projects that can move as controlled by the electronics, including vehicles, toy or real cars, wheelchairs, carts, quadcopters, bicycles, locks, and more
Team Name: ARIA: Alternative Resources in Application
Team Members: Christian Datu (Electrical Engineering), Henk Hsiung (Computer Engineering), Priscilla Luu (Electrical Engineering), Jeremy Tayag (Computer Engineering), Sharon To (Computer Engineering)
Mentors: Professor Jesse Jackson (Art), Professor Michael Green (EECS), Closed Loop Plastics (Industry Collaboration)
Members:
Paolo Caraos
Christopher Chan
Thomas Lee
Kevin Nguyen
Purpose:
Our mentor's current research topic relates to integrating automated IoT drones with human interaction. His desire is to create automated drones that assist in factory work conditions. Our idea is to maintain this concept of human-drone interaction but instead in housing conditions. A simple use case we thought of was a floating lamp that would follow the user at night.
Although there are several parking lot management systems in use today, we felt that the process of finding an available space could be made much easier.
Our goal was to create a system that could save people’s time and sanity by addressing the shortcomings found in currently implemented parking lot management systems.
The goal of our project is to create a spherical persistence of vision display, capable of rotating at a high speed and illuminating a strip of LEDs to draw images for the user. A microcontroller will be mounted on the rotating arm, which we will communicate with wirelessly to control the connected LEDs.
This project is a study co-sponsored by Southern California Edison which will investigate various aspects of a microgrid in which Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) serve a significant portion of customer load. These resources include hydro generation, photovoltaic (solar) generation, and energy storage. When completed, the Demo-E project will have tested several working scenarios and will demonstrate an operating microgrid which comprises multiple DERs; all managed by a dedicated control system.