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Grad Projects at Stanford:
Grad Projects at Stanford:
Semi-Autonomous Pick-and-Throw Robot
Domains: Mechatronics, Mechanical Design, Embedded Software
Final project for ME 218B - Smart Product Design Applications
Designed and developed a robot that can collect acorns from a field and shoot them on the other side.
Features: Tape sensing and following, self-aligning with the wall, navigating around the arena, collecting mechanism using arm and magazine to collect multiple objects at once, shooting mechanism, beacon sensing using IR.
Personal contribution - implemented navigation and sensor functionalities, chassis design and manufacturing (laser cutting and 3D printing), effective sensor placement within the robot
Project website - contains electrical, software and mechanical design in detail.
BuddyBot: The Greeting Robot
Domains: Mechatronics, Mechanical Design, Embedded Software
Final project for ME 218A - Smart Product Design Fundamentals
Designed and developed a greeting robot that users can interact with.
Features: Input moods to receive visual and audio feedback, play a game using the joystick, retractable arm to hold keys and coat, and a dispenser to get treats.
Used 2 PIC-32 microprocessors, an audioboard with headphone jack, multiple arcade buttons with in-built LEDs, a joystick, matrix of LED modules, a touch sensor, 2 IR sensors (to detect a wave), and 2 servo motors for the arm and chocolate dispenser.
Personal contribution - implemented functionalities of the 2nd microprocessor - LED buttons, audio features, mechanical design and fabrication.
Project website - contains electrical, software and mechanical design in detail.
BIOME: Building Use Analyzer and Dashboard
Domains: Design, Sustainability, Workshop Tools, Data Management, Dashboard
Team AREC, ME 310 - Global Engineering Design & Innovation; Sponsors: Immofinanz, 6B47, Simacek (based in Vienna)
Designed sensor boxes that automate heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) using occupancy and air data
Created flows and interfaces to provide actionable and real-time ESG data to tenants, facility and asset managers
The system targets 28% of overall emissions in the EU and can reduce 15% of energy use in commercial buildings
Personal contributions - led feature additions, dashboard making (KPI monitoring), mechanical design and fabrication
Modern Chess
Domains: Design, Workshop Tools
Designed and manufactured a minimalistic chess set for ME 203 - Design and Manufacturing
Materials - Aluminium for pieces and lower layer of chess board, Birch plywood for upper layer of chess board
Manufacturing Processes - Milling and powder coating for pieces, sheet metal forming for lower layer of chess board, plunge routing and polishing for upper layer of chess board
Dimensions - 18 in by 18 in for chess board with height around 0.5 in, 1 in by 1 in with variable heights for the pieces
Waste Segregation in Trash Chutes
Domains: Video Prototyping, User-Centric Design
Used video prototyping techniques to test user interactions with a smart waste segreation system within trash chutes. Course: ME 397 - Design Research Theory
Problem: Old residential buildings have a single trash chute for all kinds of waste. Hence, waste segregation is not possible.
Proposed Solution: Single trash chute, with buttons at the entry to select the type of waste, and a motorized end that aligns the end of the chute to the correct bin.
The video prototype aims to demonstrate how the technology would work and how the user will interact with it, before creating the actual prototype.
A Harness-Powered Cannon-Shaped Paper Bike
Domains: Design, Workshop Tools
A warm-up team project as a part of ME 310 - Global Engineering Design Thinking, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Designed and developed a chariot, made entirely out of paper-based materials, that can navigate around narrow roads.
Experimented with different design ideas - including a segway mechanism - finally choosing a unique and innovative harness-powered vehicle.
Undergrad Projects at BITS Pilani:
Undergrad Projects at BITS Pilani:
BlueTooth-Enabled Digital Spirometer Prototype
Domains: Medical Device, Prototyping, Arduino, 3D Printing
Designed an IoT-enabled spirometer using Arduino that can measure and improve lung capacity that costed only $15.
Developed an Android app that connects with the device through BT and presents healthy and current lung capacity.
3D-Printed an ergonomic and modular outer casing with removable mouth-piece to allow multiple users. GitHub.
Spirometer Poster (Kanishk _ Ritvik).pdf
Automated Identification and Defect Detection for 3D Printed Products
Domains: 3D Printing, Manufacturing Optimization, Image Processing
Project as a part of Indo-German Centre for Sustainable Manufacturing.
Developed a model for in-situ edge detection of a 3D-printed object to compare the CAD and the actual print.
The model can identify most in-process printing defects, and then alert the user through a dashboard.
Collaborated with a team consisting of BITS Pilani and TU Braunschweig students.
IGCSM_Group-4_Final_Presentation.pdfReport - Kanishk Chaudhary.pdfHourly-Based Well-to-Tank Emission Assessment of Electric Vehicle Charging in Turkey
Domains: Electric Vehicles, Sustainability, Energy, Life Cycle Assessment
Project under Prof. KS Sangwan, for course MF F485 Sustainable Manufacturing.
Abstract:
Hourly-Defined Life Cycle Assessment (HD-LCA) is a technique to assess how hourly changes in the energy mix of a country impacts the environmental impact of utilising the electricity on a particular date and time. In this study, this technique is used to find what would be the changes in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions if an electric vehicle is charged at some particular times. An LCA comparison between a battery electric vehicle and an internal combustion engine vehicle is included, the energy mix of Turkey is studied, emissions data of various sources of energy over its life cycle is collected from literature, and then taking an exemplar week in November 2019, the GHG emissions at each hour of the week is calculated. The study concludes with checking what are the optimum times of charging an electric vehicle such that it is most sustainable, and policies are recommended for Turkey, including a focus on renewable energy, adopting a carbon tax or credit system, and introducing various push and pull factors to improve adoption of electric vehicles in the country.
Modelling of chatter vibration in thin-wall turning
Domains: Manufacturing, Modelling
Found limiting width of cut for unstable turning operation, prepared stability lobe diagram of chatter and solved the governing second order delay differential equation on MATLAB to find a surface roughness approximation.
Course Project - ME F313 Production Techniques II under Dr Tufan C. Bera.
Project report and code available on GitHub
Extending LAMMPS to implement oriented particle system potentials
Domains: Computational Mechanics, Software Extension, Molecular Dynamics
A project under Dr Amit R. Singh, to extend an open-source molecular dynamics software called LAMMPS (developed in C++).
This extension adds in OPS potentials, interatomic forces and torques, which would help in simulating particle motion of OPS.
Code and documentation available on GitHub
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