I am a young South African in my final year as an undergraduate mechanical engineering student.
My time in the United States has allowed me to explore my desire to become a engineer and roboticist,
and I use this website to curate my interests and experiences that have been developed
and matured through research and personal projects.
I hope you enjoy inspecting these endeavors as much as I have enjoyed undertaking them.
This is an ongoing undergraduate research project that simulates the dynamics and physics of a real UGV using URDF files, ROS, and Gazebo.
The applications of this project include the rapid testing and refinement of obstacle-avoidance algorithms without the need for real-world testing.
As part of my Senior Design team's stair-climbing robot project, a testing platform had to be built for all saftware and hardware components to be tested, integrated, and refined before being implemented onto the final robot platform.
With so much time spent indoors focusing on academics and research, it's quite refreshing to step outside, travel, and admire the natural beauty around me whenever possible. Photography is one of the ways I enjoy capturing and preserving that beauty.