I contribute to CMU’s formula-style electric racecar for FSAE Driverless through a mix of CAD design and manufacturing. I worked on carbon fiber layups and manufacturing using 3D printing. I also used SolidWorks to design the EBS Solenoid mount.
I've also gained experience in part design through multiple rounds of PDRs and CDRs
Our team built a low-cost autonomous surface vehicle for the COSMOS program to gather data on bodies of water. I worked on CAD, C++ software, and the research poster.
My contributions spanned CAD for the robot, C++ programming on embedded and acquisition paths, and data analysis that fed into how we interpreted sensor behavior on the water. We summarized the work in a research-style poster presentation.
Our final project in Carnegie Mellon’s introductory mechanical engineering course was a pill dispenser built around a fixed 2 RPM motor and specific packaging constraints. The pills needed to be dispensed roughly sixty seconds apart, which drove our mechanism choices.
We used a gear train together with 3D-printed tubes to ensure the marble accurately is dispensed on the proper interval.
As co-captain and code lead, as well as CAD lead earlier, I worked on everything from CAD design to autonomous pathing. Most notably, I CAD'd the entire robot in OnShape.
On software, I improved the team’s codebase by implementing PID and PIDF control loops for the autonomous section of the competition, which allowed the robot to conduct complex spline maneuvers for the first time in team history, leading to high autonomous scores.
Aquafiber is an autonomous robot I designed and filed a patent on. The robot utilizes hair's oleophillic properties (its ability to adsorb oil) as well as an autonomous robot that would use GPS and navigation to autonomously clean small oil spills and factory runoff.
