2014 – Saurav Agarwal

Published October 15, 2014 by sauravagarwal

Shortest path on a grid – Dijkstra/Dynamic Programming in C++

I was asked by an interviewer from Microsoft (internship interview) to write code to determine the minimum steps/shortest path on a grid from some start to some goal, since this…

Software Tutorial

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Published October 5, 2014 by sauravagarwal

Quick Paneer Tikka Recipe

Ingredients: 1. Paneer: 250 gm 2. Chicken Tikka Masala 3. Salt 4. Pepper 5. 2 cloves of garlic 6. Shredded Ginger (one thumb) 7. Yoghurt: Half Cup 8. 1 Lime…

Food

panner recipe tikka

Published September 21, 2014 by sauravagarwal

How to use irobot create in gazebo with ROS hydro?

I’ve not been able to find any clear examples on how to achieve a simple simulation which involves moving a virtual model of an iRobot Create/Roomba in Gazebo using ROS…

Research Tutorial

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Published June 25, 2014 by sauravagarwal

Grad School Application Guide for Engineering Students (suited mainly for Indians)

This was written by me and a few friends just after graduating in 2010. It was written with IITians as the target audience but it more less applies to any…

General Thoughts

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Published June 11, 2014 by sauravagarwal

Roboticists need to learn to sell (rather all engineers do!)

After attending my first international conference on robotics (ICRA 2014), my first take away is that so many of the talks were insanely boring! It’s not that the work was…

Research Thoughts

Published June 9, 2014 by sauravagarwal

International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014 Hong Kong

Just got back from the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Hong Kong. I presented our group’s work on the application of FIRM to physical mobile robots (ICRA-2014-pdf). FIRM…

General Research

Year: 2014