Robotics

Rocker Robotics — Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition

Autonomy and Controls Tech Lead for SD Mines' IGVC entry. Won Rookie of the Year. Implemented MPPI control, A* path planning, and frontier-based autonomous exploration.

Trebuchet Competition

Model identification and regression for optimal trebuchet performance — part of Rocker Robotics competition team activities.

Terrain Investigational and Navigational Automaton (TINA)

Differential drive robot with computer vision-based path detection and pixel-to-torque feedback control for autonomous course navigation.

Rocker Robotics — National Robotics Challenge

Computer Science Technical Lead for an autonomous vehicle challenge entry — computer vision, high-fidelity simulation, and RL control.