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A standalone, crawlable engineering project archive at /projects. Browse robotics, control, perception, AI and mechanical systems documented from problem definition through iteration and transformation.

13PROJECT RECORDS
DOMAIN
STATUS
01 Prototype
ROBOTICS / CONTROL / PERCEPTION

Screw Tightening Bot

Vision-guided Cartesian gantry for automated screw-driving in simulation.

A 3-DOF Cartesian gantry workcell designed around a detect → target → move → drive → retract automation loop. Vision detections are bridged over TCP into ROS 2 and consumed by a motion state machine.

RoboticsControlPerceptionSystems Engineering
02 Working
ROBOTICS / ROS 2 / KINEMATICS

3-Axis Gantry Robot

Parametric Cartesian robot model with staged trajectory generation.

A reusable 3-DOF Cartesian gantry workspace that converts a target point into a staged Y → X → Z → hold → retract trajectory and visualizes the robot in RViz.

RoboticsControlMechanical
03 Active
PERCEPTION / ROBOTICS / ML

Bolt Turn Counter

Real-time ratchet-aware turn counting from hand landmarks.

A webcam-based measurement tool that classifies tightening grips and accumulates clockwise fingertip rotation while ignoring ratchet return strokes.

PerceptionRobot IntelligenceControls
04 In Progress
PERCEPTION / COMPUTER VISION

Gear Defect Detector

YOLOv8 detection, tracking and HSV component-vision pipeline.

A computer-vision pipeline assembled around a two-class gear dataset, YOLOv8n training, multi-object tracking and an HSV screw/component detector intended to feed the Screw Tightening Bot.

PerceptionAIRobotics
05 Completed
AI / PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE

AI Gear Failure Prediction System

Multi-output XGBoost system for gear failure stress and crack depth.

A predictive-maintenance dashboard that estimates gear failure stress and crack depth from geometry, classifies a maintenance state and generates engineering recommendations.

AIMechanicalControls
06 Completed
MECHANICAL / AI / ANALYSIS

Gear Contact Mechanics ML

GearAnalyst Pro: ML prediction of contact stress and crack depth.

A refactored ML pipeline that cleans material-pair data, engineers an equivalent stiffness feature, benchmarks multiple model families and packages the analysis as an engineering dashboard.

MechanicalAIControls
07 Completed
BIO-MECHANICS / SIGNAL PROCESSING

Knee Joint Dynamics Extraction Pipeline

IMU-to-mechanics system identification for a spring-mass-damper knee model.

A reusable pipeline that converts 6-axis IMU leg-swing recordings into frequency, damping, stiffness, torque and ACL/PCL stiffness estimates using a second-order model.

MechanicalControlsAISignal Processing
08 Prototype
AR / MECHANICAL / PERCEPTION

Transformer Assembly AR Training Tool

Image-classification-assisted augmented reality training for transformer assembly.

An AR-guided assembly trainer combining SolidWorks parts, a lightweight image classifier and Unity/Vuforia overlays. It was developed as Case Study 2 for the manufacturing research manuscript.

MechanicalPerceptionRoboticsElectrical
09 Completed
AI / ONNX / 3D

KrushiAksh

Crop suitability recommendation pipeline with portable ONNX inference.

A crop-recommendation pipeline that maps soil N/P/K conditions to suitable crops, exports the model to ONNX and pairs the inference workflow with Blender assets.

AIMechanical / 3DRobotics
10 Working
EEG / DATA ACQUISITION / BCI

NeuroLog

Desktop EEG acquisition and session-logging application.

A desktop application for real-time EEG acquisition from an Emotiv EPOC X+, live waveform display, session logging and export to CSV, NPY and FIF formats.

ElectricalEmbeddedAI / Signal
11 Completed
PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE / ML

Turbofan RUL Prediction

NASA CMAPSS remaining-useful-life prediction baseline and transfer-learning study.

A coursework-level predictive-maintenance project comparing a Keras baseline with a transfer-learning variant for turbofan remaining useful life prediction.

AIControlsMechanical
12 Complete — v0.1.0
AI AGENT / SOFTWARE SYSTEM

IRA

Persona-based LLM agent CLI with persistent SQLite memory.

A command-line LLM agent with persona/runtime contracts, persistent SQLite memory and dual Gemini/Groq backends.

Robot IntelligenceAI
13 Released — v0.1.0
ROBOTICS TOOLING / DEVELOPER INFRASTRUCTURE

ros_gz CLI

ROS 2–Gazebo scaffolding CLI for repeatable package creation.

A small CLI that generates ROS 2–Gazebo package structures for ament_cmake, ament_python and ament_pyc projects.

RoboticsControls & Automation