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 …
This quarter we’re working on determining temperature from an image. What we’ve done this first week is test out different things we can take these images of. We did a bit of this last quarter, but with our code and analysis nearing completion, we will start gathering images of it this quarter. Last quarter we worked with charcoal briquettes, which …
Coming out of the Winter Design Review, we’re enthusiastic as a group. After being able to present a working prototype finger to many different people, we were surprised by the Dean with one of the Dean’s Choice Awards for the MAE department. Below is a video of our finger prototype attracting people to our table: Moving forward, we have three …
Welcome back! Our first meeting of Spring 2018 begun with a review of our project goal and picking up where we left off last quarter. Before all that, our project leader Cheng announced that a transition in administration for the next school year will occur at the end of Spring. This transition is something for our members to keep in …
The Winter Design Review is here! Our team leads and members came to showcase our project and support the other wonderful design projects here on campus. A few companies came around our table, about our Avionics team and the general progress we’ve made with our project. From this quarter, the Peer Review determined the top seven projects that would give …
Propulsion team has designed a cable guard that prevents wires from getting caught in the tilt rotor’s gears. They had 3D printed the joint and installed it on the tilt rotor prototype. Mechanical Design has showed their progress the new fuselage design and has completed one prototype of the electronics housing (seen in the picture above). A second, better iteration …
The Propulsion team is still working on mirroring the control signal of the left tilt rotor to the right rotor. The team is also working on the battery cage for the tilt rotor prototype. Mechanical Design has completed one phase of FEA on the plane’s frame. Using a static deformation simulation, they have calculated the frame can withstand a 1000N …
