Syed Taloot Momin

Syed Taloot Momin is a passionate tinker who graduated from FAST-NUCES. His interests include microcontrollers, embedded development, robotics, and submarines and UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicle) in particular.
 

He built several fixed-wing UAVs as personal projects during his bachelor’s at FAST-NUCES, and in an attempt to better understand flight mechanics, successfully wrote PID loops from scratch. In addition to a decent grasp at elementary physics and chemistry, he also has a hobbyist's understanding of aerodynamics and flight mechanics, more from an engineer's perspective than from a pilot's, and went on to handcraft several approximations of NACA airfoils. All of his planes featured constant-chord, dihedral wings, with one plane featuring dynamic wing warping.

One of his notable undergrad projects was Gait Based Indoor Inertial Navigation System which involved using commercially available inaccurate accelerometers to accurately determine pedestrian position in indoor settings by using human gait characteristics to zero out the velocity errors accumulated by integrating inaccurate acceleration values. 

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Being a proficient C++ programmer, he likes to program from scratch however complicated the problem may be. He is well versed in genetic algorithms and has written a few to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem and to train his own integer-operations-only Neural Network.  

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He is also familiar with digital electronics and circuit board designing. 

At GU Tech, he intends to inspire and teach a new generation of tinkers with varying interests overlapping with Computer Science.

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His other interests include the Sea, saltwater aquaria, online crowds, mass behaviour and acoustic propulsion.