Mechatronic

Layered abstraction models are an incredibly useful tool to reason about the myriad functions that even simple engineering systems must employ, especially when computers are involved. They take highly unique engineering components, identify commanality among them, and what interfaces they provide, and then in chaining several of these abstractions together, an engineering practitioner is provided with a relatively simple model to describe complex behaviour. Given how useful they are, how would one make a layered abstraction model? The Open Systems Interface, or OSI, model for network communication has an answer in ISO/IEC 7498-1. Read more...

In 2018 I did an internship at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where I worked on a gravity-offload system to test mobility for a future rover mission to Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Read more...

My bachelor thesis was to design and build a dolly that could carry a heavy, sensitive payload up and down stair with minimal force necessary from the user. The solution I and my group came up with was to build a motorized dolly. Read more...

During an exchange at Lund University in Sweden, I had a course project to develop a system for Axis Communications AB to clean the windows on their security cameras when rainwater or dirt gets on them. The system did this by compressing air onboard and spraying that air onto the camera window. Read more...