Mobile Robotic Arm

A remotely operated robot with a 6-DOF arm and a compliant multi-jaw gripper that retrieves a ball from a 600 mm beaker, packaged in a 300 × 300 × 150 mm footprint with injection-moldable joints.

300 × 300 × 150

Footprint (mm)

750 mm

Vertical reach

~3.66 kg

Mass

Recumbent Bicycle

A fully faired recumbent for ASME HPVC that reached 50 mph on human power. I led frame, drivetrain, and fairing design, cutting frontal area by ~60% and fairing cost from ₹1.8L to ₹40K with in-house composites.

50 mph

Top speed

0.1

Drag coefficient

−60%

Frontal area

Fixed Wing UAV

Multi-disciplinary optimization of a fixed-wing UAV for a 5 kg payload, sizing the wing, airfoil, and tail in MATLAB and OpenVSP, then validating with ANSYS CFD.

≈ 17.7 kg

Total weight

≈ 250 W

Power required

10

Aspect ratio

Quadcopter

A cargo quadcopter frame refined with topology optimization for a ~25% weight reduction, printed in Nylon using additive manufacturing and simulated under payload and wind.

~25%

Weight reduction

350 g

Payload

170 mm

Arm length

FSP Parameter Study

A 3D thermomechanical FEA model of friction stir processing on Al 5083, mapping how tool speed and plunge depth drive temperature and residual stress.

Al 5083

Material

389 °C

Peak temperature

4

Test cases

Six Sigma Optimization

A DMAIC project that used a fractional factorial DOE and ANOVA to cut ink delamination defects from 200,000 to ~0.03 DPM.

200,000 DPM

Baseline defects

~0.03 DPM

Optimized defects

6 factors, 48 runs

DOE

Impact of Wing Sweep

A Hess–Smith panel method written in Python, coupled with a boundary layer solver, showing how wing sweep trades lift slope and L/D for delayed transition.

Beam Impact Test

An instrumented impact test of a PVC beam using strain gauges and DAQ, comparing quasi-static and dynamic response against elastic beam theory.