Summer Research Internship in Berkeley, California

Following the Siemens FutureMakers Challenge I was given the opportunity to assist in developing the project further, in collaboration with Siemens and UC Berkeley. A more generalised scenario of the hackathon demo was envisioned for industrial purposes, again using Hardware in the loop (HIL), "VR Testing". 

My primary objective was to create a framework in the autonomous car simulation software Prescan, that would allow for robotics applications, such as manipulators. This involved learning the Prescan software and then creating artificial constraints in Matlab and Simulink to ensure Prescan acted as expected in all scenarios.

Below is a simple example of some early framework testing where the simulated robot in real time calculates how to pick up an object and perform the action. 

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