About
Aaron Lening Aviles
- Role
- Mechanical Engineer · Robotics & Controls
- Study
- Mechanical Engineering at UC San Diego, minor in Design.
- Based
- San Diego, California
I am a roboticist, engineer, designer, and software developer, and my focus is robotics. I have been in competition robotics since 2019, and became a national champion in 2023. Those formative years left me competitive and driven. I enjoy winning, and I enjoy designing creative, thoughtful, elegant solutions to hard problems.
Outside robotics I have worked in medical devices, through internships at Nalu Medical, an implantable neurostimulation company acquired by Boston Scientific, where I stayed on after the acquisition.
Away from engineering I follow architecture and often design projects of my own. I keep up with botany and gardening, and with electronic music. I bike, and I read philosophy.
My passion project is PerryBotics, named after my pet corgi. It is a Southern California nonprofit that gets competition robotics parts and resources into the hands of kids at below market prices, and mentors high school and middle school students in robotics.
Timeline
2019
- Founded PerryBotics as a high school freshman
2022
- California State Championship ×2
- USA National Silver
2023
- California State Championship
- USA National Gold
- Began Mechanical Engineering at UC San Diego
- Established the UC San Diego Robotics Club, qualified to the World Championship as a first year team
2024
- Joined MURO Lab (Multi-Agent Robotics)
- Joined Yonder Robotics (rover team)
2025
- Internship at Nalu Medical
- Became Mechanical Lead, Yonder Robotics
2026
- Internship transitioned to Boston Scientific
- Became Lead Engineer, Yonder Robotics
- Joined Safe Sentinel as a Robotics Engineer
Capabilities
Design
- Top-level assembly and CAD library ownership
- Parametric modelling and custom FeatureScript
- GD&T and tolerance stacks
- Industrial design, form studies, rendering
Analysis
- AGMA gear stress
- FEA, static and modal
- Load path and factor-of-safety budgets
- Gear train and drivetrain sizing
Manufacturing
- 3-axis CNC milling
- Manual mill and lathe
- Waterjet, laser cutting, FabLight
- FDM and CF-nylon printing (Markforged, Bambu, Prusa)
- In-house powder coating
Systems
- ODrive brushless motor control
- Harmonic drive joint architecture
- Pneumatic transmissions
- V&V document control (PI / DS / ER / VR)
- Robot description and simulation
Software
Onshape
Primary CAD · FeatureScript
SolidWorks
Modelling · drawings
Autodesk Inventor
Modelling · assemblies
Autodesk Fusion
CAD · CAM
Revit
Architectural design
Mastercam
3-axis toolpaths
MATLAB
AGMA gear stress · analysis
Python
Tooling · data · control
ROS
Robot middleware
MuJoCo
Simulation · URDF