Pranav Narayan Email & Phone Number

College Park, Maryland, United States

- Trained a Python Diffrax-based Neural ODE to accurately represent complex orbital motion around various types of regular and irregular celestial bodies, achieving a model loss under 1% in LEO- Constructing a series of databases within Docker containers to visualize complex telemetry streams in Grafana - Simulating satellite flight telemetry, with.

- Conceived solar-based power generation and distribution for a 3U CubeSat with a power-hungry experimental phase-change material payload, intended to maintain a minimum power input of 10 W during minimal consumption and 20 W at full experimental runtime- Delegate tasks across three separate projects to a team of 5+ individuals, maintaining communication.

- Designed a custom experimental thermodynamic cycle system, as an experimental setup, using phase-change materials, to simulate thermal patterns seen on a CubeSat in LEO- Created a control system for a time-varying thermal phase-change material setup, sustaining a constant heat input throughout experimental runtime by using PIDs to calculate necessary.

- Organize general body meetings and coordinated scheduling and event details with the Department of Aerospace Engineering- Lead efforts to secure over $30000 of funding from the Aerospace Engineering Department, Student Government, and corporate partnerships every semester- Build relationships with industry and academia partners to maintain a pipeline of.

- Managing an accurate membership database for an organization of 150+ members of SEDS@UMD- Maintaining organizational file systems to ensure accurate and rapid access for all members- Collect, record, and analyze census and demographic data for the organization

- Implementing ROS2 Extended Kalman Filter nodes for feature-level sensor fusion and localization in an autonomous 6DOF robot, integrating IMU, DVL, and camera data and reducing computational cost by 30%- Building Behavior Trees in C++ for autonomous motion planning in a RoboSub competition environment, enabling completion of necessary motion-based tasks.

- Research and develop, leading a team of 5, a solenoid-based pneumatics setup to replace all servos in the control of an underwater torpedo and grabbing claw, and achieve 100+ psi through each solenoid- Design an electronic control system to separately and autonomously activate 4 different solenoids, reduce power draw from the previous motor system, and.

- Researched the efficacy of several propeller configurations for unmanned drone flight, including coaxial, contrarotating, and ducted propeller systems- Design several pairs of contrarotating, coaxial propellers, in CAD, to achieve 60+ Newtons of thrust, analyzing several configurations to determine the most effective using CFD software

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 4.0

Activities and Societies: SEDS@UMD, Robotics @ Maryland

Education record