High Force Haptic Device
My initial project upon starting at UW-Madison was to design and build the power electronics and software drivers for a haptic device. Although there are haptic devices commercially available, we […]
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Low-Cost Cardiac Catheter Analog
For my research into control of small scale continuum manipulators, I required a manipulator that would behave in a substantially similar way to modern robotic catheters. With commercially available models […]
Moshball
Moshball is a game implemented using OpenGL as a course project for Perry Kivolowitz’s Computer Graphics course (CS539) at UW-Madison. The idea for the overall game mechanics come from Perry, […]
Panorama Photo Stitcher
This MATLAB script takes in a sequence of photos, and combines into a single image panorama. To align the images properly, SIFT feature points (developed by David Lowe of UBC) […]
Dynamo: A Simplified Dynamics Engine for Force Feedback Applications
Dynamo was created as part of a course project in Professor Dan Negrut’s Multi-body Dynamics course (ME751). It allows the user to combine joints, bodies, actuators and spring/damper elements to […]
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