Trifko Basic

• • Designed robotic work cells for automated packaging industry, valued at around $2 million
• • Developed robotic tooling and linear/rotary drive systems for motion-control systems
• • Collaborated with cross-disciplinary engineering teams, as well as suppliers and customers to drive project outcomes

• • Conducted Labs, Tutorials, and Office Hours for Automatic Controls and Digital Systems
• • Head TA for 2nd year Mechatronics lab course responsible for training teaching assistants
• • Programmed Arduino and Raspberry Pi systems for motor, pneumatic, and thermal control applications

• • Designed labs for second-year Mechatronics courses, covering fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and digital systems in mechatronics
• • Built and tested lab prototypes involving; hardware selection, circuitry, machining, soldering, and programming
• • Collaborated with professors and technicians to ensure the labs aligned with curriculum goals and safety standards
• • Researched into microfluidic logic, focusing on logic operations and manufacturing techniques
• • Rapidly iterated through prototypes of a meso-scaled pneumatic switch using FDM & SLA printing, laser-cutting, and layered manufacturing

A new strategy is proposed for modulating the mechanical power output of an inverse pneumatic actuator muscle (iPAM), by designing a valve mechanism to regulate the flow of internal pressurized air exhausted to atmosphere during the iPAM's power stroke in contraction from an inflated initial state.