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Ottawa, Canada Aerospace Engineer · MASc, Carleton University

AnshumanVyas

Mechanical engineer at D-TA Systems. The projects here are my own engineering work outside the day job.

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About

Profile

I’m a mechanical engineer at D-TA Systems in Ottawa, where I lead structures and integration on EMSO trailer platforms. The job covers the structures themselves, payload integration, power, thermal management and the mechanical interfaces that tie them together.

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 was experimental: multiphase flow through Venturi aspirators, measured with custom 3D-printed geometries and validated against CFD.

The projects on this site are the space side of that background: spacecraft trajectories, a capture manipulator and a LiDAR reconstruction, modelled from first principles in MATLAB.

Elements
Base
Ottawa, Canada
Current
D-TA Systems
Structures & Integration
Focus
Astrodynamics
Mission & trajectory design
Space robotics
Degree
MASc Aerospace Eng.
Carleton University
Tools
MATLAB · STK · Python
CoppeliaSim · ANSYS Fluent
SolidWorks · Fusion 360
Papers
2 published
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Capabilities

Toolset

Astrodynamics

  • Orbital transfer and insertion modeling
  • Sun-Earth L1 trajectory design
  • Orbital stability analysis
  • Multi-frame coordinate transforms
  • STK, MATLAB, numerical propagation

Space robotics

  • Forward and inverse kinematics
  • Manipulator dynamics
  • Motion control and capture sequencing
  • Workspace and reachability analysis
  • CoppeliaSim, MATLAB

Simulation and CFD

  • ANSYS Fluent, OpenFOAM
  • Simulink
  • Multiphase and single-phase flow modeling
  • Dimensional analysis, performance models
  • Experiment against CFD validation

Mechanical design

  • SolidWorks, Fusion 360
  • Structural and deflection analysis
  • Tolerance analysis, GD&T
  • Mass, power and thermal budgets
  • Packaging and thermal trade studies

Systems and integration

  • Interface control documents
  • Requirements and verification methods
  • Payload integration: power, RF, network
  • Reliability and availability budgets
  • Supplier cost and performance trade-offs

Programming and test

  • Python, MATLAB, C
  • Numerical methods and ODE solvers
  • Test planning and rig design
  • Sensor, pressure and flow instrumentation
  • 3D printing and prototype builds
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Selected work

Index
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Satellite launch and Sun-Earth L1 transfer 2024

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.

MATLABSTKAstrodynamicsTrajectory design
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6-DOF space debris capture manipulator 2024

A six-joint arm designed to grapple a fixed point on the derelict ENVISAT satellite and carry it away. Denavit-Hartenberg parameters, a closed-form inverse solution, and a capture path planned through joint space.

MATLABCoppeliaSimKinematicsSpace robotics
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LiDAR room reconstruction 2024

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.

MATLAB3D machine visionPoint clouds
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Unmanned survey of a drinking-water reservoir 2023

An aircraft chosen, an operation designed around it, and the safety case that would let it fly. Three-stage platform selection, a nine-phase concept of operations, and a JARUS SORA assessment taken to SAIL II.

SORAMission designSTKConOps
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Three-aircraft autonomous survey of the Bay of Fundy 2023

Aircraft requirements derived from a whale survey concept of operations, then three deconflicted waypoint routes and an operational volume sized from a total system error budget.

QGroundControlMAVLinkPath planningSORA
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LiDAR topographical survey of Banff National Park 2023

Two square kilometres of mixed terrain mapped from 100 m above ground. Sensor chosen on pulse rate and field of view, two survey patterns 530 m apart in altitude flown in one sortie, and a SAIL IV case for flying inside a protected park.

LiDARSurvey planningSTKSORA
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Research

Publications
MASc thesis · 2023–2025

Multiphase flow in Venturi aspirator systems

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.

2026

Investigation of air bubble sizes in naturally-aspirated Venturi flows

Prajapati, C., Vyas, A., MacPhee, D. · International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Vol. 201, 105751
2022

Design 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
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Path

2018 → now
Aug 2018 – Jun 2022 Manipal University Jaipur

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
Jun 2021 – Jun 2022 Defy Aerospace

Mechanical Design Engineer, UAV Systems

  • Designed the VTOL transition mechanism for a fixed-wing drone, working to aerodynamics targets across hover and forward flight
  • Built an autonomous return-to-home failsafe triggered on signal loss
  • Led assembly and acceptance testing of the Solfox quadcopter, procurement through multi-condition flight verification
Sep 2023 – Aug 2025 Carleton University

MASc Aerospace Engineering

  • Thesis on multiphase flow through Venturi aspirators: 3D printed geometries, custom instrumentation, CFD validation
  • Chose orbital mechanics, space control, space robotics and 3D machine vision as coursework
  • Teaching assistant across labs, problem sessions and grading
Apr 2025 – present D-TA Systems

Mechanical Engineer, Structures & Integration

  • Leads mechanical and payload integration for multi-domain EMSO trailer platforms across air, land and maritime
  • Authors interface control documents from system architecture down to power, RF and network interconnects
  • Owns mass, power, thermal and reliability budgets, and the supplier trade studies behind them
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Get in touch

Email

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