STEM@GTRI Research
Over the past two summers (June 2024-July 2024 & June 2025-July 2025), I interned at the Georgia Tech Research Institute's STEM@GTRI Summer Internship Program under the Intelligent Sustainable Technologies Division at the Aerospace, Transportation, & Advanced Systems Lab. My first project focused on automating a UR3 Industrial Cobot utilizing Visual Language Models and designing a bean bag gripper to automate pick and place tasks. My second project explored the issue of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in poultry houses, coding fundamental chicken behaviors into GT Robotarium GRITSBotX robots. Find more about the STEM@GTRI Program below.
2024
My first internship project focused on designing a poultry-based game for the Georgia National Fair in Perry, Georgia. My group ultimately agreed on designing a pick-and-place claw machine game, and we designed a bean bag gripper mechanism, allowing for beads to grip a chicken tender via airflow. To automate this process, we used Vision Language Models such as BLIP to help our Logitech C920 recognize chicken tenders. To code the cobot and the User Interface for the game, we utilized rospy (ROS) and OpenCV.
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2025
This past summer, my intern group explored avian influenza in the poultry industry through modeling chicken behavior in poultry houses. To begin, we developed a behavior tree framework to model the behaviors. From there, we made seperate programs with each behavior to test individual functionality. We were able to use the Georgia Tech Robotarium's GRITBot X robots for this project and set up our environment through the use of the Georgia Tech robotarium's libraries and API's. All programs were coded using Python3. Below, you can find the research poster & successfully programmed chicken behaviors.
