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NASA LUNAROBOTICS

What was done:

In this project, the robot couldn't just be straight bought so each part was creatively created and wired in-house. Each part was printed to have a purpose, creating over 100+ prototype functional and complex parts. Close to a year's worth of teamwork to complete a 2 x 4 robot that would fully drive itself to complete its set mission. I, alongside a team separated by three sub-teams (electrical, software, mechanical) solved that task. I worked with all teams to set and help with a straight plan of action to solve everyone’s difficult tasks.

Background:

The Lunabotics competition is a student challenge held by NASA where a team creates a robot that has a high set of rules/dimensions, while also demanding a high value of fully autonomous driving to eventually compete on a simulated moon surface. This project was finished for a competition.

Formula 1 (SAE)

What was done:

Finish the motor works of a gas-powered vehicle. This is to be done with a quarter of funding compared to 90% of competitors, fit within the power/ weight limitations, and self-teach how to rewire a bike's engine.

Background:

The Formula 1 SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) is a series of international competitions in which university teams compete to design and manufacture the best-performing racecars. The concept behind Formula SAE is that a fictional manufacturing company has contracted a design team to develop a small Formula-style race car. The prototype race car is to be evaluated for its potential as a production item. Each student team designs builds and tests a prototype based on a series of rules whose purpose is both to ensure onsite event operations and promote clever problem-solving. During my time on the team, I coordinated the power train team to complete the section to run and fit the pre-made frame. this was a difficult challenge as we couldn't just choose the most powerful engine we could possibly find due to weight, body frame space/size, and low-budget money. So we had to work around such parameters. In the end, we used a crashed motorcycle bike engine then designed mechanical parts, rewired, and fix it in place to support the frame. And not to forget, all was done under our low budget.

Digital Signal Processing (Matlab)

What was done:

Introduced a method to deblur certain objects in a photo using a given point spread function (PSF). This was done via MatLab. The first photo to the left is the output.

Background:

In the world of photography, what makes a crisp portrait image is a subject and a great depth of field. The depth of field is the range of the scene that appears focused on an image. Essentially is the ‘bokeh” (blur in the background in portrait photography). But described in a previous study, the problem with conventional cameras is that they are limited by two factors: depth of field (DOF) and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The SNR is the ratio of appropriate to irrelevant information in an interface. For a dark scene, the aperture must be widely open to maintain SNR, which conversely, causes DOF to reduce. For SNR to be maintained light must be high (lower aperture) to output a clearer photo. No matter what you choose, the objects that are not in focus will be blurred.

Complex Drawing Manipulator

What was done:

A theoretical but solved mathematical manipulator designed to draw on a complex surface, like a human body surface. With initial applications for tattooing on an arm, the completed design opens doors to new methods of tattooing, and styles of potential designs.

Background:

The tattoo industry continues to thrive; more younger generations are willing to experience this activity. However, prior research finds that tattooing is time-consuming and that people are nervous about permanently marking themselves. Therefore, a robot that makes quick, temporary tattoos can be useful. In contemporary society, tattooing has become a prosperous industry and has been much more acceptable by a lot of conservative people. The global tattoo industry currently is worth almost a billion dollars. The concept of tattoos has been a part of human culture for millennia. Automating the process would eventually make it more accessible to people, at reduced costs. There have been some tattooing machines in the market; however, the proposed manipulator design solved the frameworks to draw on a complex surface. We propose a robot that uses temporary tattoo ink that will only last for a couple of months. This robot has three.