Hans Kumar

Student . Engineer . Fraternity Brother . Percussionist .

Projects

Mechanical Gripper

I designed and manufactured a robust mecahnical gripper that could be attached to the end of a swinging arm. The gripper could succesfully grip and un grip an object and hold it through the arms dynamic motions

Delta Robot

I designed and optimized a high-speed, compliant delta parallel robot using industrial series elastic actuators. I computed forward and inverse kinematics for the robot as well as gravity and dynamics compensation. Lastly, I showed the modularity of the parallel system by adding a camera, gripper, and moving base plate in a pick-and-place demo.

Search and Rescue

I exercised principles of mechanical design to build a teleoperated robot capable of navigating rough terrain, ramps, and stairs. My team then tested the robot against other robots in varied obstacle courses.

Crane

Designed an aluminum crane using a truss structure to lift an object as high as possible and minimize overall crane weight using theoretical stress analysis in Solidworks

Medical Phantom

Worked in Computational Engineering and Robotics Lab at CMU and in cooperation with Allegheny General Hospital to develop more realistic hand models for preoperative surgical planning and resident training. The model relied heavily on three-dimensional printing and other novel fabrication techniques.

Paradiddles For Days

I developed an interactive Python drum tutor and audio visualizer using various audio processing modules. The projected was selected as one of the top fifteen term projects

UAV Computer Vision

Aided in developing software for a drone that eventually would allow it to detect cracks in large water tunnels. My research focused primarily on the development of a superpixel segmentation algorithm for the drone.

MouseTrap Car

I worked with a team of two other students to make a wooden car that could travel forward 15 feet and backwards 15 feet only being powered by a mousetrap. After several design iterations, the car was made faster and more consistent.

C0 Virtual Machine

I implemented a virtual machine for an introductory version of C taught at CMU called c0. The virtual machine successfully executes arbitrary c0 code by taking care of the low-level memory and data manipulations that c0 requires to ensure safety.

Garage Band VR

Garage Band VR was a Hackathon Project I completed for SteelHacks. I used the Leap Motion VR controller to allow users to play various musical instruments in augmented reality.

About

Hello, I am Hans Kumar! I am currently double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. I am looking for summer internship opportunities to learn more about technology and its applications in diverse areas. In my free time I love finding new places to eat and playing the drums. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in my work or even if you just want to jam sometime!

hansk@andrew.cmu.edu 484.802.3730