Forrest Montgomery

experience

L3 ASV October 2018 - Present

Junior Systems Engineer Broussard, Louisiana

• Acquired and developed system software and hardware demands
• Evaluated customer demands to define system requirements
• Worked to satisfy congruity of physical and functional interfaces
• Determine system success by analyzing results of test and demonstration activities

Noble Plastics December 2017 - October 2018

Design Engineer Grand Coteau, Louisiana

• Design and analysis of pneumatic systems for automated cells
• Design and assembly of end-of-arm tooling
• Wrote custom KAREL functions for recording robot parameters at an E-stop
• Maintenance on FANUC robotic automation systems

University of Louisiana at Lafayette August 2015 - Current

Graduate Research Assistant Lafayette, Louisiana

• Designed a cable-driven parallel manipulator (CDPM) model and control scheme
• Constructed a four-cable hardware-in-the-loop CDPM utilizing STM32 microcontrollers
• Created and performed experiments on full-scale and model CDPMs
• Supervised and directed undergraduate students in lab

Hibot Summer 2016

Visiting Research Scholar Tokyo, Japan

• Developed and tested input shaping control methods to aid in faster robot motions
• Recorded and analyzed robot vibration dynamics for system identification

CAD Control Systems Summers 2013 - 14

Mechanical Engineering Intern Broussard, Louisiana

• Assembled blowout preventer (BOP) control systems and assisted with BOP pressure tests
• Created and performed high-pressure regulator functionality tests

education

University of Louisiana at Lafayette August 2017

M.A. Mechanical Engineering

• Thesis: Design and Control of a Planar Cable Suspended Parallel Manipulator

University of Louisiana at Lafayette May 2015

B.A. Mechanical Engineering

• Minor: Mathematics

projects

ARLISS: A Rocket Launch for International Student Satellites 2015 and 2016

Team Leader Black Rock Desert, Nevada

• Directed a team that programmed and constructed two autonomous rovers
• Design focused on transformable wheels and speed

MQTT Controlled Planar Arm January 2015 - May 2015

Creator Lafayette, Louisiana

• Constructed a two-link planar robotic arm
• Programmed a web interface to control arm through the MQTT messaging protocal

skills

Programming Languages

• Python, Anaconda Distribution, HTML, CSS, Sass
• Experience with: C, STM32 Development, Ruby, MATLAB, SQLite

Certifications

• Certified Solidworks Associate

Other

• Inventor, Fusion 360, AutoCAD, CadSoft EAGLE
• Photoshop, Illustrator,

publications

Forrest Montgomery, Joshua Vaughan. Modeling and Control of a Cable-Driven Robot for Inspection of Wide-Area Horizontal Workspaces, Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2016-9678.

Forrest Montgomery, Joshua Vaughan. Suppression of Cable Suspended Parallel Manipulator Vibration Utilizing Input Shaping, IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, 2017.