Ajith Kumar Veeraboina

Innovative and results-driven engineer with expertise in PLC programming (Beckhoff, Allen Bradley – Rslogix500, Micrologix), robotic 3D printing, and control systems. Adept at developing advanced automation solutions, optimizing manufacturing processes, and enhancing system efficiency. Proven ability to integrate robotics, database management, and MATLAB to drive technological advancements. Passionate about leveraging technical knowledge to solve complex engineering challenges and contribute to cutting-edge industrial automation and robotics innovation.

Planar and Non-planar Surface Reinforcement Strategies for Polymer-based 3D Printing with Industrial Robotic Arm, 05/01/20, 12/01/24, Developed a robotic 3D printing architecture for Yaskawa robots., Introduced a varying contour layer thickness and extrusion width within an infill layer to improve the strength of 3D printed parts by minimizing the air voids between the contours., Developed a process of generating a nonplanar tool path from the point cloud data utilizing planar slicing. Modelling Human Control Strategies with a Concurrent Learning Approach: A Ball and Beam Case Study, 01/01/23, 12/01/24, An unstable system like a ball and beam is used to model or identify human control strategies., Ball and Beam setup and experimental data acquisition for concurrent learning. State Feedback Control for Variable Stiffness Series Elastic Actuator (vSEA) joint-based 2DOF manipulator, 05/01/23, 05/01/24, Implemented a nonlinear feedback linearization controller for the vSEA joint-based 2DOF manipulator using Yaskawa servo motors and amplifier, comparing the response with the PID controller. Design Linear and Nonlinear Control Methods for Quanser's 3DOF Helicopter, 05/01/17, 12/01/19, Designed linear methods such as linear quadratic regulator (LQR) and PID based on LQR, nonlinear methods such as input-output feedback linearization and direct adaptive control., Simulation and experimental comparisons are made between the four methods under nominal and external disturbance conditions.

• Graduate Student Summer Fellowship (GSSF; 2021,2022, and 2024)
• Showcased industrial robotic arms and projects from the Yaskawa Motoman Robotics Lab at Explore Engineering events (2021-2023)
• Volunteered at the NAECON IEEE conference, Dayton, Ohio (2019)
• Achieved first place in the "LIGHTS CAMERA ACTION" event, an audio presentation dedicated to honoring Dr. Michael Faraday, the father of Electrical Engineering (2012)
• Competed in the "Dustbot Robotics" event at V.I.T University, Tamilnadu, India. Designing a bot within specific constraints and testing its reliability against various challenges (2011)

•  A. K. Veeraboina, T. M. Kebede, R. L. Lowe, A. T. Neidhard-Doll and R. Ordonez, “Non-Planar Surface Reinforcement Strategy for Polymerbased 3D Printing with Industrial Robotic Arm,” - Anticipated April 2025

•  R. Kripashankar, R. Ordonez, and A. K. Veeraboina, “Modelling Human Control Strategies with a Concurrent Learning Approach: A Ball and Beam Case Study,” - Anticipated May 2025

•  C. Liu, A. K. Veeraboina, T. Kadja, R. Ordonez, and V. P. Chodavarapu, “Experimental Evaluation of Sensor Fusion of Low-Cost UWB and IMU for Localization with Industrial Robotic Arm, “Sensors

• A. K. Veeraboina, T. M. Kebede, R. L. Lowe, A. T. Neidhard-Doll and R. Ordonez, “Tensile Properties of Robotic 3D-Printed Parts with Varying Contour Layer Thickness,”3D-printing and Additive Manufacturing, May 2024, doi: 10.1089/3dp.2023.0345
• A. K. Veeraboina and R. Ordonez, “Design and Implementation of Linear/Nonlinear Control Methods on 3-DOF Helicopter,” NAECON 2018 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, 2018, pp. 435-442, doi: 10.1109/NAECON.2018.8556822