Undergraduate Research 2013 - 2014:
During the spring of 2013 I worked on the development of innovative displays of Wind information for the mechanical engineering department. These my displays consisted of a 3D interactive touch screen which could display real-time data collected from the university's meteorological installations. The 3D environment of the display was created using OpenGL wrapped into Java by the Java Monkey Project. This allowed for rapid development in Java while still maintaining the power and speed of OpenGL. The display was hung prominently in public areas around the university campus. To create the display required extensive work into OpenGL rendering and 3D calculations.
After the sucsessful completed of the wind data display I transitioned to development on the newly acquired Baxter research robot. The University of Wyoming acquired a Baxter Research robot for the purposes of innovative controls research. As such several professors and Ph.D. students wanted to use the platform for various development. I was the lead technical operator for these initiatives and provided a fundamental code base onto which the research projects could be built. My duties in this project included: development of fundamental Baxter behaviors in C++, creation of documentation and training materials to prepare individuals for working with the platform, and development of demonstration code to present the capabilities of the platform to the public. This work was conducted on the supervision of Dr. Suresh Muknahallipatna picture below. Information about the developments at UW can be found here.
After the sucsessful completed of the wind data display I transitioned to development on the newly acquired Baxter research robot. The University of Wyoming acquired a Baxter Research robot for the purposes of innovative controls research. As such several professors and Ph.D. students wanted to use the platform for various development. I was the lead technical operator for these initiatives and provided a fundamental code base onto which the research projects could be built. My duties in this project included: development of fundamental Baxter behaviors in C++, creation of documentation and training materials to prepare individuals for working with the platform, and development of demonstration code to present the capabilities of the platform to the public. This work was conducted on the supervision of Dr. Suresh Muknahallipatna picture below. Information about the developments at UW can be found here.