bnestbpl @bhopal_bscdcl @YogeshKhakre

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Sanjeev Sharma

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3 years

Wishing everyone a very happy Dussehra _/\_ Jai Sri Ram _/\_ As I mentioned in an earlier post, the ML course that I taught in 2019 @swaayatt , which's been available as a legacy course @DeepEigen , can now be registered for free @DeepEigen . Happy learning! Jai Sri Ram _/\_

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@sanjeevs_iitr

3 years

Thanks @OfficialIndiaAI for covering my and @swaayatt journey thus far, and our road map going forward to enabling #autonomousdriving and #adas at scale in India, and abroad.

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@sanjeevs_iitr

2 years

Demo of our technology enabling precise localization for last-mile autonomous driving, in our autonomous Mahindra Bolero vehicle, in cluttered environment. This software we will part of our product AutonomousOne. @anandmahindra @RNTata2000 @elonmusk

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@sanjeevs_iitr

2 years

Swaayatt Robots @swaayatt has begun mapping roads/streets of India for high-precision localization of #autonomousvehicles . By end of d year we hope 2 hv operational capacity 2 achieve mapping 1000 . per week. This PoC was done using only a 16-Channel LiDAR!

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@sanjeevs_iitr

6 months

@infinite_varsh Thank you so much Varsh! This was our 78th demo; shortly after we did an off-roads as well, challenging the R&D parameters set up by the DARPA as a part of the RACER program, and the parameters on the basis of which US DoD is providing grants in the US

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@sanjeevs_iitr

6 months

High-speed off-roads autonomous driving, with bidirectional dynamic traffic, paving the road for military and several other off-roads autonomy operations. The demo and tech-capabilities addresses several of the requirements of not just Indian armed forces, but also addresses the

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A short glimpse of what's about to come in Q1-2023. Single forward facing camera based ADAS + L2 Autonomous Driving features via reinforcement learning. System is being prototyped, towards d end we may use two cameras. Current demos uses one GigE camera :) #autonomousdriving

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@sanjeevs_iitr

4 years

DGN-I working on Indian roads @ 15 GFlops, the fastest DNN 4 such tasks @elonmusk @dkhos @sundarpichai @satyanadella @johnkrafcik @mtbarra @hakan_samuel @NVIDIADRIVE @NVIDIAAI @UberATG @anandmahindra @RNTata2000 @narendramodi @swaayatt #deeplearning #AutonomousVehicles #ADAS

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@Astroneeit @swaayatt That is the objective I have undertaken at Swaayatt. Definitely we will require much more funding as well for this, but I think nature will figure that out for us 🙏

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@sanjeevs_iitr

4 years

Invited as a speaker at the Computer Vision DevCon Summit 2020! Will be presenting research to enable #autonomousdriving perception using only cameras, without LiDARs and RADARs, and testing in #india -- toughest test ground for #AutonomousVehicles

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@sanjeevs_iitr

6 years

We look forward to collaborating with you @elonmusk and @Tesla to create fully electric SAE L5 Autonomous Vehicles! Here's all our demo we have done so far on unstructured Indian roads --- and see this for tech explanation ---

Swaayatt Robots Technology Explanation

This video summarizes all our technical algorithmic and self-driving demo we have done so far, and also explains our technology.

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Swaayatt Robots

@swaayatt

6 years

@elonmusk We are developing self-driving technology that works in India, & thus anywhere in the world as well. We are testing it on Indian highways --- Wondering if Tesla would b willing 2 collaborate to create revolutionary electric Self-Driving Vehicles?

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6 years

Swaayatt-1 navigating autonomously during motion planning & steering controller calibration test. One of our last test runs b4 we run our vehicle at speeds upto 50 KMPH on Indian highways. @1DebaratiSen @bnestbpl @YogeshKhakre @bhopal_bscdcl @mohitdubey

Swaayatt Robots: Autonomous Driving and Steering Calibration Test

This video demonstrates our vehicle navigating autonomously in a campus, at night. Here we show calibration of our steering controller to adjust for the spee...

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@sanjeevs_iitr

6 years

Painting, cleaning, improving and making an existing road more structured to test our decision making, motion planning and prediction algorithms. This track will facilitate 24x7 testing of our self-driving technology. Coming soon on Indian Highways. #Frugal #DIY #SelfDriving

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@sanjeevs_iitr

4 years

Extremely thnkful to d Andhra Pradesh State Skill Dev Corporation for inviting me to collaborate with them to offer @DeepEigen / @swaayatt courses, create new courses, and a chance to jointly create a centre of excellence for creating better robotics and AI education ecosystem.

AP Skill Development

@AP_Skill

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#APSSDC – Industry Collaboration for Establishing #SkillUniversity and #SkillColleges in AP - 09-11-20 Team APSSDC has done the Virtual meet which with Shri. @sanjeevs_iitr - Founder, Director and CEO of @swaayatt , Bhopal, #MadhyaPradesh . #VirtualConference #skillindia

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6 years

I have been selected as Top 40 Under 40 Data Scientist in India. It will be awarded on 31st January at the Machine Learning Developers Summit 2019.

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@sanjeevs_iitr

3 years

We've launched a comprehensive course on Reinforcement Learning @DeepEigen RL allows us to mathematically model sequential (optimal-) decision making problems. This course is suitable for both the academic researchers and industrialists/engineers.

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@sanjeevs_iitr

6 years

Received the top 40 Under 40 Data Scientist in India Award yesterday at the Machine Learning Developers Summit 2019.

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@sanjeevs_iitr

5 years

Demo of our automatic lane generation algo, one of our key algorithms for perception w/o LiDAR/RADARs. We r ready to test our motion planning for stochastic traffic dynamics in India. @lexfridman @elonmusk -- your opinion on cameras alone for perception?

Autonomous Lane Generation and Detection in Real-Time

This video demos the autonomous lane generation and detection framework of Swaayatt Robots working on different kinds of road conditions. This framework perf...

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@sanjeevs_iitr

1 year

I was interviewed @ the @itssieee (IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society) podcast, where I deeply discussed the cutting-edge research we've been doing in machine learning, mathematics & theoretical CS to enable safer #autonomousdriving . [1/n]

ITS Podcast Episode 75: Swaayatt Robots in India and ML in Maritime Transportation - Intelligent...

Welcome back to ITS Podcast, this is episode 75, July 2023. I am your host Dr Maryam Kaveshgar from Ahmedabad University, India. As the northern hemisphere is facing hottest temperatures from the...

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Sanjeev Sharma

@sanjeevs_iitr

2 years

Reinforcement learning based motion planning 4 #autonomousdriving ! Testing 2 diff driving policies before launch on highways 4 unforeseeable scenarios negotiation. Tested 1) unconstrained & 2)the rule based stop-verify-proceed (typical of US & Europe) driving policies. @swaayatt

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@sanjeevs_iitr

6 years

Gave a guest lecture talk on self-driving technology at IIT Hyderabad on 20th June :)

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@sanjeevs_iitr

6 years

We got featured in yesterday's newspaper, Dainik Bhaskar. Thanks @YogeshKhakre sir, @bhopal_bscdcl and @bnestbpl for providing us more and more opportunities.

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@sanjeevs_iitr

6 years

Received 51 Most Impactful Smart Cities Leaders Award (global listing), at World CSR Day @wcsrday yesterday, in Mumbai, by the Global Smart Cities Congress & Awards. Among all the people who received this award, I was probably the only one from a startup :)

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5 years

Our research in autonomous driving perception using only cameras is taking shape. Preliminary video of our lane detection & generation algo working using NIR/RGB cameras. We are ready for autonomous night driving. @elonmusk @johnkrafcik @anandmahindra

Autonomous Lane Generation and Detection in NIR Cameras (Preliminary...

This is a preliminary video, demoing lane detection and generation in images captured from off-the-shelf NIR cameras mounted on Swaayatt-1 (Swaayatt's Autono...

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