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Myhouse, Johann Espinosa, Coby Jacobson, Mike Lau, Daniel Torre
Myhouse, Johann Espinosa, Coby Jacobson, Mike Lau, Daniel Torre
Electrical and Computer Engineering Senior Theses
Consumers tend to lack an understanding of the way that their electricity is priced and the way that their energy consumption impacts utility operations. In this paper, we create a program and hardware implementation that uses day-before hourly electricity pricing and efficiency modes aiming to better distribute the user’s power consumption, control the user’s peak power consumption, shave peaks at the hours where electricity costs the most, as well as reduce the user’s monthly electricity bill. Our program achieves this by optimizing the operation time of appliances such as the washer, dryer, dishwasher, HVAC, and electric vehicle charging and by …
Wasp - Wireless Analog Sensor Platform, Tyler Hack, Cole Hunter, Daniel Webber
Wasp - Wireless Analog Sensor Platform, Tyler Hack, Cole Hunter, Daniel Webber
Electrical and Computer Engineering Senior Theses
WASP’s goal is to augment and eventually replace the bulky, costly, and complex data acquisition systems used for vibrational reliability tests on satellites. As a mechanism to guarantee that a spacecraft is mechanically durable and strong enough to withstand the acceleration forces experienced on the vessel during launch, companies conduct vibrational experiments on their spacecrafts by subjecting them to high G-force events. Using wired accelerometers connected to obstructive cables, the mounting process and test setups required to perform such experiments are expensive, laborious, and have the potential to generate measurement inaccuracies. We developed a low-cost, battery-powered module, designed for engineers, …
Sensor System For Rescue Robots, Alexander Moran, Emir Kusculu
Sensor System For Rescue Robots, Alexander Moran, Emir Kusculu
Electrical and Computer Engineering Senior Theses
A majority of rescue worker fatalities are a result of on-scene responses. Existing technologies help assist the first responders in scenarios of no light, and there even exist robots that can navigate radioactive areas. However, none are able to be both quickly deployable and enter hard to reach or unsafe areas in an emergency event such as an earthquake or storm that damages a structure. In this project we created a sensor platform system to augment existing robotic solutions so that rescue workers can search for people in danger while avoiding preventable injury or death and saving time and resources. …
Switched Capacitor Voltage Converter, Anne Hsia, Bradford Kidd
Switched Capacitor Voltage Converter, Anne Hsia, Bradford Kidd
Electrical and Computer Engineering Senior Theses
This project supports IoT development by reducing the power con- sumption and physical footprint of voltage converters. Our switched- capacitor IC design steps down an input of 1:0 - 1:4 V to 0:6 V for a decade of load current from 5 - 50𝝁A.