Embedded Systems & Robotics | Al Hossain Shawn

Compute that moves: autonomous platforms, CubeSat avionics, and microcontroller systems where the design constraints are joules, bytes, and grams, all at once.

Overview

Embedded engineering is what happens when you take everything else and force it through a 32-bit microcontroller, a 2 W power budget, and a bus on the other side of a satellite. It rewards designs that respect their constraints and punishes anything that doesn't.

The work here spans autonomous flying platforms, planetary rovers, quadruped mechanisms, and CubeSat avionics: different bodies, but the same underlying problem of sensing, deciding, and acting without dropping a frame.

Sub-areas

Autonomous Navigation (SUB-01): Locomotion algorithms and control laws for aerial and ground platforms, closing the perception-planning loop on-board.
CubeSat Avionics (SUB-02): EPS, OBC, comms, and ADCS subsystems sized for the bus, the orbit, and the team building it.
Sensor Fusion (SUB-03): IMU, sun-sensor, and camera streams combined into pose estimates that survive resource budgets and noise.
Real-Time Data Pipelines (SUB-04): Embedded data paths from sensor → processing → telemetry with bounded latency and predictable behaviour.
Microcontroller Integration (SUB-05): System integration on resource-constrained MCUs, covering peripherals, scheduling, and power-aware firmware.
Mechanical Co-design (SUB-06): Working alongside structural teams on quadruped mechanisms, CubeSat enclosures, and payload accommodation.

Related Projects

Initial carbon fiber airframe prototype hover test

P-01 Completed

Autonomous Aerial Survey

Final Year Design Project

Autonomous drone pipeline combining flight simulation, image processing, and survey automation.

ROS PX4 C++

P-02 Completed

APSCO CubeSat 3U Mission

Team Lead · BD-BRACU Mavericks

End-to-end 3U CubeSat with EPS, OBC, comms, ADCS, antenna and ground station developed through 3D, PCB, and orbital simulation.

Altium SolidWorks APRS

P-03 Award Winner

BIRDS-X APRS Payload

Payload Engineer

APRS payload focused on energy-transition messaging. Phase 1 winner of the national BIRDS-X space payload competition.

Altium AX.25 RF Comms

Toolchain

MATLAB / Simulink	Control law design, sensor-fusion prototyping, and simulation-in-the-loop.
ROS / PX4	Autonomous drone platform development and simulation.
Proteus / LTSpice	Mixed-signal embedded validation before hardware spin-up.
SOLIDWORKS / Fusion 360	Mechanical accommodation and structural design alongside electronics.
KiCad / Altium	PCB design for payload, OBC, and ground-station hardware.