Project Lead
As the Project Lead, I planned club meetings, delegated tasks to the sub-division leads, and created realistic deadlines so that we can complete our project on time. I also worked to start outreach events to recruit more members and obtain more funding for the project.
August 2025 - Present
Researcher
As a project researcher, I worked closely alongside Connor Calme and Dr. Aldo Jonathan Muñoz-Vazquez to research
and test various control methods for thrust vectoring. Our research resulted in multiple papers, making appearences in
Applied Sciences (https://doi.org/10.3390/app16168330) and ArXiv (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.27793). The
primary focus of the research was to test out various modes of model-free control. One major importance of our choice
for model-free control was because the intended use of this system. Since the future use of the created code would be
other undergraduate students, plaguing the model with long and complex differential equations would not be benificial
for students that may have only had very little exposure to them. By choosing model-free control, future students can
easily learn how to tune the various parameters to reduce error instead of sovling complex equations to determine the
exact model of the system.
Since Embry-Riddle's Rocket Development Lab is vastly undergraduate students, designing systems that can be easily
understood and expanded upon is of the utmost importance. Furthermore, documentation is critical so that the future
students can actually utilize every piece of the previous projects. Because of this, we also created a github repository
specifically to house the code we designed for this project (https://github.com/AJ-Munoz/URI2026).
May 2026 - July 2026
