Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “2016-2017”
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Kyle Williams- AFRL Thermal Orientation Test Bed This week our team continued to work on both the motor controls for the test bed and the modifications that need to be made to the frame. The controls team is almost finished with their motor controls, however, one of the only things holding them back is figuring out whether a limit switch …
For the group’s third meeting, we expanded on the brainstorming we had initiated the previous week. The main challenge we focused on during the meeting was figuring out how to create the perturbations. We narrowed our ideas from the previous meeting to three possible methods for creating a perturbation. The first method involves an air piston as the main actuator, …
We have refined our project goals to a portable, solar charged space heater that can be safely used in camping tents and left running while the user sleeps. We are currently deciding between using a phase change material (PSM) or thermo-chemical materials for storage. At the end of our meeting we split in to two groups with each set to …
3 group meetings into Fall quarter, we’ve stabilized the goal for our project–make a practical and useful imaging device (a camera) to characterize the behavior of burning fire brands (originating from a forest fire, for instance) in order to predict and thus prevent said embers from igniting another fire nearby. How it all started… This collaborative project with several other …
The Krobohand Group consists of four students who all share an interest in human assistive robotics. The team is as follows: 1.) Ethan Kirkley – Team Manager (4th year Mechanical Engineering) 2.) Cameron Hunt – Purchasing Manager (4th year Mechanical Engineering) 3.) Zeppy Khechadoorian – Document Manager (4th year Physics) 4.) Kevin Wong – Team Safety Officer (4th year Mechanical …
It’s been a little over three weeks here on the Autonomous Boat challenge and we’ve already been very busy planning out the project for the course of the year. We’ve had multiple meetings far and some of the thing we’ve been working on including assigning tasks, creating sub divisions within our group, developing timelines and budgeting material costs. The goal …
In this week we started working on the wrist exoskeleton project. In the beginning, we do a lot of research on background of the wrist exoskeleton. Some people, who suffered from cerebral palsy, stroke, drop-wrist or damage to the nerve in the forearm, may cannot stretch their wrist and fingers during the rest situation. This will cause some unwanted joint …
This week, our controls team started gathering the resources we need to begin development of the control system which will be used to help accurately orient our test bed. The controls team worked to solve connection issues for our UMI board and for the motor drive. Progress was also made with software development as the needed software was downloaded and …
This week, although week 3, was our first official meeting for the ground team of the UCI Rescue Robotics Challenge. We are a small team of 5, and all introduced ourselves and talked about our various backgrounds, and dove into what we would be working on throughout this quarter. Professor Krichmar brought out some of the robots from the previous …
These past two weeks have been a journey so far. As the Documentation Manager of this year’s Pet Feeder Industry project, I shall bring you all along the ups and downs of our expedition to the end. The first week entailed of our team getting to know each other more and assigning certain responsibilities to better organize the roles of …
