Sayeed Ali

Experience

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  Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida

  May 2023 - Dec 2023

  • Designed a PID Controller via LabView that controlled the angular position of an electromechanical pendulum's flywheel while maintaining constraints of settling time, rise time, and percent overshoot resulting in a performance of 1% steady state error and a 3 second settling time.• Created a mathematical model of an electromechanical motor, flywheel system via state space representation by applying impulses to the motor, flywheel system and analyzing physical parameters to assess system parameters such as inertia and friction. Utilizing the mathematical model, the LQR control algorithm was incorporated to develop PID gains which led to the control of a pendulum an inverted state for about 5 seconds. Show less • Created a strain gauge weight transducer by soldering strain gauges to a self assembled Wheatstone bridge circuit that had the ability to measure the weight of a water bottle through LabView.• Conducted free vibrational testing on various beams of differing materials (steel and aluminum) to analyze various frequency and material beam properties via Modal Analysis. When assessing each beams impulse frequency response, a MATLAB script was created that utilized both a FFT and Finite Difference Approximation to identify each material’s resonance while simultaneously approximating data for noise generated within strain gauges. Show less

  • Electromechanical Fly Wheel Control Optimization

    Sept 2023 - Dec 2023

  • Mechanics of Materials Property Investigations

    May 2023 - Aug 2023
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  Machine Intelligence Lab (MIL)

  Jan 2024 - Sept 2024

  Mechanical Engineering Researcher

  • Designing and tuning an autonomous robotic submarine controller that enhances submarine’s dynamic traits while simultaneously ensuring that IMU and DVL of robotic submarine are working as efficiently as possible with minimal steady state error and noise. • Assessed the robotic submarine’s center of mass and buoyancy by creating a 2x4’ plywood and mass hook mechanism so the dynamic characteristics of the robotic submarine could be optimized for control. • Integrated an IMU within a robotic submarine system by stripping and soldering IMU and DVL wires together enhancing the process of collecting and analyzing motion data over extended periods of time. • Designed and 3D printed a Raspberry Pi mount by creating a sled through SolidWorks, optimizing space within one of the robotic submarine’s subassemblies. Show less

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  Active Perception and Robot Intelligence Lab @ UF

  May 2024 - now

  Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Developed a Python GUI for automating a drone’s autonomous lake-mapping path using AI, photogrammetry, and image segmentation as part of an underwater research team. • Built an object-oriented pipeline integrating a Python GUI with Mission Planner, ensuring cohesive function execution and user interaction • Created an algorithm to convert aerial drone image pixels to latitude and longitude for Mission Planner, enabling autonomous path simulation. • Designing a drone path planning algorithm for island avoidance. Show less