Today we are talking toKailash Nagarajanfrom Siemens Digital Industries Software. Kailash was very active in co-curricular activities at his time atAmrita University(2015 – 2019) and also was a founding member of the Robotics Club.

你课余活动中学习什么during your time at university?

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MATLAB just made my work easier. In my projects, I used it majorly for modeling and analyzing systems and control techniques.

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您为什么选择开设机器人俱乐部？

我一直很好奇学习新技能，并且在加入我的本科研究所之前，总是对机器人技术的方向发展。实际上，我在高等中学时代赢得了印度区域机器人的奥林匹克运动会。这是由于我早期的上学时代的老师的正确指导和指导。

我坚信，作为学生，我们必须聚在一起，分享我们拥有的知识并互相学习。因此，我和另外几个分享了类似思维过程的同学一起迈出了第一步，为来自各个部门的机器人爱好者建立了平台，以团结起来并作为机器人俱乐部作为一个团队合作。

What was your role on the club?

作为俱乐部的创始成员，始终是一项责任，因为您如何制作俱乐部，这可能是俱乐部在以后的几年中的影响。因此，我试图在从无人机到自我平衡机器人等各个领域工作。

我的研究所的一位资深人士向我介绍了MATLAB。而且，从那时起，MATLAB就使我的工作更加轻松。在我的项目中，我主要将其用于建模和分析系统和控制技术。

例如,我们决定设计一个自我平衡robot from scratch. We used a few acrylic sheets, wooden blocks, an Arduino and an IMU sensor. We modelled the behavior of this system using Simulink. We actually designed the transfer function of the system and then used PID Tuner to tune the parameters of the controller to help us calculate various parameters like the rise time, fall time and settling time. The simulations were one of the reasons why we could understand our system a lot better. Also, we completely skipped the toughest part – tuning our controller; the PID tuner did it for us.

您如何在学术/课外工作中使用MATLAB和/或Simulin金宝appk？

I did use MATLAB in my club activities like I mentioned above. Along with this, I worked on a project where we simulated the vibrations of a cantilever beam without and with defects. We applied Dynamic Mode Decomposition (pure data-driven modeling technique) to compute the spatial modes of vibration in each case. We also trained a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier with the computed Eigen-modes to identify defects. We did all of this using MATLAB. I also have apublicationon this work.

除此之外，我还曾在国际信息技术研究所Hyderabad担任研究助理，在那里我为使用MATLAB的无人机进行了无人机预测控制碰撞的模型控制。我的工作主要涉及采用MATLAB的单个和多代理系统的运动计划和最佳控制问题。

课外活动如何帮助您找到工作？

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课外活动在训练我的行业中发挥了重要作用，并在我的领域为我提供了广泛的知识。

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Do you think the skills you gained using these tools has helped you in your professional career? If so, how?

他们在封闭的教室中教的很多内容仅仅是方程式和理论。该理论和数学的应用的暴露借助了课外活动。在我的本科时代，我还在一家初创公司工作，并在基本的计算机视觉，机器学习等领域获得了丰富的经验。

我向自己介绍了更高级的控制技术，例如模型预测性控制和使用MATLAB的最佳控制，这在以后的时期对我有很大帮助。

课外活动在训练我的行业中发挥了重要作用，并在我的领域为我提供了广泛的知识。

Did your hands-on experience help to prepare you for your first role in industry?

Yes, the hands on experience that I gained from my time at the Robotics Club, at the startup and at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad has made a lot of difference to the way I approach a problem. It helps me analyze and breakdown problems and find simple, effective, and quick solutions.

I could do the projects a lot more comfortably because I already had experience in MATLAB on the domains.

I strongly believe every student has to get some sort of hands-on exposure in the area they want to choose. This has greatly helped my role in the industry.

What are you working on today?

In your current role at Siemens do you use MATLAB and/or Simulink?

I currently work as an associate engineer in the Engineering Services group at Siemens Digital Industries Software. I get an opportunity to use MATLAB/Simulink on certain projects.

What big project you are working on right now?

The Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems project for Auto OEM is one of the bigger projects I am working on right now. We are using MATLAB and Simulink for the simulation of trajectory tracking using Model Predictive Control. And, I believe my experience of working with MPC in my student life is helping me a lot here. In this project, we also explored Simulink Real time for XPC targets for real time analysis of our Simulink model.

Key Takeaways

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In all my years as a student if there is one thing that I strongly learnt to build on is my level of curiosity to learn and adapt to new things and situations.

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您会给年轻的工程师寻求就业后毕业后的建议吗？

Develop curiosity to solve problems. In all my years as a student if there is one thing that I strongly learnt to build on is my level of curiosity to learn and adapt to new things and situations. Be excited to solve puzzles and keep exploring what your passion is and what you really like to do.

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