Server-Shenanigans
Accidentally becoming a sysadmin and lived to tell the tale
Saksham Sharma
I teach metal and sand how to understand space
I'm Saksham. Currently I spend my days at CMU's AIRLab watching highly educated metal boxes have existential breakdowns in the mud.
When I’m not acting as a couples counselor for sensors and actuators, I am either swimming, cycling, or making some animations!
Before adopting my current brand of chaos at CMU, I spent my time sharing a sandbox with some delightfully brilliant (and unhinged) humans at Skild.ai and ARTPARK (IISc)
Recent News
- Jan 2026 Joined MS in Robotics at CMU, working with Wenshan at AIRLab!
- Sep 2025 Started as Robotics Engineer at Skild.ai
- Sep 2025 Paper Reward-based Autonomous Online Learning Framework for Resilient Cooperative Target Monitoring accepted at TMLR 2025!
- Jul 2023 Joined the AI & Robotics Lab at IISc Bangalore as Research Assistant under Prof. Suresh Sundaramm.
- Jun 2023 Graduated from RVCE with a B.E. in ECE. Awarded Best Outgoing Student of ECE 2023 batch.
Publications
navigation
IRisPath: Enhancing Off-Road Navigation with Robust IR-RGB Fusion for Improved Day and Night Traversability
Under Submission — RA-L — 2025
IRisPath fuses infrared and RGB camera streams to build robust costmaps for off-road robot navigation that remain reliable in both daylight and nighttime conditions without specialized calibration targets.
multi-robot
Distributed Online Learning for Displacement-based Formation Control
Submitted — RA-L — 2025
A distributed online learning scheme that enables a team of robots to converge to a desired displacement-based formation without requiring a centralised coordinator or pre-computed trajectories.
multi-robot
Reward-based Autonomous Online Learning Framework for Resilient Cooperative Target Monitoring using a Swarm of Robots
TMLR 2025 — 2025
A consensus-based decentralised cooperative monitoring system for agile targets using swarm robots under uncertainty — accepted at Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
systems
Meow: Memory Evaluation through Optimized Workloads
IEEE INDICON 2023 — 2023
An automated litmus-test synthesis tool that generates distinguishing tests between two versions of a memory model, used for formal verification of ARM's memory architecture.
multi-robot
Multi Robot Path Planning Using Priority Based Algorithm
IEEE Connect 2022 — 2022
A priority-based decentralised algorithm for multi-robot path planning that resolves inter-agent conflicts without central coordination, demonstrated on a physical multi-robot testbed.
Pet Projects
manipulation
Machine Tending Robot
UR5-based robot configured with Basler camera and ROS. Uses Fourier-Mellin transform for 90ms single-reference object detection for precision pick-and-place tasks.
navigation
Autonomous Navigation Stack — Wipro-IISc SUV
Autonomous navigation stack for SUV-scale vehicle — LiDAR-camera fusion costmap, DWA + TEB planners, LIOSAM/LOAM SLAM, and drive-by-wire control via CAN bus.
Thoughts? Rants? Documentation?
DWA - Helping robots move in real world
How to get your robots to carry out their autonomous motion in real life
Multi Robot Planning
Indulging in the beautiful field called multi-robot path planning using Private Obstacle Path Planning algorithm
Creating my own world - Ray Tracing
$ g++ main.cc -lpthread && ./a.out >>splashOfLife
SFX / Animation
Another hobby I dabble with — animation, SFX, and a little bit of design.
If the content deserves a dub you shall leave a sub.