Other High Tech Projects

After completing the Columbia Swarm as my undergraduate senior project I modified the robots that I built for two classes at UW, Embedded Systems and Smartphone Programming. I also got to design and mentor a group of engineers to build a very similar robotic platform as a career enrichment opportunity. Pictures of the modified robots are shown below:

A Grunt with three ultrasonic sensors and an RFID card reader that was used to autonomously navigate a set course.

The RFID Grunt navigating a course based on RFID cards embedded into a known course.

A smartphone controlled Grunt that used the phones camera to drive the grunt towards a moving target.

A grunt modified to control pan and tilt servos while under smartphone control.

The in progress Collaborative Arduino Search and Mapping project's robot that I designed while at Boeing.

The finished CASM robot.

Test driving the mapping capabilities of the CASM robot.

Block diagram of a micro-fluidic MEMS pH sensor that I designed at UW.

A model of a MEMS half adder that sums two binary inputs based on the electrostatic inputs.

Project Documentation

We produced a very detailed report for the embedded systems class that details the different aspects of the RFID enabled Grunt. It can be found here.

We made a presentation that highlighted the smartphone control Grunts and it can be found here.

A paper I wrote on a MEM's based pH sensor can be found here.

A paper I worked with a group on that details the theoretical construction of a MEM's based logic device can be found here.

I've always been quite interested in robotics and this helped me greatly in my career. I wrote a bit about my journey in robotics on the Iseman Foundation website and examples of even earlier robots I made are highlighted there. Check that out here.