Experience·January 2026 – Present·Atlanta, GA
PoWeR Lab, ARMS Research (VIP) @ Georgia Tech
Undergraduate Lab Researcher
As part of the instrumented objects team on the GT PoWeR Lab's ARMS Research Vertically Integrated Project, I design and fabricate custom hardware fixtures that let ATI force/torque transducers and force plates capture the biomechanical data behind an assistive exoskeleton's control system.
SolidWorks · 3D Printing · Free-Body Diagrams · Sensor Fixtures
Working alongside teammates Anthony and Sam, my primary responsibility is parametrically designing custom hardware interfaces in SolidWorks — including the fixtures detailed in my Precision Disk Design Document — that are then rapid-prototyped via 3D printing to mount directly to ATI multi-axis force/torque transducers and force plates.
To keep the sensor telemetry accurate, I run static mechanical analysis by hand: free-body diagrams to trace load paths, resolve applied force vectors, and map how moments interact with the 3D-printed fixture geometry under load, so the fixtures don't introduce error into the readings they're meant to capture.
The instrumented setups are built to quantify the multi-dimensional kinetic forces behind specific hand motions from "The GRASP Taxonomy of Human Grasp Types" (Feix et al., 2016). That hardware-to-software pipeline hands off high-fidelity biomechanical data to a cross-functional team, which trains the machine learning models behind the predictive control system of an assistive exoskeleton suit.