Siddhant Tandon

• Autonomy
• UAV
• LLM agents

Copilot GCS

A web ground control station for ArduPilot copters, planes and rovers with an integrated AI copilot. You describe a waypoint flight or inspection in plain language, refine the mission through chat, and rehearse it in simulation before flying. It includes a 2D/3D map with terrain-aware altitude checks, drawn geofences, and operator-defined watch rules that trigger on live telemetry.

• Autonomous driving
• Vision-language models

Compositional Prompts for Rideshare Services

A project I undertook through my self-driving vehicles course at the University of Michigan. The project involved developing a method for users to specify text-based requests to rideshare services for final-mile delivery, such as "drop me off by the coffee shop." We developed a system using vision-language models to accept text prompts and output driver commands in the CARLA simulation environment.

• Human-robot interaction
• AR

AR for Assisted Drone Landings

My honours thesis focused on using augmented reality to make a drone AI co-pilot's actions more explainable. I developed a HoloLens AR app to interface with the AI agent and created a visualization to communicate the agent's intent, certainty, and control inputs. I also ran a user study to evaluate performance, which suggested AR was efficacious in this context.

• Robotic hardware
• ACM ISS 2022

The Made-Axis

A project I worked on while part of the Immersive Analytics Laboratory at Monash University. The Made-Axis is a tangible, actuated controller for data visualization and analysis on conventional 2D screens and in AR/VR. I worked on the device firmware and demo applications that showcased its capabilities.

• Control systems
• Avionics
• CFD

Making Airbrakes for a Rocket

A project from my time in Monash High Powered Rocketry, creating actuatable airbrakes for a rocket to enable better altitude control, a key competition metric. In a team, I led avionics and airbrake actuation development, as well as rocket dynamics analysis using CFD. We tested the engineered solution by launching a rocket with the payload.

• Embedded
• Biosignals

Using EMG to Control a Video Game

This project aimed to develop EMG control for video games for amputees. The interface permitted control of games like Flappy Bird and Pong. It involved both electrical circuit design and software development, including circuit prototyping, hardware filter design to isolate muscle contraction signals, and MATLAB programming to further filter the signal and convert it into game inputs.

• macOS
• Audio DSP

iMix

A Mac app I built so I could use a Bluetooth speaker as a second subwoofer. It splits my computer's audio across several speakers by frequency, has its own equalizer, and uses the microphone to keep every speaker in sync.

• Web
• Geospatial

AstroSky

A website I built to find dark skies and plan astrophotography sessions. It maps light pollution and helps pick the best time to photograph celestial objects.

• iOS
• Image stacking

AstroStack

An iPhone app for astrophotography. It captures multiple exposures and stacks them into one image to reduce noise and bring out faint stars.

App and GitHub link coming soon.

• LLMs
• Apple MLX

A Locally Hosted LLM Chatbot for Apple Silicon

This project is a locally hosted chatbot using a Meta Llama 3.x model. It was designed as a utility and educational experience to learn more about interfacing with LLMs, tokenization, context, parameters, and Apple's MLX framework. The UI features a minimalist Matrix-inspired text entry and response interface. It was programmed in Python with a Flask app serving the browser UI.