Undergraduate research
UAV application for SAR
Fixed-wing UAV deployment and detection methods for maritime search and rescue.
Smith Engineering articleRobotics / Aerospace / Embedded Control
I had a lot of fun during my undergraduate studies. These projects capture what I enjoy most about engineering: designing, testing, failing, learning, and building things that move, sense, and interact with the world.
Undergraduate research
Fixed-wing UAV deployment and detection methods for maritime search and rescue.
Smith Engineering article
Industry R&D
Modular sensor node deployment in the Arctic for environmental monitoring.
Dominion articleEach project opens with the finished system, then steps through the design process. Projects completed with a team have team members listed at the bottom of the page.
Developed a custom TDOA-based indoor positioning system for drone navigation and control.
Modular rocket concept with thrust vectoring, canards, and nose-deployed drogue recovery.
Swappable STM32-based flight computer stack for rockets and robotics platforms.
Self-contained two-axis BLDC gimbal stabilizing a DJI FPV system and ZED X Mini depth camera.
Custom RP2040 gimbal controller running closed-loop field-oriented BLDC motor control.
Competition-scale autonomous passenger VTOL airframe with integrated propulsion, avionics, battery, and payload systems.
Autonomous indoor drone that placed second among undergraduate teams at IMAV.
ROS2 skid-steer robot that autonomously maps indoor CO2 concentration into ventilation heat maps.
Experimental tilt-wing VTOL prototype that achieved stable quadcopter flight and accurate wing actuation.
Rescue-style robot study focused on particle-filter localization from sparse ultrasonic sensor observations.