CV

Education

• Ph.D in Robotics and AI assisted Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Chennai, India, 2022
• M.Tech. in Robotics, SRM University, Chennai, India, 2014
• B.E. in Mechatronics, Anna University, India, 2012

Work experience

• Feb. 2023 - Present: Research Associate - Robotics
  • University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • Duties
    • To carry out state of the art research in one or more of these areas: Robotic System Design and Architecture, Mobile Robotic Navigation, Robotic Manipulation.
    • Devise robust strategies for integrating mobile robots with laboratory hardware and instrumentation.
    • Collaborating with our robotics and chemistry teams to build the highest quality robotic system product possible while following software practices that produce maintainable code
  • Supervisor: Professor Andy Cooper, FRS
• Dec. 2021 - Jan. 2023: Research Associate - Robotics
  • Cardiff University, United Kingdom
  • Duties
    • To generate research output, provide support and contribute to the development of independent and original ideas as appropriate.
    • To provide effective management of the Human-Robot Interactions Lab and organise the research activities in the lab.
    • To maintain and update area of specialist knowledge, researching and critically appraising relevant literature within the area.
    • To attend and or present at relevant conferences/seminars at a local and national level as required.
  • Supervisor: Professor Rossi Setchi
• Jan. 2018 - Nov. 2021: Research and Teaching Assistant - Robotics and AI Assisted Manufacturing Automation
  • Indian Inst. of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, India
  • Duties
    • To generate research output, provide support and contribute to the development of independent and original ideas as appropriate.
    • To maintain and update area of specialist knowledge, researching and critically appraising relevant literature within the area.
    • To attend and or present at relevant conferences/seminars at a local and national level as required.
    • To conduct lab sessions on Robotics for Undergraduate and Post graduate students.
  • Supervisor: Professor M Sreekumar
• May 2014 - Dec. 2017: Lecturer/Assistant Professor - Robotics and Automation
  • BIT, Sathymangalam & SKCET, Coimbatore, India.
  • Duties
    • To teach students at different levels including foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and to carry out the associated examining processes.
    • To involve in curriculum development and other activities related to development of new programmes.
    • Courses handled: Fundamentals of Programming, Introduction to Robotics, Robot Programming, and Industrial Automation and PLC.
    • To organise the inter-departmental and inter-institute symposiums to promote reputation of the department and Institute.
    • To provide academic support and pastoral advice to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Skills

• Robotics & AI in safety-critical environments
  • Multi-modal perception
  • LLMs, VLMs, CNNs and RL
  • Decision trees
• Robotic chemists and Self-driving labs
  • Workflow automation
  • Software architecture development
  • Standad and bespoke hardware integration
  • Robot Operating Systems
• Human-Robot Interaction and Sim2Real

Publications

Human-Aware Robot Behaviour in Self-Driving Labs

Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Anna Kisil, Abigail Bentley, Hatem Fakhruldeen, Gabriella Pizzuto, and Andrew I. Cooper. 2026. Human-Aware Robot Behaviour in Self-Driving Labs. In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI Companion '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 292–296.

The Mobile Robotic Process Chemist

Brass, E. J., Veeramani, S., Zhou, Z., Fakhruldeen, H., Manzano, J. S., Clowes, R., ... & Cooper, A. I. (2026). A mobile robotic process chemist. Digital Discovery.

MATTERIX: toward a digital twin for robotics-assisted chemistry laboratory automation

Darvish, K., Sohal, A., Mandal, A., Fakhruldeen, H., Radulov, N., Zhou, Z., Veeramani, S., ... & Cooper, A. I. (2025). MATTERIX: toward a digital twin for robotics-assisted chemistry laboratory automation. Nature Computational Science 6, 67–82. doi:10.1038/s43588-025-00924-4

Chemist Eye: A Visual Language Model-Powered System for Safety Monitoring and Robot Decision-Making in Self-Driving Laboratories

Munguia-Galeano, F., Zhou, Z., Veeramani, S., Fakhruldeen, H., Longley, L., Clowes, R., & Cooper, A. I. (2025). Chemist Eye: A Visual Language Model-Powered System for Safety Monitoring and Robot Decision-Making in Self-Driving Laboratories. arXiv:2508.05148.

GenCo: A Dual LVLM Generate-Correct Framework for Adaptive Peg-in-Hole Robotics

Z. Zhou, S. Veeramani, H. Fakhruldeen, S. Uyanik and A. I. Cooper, "GenCo: A Dual VLM Generate-Correct Framework for Adaptive Peg-in-Hole Robotics," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2025, pp. 16744-16751, doi: 10.1109/ICRA55743.2025.11128409.

Multimodal Behaviour Trees for Robotic Laboratory Task Automation

H. Fakhruldeen et al., "Multimodal Behaviour Trees for Robotic Laboratory Task Automation," 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2025, pp. 15872-15878, doi: 10.1109/ICRA55743.2025.11128408.

An Open-source Capping Machine Suitable for Confined Spaces

Munguia-Galeano, Francisco, Louis Longley, Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Zhengxue Zhou, Rob Clowes, Hatem Fakhruldeen, and Andrew I. Cooper. "An Open-source Capping Machine Suitable for Confined Spaces." arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.03743 (2025).

PREVENT: Proactive Risk Evaluation and Vigilant Execution of Navigation and Manipulation Tasks for Mobile Robot Chemists

Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Zhengxue Zhou, Francisco Munguia-Galeano, Hatem Fakhruldeen, Thomas Roddelkopf, Mohammed Faeik Ruzaij Al-Okby, Kerstin Thurow, Andrew Ian Cooper" (2025).

LIRA: Localization, Inspection, and Reasoning Module for Autonomous Workflows in Self-Driving Labs

Zhengxue Zhou, Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Francisco Galeano, Hatem Fakhruldeen, and Andrew Cooper. "LIRA: Localization, Inspection, and Reasoning Module for Autonomous Workflows in Self-Driving Labs." (2025).

A 3D-Printed, Low-Cost Solid Dispensing Device for Laboratory Automation

Affordance-Based Human–Robot Interaction With Reinforcement Learning

Munguia-Galeano, Francisco, Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Juan David Hernández, Qingmeng Wen, and Ze Ji. "Affordance-based human–robot interaction with reinforcement learning." IEEE Access 11 (2023): 31282-31292.

Coordination and path planning of a heterogeneous multi-robot system for sheet metal drilling

Veeramani, Satheeshkumar, Sreekumar Muthuswamy, and Rossitza Setchi. "Coordination and path planning of a heterogeneous multi-robot system for sheet metal drilling." Procedia Computer Science 207 (2022): 2335-2344.

Reinforcement learning based path planning of multiple agents of SwarmItFIX robot for fixturing operation in sheetmetal milling process

Veeramani, Satheeshkumar, and Sreekumar Muthuswamy. "Reinforcement learning based path planning of multiple agents of SwarmItFIX robot for fixturing operation in sheetmetal milling process." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture 236.12 (2022): 1667-1680.

Hybrid type multi-robot path planning of a serial manipulator and SwarmItFIX robots in sheet metal milling process

Veeramani, Satheeshkumar, and Sreekumar Muthuswamy. "Hybrid type multi-robot path planning of a serial manipulator and SwarmItFIX robots in sheet metal milling process." Complex & Intelligent Systems 8.4 (2022): 2937-2954.

Reinforcement learning based path planning of the mobile agents with constrained locomotion for the material handling applications

Veeramani, Satheeshkumar, and Sreekumar Muthuswamy. "Reinforcement learning based path planning of the mobile agents with constrained locomotion for the material handling applications." 2020 IEEE 4th Conference on Information & Communication Technology (CICT). IEEE, 2020.

Artificial intelligence planners for multi-head path planning of SwarmItFIX agents

Veeramani, Satheeshkumar, et al. "Artificial intelligence planners for multi-head path planning of SwarmItFIX agents." Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 31.4 (2020): 815-832.

Multi-Head Path Planning of SwarmItFIX Agents: A Markov Decision Process Approach

Veeramani, Satheeshkumar, et al. "Multi-head path planning of SwarmItFIX agents: A Markov decision process approach." IFToMM World Congress on Mechanism and Machine Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.

Talks

Safe Robotic Task Execution in Self-Driving Laboratories — Guest Lecture

February 09, 2026

Guest Lecture at University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

AI-driven perception modules for Mobile-Robotic Chemists to detect anomalies in Self-Driving Labs

September 16, 2025

Technical Session at Molicular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Integrating Robots in Pharmaceutical Workflows

June 24, 2025

Technical Session at STTP on AI, Robotics, and ROS:Transforming Industrial Applications [Online], Indian Institute of Information Technology, Chennai, India

Multimodal Behaviour Trees for Robotic Laboratory Task Automation

May 22, 2025

Conference Presentation at ICRA 2025, Georgia World Congress Centre, Atlanta, USA

Advanced Robotics in Industrial Applications

November 06, 2024

Seminar talk at International Seminar on Additive Manufacturing and Advanced Thermal Energy Systems, Sathyabama University, Chennai, India

Hardware integration using ROS

June 11, 2024

Technical Session at STTP ON AI AND ROS FOR ROBOTICS [Online], Indian Institute of Information Technology, Chennai, India

Tools for Hardware integration and AI Implementation in Robotics

December 10, 2022

Expert Lecture at ATAL sponsored Two Weeks Faculty Development Program on COLLABORATIVE ROBOTS AND DRONES: CONTROLS, AI TECHNIQUES, AND APPLICATIONS ON INDUSTRY 4.0, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Chennai Campus, Chennai, India

Industrial Automation & PLC

February 22, 2022

Technical Session at STC on Integration of Robots, IoT Devices and Computer Vision in Smart Manufacturing: Fundamentals, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Chennai, India

Teaching

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Service and leadership

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