# Founder & robotics engineer
Source: https://kaustubhkr.github.io/index.html

Kaustubh Krishna / Founder & engineer Physical AI / India

# I build systems that control physical machines.

Autonomous vehicles, robot learning and industrial verification. Now building a Physical AI company around production goals, machine execution and verified outcomes.
Previously founded AviRob. I work across learning algorithms, control runtimes and the evidence needed to understand what a machine actually did.
Selected work ↓ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/index.html#work) View life story ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/about.html)

ICRA 2025 / Autonomous racing

Media: https://kaustubhkr.github.io/assets/racing-loop.mp4
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Sole builder · simulation competition IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

3 rd Qualification
0 Collisions
81.32 s Run time

MPCC comparison, modified PPO/SAC and multi-head attention; controller training through ROS 2 integration.
Watch run & read the build ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/projects/autonomous-racing.html) Official results ↗ (https://autodrive-ecosystem.github.io/competitions/roboracer-sim-racing-icra-2025/#results)

Image: Kaustubh Krishna speaking at ROSCon India 2025 in Pune, presenting log-based safety monitoring for AMRs and AGVs (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/assets/roscon-stage.jpg)
▶ Watch the talk ↗ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RZy6ztm5Wg) Speaker / ROSCon India 2025

## On stage. Inside the robot logs.

Presented my AMR/AGV monitoring architecture: clock alignment across robot and controller logs, motion-timeline reconstruction, and geometry-aware validation of speed, clearance and interlock behaviour. Each finding retains its source observations and temporal context.
Watch full talk ↗ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RZy6ztm5Wg) Explore the system ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/projects/machine-evidence.html)
Kaustubh Krishna · Pune, India

Selected engineering

## What I built. What it enables.

AviRob / industrial systems

### Robot logs into traceable evidence ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/projects/machine-evidence.html)

Built a compiler that reconciles fragmented robot and controller logs into one replayable timeline, with each observation traceable to its source.
VDA 5050/MQTT, OPC UA, SICK scan3 UDP and MCAP/rosbag2; datagram reassembly and clock alignment.
Private implementation. The ROSCon India 2025 talk explains the AMR/AGV evidence architecture.
Technical case study ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/projects/machine-evidence.html) ROSCon talk ↗ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RZy6ztm5Wg)

Learning & world models

### World models & policy optimisation ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/projects/reinforcement-learning.html)

Built a toolkit for testing how learned dynamics and policy updates produce continuous-control behaviour.
JAX/Flax probabilistic dynamics and MBPO experiments; PPO, SAC, TRPO Hessian–vector solvers and REDQ critic ensembles.
Public algorithm implementations and model-based experiments; latent-world-model research documented separately.
Technical case study ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/projects/reinforcement-learning.html) Code ↗ (https://github.com/kaustubhkr/reinforcement-learning-toolkit)

Control engineering

### Measured C++ control ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/projects/control-runtime.html)

Built a C++20 control core with explicit actuator limits and state-consistent controller switching.
Arena-backed controller state, bumpless transfer and timing sweeps over 1–64 channels.
Recorded position response settles within ±2% at 342 ms in a simulated integrator plant. Response plots, percentiles and source CSVs are public.
Technical case study ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/projects/control-runtime.html) Code ↗ (https://github.com/kaustubhkr/industrial-control-toolkit) Measurements ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/projects/control-runtime.html#evidence)

Also built: physical golf-cart autonomy ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/projects/golf-cart.html) , multi-robot execution ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/projects/multi-robot-runtime.html) and geometric verification ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/projects/verification-engine.html) .
All work & experiments ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/work.html)

Building now / Industry 6.0

## From a production goal to verified machine work.

My second company is in stealth. I’m working on how industrial systems translate an intended outcome into machine actions, recover when execution diverges and verify the physical result.
The technical question: how much of that work can transfer when the machine, fixture or task changes?
Research questions & evaluation ↗ (https://kaustubhkr.github.io/direction.html)

Contact

## Kaustubh Krishna

Founder · robotics & industrial autonomy · India

kaustubhkr.work@gmail.com ↗ (mailto:kaustubhkr.work@gmail.com)

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