B.Tech Mechatronics
- Kinematics, linear control theory, sensors and instrumentation
- Microcontroller-based system design, signal and systems
- First publication: a safety and navigation system for two wheelers
Engineering on Earth, building towards space.
I’m an aerospace engineer working on real hardware and system integration. At D-TA Systems in Ottawa, I work on EMSO trailer platforms, bringing together structures, payloads, power, thermal management and mechanical interfaces into systems that actually have to work outside of CAD.
I completed my master’s in aerospace engineering at Carleton University, where I focused my coursework on orbital mechanics, space control, space robotics and 3D machine vision. My thesis took a different route: experimental multiphase flow through Venturi aspirators, using custom 3D-printed geometries, test data and CFD.
Most of the work on this site sits somewhere between those two worlds: spacecraft trajectories, robotic systems, mechanical design, simulation and the occasional problem that probably started with “how hard could this be?”
MATLAB and STK models of launch, orbital transfer and insertion at the Sun-Earth L1 point, with stability analysis and multi-frame coordinate transformations validating the trajectory across mission phases.
Read the writeup ↗An autonomous arm designed and simulated for on-orbit capture of a defunct satellite. Forward and inverse kinematics, manipulator dynamics and motion control worked through the full capture sequence.
A room rebuilt in 3D from 398 hand-collected laser measurements. RANSAC plane fitting, geometric binning and SVD flattening turned a sparse point set into a closed model, checked against a ray-traced virtual room.
Read the writeup ↗Designed and 3D printed custom Venturi geometries with integrated instrumentation, then used dimensional analysis to build analytical performance models from single and multiphase air-water experiments.
Validated the experimental findings against CFD in ANSYS Fluent and OpenFOAM across multiple geometric configurations and operating regimes.
Investigation of air bubble sizes in naturally-aspirated Venturi flows
Prajapati, C., Vyas, A., MacPhee, D. · International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Vol. 201, 105751Design and development of smart safety and navigation system for motorbikes and two wheelers
Kumar, H., Vyas, A., Kataria, S. · Materials Today: Proceedings, Vol. 62, Part 3, pp. 1620–1625