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Nicolas Correal Murillo
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
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Mars Rover · Mechanical · Electronics · Leadership
Led a team of 12 engineers to design, build, and compete internationally with a Mars rover — built entirely from scratch in under 10 months. Spearheaded the development of custom hand-wound brushless motors with internal cycloidal drives, a 6-DOF robotic arm, and the overall mechanical and electronics design vision. Secured funding to travel and compete internationally. Qualified in the top 15 out of 113 teams, finishing 21st overall.
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Mars Rover · Electronics · Robotic Arm
Led the electronics team for a competitive Mars rover project, overseeing full system integration and driving the design and development of the robotic arm subsystem.
Quadruped · Thesis · Reinforcement Learning
My undergraduate thesis: designing and building a custom quadruped robot from the ground up, analyzing gait quality across different motion patterns, and training a locomotion policy using reinforcement learning in NVIDIA Isaac Sim.
Actuators · Motor Design · Mechanical
Hand-wound custom brushless motors featuring both single and double-stage cycloidal reduction drives, optimized for space efficiency, power density, and material use — purpose-built for deployment in a Mars rover.