Mentor: Dr. Atindra Mitra
Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP) member
Researched the concept of Position Adaptive Direction Finding (PADF), in which multiple UAVs coordinate themselves in cooperative fashion to localize a non-cooperative hidden EM emitter.
Used a variety of equipment, such as IRIS WSN nodes and Vicon motion capture cameras to simulate a real-world urban environment with GPS-like capabilities inside the MAV lab at WPAFB.
Mentor: Dr. Atindra Mitra
Minority Leaders Project (MLP) participant
Participated in Tech Warrior exercise at Fort Drum, NY, in which objective was to incorporate a dual UAV tandem approach to maintain surveillance and operation without the need for direct line-of-sight communication or visual observation.
Used stationary camera and mobile UGV as tandem for test demonstration purposes.
Mentor: Dr. Gordon Skelton
Worked on NASA space project coding an autonomous land rover (robot).
Developed basic motion code in Player/Stage software for easy functionality of robot movement.
Worked on wireless protocol for communication between robot and base as well as other units.
Mentor: Dr. Gerald Morris
Used VHDL to create discrete components such as carry look-ahead adders to develop more complex algorithms such as vector summation.
Employed a hybrid approach (HLL/HDL) to port vector summation algorithm to an FPGA using an SRC-6 reconfigurable computer
Multiple primers on various topics, e.g. VHDL, RCs, LaTeX, Synplify Pro, Xilinx…
Traveled to Department of Defense (DoD) conference in Pittsburgh, PA
Mentor: Dan Eng, P.E.