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NASA Student Launch Challenge (Buckeye Space Launch Initiative)

Payload Mechanism Designer

  • Goal: Engineer a soft-landing payload compartment (max of 4g on impact) launched atop a solid rocket powered carbon fiber rocket for the 2023-24 NASA Student Launch Challenge

 

  • Contribution: Contributed to construction of carbon fiber frame of rocket. Co-designed the auto-rotating deployment mechanism and performed ANSYS Fluent analysis on landing aerodynamics

 

  • Outcome:  Successful launch of rocket. Landing impact force of 3.5 g; Top-20 national ranking

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Payload
Deployed state of payload with 4 autorotating propellers providing lift
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OSU Liquid Rocket Project (Buckeye Space Launch Initiative)

Propellent Feedline Constructor

  • Goal: Simulate and test fire LR-101 engine using custom-made ground support equipment

 

  • Contribution: Contributed to the simulation of the LR-101 engine geometry in ANSYS Fluent. Co-designed and constructed ground support equipment. Involved constructing and assembling leak-proof piping and valves to connect an insulated liquid oxygen tank and a kerosene tank to the launch mount.

 

  • Outcome: Successful simulation and test fire of LR-101 engine

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LR-101 GSE
Ground support equipment for LR-101 test fire operations
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Voider Space Robot

Propulsion & Structures Lead

  • Goal: Design and complete full CDR of propulsive space robot that acts as a tool caddy for astronauts during EVAs as well as a lifeguard during emergency situations

 

  • Contribution: Designed 6-DOF compressed N2 gas propulsion system consisting of 16 thrusters symmetrically arranged around the robot frame. Validated via delta-V and moment of inertia calculations over time. Designed robot frame and 8 DOF robotic arm structure. Validated using ANSYS structural simulations replicating launch conditions.

 

  • Outcome: CDR of space robot with all components and costs explained and justified.

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Toolbox Configuration
Voider in its toolbox configuration. Two arms anchor the robot in place while two arms retrieve tools from the toolbox cabinets

Bike Aerodynamics

Experimental Lead

  • Goal: Evaluate 3D photogrammetry technologies and accuracy of using lower fidelity bike models in evaluating changes in Cd

 

  • Contribution: Designed and repaired CAD models based on 3D bike scans. 3D printed high and low fidelity models and conducted wind tunnel tests at a range of velocities to collect experimental Cd results. 

 

  • Outcome: Agreement with hypothesis that Cd would change by 2-5% when using low fidelity bike models when compared to the high fidelity model

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Full fidelity test
Full fidelity model tested in wind tunnel

Razorbill Robotics

Founder & President

  • Goal: Design and build a multi-terrain robot that can traverse land, water, and air

 

  • Contribution: Led a 6-engineer team to research and design the best approach to traversing land, water and air. The robot drone is capable of forward flight using a propeller on each wing. For tricopter hovering capability, the robot has two wings that fold alongside the fuselage using a linear actuator and a propeller integrated on the main fuselage. To maneuver through water there is a propeller attached to the back of the robot. 

 

  • Outcome: Designed CAD model and built initial 3D-printed prototype and validated body kinematics computationally.

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EUN1 blueprint
Blueprint of first prototype EUN1
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