During my semester abroad with SEA, taking the class “Directed Oceanographic Research” gave me the opportunity to complete a research project and communicate my results in a technical write-up. One of my primary motivations when studying with SEA was to learn more about the role robots played in the ocean... [Read More]

During my Summer Student Fellowship with WHOI, I researched computer vision-based calibration methods that would be extensible to deep-sea manipulators. Hydraulic manipulator arms are commonly used for a variety of underwater tasks requiring a high degree of both strength and dexterity, ranging from scientific tasks such as capturing delicate live... [Read More]

The Ground Robotic Autonomous Vehicle Lab (GRAVL) is a student-run research group at Olin where I’ve worked since I arrived at Olin. During my first year, we set our sights on research that would focus on automated dirt road leveling. We recognized that self-driving car technology has been rapidly advancing... [Read More]

For those who’ve played the game Portal or Portal 2, you probably recognized the unmistakable sentry turret from the games based on the display image (if not, here’s a side-by-side comparison for reference!) [Read More]

This project involved modifying a prebuilt tugboat and adding sensors, sensor mounts, Arduinos, and other hardware to upgrade the platform from being remote-controlled to a fully autonomous tugboat with radio communications to an off-board computer. To prove sufficient autonomous behavior, we programmed our boat to be able to do several... [Read More]

Inspired by my first year experiences working on the ROS map navigation project, I worked on a project which involved a deep-dive into the math and theory behind using extended kalman filters for SLAM as my final project in Quantitative Engineering Analysis. Working on the ROS map navigation project was... [Read More]

This class project was part of a segway robots module centered on learning about controls. The base deliverable was to get the robot to stand, drive forward, and spin, but we took this a step further and got the robot to also drive along a parametric curve. [Read More]

My friends and I wanted to learn more about SLAM, so we thought it’d be a good idea to use the final project in our Software Design class to get a headstart in learning about what goes into this complex problem. We first used the ROS package hector_slam to get... [Read More]

The topic of this project was “wearable sensing” and analyzing sensor data for a user’s benefit. My project partner and I were both involved with the fire arts club, so we asked ourselves - Could we collect data on someone’s poi spinning to determine what trick they were using, then... [Read More]

In QEA, we programmed NEATOs (robot vacuums) to complete a series of tasks while also learning the math behind the code. This project was split into a series of three smaller projects, including: [Read More]