Undergrad projects

2022

• ADS-B receiver and plane tracker, or flight tracker software version w API
• Second-gen tension monitor with haptic drive unit Tension Monitoring of Aux Tel Top End Using Resonant Frequencies
• beam position sensor system
  • use lateral effect diode and On-Trak amplifier, plus data collection and digitization system with plots of X vs Y and sum vs. time
  • requires Lab Jack digitization of signals, display panel, dedicated mac mini. 
• Beam deflection monitor system, 30m path length
  • use Thor labs autocollimator with distant flat 
  • fancy version- remote steering of distant mirror to keep spot centered, using low pass filter. 
• Scintillation monitor system
  • set up reflector on top of met tower, launcher on stationary floor 
•  mixed-beam chopper system. 
• In-dome wind monitoring system
  • assemble, test, calibrate, characterize and document the hot wire anemometer wind sensors. 
• Airflow modeling with COMSOL tool, for 
• Anemometer analysis
  • extract wind vector and acousstic temperature statistics from anemometer data
• acoustic index-structure probe
  • experiment with acoustic temperature profiling
• Archival Pachon water vapor data, from Gemini calibration images
• contrail detection from all sky images. 
  • access the archived set of daytime all-sky camera images at NCSA, and correlate contrails with upper atmosphere models and radiosonde observations. 
• Infrasound detector, at Harvard observatory. 

• sinusoidal intensity modulator
•  tunable disperser
•  turbulence simulator
• design gantry for COBB device
• airflow modeling and visualization for Rubin

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