Gautam's Creations
Here are some things I've built that you might be interested in. The Projects & Research section consists of wider-scope, complete projects. The Études section is more of an unkept garden of unfinished side-projects and useless bits of code that I may revisit later.
Projects & Research
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A Robot that Sees the World
An omnidirectional autonomous ground robot I built and programmed for Engineering Open House 2024 @ UIUC. Won Distinguished Robotics Exhibit.
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Making an Electric Car Drive Itself
Drive-by-wire system that uses classical vision for lane detection and following. Final project for ECE 484 @ UIUC.
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HILSIM - Hardware-in-Loop Simulator
A basic hardware-in-loop test system for the TARS avionics bay.
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Rocket Live Telemetry System
A LoRa radio-based live uplink/downlink between a rocket and a ground station.
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Illinois Space Society - Spaceshot Software Team Lead
My time leading the avionics software team for the Illinois Space Society's Spaceshot project.
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MITHRIL
A Mars mission design team I was part of in freshman year. Paper published in AIAA Ascend.
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Bretl Research Group
Robotic arms and quadcopters. An outline of the work I'm doing for the Bretl Research Group @ UIUC.