30 Aug

See my research poster and presentation titled "Printable Robotic Boat Swarms with Actuation and Sensing Capabilities" for an overview of my contributions from Summer 2021.

03 Aug

I have begun testing different designs for mounting servos and DC motors in any orientation and at any position on each of the boat hull morphologies, as shown in these photos: servoMountDesigns.pdf. I'm testing them by hand first (using tape and scissors), before sending them off to Jill for her...

27 Jul

I have built the first prototype of a boat with rudder steering. This video shows the rudder steering in action. We ran the boat four times and obtained these results: When the rudder is straight, the boat goes (relatively) straight. When the rudder is tilted to the left, the boat veers to...

18 Jul

After completing the boat's electrical base, I began testing different paper chassis designs for driven propellers and paddlewheels. I used the dashboard joystick to control the motors wirelessly while noting each boat's performance. The paddlewheels use servos driven by the Adafruit Servo FeatherWi...

01 Jul

I set up the Adafruit Huzzah32 Feather Board with the FS90R continuous rotation servos (powered by an external power bank), the Adafruit NeoPixel FeatherWing, and the Adafruit 9-DOF Absolute Orientation IMU Fusion Breakout. In addition, I got the Roco library working locally on my computer and wil...

06 May

"LOGiCS is a project funded by the DARPA program on Symbiotic Design of Cyber-Physical Systems. The aim of the project is to develop design tools and techniques that augment human designers with an AI co-designer towards achieving significant improvements in design productivity as well as design 'su...