Industrial Projects
Please check out Research Projects for more complete advanced project list.
Development of a Generic Data Acquisition Interface for Temperature Tracking
The purpose of this project is to develop a mobile automated 16-channel temperature data collection system for process analysis and calibration of curing ovens and molding machines used in the manufacture of polyurethane and silicone engineered components in Windfield Industries, Inc.
The temperature tracking/data collection device is intended for calibrating the temperature distribution of curing ovens and molding machines. The sizes/volumes of these ovens and machines could be ranging from the size of household baking ovens to the size of 2-3 rooms. It is hard to have a number of handheld temperature sensing device constantly monitoring the temperature distributions within the (hot and) large rooms. Hence, a centralized modular mobile multi-channel temperature data collection device would be preferred to ease the calibration process. In a single interface, the factory workers are able to recognize which part of the room needs further heating to maintain constant temperature distributions within a room.
The project was accomplished in a fairly short period of time.
Beacon Project: Design of a Storage Container Loading/Unloading Device for a Truck
This was a challenging senior design project received from the industry. The company (Beacon Storage Systems, Inc.) was a truck container leasing company for heavy goods transportation. They wanted to expand their business to household storage transportation. Unfortunately, their conventional way of loading and unloading the container from the truck could definitely not be applied for household application. Our goal was to design a mechanism that allowed more gentle loading and unloading operations for the container. We built a scaled prototype to showed its functionality (unfortunately, the picture could not be found), and performed finite-element analysis of the new structure for both during the container loading/unloading operation and when the container is sitting on the structure being transported.
The project team included Gerald Yeo and Soon Choon Kuek, and our supervisor was Christina Bloebaum.
Selected Academic Projects
- Extended Kalman Filter for Orbit Determination
- Web-based Simulated Annealing Optimization Interface
- Controllability Analysis of Underactuated Two-Link Robot
- Parallel Computing for Kinematics of a 3-RRR Parallel Manipulator
- Design and Structural Analysis of a Trebuchet
- Automated Gripper-based Cargo Transportation System
Selected Courses Taken
- Nonlinear Control
- Mathematical Methods in Robotics
- Optimal Control
- System Analysis
- Optimization in Engineering Design
- Mechatronics
- Guidance, Navigation and Control
- Continuous Control Systems
- Digital Control Systems
- Numerical Analysis
- High Performance Computing
- Analysis of Aircraft Structures (as senior level course)
- Partial Differential Equations (as senior level course)
- Multivariable Calculus (as senior level course)
