ROBOTICS & EMBEDDED SYSTEMS ARCHITECT • AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

Alwin T R
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Robotics & Automation graduate specialized in architecting intelligent autonomous mobile robots, real-time embedded firmware (FreeRTOS / Bare-Metal C++), industrial sensor fusion automation, and resilient wireless IoT telemetry. Showcasing 17 fully documented engineering repositories.

Autonomous Robotics & Kinematics
ESP32 • FreeRTOS • PIC16F877A
UART • SPI • I2C • CAN • mmWave Radar
ROS2 Humble & Gazebo Simulation
17
Engineered Repositories
Production schematics, circuit pinouts & BOM tables
5+
MCU Architectures
ESP32 Dual-Core, STM32 ARM, PIC16, ATmega, RP2040
100%
Documented Hardware
Complete wiring pinouts, ASCII architecture & BOMs
FreeRTOS
Real-Time Kernel
Deterministic multi-tasking, hardware PWM & telemetry

Engineering Pillars & Focus Areas

Bridging physical mechanics, real-time microkernel firmware, and autonomous robotics software.

Autonomous Robotics & Kinematics

Design, kinematic simulation, and fabrication of differential drive surveillance rovers and multi-joint bipedal walking mechanisms with synchronized gait trajectories.

  • Multi-joint bipedal gait timing & inverse kinematics
  • Differential drive mobile rovers & telemetry control
  • ROS2 Navigation2 & Gazebo physical dynamic modeling

Real-Time Embedded Firmware

Developing reliable bare-metal and FreeRTOS firmware in C/C++ for ESP32, PIC16F877A, and AVR microcontrollers with hardware timer PWM, interrupts, and power management.

  • Dual-core FreeRTOS task scheduling & mutex queues
  • Hardware timer PWM with microsecond pulse accuracy
  • Low-power sleep states and brownout safety routines

Industrial Sorting & Automation

Designing multi-sensor automated classification machinery combining stepper motor carousel indexing, inductive proximity sensors, and servo rejection sorting flaps.

  • NEMA 17 stepper indexing with A4988 drivers
  • Inductive metal detection & IR drop beam arrays
  • Proteus VSM circuit modeling and hardware validation

IoT & Cloud Telemetry Systems

Deploying cloud-connected microcontroller nodes with Blynk 2.0 IoT apps, asynchronous embedded HTTP web servers, and real-time sensor datastreams over WiFi.

  • Blynk 2.0 virtual pin control & state sync
  • Embedded Async HTTP web server & REST endpoints
  • Continuous UART telemetry streaming & remote resets

Featured Hardware & Robotics Projects

17 physical embedded systems, autonomous robotics rovers, and firmware repositories built and maintained on GitHub.

Showing 17 of 17 Engineering Repositories
ESP32 / Dual-Core Robotics

Autonomous Reconnaissance Rover with Gas and Metal Detection

Long-range tele-operated reconnaissance vehicle featuring real-time wireless video transmission, hazardous combustible gas leak detection, and inductive metal proximity sensing for dangerous environments.

MCU: ESP32 Dual-Core & Arduino Uno
Sensors: MQ-2 Combustible Gas & Inductive Proximity
Motors: Dual L298N H-Bridge • 4WD Geared Chassis
Arduino / Stepper Industrial Automation

Automated Multi Material Waste Classification System

Closed-loop industrial waste classification station utilizing precision NEMA 17 stepper carousel indexing, inductive metal detection, infrared drop verification, and high-speed servo diversion flaps.

Actuation: NEMA 17 Stepper + A4988 (1/16 Microstepping)
Sensors: Inductive Proximity & TCRT5000 IR Drop Beam
Sorting: High-Speed SG90 Metal-Gear Servo Flap
ESP32 / FreeRTOS Kinematics

ESP32 6-DOF Bipedal Walking Robot with FreeRTOS Kinematics

Six-DOF humanoid bipedal walking robot featuring closed-form 2D Inverse Kinematics, PCA9685 16-channel PWM servo drive over 400kHz I2C, and real-time Web Control Studio on FreeRTOS.

Firmware: ESP32 FreeRTOS Kernel (50Hz Locomotion)
Actuators: 6x MG996R Servos (13 kg-cm) via PCA9685
Kinematics: Closed-Form 2D IK & Quintic Smoothstep
PIC16F877A Embedded Security

RFID Secure Access Control and Authentication System (PIC16F877A)

High-security embedded hardware access validator powered by Microchip PIC16F877A, featuring 125kHz RFID card reader, internal EEPROM credential whitelist, 16x2 LCD status, and electronic strike relay.

MCU: Microchip PIC16F877A (20MHz Crystal)
Reader: EM-18 RFID Reader (Hardware USART)
Actuators: 12V Solenoid Door Strike Relay & Piezo Siren
ADXL335 / AVR Seismic Sensor

Real Time Seismic Vibration and Earthquake Early Warning System

Real-time tri-axial seismic acceleration detection system with analog noise filtering, dynamic baseline calibration, acoustic alarm triggering, and OLED vector magnitude telemetry.

Accelerometer: ADXL335 3-Axis Analog (±3g Dynamic Range)
Processing: 10-Bit ADC Vector Sampling at 100Hz
Display & Alert: 0.96" I2C SSD1306 OLED + 85dB Siren
Arduino / Servo Weather Automation

Automated Rain Responsive Shutter and Protection Mechanism

Automated weather-responsive protective shutter system utilizing FC-37 precipitation sensor, software hysteresis debounce filter, and precision SG90 servo angle actuation.

Precipitation: FC-37 Nickel Sensor Plate + LM393 Dual Comparator
Logic: Dual-Threshold Analog & Digital Hysteresis Filter
Actuation: Microsecond PWM Servo Deployment (0° to 180°)
ESP8266 / Async Web Telemetry

ESP Asynchronous Web Server Real Time Servo Controller

Embedded asynchronous HTTP web server hosted directly on ESP microcontrollers delivering an interactive browser slider UI for multi-angle servo motor telemetry and PWM calibration.

Stack: ESPAsyncWebServer + RESTful AJAX Endpoints
Network: 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi SoftAP and Station Modes
Actuation: Instantaneous Non-Blocking PWM Pulse Modulation (<20ms)
ESP32 / Blynk Cloud IoT

Blynk Cloud Connected Real Time Servo Actuation Framework

Cloud IoT actuator framework connecting ESP32 to Blynk 2.0 Cloud Platform, featuring bidirectional Virtual Pin telemetry, auto-reconnection state machines, and angle telemetry sync.

Cloud: Blynk 2.0 Cloud Platform (SSL/TLS Encrypted)
Telemetry: Virtual Pin V0 Real-Time Angle Sync & Feedback
Reliability: Non-Blocking Wi-Fi Watchdog & Auto-Reconnect Engine
ESP32 / Dual-Sensor Room Telemetry

Smart Bidirectional People Counter and Room Occupancy Monitor

Directional room occupancy tracking station utilizing dual ultrasonic/infrared sensors, state-machine sequence discrimination for entry and exit events, and live OLED capacity telemetry.

Logic: Sequential Threshold State Machine (A-B vs B-A Discrimination)
Sensors: Dual Ultrasonic HC-SR04 / Sharp GP2Y0A21YK0F
Feedback: 0.96" SSD1306 OLED HUD + Capacity Exceeded Alert Buzzer
ESP32 / Moisture Smart Sorting

Automated Wet and Dry Waste Classification System

Automated municipal waste sorting station utilizing soil hygrometer conductivity sensing to classify organic wet waste versus recyclable dry waste, with ultrasonic bin capacity telemetry.

Sensing: Soil Moisture Hygrometer Probe + Dual Threshold ADC
Sorting: High-Torque SG90 Flap Actuator for Dual-Chamber Routing
Monitoring: Ultrasonic HC-SR04 for Continuous Bin Fill-Level Telemetry
24GHz FMCW / ESP32 Radar Sensing

24GHz mmWave Human Presence and Micro Motion Radar Monitor

Advanced 24GHz FMCW millimeter-wave radar monitoring station utilizing Hi-Link HLK-LD2410C to detect microscopic chest movements (breathing, sedentary presence) across 8 range gates up to 6 meters.

Sensor: HLK-LD2410C 24GHz FMCW Millimeter-Wave Radar
Telemetry: Hardware UART (115200 baud) Real-Time Gate Energy Extraction
Detection: Micro-Motion (Breathing, Typing) & Macro-Motion (Walking)
A4988 / Microstepping Motion Control

Precision Stepper Motor Angle Controller with Microstepping

High-precision stepper motor positioning firmware implementing sub-degree angle mapping, linear frequency acceleration ramps, and serial CLI angle commands with 1/16 microstepping.

Actuation: NEMA 17 Stepper (1.8° step) + A4988 / ULN2003 Driver
Accuracy: Sub-degree 0.1125° Positioning Resolution with 1/16 Step
Motion: Trapezoidal Acceleration Ramps & Anti-Resonance Timing
ESP32 / Dual-Sensor Hydrodynamic Sensing

Pipeline Water Flow Rate and Structural Tilt Monitor

Industrial dual-parameter telemetry station measuring pipeline volumetric liquid flow rate and structural pipe angular deviation using hardware interrupt counters and tilt switches.

Flow Sensor: YF-S201 Hall-Effect Turbine (7.5 pulses / L/min)
Structural Sensor: SW-520D Ball Tilt Switch (Angular Anomaly Detection)
Firmware: Edge-Triggered ISR Pulse Accumulator & Liters/Hour Integrator
MAX30102 / PPG Biomedical Instrumentation

Biometric Pulse Oximeter and Heart Rate Telemetry System

Optical photoplethysmography (PPG) pulse oximeter computing Heart Rate (BPM) and blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) using dual Red (660nm) and Infrared (880nm) LEDs with live OLED waveform display.

Biosensor: Maxim Integrated MAX30102 Biosensor (I2C Fast Mode)
Signal Processing: DC Removal Filter + Chebyshev Bandpass + Peak Detector
Calibration: Ratio-of-Ratios (R = (AC_red/DC_red) / (AC_ir/DC_ir)) Calibration
Arduino / Non-Blocking Motion Planning

Dynamic Angular Velocity Servo Controller with Smooth Easing

Non-blocking servo angle interpolation firmware implementing adjustable angular velocity control and smooth cubic S-curve easing to prevent mechanical backlash and jitter in robotic joints.

Motion: Cubic Ease-In-Out S-Curve Velocity Profile Mapping
Timing: Non-Blocking millisecond Timer Scheduler (Zero delay() calls)
Resolution: Microsecond PWM Output for Vibration-Free Actuation
ESP-IDF / FreeRTOS Firmware Architecture

ESP32 Embedded Systems and Firmware Architecture Laboratory

Comprehensive firmware architecture laboratory containing production-ready low-level peripheral drivers, FreeRTOS queue pipelines, task pinning, and non-volatile storage (NVS) implementations on ESP32.

Framework: ESP-IDF Native C & FreeRTOS Dual-Core Architecture
Peripherals: SPI Master, I2C Fast-Mode, Hardware UART Ring Buffers, ADC DMA
Memory: Partition Table Management & Non-Volatile Storage (NVS)
Python / GitHub CLI Developer Automation

Developer Repository and Conversation Synchronization Suite

Automated developer conversation synchronization engine maintaining version-controlled AI pair-programming repositories and session archives with automated JSONL parsing and Git synchronization.

Toolchain: Python 3.10+, GitHub CLI (gh), MinGit, Windows Task Scheduler
Pipeline: JSONL Transcript Stream -> Scrubbing Engine -> Automated Git Sync
Scheduling: 15-minute Silent Background Scheduled Task Execution

Technical Competency Matrix

Comprehensive breakdown of hardware microcontrollers, low-level firmware, robotics stacks, and toolchains.

Microcontrollers & Processors

ESP32 (Xtensa Dual-Core) PIC16F877A (Microchip) STM32 (ARM Cortex-M) Arduino Mega 2560 AVR ATmega328P ESP8266 (Tensilica L106) Raspberry Pi 4 (Linux SBC)

Firmware & Low-Level Languages

C (C99 / C11) C++17 / Embedded C++ FreeRTOS Multi-Tasking Bare-Metal Firmware PIC Assembly / XC8 Python 3.x / NumPy Shell / Bash Automation

Robotics & Physical Kinematics

ROS2 (Robot Operating System) Gazebo Dynamic Simulation Forward & Inverse Kinematics Multi-Joint Gait Trajectory Differential Drive Odometry OpenCV Vision Pipelines Sensor Fusion (Kalman/IMU)

Hardware Protocols & Busses

UART / Serial Telemetry SPI (High-Speed Bus) I2C (Two-Wire Sensor Bus) CAN Bus (Controller Area) 16-Bit Hardware PWM ADC / DAC Conversion Direct Memory Access (DMA)

Wireless & IoT Ecosystem

Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n Blynk 2.0 Cloud Platform HTTP / RESTful Web Servers ESP-NOW Peer-to-Peer MQTT IoT Messaging Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) WebSocket Real-Time Stream

EDA, Toolchains & Software

Proteus VSM Circuit Suite ESP-IDF (Espressif Native) PlatformIO Embedded IDE MPLAB X / XC8 Compiler Git / GitHub Versioning Linux / Ubuntu 22.04 LTS VS Code / CMake Build

Engineering Milestones & Roadmap

Chronological progression of embedded research, physical robotics development, and industrial prototypes.

Advanced Robotics

ESP32 FreeRTOS 6-DOF Bipedal Kinematics

Engineered 6-DOF bipedal robot with PCA9685 PWM drive, closed-form 2D Inverse Kinematics, quintic zero-jerk trajectories, and Web Studio.

ESP32 FreeRTOS Inverse Kinematics Metal Gear Servos
Industrial Automation

Multi-Material Automated Classification

Designed automated material sorting station integrating NEMA 17 stepper carousel indexing, inductive metal detection, and servo sorting flaps.

NEMA 17 Stepper Inductive Proximity Arduino Uno
Advanced Radar Sensing

24GHz mmWave Micro-Motion Radar

Integrated FMCW 24GHz radar with ESP32 high-speed UART to detect sedentary respiration, micro-motions, and multi-gate spatial presence.

24GHz FMCW Radar UART Telemetry Micro-Motion Detection
Embedded Firmware

PIC16F877A Security & Architecture Laboratory

Designed embedded hardware lock validation utilizing RFID 125kHz readers, 16x2 parallel LCDs, and modular ESP-IDF firmware architectures.

PIC16F877A ESP-IDF Native Embedded C Assembly

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