Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “2016-2017”
New electrical components were received to continue working on the subsystems. We meet with both the industry sponsor and adviser once so far to receive feedback on the prototype. Subsystem 1 received a new motor with a higher torque capability, holding torque is 1.9Nm. It can make full rotation currently dispensing more than the desired food quantity, but it will …
So far, UAV Forge has been a little slow this week. On a side note, an important aspect of our project is the team-building. Every spring, UAV Forge makes team t-shirts for our members. It is a great opportunity to help the project feel united and to remember that we are working towards a common goal. The Propulsion team has …
The first ever Solar Car at UC Irvine has officially started as a Senior Design Project during the spring of 2017. After careful consideration and a numerous number of interviews, the team leads of the Solar Car project finally put together a full team of twenty undergraduate students. The team ranges from a wide variety of different types of undergraduate …
The image shows a 532 nm wave with our blue-green filter. It is from an image of the charcoal at different shutter speeds. We tried to make sure the charcoal temperature remained constant so we could assume constant temperature. According to our data, the data from the red and blue channels gets saturated around 0.003 shutter speed, and the data …
This week the team worked to optimize the accuracy of the test bed. The main modifications needed were from the mechanical side of the test bed to make sure that there is not any unwanted rotation on the testbed. Our goal for accuracy is within .1 degree and to do this it needs to be completely stable wihout any movement …
Autonomous Boat Week 3 Update It’s week 3 of Spring Quarter and we are preparing the boat for a launch by the end of June. We have everyone working on their own respective parts and the categories below best summarize the overall group’s effort. The photo shows Creaform scanning the hull of that boat that will help us create …
The project is up and running to get the plane assembled and flying. Propulsion was working on the tilt rotor’s motors and swash plates. They have synchronized the two motors’ speed so that they spin but they are not sure if the spinning is the same. The propellers must spin at the same rate (revolution per minute) to produce equal …
We have the color filter array characterized, but now we are looking into gamma correction to understand how the jpeg compression affects the original picture. A gamma correction is an operation an image compression (jpeg) applies to a picture in order to correct brightness. The picture shows an example (taken from learnopengl.com) of what gamma correction does. Gamma correction is …
Hello readers, The final stretch is upon the Solar Airplane project and we are thrilled and motivated to finish the plane on time! This past week, the aero team fabricated the fuselage foam pieces that were also sanded down and glued together. Several pieces needed to be cut individually because of the size of the machines and fuselage. The smoothened …
Towards the end of last quarter, our team presented at the Winter Design Review. The video containing the presentation could be found following this link: https://youtu.be/sD10q_p_9Qo. We ended our project with a poster design review. Alex, Damian, Timothy, and I presented an overview of our project to several interested peers, alumni, faculty members, and engineering industry professionals. The poster is …
