At UF's Machine Intelligence Lab (MIL), led by Dr. Eric Schwartz, I have served as a Mechanical Team Leader since May 2023. I was able to leverage the technical and leadership skills I learned in high school to quickly rise to this position after joining the lab in August 2022.
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During my two years at the lab, I have worked on numerous projects in both technical and managerial roles. Some of my main technical projects have been the development of gripper and dropper mechanisms to be used on an underwater autonomous robot. I have also led junior lab members in developing a torpedo launcher and various structural components.
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Key aspects of my project included training end-to-end machine learning controllers, building an LSTM-CNN model with TensorFlow to predict trajectories based on telemetry and visual data, collecting and managing large datasets using Pandas, and quantifying visual degradations.
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Dropper mechanism for an underwater robot, designed to drop a small metal ball into a bin
Gripper mechanism for grasping underwater objects.
At UF's Trustworthy Engineered Autonomy (TEA) Lab, led by Dr. Ivan Ruchkin, I was the first undergraduate student to join the lab after its founding in Fall 2022.
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Throughout my 1.5 years in the lab, I progressed on a project focussed on detecting and reacting to visual distribution shifts in autonomous vehicles. Most of this work was centered around the DonkeyCar simulator, a Unity-based physics engine to simulate racing small robot vehicles.
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Key aspects of my project included training end-to-end machine learning controllers, building an LSTM-CNN model with TensorFlow to predict trajectories based on telemetry and visual data, collecting and managing large datasets using Pandas, and quantifying visual degradations.
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A DonkeyCar robot I worked to build
Output from a trajectory prediction model I created and validated in the DonkeyCar Simulator. The yellow line is the actual path a car took and the blue lines are predictions from my model.
As part of UF's Undergraduate Scholars Research Program, I am designing a novel movement and control system for a small robotic rover.
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This project is set to be complete during Spring 2025, and presented at UF's annual Undergraduate Research Expo