UBC Rocket Avionics Hardware

Designing and testing PCBs for flight critical electronics in UBC Rocket's rocket launch to space.

The Context

The Base 11 Space Challenge offers a $1M dollar prize to the first student-led team to design, build, and launch a liquid fueled rocket to space. UBC Rocket's Whistler-Blackomb Rocket is attempting to be the winner of this challenge. Our dedicated team meets several times weekly and we are hoping to launch by December 2021.

I was on the Avionics and GNC(Guidance, Navigation and Control) Team. The Whistler-Blackomb space-shot rocket avionics is a redundant system capable of tracking position over time, sequencing the recovery system, detecting apogee, ground and flight termination, data acquisition, and ground station communication.

Robot Competition

Designing, building, and programming an autonomous robot to compete in the Engineering Physics Robotics Competition

The Context

Every year the UBC Engineering Physics program runs a course in instrumentation design and holds a robotics competition. Sixteen groups of four students design are tasked to design mechanical, electrical, and software systems for an autonomous robot to complete a series of tasks and score the maximum number of points. This year we made autonomous recycling robots. Check out the full website I made using the link below.

Autonomous Sailboat Challenge

Designing a motion planning system to send an autonomous robot to compete in the Vic-Maui International Yacht Race

The Context

UBC Sailbot is an engineering design team that strives to design reliable autonomous sailboats. Since I have been on the team, UBC Sailbot has been focused on building their second large-scale, fully autonomous saiboat, named Raye. The goal was for Raye to compete in the Vic-Maui Yacht Race, a 2300 nautical mile long yacht race that runs from Victoria, BC to Maui, Hawaii. Raye was to be the first fully autonomous vessel to participate in the race. The 2020 Vic-Maui Yacht Race was cancelled due to COVID-19 so we are now aiming for a launch in the summer of 2021.

I have been working on the Motion Planning Software Team. We have been building a system that will chart a course and interface with the controller being developed by our other software subteam.

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Python (numpy, matplotlib, unittest), Open Motion Planning Library, ROS, Linux, Git, CI

Machine Learning Self-Driving Car Simulation

Training a neural network for autonomous driving in a simulated environment

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