What is Optimal Control? Lots of problems we encounter in the real world can be boiled down to “what is the best way to get from point A to Point B while minimizing a certain cost”. For a quadcopter, it’s how can I stay in my location while minimizing my battery usage. For a spacecraft,…
Whenever I made plots for my work on neural networks, they were always flat and boring. Then, a few weeks ago, I had an idea for visualizing a neural network “thinking” through a problem as it was solving it. Using my work on artificial intelligence to control interplanetary trajectories, I created up the following gif.…
A Quick Estimate A few days ago I was invited to take part in a mock architecture study looking at Deep Space CubeSat missions. As a multi-body dynamics fanboy, my heart jumped at the possibility of using the interplanetary superhighway to preserve our meager delta-V budget. The downside of using the interplanetary superhighway is that…
Balancing a Marble Imagine you had a marble and you wanted to put it at the point between the Earth and the Moon where the force of gravity was equal from both. The two forces would cancel out, and the marble would remain in that location forever. If the sun and the earth were not…
Hello, This website is meant to act as a showcase of projects that I have worked on. As I am studying Aerospace Engineering most of my projects are tangentially related to it. I’m hoping to structure this website in the following way Project pages – These are pages dedicated to the overview of a project. …
