Four undergraduate Drexel students spent the summer months
building underwater, ground and aerial robots under the guidance of two
graduate students and assistant teaching professor Dr. Pramod Abichandani.
“We call it the trifecta,” Abichandani, who is an assistant
teaching professor of the College of Engineering, said of the three projects.
The team members work in pairs or singly on each robot while
helping each other out and calling on graduate students Sean Wagoner and Chris
Berry when necessary.
Damien Turchi and Cezary Mlynarz, who are incoming
sophomores studying Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics (MEM), are working
together on the underwater robot which has a camera attached to help observe
visible levels of pollution in the Schuylkill River. They’ve also hooked the
robot up a to video game controller to make underwater steering intuitive for
users.