Gabriela Bravo-Illanes

Gabriela Bravo-Illanes

MS in Mechanical Engineering

I'm a mechanical engineer specialized in product design, mechatronics and robotics. Currently working at Amazon Lab126 designing the next generation of Astro Robot.  I got a MS in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, and my bachelor in Mechanical Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. I love creating things, could be from innovative ideas to solve a work related problem, a piece of software to model or control something, to hobby related creations like paintings and new dishes. My favorite quote is "What some folks call impossible, is just stuff they haven't seen before."    

You can check out my project portfolio and online resume.

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Skills

 

CAD design

Solidworks, Inventor, Creo and Onshape. Design of objects and assemblies. Parametric design, GD&T, tolerance analysis, static Stress analysis simulation.

Coding

Python, C++, Matlab, Git, Arduino, Linux. Experience writing models, state machines, and programming microprocessors.  Check my Github for examples.

Mechatronics 

Experience building analog and digital circuits, and programming microcontrollers. ECAD and PCB design. Stanford ME218A/B. Check my portfolio for more details.

Robotics

Kinematics and dynamics of articulated robots, controls,  path planning, SLAM. Robot simulations in ROS.

Design and Manufacturing

Knowledge about materials, connections, mechanism, prototyping and scaled manufacturing. Advance experience with 3D printing, injection moding and CNC. Intermediate experience metal sheet forming.
Stanford ME203 and ME324. Check my portfolio for more details.

Design thinking

Experience working with design thinking method.

Research

Experience conducting research to solve novel problems. Critical thinker. Check my publications section.

Featured Projects

Grocery Robot

Simulation on SAI2 of a robot performing pick and place of objects and navigating in a grocery store. Project developed for the Experimental robotics (CS225A) class at Stanford.

Stanford University. 2020

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Autonomous Turtlebot

Project developed for Autonomos Robot class (AA274A) at Stanford University. Simulation developed in ROS. A turtlebot first explore the maze using SLAM. Once the exploration finished, it revisit some landmarks using A* for path planning.

Stanford University. 2020

Presentation Video
Mobile Robot (ME218B)

Small robot capable to follow an IR signal of a determined frequency, grab and transport and object, and leave the object in a sector of a specific color. Project for ME218B at Stanford University.

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Arcade Machine (ME218A)

Interactive game where the user interact with buttons, hall sensors, nobs and cranks. Project for ME218A at Stanford University.

Project Website
Knee angle sensor

Design, prototype and test of a knee-motion tracking system using IMU sensors and a novel algorithm written on Matlab. Product designed to monitor recovery on patients after a knee ligament reconstruction.

Publication
3D printed thumb prosthesis

Prosthesis for people who have lost its entire thumb. A 3d printed thumb is actioned by the movement of the index finger.

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