Undergraduate research
UAV application for SAR
Fixed-wing UAV deployment and detection methods for maritime search and rescue.
Smith Engineering articleRobotics / Aerospace / Embedded Control
Engineering Design Portfolio
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.
Industry R&D
Arctic Sensing Node
Modular sensor node deployment in the Arctic for environmental monitoring.
Dominion articleProjects
Each 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.
Indoor Drone Positioning System
Developed a custom TDOA-based indoor positioning system for drone navigation and control.
Nose-Deployed Drogue Rocket
Modular rocket concept with thrust vectoring, canards, and nose-deployed drogue recovery.
Modular Flight Controller
Swappable STM32-based flight computer stack for rockets and robotics platforms.
2 DOF Ball Gimbal
Self-contained two-axis BLDC gimbal stabilizing a DJI FPV system and ZED X Mini depth camera.
Field-Oriented Control Board
Custom RP2040 gimbal controller running closed-loop field-oriented BLDC motor control.
Canadian UAS Competition
Competition-scale autonomous passenger VTOL airframe with integrated propulsion, avionics, battery, and payload systems.
International Micro Air Vehicles Competition
Autonomous indoor drone that placed second among undergraduate teams at IMAV.
Autonomous Carbon Dioxide Mapping Robot
ROS2 skid-steer robot that autonomously maps indoor CO2 concentration into ventilation heat maps.
VTOL Design
Experimental tilt-wing VTOL prototype that achieved stable quadcopter flight and accurate wing actuation.
Semi-Autonomous Robot Design
Rescue-style robot study focused on particle-filter localization from sparse ultrasonic sensor observations.