Status: Building · Founder & Principal Investigator

JANMESH
PATEL

Robotics & Embedded Systems Engineer // Autonomy

I build the parts of autonomous robots that have to work when it counts, firmware, sensor stacks, and the navigation logic underneath them.

LocationNew Jersey, USA
FieldGround Autonomy
Experience3+ Years
Coords40.57°N 75.10°W
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SUBJECT // J.PATEL Portrait of Janmesh Patel
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01 / About

Engineer at the
hardware–software seam.

Three years in industry deploying ROS 2 autonomy on industrial ground platforms, paired with a mechatronics background and a master's in systems and computing.

My work sits where firmware meets perception meets planning: calibrating sensors, taming real-time timing on microcontrollers, and getting navigation stacks to behave in the messy parts of the real world.

Today I run Aetherion Robotics, leading research and development on terrain intelligence for autonomous vehicles.

RoleFounder & PIAetherion Robotics
AwardRoboconNational-level
PriorClearpath RoboticsRockwell Automation
DegreesMEng · BESystems & Mechatronics
FocusGround AutonomyPerception & control
02 / Venture

Aetherion Robotics

Founder · Principal Investigator
EST. 2026 · NEW JERSEY

Aetherion builds predictive terrain intelligence for autonomous ground vehicles — fusing aerial and ground sensing to anticipate what the terrain is doing before the wheels ever touch it.

I lead the technical direction across perception, simulation, and uncertainty modeling, validating the core approach in simulation ahead of hardware deployment.

Sensor Fusion Terrain Classification Uncertainty Quantification Sim-to-Real Transfer OOD Robustness LiDAR · Stereo
Aerial+Ground
Dual-source sensing
Pre-contact
Prediction horizon
Sim-validated
Before hardware
03 / Experience

Where I've built.

Robot Builder
JAN 2024 — MAY 2025
Clearpath Robotics — by Rockwell Automation
  • Validated and deployed ROS 2 autonomy stacks on Husky A300 platforms, integrating firmware with high-level navigation.
  • Performed precise LiDAR calibration (roll, pitch, yaw) and multi-sensor alignment for 3D SLAM, sharpening spatial awareness.
  • Optimized electro-mechanical assembly, hitting a 50% gain in production efficiency through tooling and firmware adjustments.
  • Debugged mixed hardware–software systems with logic analyzers and oscilloscopes, resolving protocol timing issues.
04 / Selected Work

Projects.

Embedded / RTOSOCT — NOV 2025

Real-Time Multi-Sensor
Data Acquisition

STM32 (Cortex-M4) · FreeRTOS
  • FreeRTOS tasks for sensor acquisition (DHT22, BMP180, MQ-2), processing, and telemetry with deterministic timing.
  • Shared UART/I2C guarded by mutexes and semaphores; queues and task notifications for thread-safe IPC.
  • Circular buffer with SPI + DMA logging to SD card, cutting CPU overhead during I/O.
  • HC-05 Bluetooth telemetry, retry-based fail-safes, and USART trace profiling (SystemView / Tracealyzer).
STM32FreeRTOSSPI/DMAI2CUARTADC
Embedded LinuxSEP 2025

BeagleBone Black
LED Controller

C · pthreads · sysfs PWM
  • Finite state machine driving LED sequences across three PWM channels via Linux sysfs.
  • Temperature simulator auto-pauses LEDs above threshold and resumes on recovery.
  • Signal-thread handling: SIGUSR1 toggles pause/resume, SIGUSR2 forces resume.
  • Memory-safe (Valgrind, 0 leaks); mock-PWM mode for host testing, real-PWM on hardware.
CpthreadssysfsFSMBeagleBone
Code ↗ Demo ↗
IoT / EmbeddedAUG 2025

Smart Environment
Monitor

BeagleBone Black · Debian
  • DHT22 (temp/humidity), LDR (light), SSD1306 OLED, and PWM LED + fan via 2N2222 transistors.
  • Plain C over sysfs for GPIO, PWM, and ADC — no third-party libraries.
  • Hardware design with pinmux config, voltage dividers, and flyback diodes.
  • Cloud logging to ThingSpeak; resolved DHT22 timing and PWM configuration issues.
CsysfsBeagleBoneThingSpeakOLED
Code ↗
Robotics / ProductMAR — MAY 2025

Husky A300 Autonomous
Mobile Platform

Clearpath Robotics · Rockwell Automation
  • Upgraded the A300 base into a customized autonomous mobile platform (AMP) unit.
  • Integrated LiDARs, cameras, long-range Wi-Fi, and an LTE radio.
  • Added wireless charging to the base for full autonomy.
  • Tested software and hardware, surfacing actionable insights on field issues.
ROS 2 JazzyLiDARLTEProduct Dev
FPGA / SecurityFEB — APR 2023

AES-128
Co-processor

University of Guelph
  • Encrypted 128-bit plaintext on an FPGA board using an FPGA-HPS implementation.
  • Drove data read/write through on-board memory locations.
  • Wrote C verification confirming 100% encryption correctness against expected values.
VerilogFPGAFPGA-HPSC
Machine LearningJAN — FEB 2023

Image Classification
with TensorFlow

University of Guelph
  • Trained a predictive model on matrix features from the Intel Image dataset.
  • Held a 99% true-positive rate across testing for high accuracy and reliability.
TensorFlowPyTorchPythonCV
Mobile / IoTSEP — DEC 2022

Smart Living at
Your Fingertips

University of Guelph
  • Built an app to control and monitor home appliances seamlessly.
  • Pulled real-time data through a range of hardware and sensors.
  • Used Firebase as the bridge between software and hardware.
JavaFirebaseAndroidIoT
Machine LearningMAY — AUG 2022

TouchAnalytics

University of Guelph · Behavioral Biometrics
  • Applied multiple ML methods to verify user identity from swipe patterns.
  • Reached ~92% accuracy deploying the models.
  • Shipped a Flask API web page predicting new users at 91.89% accuracy.
PythonFlaskMLFirmware
Embedded / LoRaJUN 2020 — APR 2021

Sewage Overflow
Detection

Mech-EYE · GH Patel College
  • Early detection of manhole overflow to flag blockages before they turn hazardous.
  • LoRa and Bluetooth links between host and client circuits.
LoRaBluetoothFirmwareSensors
Robotics / IoTAUG 2019 — SEP 2020

Prosthetic Limb with
Remote Sensors

Robofest-19 Finalist · GUJCOST-funded
  • Built a prosthetic hand driven by servo motors and EMG/flex sensors.
  • Applied IoT for tighter user-machine correlation and efficiency.
  • Finalist at Robofest-19 across ideation, proof-of-concept, and prototype stages.
ServoEMGFlex SensorsIoT
Aerial / ROSOCT 2019 — FEB 2020

Survey & Rescue
Drone

Funded by IIT Bombay & MHRD
  • Led a team to simulate and build a survey-and-rescue drone.
  • Used ROS in simulation and PID for real-time stability and monitoring.
  • Image processing to mark regions needing rescue during a survey.
ROSPIDImage ProcessingUAV
IoT / AutomationJUL 2018 — MAY 2019

Agriculture
Monitoring System

GH Patel College
  • Monitored and controlled field water level, pH, moisture, and temperature.
  • Held optimum growing conditions for better crop yield.
IoTAutomationSensorsFirmware
05 / Capabilities

Technical stack.

A1 Robotics & Autonomy

  • ROS 2
  • Nav2
  • SLAM
  • A* Planning
  • Sensor Fusion
  • Perception Systems

A2 Embedded Systems

  • STM32 MCUs
  • FreeRTOS
  • Embedded Linux
  • Real-Time Systems
  • Memory-Mapped IO

A3 Comm Protocols

  • SPI
  • I2C
  • UART
  • CAN
  • Serial Comms

A4 Simulation & ML

  • Gazebo
  • NVIDIA Isaac Sim
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Linux / Git
06 / Foundations

Education

M.Eng — Systems & Computing
University of Guelph
B.E — Mechatronics & Robotics
GH Patel College of Engineering

Certifications

FreeRTOS applied to STM32 Microcontrollers
Udemy · Nov 2025
Mastering RTOS: Hands-on FreeRTOS & STM32Fx with Debugging
Udemy · Nov 2025
Master C and Embedded C
Udemy · Aug 2025
PLC Fundamentals
PLCdojo · Mar 2023
07 / Contact

Let's build something
that moves.

Open to research collaboration, autonomy work, and conversations about hard robotics problems.

Personal
janmesh.4300@gmail.com
Aetherion Robotics
janmeshp@aetherionrobots.com