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UCLA · RoMeLa · Fall 2025
UCLA · 5-DOF Cake Icing Robotic System
Designed and fabricated a 5-DOF robotic manipulator with Cartesian motion, rotation, and syringe-based extrusion using custom 3D-p...
Robotics
Kinematics
3D Printing
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UCLA · Fall 2025
UCLA · Bio-Inspired Elastic Tail Dynamics
Modeled a curvature-driven elastic tail as a discrete elastic rod in low-Re fluids. 192-case parameter sweep showed near-linear propulsion scaling with amplitude and frequency; glycerol yields 1000× greater displacement than water.
DER
MATLAB
Bio-Inspired Robotics
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UCLA · Winter 2025
UCLA · Translational 1-DOF Compliant Micro-Mirror
Designed and analyzed a flexure-based micro-mirror using FACT topology synthesis. FEA-validated natural frequencies of 11,667 rad/s and 146,869 rad/s satisfy order-of-magnitude separation requirement.
Compliant Mechanisms
MEMS
FEA
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UCLA · Fall 2024
UCLA · Knee Exoskeleton for Quadriceps Myopathy
Designed a motor-driven knee exoskeleton to assist gait in patients with 35–70% quadricep force loss. Optimized torque profile, motor selection, and transmission ratio using OpenSim CMC and MATLAB.
Bionics
OpenSim
Exoskeleton
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UCLA · GuptaLab · Fall 2024–Present
UCLA · Laser-Driven Micro-Impact Platform
Table-top platform generating impact velocities up to 4 km/s and ~10⁸ s⁻¹ strain rates. Engineered multilayer thin-film coatings a...
Solid Mechanics
Optics
Instrumentation
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UCSD · Winter 2024
UCSD · KUKA YouBot Mobile Manipulation
Full motion planning and Feedforward+PI control pipeline for the KUKA YouBot in MATLAB and CoppeliaSim. Three scenarios evaluated including overshoot, best-case, and custom task configurations.
Potential Fields
Dijkstra
MATLAB
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UCSD · Winter 2024
UCSD · UR3e Robot Laboratory Series
Three-lab series covering robot programming (Tower of Hanoi), forward kinematics (product-of-exponentials), and numerical inverse kinematics (Newton–Raphson) on the Universal Robots UR3e with Robotiq gripper.
UR3e
Kinematics
MATLAB
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UCSD · Bioinspired Robotics Lab · Winter 2024
UCSD · 2-DOF Gantry for Eel Robot
Designed a 2-DOF gantry enabling smooth planar motion for a bio-inspired eel robot during locomotion experiments. Attenuated >9...
Bio-Inspired Robotics
Mechanism Design
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SUT · Robotics System Lab · 2022–2023
SUT · Teaching Iranian Sign Language via VR
Built real-time deep learning models for sign language gesture recognition integrated into a Unity VR environment. The AI-driven e...
Deep Learning
VR / Unity
IEEE Published
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SUT · Spring 2022
SUT · GA-Optimized PID Control of SCARA Robot
Tuned PID controllers for a SCARA robot using a Genetic Algorithm in MATLAB, achieving ~20% improvement in tracking accuracy and r...
Control Systems
Optimization
MATLAB
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SUT · Winter 2022
SUT · Robot Path Planning: Potential Fields & Shortest Path
Implemented time-optimal trajectory planning in CoppeliaSim under velocity and acceleration constraints, completing pick-and-place...
Motion Planning
CoppeliaSim
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SUT · Winter 2022
SUT · Automatic Control of Ball & Beam System
Designed and implemented automatic control systems for a ball-and-beam plant using root locus, frequency response, and state-space...
Control Design
MATLAB / Simulink
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SUT · Fall 2021
SUT · Reverse Engineering of a Can Opener
Complete reverse engineering and redesign including technical drawings, blueprints, tolerances, and full manufacturing documentati...
CAD
Reverse Engineering
GD&T
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SUT · Spring 2021
SUT · Multi-Functional Sports Step Platform
Full mechanical design and development of a sports training platform including structural FEA analysis, component selection, CAD m...
Mechanical Design
FEA
Fabrication
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