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Project-based manufacturing : an approach for quote development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Project-based manufacturing presents unique challenges that highly automated and repetitive production lines do not face. Highly automated production lines do not have much variation in the types of products that are made, ...
A portable, ultra-Low cost NMR device
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) provides powerful measurements that remain inaccessible in many applications due to the instruments' size and expense. Recent research efforts have focused on creating handheld devices with ...
Development and validation of a systems-level cost optimization tool for solar-powered drip irrigation systems for smallholder farms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Drip irrigation is a micro-irrigation technology that has been shown to conserve water and significantly increase crop yield. This technology could be particularly beneficial to the world's estimated 500 million smallholder ...
Experimental verification of biomimetically designed ventral fins for AUVs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Biomimetics, nature inspiring technology, is the concept of imitating nature models for the purpose of solving complex problems [1]. Finding the right analogs from biology to technology, transferring, and applying them ...
Design and control of an optical fast-scanning system for silicon wafer feature measurement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Modem semiconductor manufacturing requires great precision for fabricating features on the surface of silicon wafers. However, testing of these wafers currently consists of selecting a subset of manufactured wafers and ...
Mechanism for actuating seaweed harvesting device
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Mechanical systems to automate a critical aspect of the seaweed farming process were designed and iterated to determine their feasibility as a substitute for human labor on a commercial large-scale seaweed farm. This paper ...
The design and fabrication of an autonomous hybrid VTOL aircraft
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Low-cost Unmanned Aircraft Systems have proven to be extremely useful for tracking and mapping coherent atmospheric structures. These aircraft systems are often required to alternate between dynamic, non-uniform sampling ...
Support vector machine gesture recognition for a wearable assistive robot for patients with hand osteoarthritis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Osteoarthritis affects tens of millions of adults in the US alone. A frequent form of this disease is hand osteoarthritis, which affects certain joints of each hand, typically symmetrically. While there is currently no ...
Exploring mechanisms for harvesting of farmed seaweed
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
In this thesis, I explore different harvesting mechanisms for farmed seaweed off of a line. The seaweed market is large and growing globally, and currently relies heavily on manual labor and coastal waters for the farming ...