Ground Systems

Leading a team of 5 to build an autonomous mobile robot as a factory automation solution for an eco-friendly injection molding packaging plant• $10k hardware budget to build 2 operating prototypes in 3 months. Custom solution is projected to decrease overhead by 50%• Designing AGV platform for multi-agent design including hardware down-scaling and centralized server (AWS Robomaker)• Working with ROS2, Rviz, Gazebo, and building on Jetson Orin Nano for initial prototype• Looking into building a factory digital twin in Nvidia Omniverse• Developing robotics simulations and AI-driven training automation for enhanced operational efficiency• Automation solution will allow the company’s planned 3x production scale and increase available factory space by 200%

Computational product design and invented mechanisms on implicit architecture and end-use AM• Applied computational design, parametric design, and variable lattice structures to product design and new mechanisms• Leveraged metal and resin-based additive manufacturing for end-use including NTop implicit modeling environment and respective CLI for TPMS lattice structures and design optimization—resulting in up to 40% savings in cost and weight• Conducted market research to enhance branding and art direction including product renderings and animations- Independently built website using Next.js based tech stack; front end deployment with Vercel. Actively updating the stack to comply with new AI-generation policies for web development• Built custom workflow (CAD/Ntop/Blender) to design several prototypes for applications such as mechanical hardware, industrial design, and biomimetics; • Experimented with optimized linkages & mechanisms including structural and FEA simulations to ensure the topology integrity• Implemented production workflows for DMLS Metal AM, aluminum electroplating on SLA resins, Continuous-fiber reinforced FDM, and toleranced 5-axis CNC-machined aluminum parts

R&D sensor testing platform for intelligent cleaning robot• Designed and built modular sensor platform to significantly improve robustness of rapidly testing and validating 20+ opto-mechanical sensor suites on commercial AI robot vacuum• Designed additively manufactured quarter panels and a universal mounting mechanism to interface with injection molded architecture of existing robot• Integrated Nvidia Jetson with existing electro-mechanical embedded systems in order to replace existing IMX8 controller and enable gpu-compute on robot hardware• Worked with ROS 2 Humble and docker containerization in order to modernize current embedded stack; successfully implemented robot teleoperation including preliminary sensor center-of-mass work to develop a robot URDF model

Experimented with DMLS optimization at the Center for Additive Manufacturing and Design Innovation (CAMDI) lab at UT Austin

Perceptive robot platform for IGVC comp.

Prompt Engineering Text Generation for Novel Fake News claims using GPT3

- Developed, optimized, and verified Revit and Autocad models for construction & HVAC; streamlined file conversion- Produced chiller system Pipeflo model used for fluids analysis under a contract with semiconductor manufacturing plant- Furthered company website data visualization using Microsoft Power Bi including writing out process documentation

Produced mechanical design and graphic design work for 10+ clients in the product design, construction, and medical device arenasClient work:- Injection molded valve hand-held mechanism to allow or disallow flow of vapor- Fixed 7x 3D files in blender to resolve overhangs, mesh inconsistencies, and deliver watertight structure- Designed, fabricated and shipped out a set of bicycle valve display pieces to hang from a christmas tree. Design mimicked the shape of snowflake and was hung in client's shop- Reconstructed a series of DICOM scans into an object fit for flexible-in-nature additive manufacturing. This was done for a physician in the medical device space who works in clinical cardiac electrophysiology. The purpose of this experiment was to test the validity of transporting compliant additive parts through a medical catheter (https://tinyurl.com/2w5tyuwc)- 2D logo animation making use of a kinematic algorithm for ball-bounce- 2D youtube intro animation for client in cosmetics industry- Parametric staircase assembly for a client in construction space that build residential homes and retail spaces