Research Symposium

BIO

My name is Raviverma, Chamarti. I am currently a sophomore pursuing a degree in Computer Science(BS). I am also on the pre-med track. As of now, I am undecided as to which of the two fields (medical or software developer) to pursue a career in. I am hoping my experiences at FSU will help me decide which way to go. My hobbies include reading comics and playing chess and sudoku.

Coding Simulations of Mechanical and Robotic Devices

Abstract

• Simulation plays a very important role in building and optimizing robots
because robots are costly and performing tests on them is very risky.
• They allow us to simulate any test scenario on robots and find any obvious
points of failure, thereby reducing the risk of failure when tested on actual
robots.
• Drake is an open-source toolbox that has a variety of tools to analyze designs
of robots and optimize them
• In this UROP project, I try to learn how to use the Drake toolbox and
simulate some relatively simple models like pendulums, double pendulums,
etc.
• Doing this will give us a basic understanding of how to use Drake and will
allow us to simulate more complicated systems.
• Currently, we are learning to debug the code interface which will allow us to
visualize and simulate more complex systems.

Keywords: Robotics, Simulation, URDF, Drake