Projects

Origami Inspired Wheel Transformation for the Development of Robotic Applications

Year: 2023

The project describes the creation of a bistable origami-based changeable wheel transformation made by folding sheets of paper coated with various materials. We create a support shaft chassis construction with a double rack and a single pinion mechanism that retains the origami-inspired wheel and further modifies its shape. The project also presents a geometrical study of these structures based on linked joints and hinges.

Am I feeling Drowsy?

Year: 2022
Vision: Open Source Project

This project is a drowsiness detection system. It uses a camera to monitor the EAR (eye aspect ratio) of the driver. After it reaches a certain value, an alarm is played to wake the driver and make him focus on the road. An integration of Twilio API is done to send 'sms' to emergency contact numbers.

Increasing Robustness of Deep Network Model of Neurological Disease

Year: 2022

The project aims at using a pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (EfficientNet B7) to see if it can perform human expert-level diagnoses on Alzheimer’s disease dataset and check if regularization and data augmentation methods could improve its performance.

Electroversity

Year: 2022
Vision: Open Source Project

The Vision for this open-source project is to engage people, be it young students or adults, in diving into the realm of Electronics starting with the basic development board i.e., using Arduino. Repository welcomes community based contributions in terms of new circuit builds and programs.

Project Garuda

Year: 2022
Hackathon: LA Hacks

Crowd Monitoring takes place with the help of a camera module which is assembled at the lower portion of the drone to cover more area as compared to the cctv camera's whose line of sight is minimised because of their static position.

AURA-ES: Advanced Unit for bio-Regenerative Abode for Earth and Space

Year: 2021
Competition: Deep Space Food Challenge
Position: Team π was announced as the Winner among the top 10 international teams to win Phase-1
Media: NASA Announcement and Methuselah Foundation

A retractable life-support system engineered for Earth and Space which is designed to encompass a unique approach of plant farming along with advanced plant processing unit with a self-sustaining environment aiming to reduce the ecological footprint and thus making a positive impact.

James Webb Space Telescope

Year: 2021
Competition: NASA Space Apps Challenge 2021
Position: Team Tattva was announced as the Global Nominee

With techniques of origami, we developed a scale model of NASA’s JWST. These origami patterns are a foundation to highlight the telescope's elegant engineering and artistic inspiration.

Implementing Blum's Conscious Turing Machines

Year: 2021
Summer School: Wolfram Summer School 2021
Project Track: Science and Technology Track

To build a mathematical architecture for the Conscious Turing Machines [CTM's] as proposed by Manuel Blum and Lenore Blum in their paper “A theoretical Computer Science [TCS] Perspective on Consciousness” where they describe CTM as Conscious AI inspired from the Theatrical Analogy of Bernard Baars. Our Project deals with the implementation of dynamics of Conscious Turing Machines and rather than dealing with a conscious state.

SERV-E: At your Service

Year: 2021
Competition: HackMIT 21: Annual Hackathon hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Position: Team π was announced as the winner in sponsored hack in 'ReThink Automotive' category.
Announcement: HackMIT 21 closing ceremony

The project aims in bringing elderly people their desired items to them with the help of a non holonomic robot arm having 4 degrees of freedom. In the current stage we have used a bluetooth sensor via which the user can control the movement of robotic arm and along with is present an ultrasonic sensor to avoid any obstacles within the range of 50 cm.

Innovation Think Tank Certification Program 2021

Year: 2021
Competition: Siemens Healthineers ITTCP 21
Position: Our team secured overall 2nd position.

Our team propsed two ideas with respect to 2 problem statements i.e., Lack of Safety and Sterilisation and Meagreness in Pandemic Preparedness Plans wherein for the first problem statement we ideated an autonomous robot operated via EMG sensor by the doctor having a UV capability. For the second problem statement we ideated an origami inspired movable shelters.

Pi Kart

Year: 2021
Hackathon: HackDavis 21: UC Davis's premier hackathon for social good.
Position: Best Hardware Hack sponsored by DigiKey.

The project involved prototyping a bluetooth controlled Kart for the user to connect to their mobile device and control their trolley and also the kart supports an automatic scanning system which registers the item after the qr code gets scanned. At the end, the user directly pays which negates any sort of hassle.

Pi: Unmute Yourself

Year: 2020
Hackathon: HackTX 2020: Annual hackathon at the University of Texas at Austin.
Position: 3rd place Winner and Best Hardware Hack sponsored by DigiKey

The project aims in solving the problem faced by people who are born deaf and mute. In their professional life they become a part of discrimination and biasness. The project presents a hardware prototype giving voice to the user whereas the software is responsible for training particular sign languages with specific words.

Going Contactless with Electromyography

Year: 2020
Problem Statement: In view of COVID-19 Pandemic
Course: Biomedical Instrumentation

The project comprises of an EMG sensor worn by the user where the signal obtained are limited by the threshold to avoid the user touching his/her mouth such as sending a response action function which is auditory(alarm) and visually(led lights).

Static Test Pad: SR1729

Year: 2020
Training: Student training/internship project at STAR Labs.

The project aimed at designing a static test pad for a solid rocket motor with assigned constraints. The design incorporated some unique features i.e., Telescopic mechanism for adjusting its overall height and variable clamping mechanism to adjust the different sizes of rocket motor.

T3E aka The Third Eye

Year: 2020
Hackathon: IvyHacks 2020: a joint hackathon hosted by 6 Ivy League university hackathons (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Princeton)!.
Position: Best Healthcare Hack and Best Hardware Hack sponsored by DigiKey

We are using Yolo V3 object detection and Classifier to classify the surroundings and with the help of GTTS or Google's Text to Speech Conversion we aware the person about the forthcoming environment which will aware and alert the person wearing our prototype. We used AI THINKER ESP32 CAM as our source for real time video streaming which is attached to our prototype and then with the help of arduino we further made it work as a Camera Web Server where we embedded our code.