Masters Student in Mechanical Engineering and Robotics
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Formula student
Formula student is an internationally renowned engineering design challenge. The aim is to build a single seater race car.
I was a part of our university team for two years.
1) Initiated for the first time (in our university) the use of light-weight carbon-fiber composites.
2) Designed and built the steering system and steering kinematics from ground up using tire data
3) Designed and built the vehicles braking system.
4) Built the Chassis wire frame CAD
5) Did the final vehicle assembly in CAD by mediating with various team departments.
Our team won the first prize in the Cost Event, Formula Student Italy, 2015. We are the first Indian team to win the first place at an international Formula student event.
Tilt rotor drone
A fixed rotor drone can be stabilized very well in a given area, something that isn't possible with a conventional winged aircraft.
Fixed wings drones, however, are inefficient over long distances. This problem can be tackled by a tilt-rotor aircraft combining the best of both these types
I attempted to build and stabilize a tilt-rotor drone for my undergraduate capstone project
Though the tilt-rotor did not work I concluded by building a fixed rotor quadcopter, and gained decent knowledge in the whole process
EMG sensing device
This system was built to capture bicep muscle flex. With the ability to sense this signal various actuators can be driven, creating a human-machine interface.
The device captured impulses with electrodes fixed on the arm with a conducting gel interface.
The weak signal was then amplified by Op-Amps, passed through a band-pass filter and fed to the ADC of an arduino.