![]() ![]() Students are expected to have the opportunity to build, adapt, and operate advanced drone systems and when permitted under University guidelines to be involved in field tests. ![]() New members starting in Winter 2021 will join the current effort to refine the developed technology as well as to demonstrate the wireless, environmental sensing, localization and weather sensing capabilities of a small cluster of free falling mapleseed flyers in field tests in Earth’s lower atmosphere. The Mapleseed project aims to develop a passive (i.e., free-falling) wireless in-situ sensor platform inspired by the natural aerodynamic performance of samara seeds for use in detailed sensing of various properties of Earth’s atmosphere.Īs part of this faculty research team, students will be exposed to an entire end-to-end design process, including background research, concept generation, simulation, prototyping, and when possible using clean room micro- and nano-fabrication, and validation by experiment both in the laboratory and the field. Long-range wireless networks of small, low-cost, and low-power sensors are needed to study of Earth’s climate from both the atmosphere and space.
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