Portfolio

Project Overviews

Autonomous basketball shooting robot

  • Winners in the final project demonstration

  • Designed a 12 in * 12 in the robot with an arc shooter which can shoot baskets up to 5 feet

  • Employed Infrared line sensors for motion control using ARDUINO

  • Developed and coded a state machine for the operations

Design and manufacturing of color-based sorting mechanism

  • Designed a miniature conveyor belt system for process simulation

  • Brainstormed a cost-effective solution to adjust the conveyer belt tension

  • Calibrated TCS3200 color sensor for segregating RGB colors

  • Secured the 2nd position in the project demonstration contest held in the university

Design of a pick and place cartesian robot with image processing

  • Designed and modeled a 3 axis Cartesian robot in Fusion 360 for pick and place operation

  • Employed image processing using OpenCV (Python) to extract coordinates of the object

  • Performed cost and structural analysis for selection of mechanisms and materials

Design and manufacturing of an electric two-wheeler and E - golf cart

  • Fabricated the swing arm of electric two-wheeler with machine tools including lathe machine and angle grinders

  • Secured All India Rank 2 in the first edition of ETWDC held by SAE

  • Designed and modeled the outer fairing of the electric golf cart in Fusion 360

  • Analyzed and selected an OEM rear differential with a 4:1 reduction for torque transmission for the e-golf cart

  • Implemented adaptive braking and lane departure assist using ultrasound sensors and ARDUINO in electric two-wheeler

Design and prototyping of a smart parking system

  • Designed and developed a miniature smart parking model for our college campus by interfacing using a MUX and RaspberryPi

  • Employed infrared sensors to detect vehicle parking status

  • Proposed a business model for commercialization of the system

Leadership Experience

  • Led the transmission department of the SAE electric vehicle team in our university

  • Managed communications and financial documentation for the industry-sponsored capstone project

  • Conducted webinars and tutorials for new recruits on transmission basics and design

  • Conducted lab sessions for second-year undergraduate students on basics of MATLAB and robotic toolbox for robot modeling

  • Mentored a group of 5 students to get them ready to manufacture and design transmission systems for electric vehicles.


Non Technical experience

Starbucks Barista (August 2021 - Present)


Publications

Mangesh Saraf1, A Agarwal1, A Chaudhary1 and A Ganthale1