Years ago, early in my career, I was working on torque measurements for a dynamometer test stand — the kind of rig that spins drivetrain components at controlled speeds to characterize their losses. The job sounded simple: take a torque reading at one end of a shaft, take another at...
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Tracking a Pedestrian From Two Liars
Sensor fusion with an Extended Kalman Filter
Code: github.com/oalahurikar/Extended-Kalman-Filter-Project
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Teaching a Car to Think 750 ms Ahead
Model Predictive Control under 100 ms of latency
Code: github.com/oalahurikar/CarND-MPC-Project
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The Gap Nobody Owns
Why Integration is Where Intent Goes to Die
In 2018 and 2019, two Boeing 737 MAX aircraft crashed, killing 346 people. The investigations revealed a software system called MCAS that pilots didn’t know existed, relying on a single sensor, with authority that had been quietly expanded late in development. Boeing had some of the most rigorous systems engineering...
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System Dependency And Relationships
First Principles Foundation Every mechatronic system is an energy–information–structure loop under constraints. Energy enables motion. Structure shapes and constrains motion. Information regulates motion through feedback. System intelligence lies in managing these dependencies predictably and stably. Every mechatronic system, no matter how advanced, depends on three natural laws and three human-designed layers. **Three Core Dependencies Energy Dependency...
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