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Rogue Rotary - Modular Robotic Rotary Joint Design, Sean Wesley Murphy, Tyler David Riessen, Jacob Mark Triplett
Rogue Rotary - Modular Robotic Rotary Joint Design, Sean Wesley Murphy, Tyler David Riessen, Jacob Mark Triplett
Mechanical Engineering
This paper describes the design process from ideation to test validation for a singular robotic joint to be configured into a myriad of system level of robots.
Solar Powered Single-Axis Heliostat Active Solar Tracking Device, Mason Kyle Roberts
Solar Powered Single-Axis Heliostat Active Solar Tracking Device, Mason Kyle Roberts
Physics
As a means of cooking food, the burning of biomass accounts for over 4 million premature deaths in third world countries (“Household Air Pollution and Health”). The focus of this project was to explore an alternative that could utilize focused sunlight to cook food. A solar tracker was designed to be affixed to a parabolic, reflective, tilted single axis heliostat to follow the sun throughout the day and focus the reflected light to the bottom of a cooking surface. This surface became hot enough to for the preparation of food or boiling/sterilization of water.
A goal for each project was …