Projects

UCI Rocket Project

Onboard GoPro footage from Spaceport America Competition. Successful flight and recovery to 7,500 ft apogee.

Successful data collection and validation of motor performance. Thrust derived from accelerometer data.

3D Printed GoPro camera mount in PETG. Design optimized through CFD simulations.

Cubesat shelves to house electronics. The cubesat uses an Arduino and I2C sensors to record pressure, temperature, humidity, and IMU data to a SD card.

Avionics bay features removable sleds to mount electronics that allows individual components to be tested easily. The avionics was 3D printed out of PETG, and uses heat set inserts to mount sleds.

Flapping Wing
Micro Air Vehicle

Responsible for structural design as well as electronics/software research and implementation for the FWMAV research project at UCI. This project is developing a "quadflapper" that aims to emulate the flight characteristics of birds/insects.

Successful test flight of the "Beta" quadflapper. The complete quadflapper weighs 220 grams and is able to fly with a flapping frequency of 30Hz.

Designed and manufactured extremely lightweight frame and chassis that reduced over 60g from previous iteration while increasing rigidity through carbon fiber truss design.

Designed a vertical test bed that proved flight with the Beta mechanism was achievable. This also functioned as a controlled test bed to allow for more reliable PID tuning that greatly increased stability.

Precision Soldering completed on the micro flight controller for receiver, capacitor, battery connection, and motor connections.

Pneumatic Autonomous Robot

Mechanical Design and Fabrication lead for an autonomous robot that derives its propulsion from a single piston inside powered the air in the tire held above.

Designed rack and pinion gear train that converts the linear motion of the piston to rotational motion of the rear axle. A one way bearing in the driven gear ensures only forward rotation.

Competed CAD including all electronics and pneumatics. The design is assembled with easy access screws and nuts that allows for quick disassembly for tweaking any parts of the steering or propulsion.

Completed fabrication with 3 layer design that allowed for easy access of electronics. Heavily utilized laser cutting and 3D printing to manufacture precise parts in the frame and propulsion.