In 2020, I co-founded CRISS Robotics, a student research technical team of 60+ members at BITS Pilani dedicated to designing and manufacturing an all-terrain 6-wheeled autonomous Mars rover. I developed the high-level electrical architecture and an electronic differential-based drive control system for the rover, capable of autonomous traversal, equipment servicing using a 6-DOF robotic manipulator, and life detection using a science module.

CRISS qualified for the International Rover Challenge (IRC) 2022 finals at Chennai, India, among 16 international teams, and subsequently won the International Rover Design Challenge (IRDC) in 2023.