Projects
This is my Project Page highlighting a few of the projects I worked on. I take pride in having been able to complete them and keep some of the learnings. Although these are very different from each other and deal with different aspects of Mechanical / Electrical / Computer Science engineering and Mathematics, with each I learned a little more about the importance of systematic decision-making and how to approach a brand-new problem with 0 background. Happy to share.
In this project, I predict the energy consumption when the driver is resting in their Class 8 Sleeper Cab. I use physics-based modeling to predict the HVAC load and Machine learning to predict energy usage from in-cab utilities. This was a part of the US-DOE SuperTruckII program with PACCAR.
In this project, with my 3 friends, I built a suspension damper for a mid-segment economy car in India. This damper uses a non-Newtonian fluid instead of the regular damper fluid to provide a comfortable ride through speed breakers AND hard cornering ability by changing its stiffness at command.
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Self Learning Engine Cooling
In this project, along with my teammate, I used reinforcement learning on the engine cooling management system. This allows the engine to operate at the right temperatures while optimizing energy consumption without having apriori information.
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Will the truck trip?
In this project, I studied the vehicle dynamics of an AASHTO WB62 tractor-trailer to calculate the off-tracking in 2 different test scenarios. Looking into a constant velocity, constant radius turn, and single and double lane change maneuver I was finding what speed the truck would topple.
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Truck. Payload. Smash
I got to live every man's dream of colliding two trucks head-on. But I could only afford cheap thrills by doing it in simulation. This project got us the answer to a real-life incident: Why the payload on a class 6 truck carrying CNG cylinders toppled during a crash?
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Battery Management System
While this project was part of a course at my graduate school and with a ton of support from the Professor, the amount of learning from this made me dedicate a tile to it. It covers a full battery cycle; from discharging to charging by CC CV and then cell balancing.
