STARLab April 2020 - Present

✔ Introduced a drone-based testbed to test spacecraft control systems in a 1-G indoor laboratory

✔ Introduced a dynamic emulation method to emulate spacecraft with different dynamics and/or mass properties

✔ Investigated feasibility of emulating translational and rotational dynamics of a spacecraft using a 6-DOF drone

✔ Introduced a mathematical model of translational and rotational dynamic emulation

✔ Analyzed the stability of the dynamic emulation in the presence of loop delay

✔ Demonstrated the feasibility of the dynamic emulation method using numerical simulations in MATLAB/Simulink

• • Designed PID control for attitude and position control of the drone in Simulink

  • Designed a close-loop dynamic emulation in Simulink

  • Introduced a metric to verify the feasibility of the dynamic emulation in Simulink

  • Emulated spacecraft with different mass and inertia on a 6-DOF drone

✔ Designed a 6-DOF/omnidirectional drone

• • Design the chassis and connector in Siemens NX

  • Made connectors from Delrin and aluminum

  • Made motor mount from Delrin

  • Used RCbenchmark test stands in order to find the best combination of brushless motors, propellers and ESC's for the drone. Finally, I chose bidirectional propellers and ESCs for the drone

✔ Tested the dynamic emulation method using RCbenchmark test stand and Pixhawk 4 autopilot in Simulink

✔ Tested the dynamic emulation method on the Quanser's QDrone

✔ Build a flight controller and ground station model using Simulink's UAV Toolbox Package for PX4® Autopilots. I successfully tested the Simulink models to command motors and receive sensors data

✔ Currently, working on assembling the drone

Team Lead, Payload Subsystem of Iris CubeSat (CCP CSA)

STARLab Feb 2021- Present

The Iris CubeSat project (former ManitobaSat-1) is a collaboration between the STARLab, the University of Winnipeg C-TAPE Lab, York University, and the Interlake School Division. The Iris CubeSat will expose the geological samples to the space environment in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to study how samples change their optical characteristics after exposure to space radiation.

As the payload subsystem lead, my contributions to the Iris CubeSat project are:

✔ Payload AIT

• • Leading and performing payload final assembly

✔ Leading payload project management and scheduling for phase D

• • Scheduling tasks and tracking them on Playbook

  • Coordinating tasks with the science team, manufacturing companies and other subsystems leads

  • Setting up regular meetings with other subsystems leads and science leads

✔ Payload control board programming

• • Leading a team of undergraduate students in payload software development

  • Mentoring and overseeing the team's work

  • Personally writing and testing payload software

✔ Gave presentation of payload progress to CSA and Nanoracks at the Critical Design Review (CDR) and Test Readiness Review (TRR)

✔ Leading payload Fight Model (FM) parts manufacturing and procurement

• • Updating CAD models of payload parts using Siemens NX

  • Preparing CAD files and drawing for machining and anodizing

✔ Setting up a repository at the Magellan Aerospace Winnipeg's clean room to store and organizing FM parts and hardware

✔ Leading and performing vibration test of geological samples

✔ Writing engineering documentations

• • Assembly procedure

  • System requirement, verification and validation matrix

  • Test and inspection plan

Team Associate, Payload Subsystem of Iris CubeSat (CCP CSA)

STARLab May 2020 - Feb 2021

✔ Led and performed a vibration test of geological samples

✔ Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of CubeSat structure

• • Developed the FEA model of the Iris structure using Siemens NX

  • CSA used this model as an example to run a Q&A session for CCP teams

✔ Attend Pre-CDR review meeting

Graduate Researcher

Intelligent Monitoring, Control and Maintenance (University of Manitoba) May 2019 - March 2020

University of Manitoba May 2019 - December 2022

• • Thesis: Reconfigurable and Empirical Spacecraft Emulation Testbed (RESET) to test spacecraft control systems using a 6-DOF drone.

  • The summary of the courses I have taken in my master is as follows:

    1. Space system engineering: A

    2. Spacecraft dynamics control: A

    3. Engineering optimization: A+

    4. Designing your career: A

  • GPA: 4.08/4.5

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering

K. N. Toosi University of Technology Sep 2013 - Sep 2017