Snake Robot
2013
During my time at the Vision and Autonomous Systems Lab at the CMU Robotics Insitute, I designed the next generation housing for a modular snake robot. The "head" housed all vision and navigation components, making it critical for proper operation of the robot.
The design process lasted just over 6 weeks. Using a formal design review process, I iterated through 9 revisions before all performance requirements were satisfied. Final manufacturing was outsoured to a third party machine shop, selected out of many shops through a standard RFQ process. The project was completed on deadline, including a fixture for off-robot testing using an Arduino and Matlab. My work culminated in coauthoring a publication for IEEE's ICRA 2014, one of the largest robotics conferences in the world.