Kunal Kaushik

Exploring two-axis stabilization with reaction wheels, IMU feedback, and custom drivetrains.

• Designed perpendicular reaction wheels for stabilization in two axes.
• Integrated IMU feedback, Raspberry Pi compute, and a custom 1:8 gearbox.

Designed a compact ESP32 board to bring motion sensing and an OLED display into ski goggles.

• Moved from a perfboard prototype to a compact, four-layer board.
• Integrated USB-C charging, motion sensing, and a goggle-mounted display.

Designed and built a competition robot with custom mechanisms, odometry, and vision-guided alignment.

• Custom CNC chassis, mecanum drivetrain, and sprung odometry.
• Vision-guided intake and multi-stage slides for manipulating game pieces.

Built an ESP32 breakout board that brings motor control, servo connections, and motion sensing together.

• Integrated an H-bridge, servo port, and motion sensing around an ESP32.
• Designed power regulation and wireless firmware update support.

Trained a computer vision model to identify misaligned semiconductor wafers from microscope images.

• Built and augmented a microscope-image dataset, then trained YOLOv9 on an A100 GPU.
• Evaluated alignment detection with precision, recall, and F1.