Paawan Garg

Advisor: Prof. Jacob Rosen
1-Developing a VR game which involves physical movement of human hand, legs as well as the torso.
2-Rehabilitating using active aiding for movement of the body by employing the already developed robotic Exo-skeleton.

Advisor: Prof. Veronica Santos

Nounou is an assistive feeding robot designed with the motivation to aid physically challenged people (especially people disabled due to Parkinson's syndrome or some kind of cerebral palsy).

This robotic device is a 6 DOF robot ( ABB IRB 120) with an end-effector designed to take the form of cutlery. Nounou follows the natural human arm kinematics of eating which was ascertained after extensive study of the eating pattern of a group of… Show more

Advisor: Prof. Veronica Santos

Nounou is an assistive feeding robot designed with the motivation to aid physically challenged people (especially people disabled due to Parkinson's syndrome or some kind of cerebral palsy).

This robotic device is a 6 DOF robot ( ABB IRB 120) with an end-effector designed to take the form of cutlery. Nounou follows the natural human arm kinematics of eating which was ascertained after extensive study of the eating pattern of a group of individuals.

Nounou was designed in Dassault Solidworks. The kinematics and dynamics were performed using MATLAB. The control of this device is based upon Joint space Inverse dynamics control and was realized using Simulink.




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Advisor: Prof. Ajit Mal
This robot is being developed with the aim of detecting mechanical defects in composite plates such as those present in airplane wings. The robot searches for and gives the type and location of the defect in the plate, with the help of lamb waves. This project was carried out at Material Degradation Characterisation Laboratory at UCLA. This research is going to be published soon.

Advisor: Prof. Jonathan Brigham Hopkins

1-Designed an exactly-constrained optimal 5 DOF planar flexure system in Solidworks for active vibration compensation of print head and devised the planar manufacturing scheme for the complete machine.
2-Formulated the layout for decoupled linear actuation and fiducials and scripted code in MATLAB to perform the modal analysis.
3-Analysed(FEA) the design for the deformation to be under 2.5mm/5 degrees and to check for the thermal stability… Show more

Advisor: Prof. Jonathan Brigham Hopkins

1-Designed an exactly-constrained optimal 5 DOF planar flexure system in Solidworks for active vibration compensation of print head and devised the planar manufacturing scheme for the complete machine.
2-Formulated the layout for decoupled linear actuation and fiducials and scripted code in MATLAB to perform the modal analysis.
3-Analysed(FEA) the design for the deformation to be under 2.5mm/5 degrees and to check for the thermal stability in COMSOL.

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Advisor: Prof. Dennis Hong
• Modelled, Designed and Manufactured the Kinematic links, brackets , prismatic joints, structural members and the gripper that is capable of plucking, pulling, picking and Placing small objects.
• Programmed the driving code for Arduino Mega that will govern the movements of Robot and the orientation and functioning of the gripper mechanism
• Solved the Robot’s Inverse Kinematics that will allow us to make the robot reach any particular point in the… Show more

Advisor: Prof. Dennis Hong
• Modelled, Designed and Manufactured the Kinematic links, brackets , prismatic joints, structural members and the gripper that is capable of plucking, pulling, picking and Placing small objects.
• Programmed the driving code for Arduino Mega that will govern the movements of Robot and the orientation and functioning of the gripper mechanism
• Solved the Robot’s Inverse Kinematics that will allow us to make the robot reach any particular point in the Workspace.
• Technologies used: Dassault Solidworks for Modelling and sketching, ANSYS Workbench for design and Analysis, Arduino IDE for developing code, MATLAB for Animation and Testing, laser Cutting, 3D Printing and forming tools for manufacturing.

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Advisor: Prof. Rajit Gadh
In this research, an increase in the peak load demand and its negative impact on the grid due to en-route charging are discussed in particular, which can be rectified through the use of stationary battery energy storage system.

Advisor: Prof. Nithesh Naik
The issue of material handling and inventory management in an industry is one of the huge problems as it increases the manufacturing time and costs due to pilferage and damage. Such limitations are now being overcome by employing autonomous vehicles that transfer the in-process
inventories and materials quickly and without any pilferage which not only minimises the time but also the overall cost. This project dealt with the design and development of a small… Show more

Advisor: Prof. Nithesh Naik
The issue of material handling and inventory management in an industry is one of the huge problems as it increases the manufacturing time and costs due to pilferage and damage. Such limitations are now being overcome by employing autonomous vehicles that transfer the in-process
inventories and materials quickly and without any pilferage which not only minimises the time but also the overall cost. This project dealt with the design and development of a small sized yet quick Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) which runs on Arduino Micro-Controller powered by ATMEGA-2560 Micro-Processor and employs line follower technique for its operation. The AGV that we developed is small and compact relative to generalised ones and is towing type.This AGV will carry out the process in roughly three steps: Attachment of container onto AGV, Transportation to the desired station and detachment of the container from AGV.It is incorporated with Ultrasonic sensors that enable obstacle detection like Human Interference hence asserts safe working environment. Show less