Hi, I’m Sunny Deshpande.

Here are some of my projects. Do get in touch if you’d like to find out more!

About Me.

Developing With a Passion While Exploring The World.

I’m a senior from Singapore University of Technology and Design currently studying Engineering Product Design with the Robotics Track, with a Minor in Computer Science.

My passion to learn about how the world and the things around me work was present since childhood, where I have always been fascinated by machines and how they work. This has driven me to choose robotics and artificial intelligence as my fields of study. Ever since, I’ve been enjoying making things come to life.

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I intend to pursue these fields as a career, especially in the field of robotics, where I can apply my knowledge into the real world and improving it by bettering lives with the help of technology and innovation. I truly believe that the way forward is through automation and artificial intelligence

Some of my projects

I make stuff work. Most of the time.

Autonomy

Robots doing what they do.

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Artificial Intelligence​

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Hardware

Mechanical and electrical stuff.

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Autonomy

Bidirectional Temporal Traffic Path Planner for Fleet AMRs

Hyundai (HMGICS) Internship 2024
Underwater autonomous navigation and control stack using computer vision (OpenCV) with object detection-potential field based navigation for object tracking/avoidance.

Autonomous Maze Exploration SLAM and Object Tracking

SUTD 30.119 Intelligent Robotics
Autonomous Exploration Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and solving of an unknown maze and object detection (YOLOv11) and custom tracking algorithm.

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Navigation

SAUVC 2022/2024
Underwater autonomous navigation and control stack using computer vision (OpenCV) with object detection-potential field based navigation for object tracking/avoidance.

Autonomous Prime Mover (APM) Simulation

Venti Technologies Internship 2023
Simulation of APMs with accurate vehicle dynamics and realistic scenarios. Development of controls and analysis of APM simulations. Implementation physics engines for improved simulations.

Autonomous Underwater Batoid Robot Controls

SUTD SHARP 2022
Nature-inspired sinusoidal fin motion control (X, Pitch, Roll) and strain gauge-based obstacle detection using digital signal processing of underwater batoid robot.

Artificial Intelligence

Autonomous Indoor Navigation using CNN and RGB-D Input

A*STAR Internship 2019
Autonomous indoor navigation of a Pioneer P3Dx mobile robot base using RGB-D video and pose-goal vector inputs to an end-to-end CNN that outputs motor velocity commands.

Automated BiLSTM-DistilBERT Movie Review Sentiment Analysis

SUTD 50.040 Natural Language Processing 2024
Classification of IMDA movie reviews of positive/negative sentiment categories using BiLSTM-DistilBERT model with ~96% accuracy.

DL-based Visual Odometry for Autonomous Vehicles

SUTD SHARP 2023
Implementation and evaluation of various DL-based VO methods in rain such as DROID-SLAM. Contributed as co-author for paper published in IEEE CASE 2023 (Submission 542).

Automated Sequence Labelling of Informal Text Labels using HMM

SUTD 50.007 Machine Learning 2024
Developed HMM using first and second-order Viterbi algorithm for sequence labelling of informal text excerpts taken from news reports. Entity and sentiment predictions performed by model.

Diagnosis of Epileptic EEG signals using LSTM-CNN

NP Final Year Project 2019
Developed novel LSTM-CNN to classify focal epileptic EEG signals with ~87% accuracy. Contributed as co-author for review paper published in FCGS 2019 (DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.08.044).

Hardware

TROLL-E Smart Foldable Electrical Grocery Trolley

SUTD 30.007 Engineering Design Innovation 2023

Developed electronics and controls of TROLL-E for active slope-based actuation control and custom PCB with integrated dynamic air cooling. Custom anti-roll basket designed.

Variable Length Fluid Pipe Leak Detector using Electromagnetism

SUTD 30.102 Electromagnetics & Applications 2023
Designed a low-cost and economical fluid pipe leak detector with Bluetooth capabilities that uses electromagnetic conduction principles for detection.

Teleoperatable Quad-Rotor Helicopter

Personal Project 2023

Designed and build a quadcopter capable of teleoperable flight. Used basic mechanical and electronic components that are easily obtainable for a low-cost drone built in a lab.

Electric Go-Kart

Electric Vehicle Club 2021

Built an electric go-kart which is able to move simplistically, safely, and reliably within university campus.

8-Bar Cube Frame Lifting and Manipulation Robot

Asia Pacific Vex Robotics Championship 2014
Designed and build robot using 8-bar lifting mechanism and a novel intake to collect and deposit cube frames for international competition. Won Best Design Award

Work Experience

Where I have to put my skills to good use.

Robotics Fleet Management Intern (Robotics Centre)
@
Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Centre Singapore (HMGICS)

​May 2024 – Sep 2024

– Enhanced fleet management by modifying Server-Client communications using REST API and MQTT protocol.

– Improved path-following algorithm by replacing discrete points with curves, increasing junction navigation speed by ~40%.

– Developed a novel Bidirectional Temporal Traffic Path Planner, reducing fleet congestion and boosting completed missions by 10%

Autonomous Vehicle Simulation Engineer Intern (Planning & Control Team)
@
Venti Technologies

Sep 2023 – Dec 2023

– Developed simulation environment, tests, analyze and improve dynamics for Autonomous Prime Movers with trailers in traffic using
Virtual Test Drive (VTD).

– Wrote scripts to execute scenarios based on physical experiments to record simulation behavior of ego vehicle dynamics

– Developed and performed parameter extraction and computation agents in simulation for controller design.

– Liase with vendors to organize meetings and complete team technical objectives.

Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Research Intern (Perception Team)
@
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)

May 2019 – Aug 2019

– Successfully developed Convolutional Neural Network-based AI for end-to-end indoor navigation and obstacle avoidance of mobile
robot using RGB-Depth images and Computer Vision.

– Support on-site robot tests with industry partners