Team STRIDE | Electrical Subsystem
Jan '19 to Present
Team STRIDE is a student technical team which is currently developing an autonomous quadruped for easy maneuvering through difficult terrain where a traditional four-wheel drive can fail.
- Currently involved in designing and simulating proper electrical sub-circuits to ensure battery protection and managing the electrical assembly of the entire quadruped
- Employed to calculate the power budget for the electrical system in order to establish seamless functioning of various components and sub-circuits
Sound Source Localizing Robotic Vehicle
Institute Technical Summer Project | Institute Technical Council | Jun '19 to Aug '19
- Built an autonomous robot that applies the concept of sound triangulation to locate a coplanar sound source in a disturbance-free environment
- Implemented the LM358 audio-amplification circuit to obtain an analog input from the sound source
- Performed analog-to-digital conversion of the input signal using MCP3008 and fed this signal into a Raspberry Pi using SPI communication protocol
- Used the numpy and scipy libraries in Python to store and process the data for eliminating the noise due to non-idealities using the Fast Fourier Transform package
- Utilized the TDOA algorithm to calculate the rotation angle from the data acquired and then employed differential mechanism to rotate the vehicle towards the source
ABU Robocon 2019
Jan '19 to Apr '19
ABU Robocon 2019 was a robot competition wherein a manual (or semi-autonomous) and an autonomous bot from each team competed to complete various tasks each worth a particular number of points.
- Implemented throwing mechanism in the manual robot by employing double-acting pneumatic cylinders with solenoid valves to hurl an unsymmetrical object over a large range
- Assisted in the fabrication of various components and assembly of manual and autonomous robots
- Achieved All India Rank 9 in Stage I of RoboCon India out of 50+ national teams
General Code to construct a conductance matrix for resistive circuits
Sep '19 to Nov '19
This was the course project for EE 111 (Introduction to Electrical Systems) under course instructor Prof. Himanshu Bahirat.
- Involved building a conductance matrix for a resistive circuit with only independent sources based on topology of the network provided as a netlist
- Involved constructing the injected current vector and solving the Node Voltage Equation to obtain voltages at each essential node in the circuit