Mechatronics · AI Systems · Western
Engineering autonomy from the ground up.
Fourth-year student in Mechatronics with AI Systems Engineering at the University of Western Ontario. I care about the full stack of a machine: mechanics, boards, firmware, and the models that run on it. Currently building ERGOS, a humanoid robot, and leading Western's Mars rover team. I love reaching outside my boundaries and pushing myself to learn more.
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Building a 20-DOF humanoid platform with the goal of dynamic movement on serial actuators. I did the full stack: mechanical design, custom PCB, and embedded control. Isaac Sim and ROS 2 for training and deploying locomotion policies. Raised $5,000+ CAD in sponsorships.
SolidWorks · Altium · Python · C++ · ROS 2 · Isaac Sim
GitHub
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I designed the third-generation WE MARS rover in a month: chassis, drivetrain, wheels, and swivel. The rover is 22 kg, almost 8 kg lighter than last year. New swivel control and higher-reduction wheel gearboxes, built for CIRC off-road: less current draw, more power at the ground.
SolidWorks · FEA · swerve / chassis
Factory-based C++ libwebrtc pipeline to a React frontend, replacing a Python stream and cutting video latency from 240 ms to 44 ms for remote driving.
C++ · libwebrtc · GStreamer · React
GitHub
Building an Isaac Lab extension with actuator classes for position-controlled serial-bus servos, then comparing Isaac Lab baselines against my learned actuator nets on ERGOS. Received NVIDIA Academic Grant of ~$15K in hardware: RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q and Jetson AGX Orin.
Isaac Lab · PyTorch · Python · Jetson · Domain randomization
GitHub
From-scratch YOLOv3 object detector in PyTorch. Tuned anchors and loss, reaching 51.2% mAP on validation.
PyTorch · OpenCV · torchvision
GitHub
Multi-axis servo arm with microcontroller control and a host-side interface for remote actuation.
Arduino · C++ · C#
GitHub
Benchmarked logistic regression, random forests, XGBoost, and neural nets. 94% accuracy, 83% precision after cross-validated tuning.
Python · scikit-learn · TensorFlow · PyTorch · XGBoost
GitHub
Personal finance web app for tracking and visualizing spending, designed in Figma and built as a front-end product.
HTML · CSS · JavaScript · GSAP · Figma
GitHubWork and teams
May 2026 - Aug 2026
VIP Lab, University of Waterloo
May 2025 - May 2026
Geotab
Sep 2024 - May 2025
Outlier AI
Sep 2023 - Present
Western Engineering Mars Rover Team
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Open to internships and research that live close to hardware.
heddlebryan0@gmail.com Hamilton, Ontario