Hi, I'm Idris 👋

• 🎓 MSc Advanced Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London
• 🤖 Interested in robotics, reinforcement learning and autonomous systems
• ⚙️ Experienced in mechanical design, FEA, control and mechatronics
• 🔬 Currently developing an optothermal compliant ratchet microactuator
• 📍 Based in London, UK

A reinforcement-learning controller for robust Cartesian tracking of a moving target using a Franka Panda robot in MuJoCo.

The project includes:

• Soft Actor-Critic reinforcement learning
• Time-varying end-effector tracking
• External disturbances and observation noise
• Motion-smoothness and control-effort evaluation
• Training and performance visualisation

Python MuJoCo Gymnasium Stable-Baselines3 Reinforcement Learning

Repository and results coming soon.

My MSc research project investigates a microscale compliant ratchet that accumulates the displacement generated by optothermal microactuators.

My work combines:

• Multiphysics finite-element modelling
• Compliant-mechanism design
• Microfabrication
• Computer-vision displacement tracking
• Force–displacement characterisation
• Experimental validation

COMSOL SolidWorks Python Computer Vision Microfabrication

Exploratory data analysis and machine-learning modelling of healthy-diet costs across countries and regions between 2017 and 2024.

View the project

Python pandas scikit-learn Jupyter Data Visualisation

Robotics and control

MuJoCo Reinforcement Learning Trajectory Planning MATLAB
Classical Control Digital Control Arduino

Mechanical engineering

SolidWorks COMSOL FEA GD&T Design for Manufacture
Compliant Mechanisms Experimental Characterisation

Programming and data

Python NumPy pandas Matplotlib scikit-learn
Git Jupyter Notebook

I am currently strengthening my portfolio in:

• Robot learning and intelligent control
• Simulation-to-real robotics workflows
• Sensor integration and experimental robotics
• Machine-learning fundamentals
• Reproducible engineering software

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