Mazvydas Mark Narvidas

Responsible for developing, testing and engineering an autopilot system for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Assisted design engineers in designing printed circuit boards and projected them independently. Analysed and tested new products, prepared them for application. Developed practical problem-solving abilities and tactical thinking. Worked in a multicultural and multidisciplinary team to solve…

I have successfully completed my industry year worrking as an Applications Engineer at the National Instruments Corporation, United Kingdom Branch. I have been enrolled in the Engineering Leadership Programme (ELP) in year 2013-2014. This was a year-long placement focused on developing technical knowledge, business & customer awareness, and leadership skills.…

Introduction This is an ongoing project that I'm currently engaged in and work on my spare time. I'm building a budget humanoid robot based on a myRIO embedded device as the main intelligence. The idea is to build a walking and interactive humanoid with the help of LabVIEW Robotics and…

This undertaking is my individual engineering project as part of the MEng Mechatronics and Robotics course at the University of Leeds. It is a fully immersive teleoperation robotics project. This unique robotic control application enables the operator to be present from the robot's point-of-view (i.e. the user remotely perceives…

This project has been the main focus of the ELEC3662 Embedded Systems module. It focused on the design, build and implementation of a simple calculator device. Using the ARM Cortex M4-based, 32-bit TIVA C Launchpad development board an interface was developed for the classic 4x4 Keypad array, the HD44870 Liquid…

As a multi-disciplinary team of Applications Engineers we have built an autonomous robotic hand capable of playing draughts against a human opponent or itself by integrating several different disciplines such as image processing, machine vision, inverse kinematics, mechatronics and artificial intelligence. This project has been built from scratch and developed…

As part of the Engineering Leadership Programme at National Instruments I have worked on a personal project for one week using NI’s hardware and software. Using the myRIO embedded hardware device I have developed a 4-wheeled autonomous rover robot that uses image recognition and colour detection. Based on the…

LituanicaSAT-1 – The first ever Lithuanian satellite of 1U standard CubeSat size that was successfully developed and delivered to The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for its projected launch in early 2014. It will be launched from the International Space Station into low-earth orbit where it will gather data and…

This project a demo to show my ability to program in Java and Processing environment by developing a simple physics engine and a game concept for a 2D platformer game on Android smartphones. It is completely open-source and can be found on my GitHub. To generate new worlds I have…

This is an autonomous Hexapod Robot I have designed and built from scratch (a completely individual project, which was not work-related or in any way dependent on my university course). The chassis was designed in SolidWorks software package and parts were cut using a laser-cutter machine. An Android smartphone was…

A completely standalone robotic-hand where each finger can be moved independently using a remote controller glove. Both the master (controller glove) and slave (robotic hand) ran on PIC microcontrollers using custom circuits to accommodate their specific needs. Remote communications were based on infrared data transmission technology and the controller glove…

A 2nd year project at the University of Leeds called “The Daring Dash”. Students in teams had to design an autonomous vehicle with independent suspension on each wheel, capable of driving in a straight distance over obstacles maintaining constant contact between the wheels and the surface. We had to adapt…

This was part of my 2nd year module Embedded Systems Project at the University of Leeds. The objective of this project was to develop a breathalyser device based on a programmable microcontroller chip (ATMega328). This development also included design and manufacture of a unique Printed Circuit Board, and the fabrication…

Project from 2010 The main idea behind this project was essentially checking if a robot could be controlled with an iPhone easily. The commands from the iPhone were first trasmitted to a PC through Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol and then to the robot through xBee radio transceivers. This was…

My very first approach to robotics. Navigates around via ultrasound, turns on the lights when the light levels fall under certain threshold. Weight: 150 grams Actuators: 2 servos made into geared motors, 1 servo for turning, 1 servo for srf05 Control method: autonomous CPU: Picaxe 28x1 Power source: 3 AA's…

Development from 2010 My second ever robotics project. Time to build:12 hours Weight: 250 grams Actuators: 8x cheap micro servos Control method: autonomous CPU: Picaxe 28x1 Power source: 3 AA cells Programming language: Basic Sensors / input devices: SRF005 Target environment: indoor…

A national event aimed at gathering students from all of the major country’s academic institutions to participate in robotics-related challenges, for example developing an autonomous mobile device that detects coloured objects and collects them within in a specified time-frame. Organisation of this event has reached its final stages and…

Platformer Game using Object-Oriented Programming More information: https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-34735 Desktop Capture Video Recorder More information: https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-33818 Robust Color Recognition using IMAQ More information: https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-32507…