Ashwin Dinesh Ayinipully

Ashwin works on the experimental side of Scientific Payload, including regolith simulation, sample classification and sensor integration. He brings three years of industrial experience at Fleetguard Filters to his master’s in Mechatronics and Robotics at Hochschule Schmalkalden.

His independent projects show a patient, hands-on approach to debugging: building a LeKiwi teleoperation setup and developing an ESP32 pen plotter have involved servo calibration, motor buses, encoder noise and closed-loop control. That experience is relevant to a science subsystem where reliable measurements depend on both the instrument and the hardware around it.

Selected research & projects

Building an ESP32 motion-control plotter — Project notes on encoders, motor noise and closed-loop control.

LeKiwi teleoperation: hardware integration and debugging — Personal project update on getting leader and follower arms working together.