Project Title: Autonomous Model Yacht Control Electronics Participants: Kyte Feng, Jeff Johnson, San

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Project Title Autonomous Model Yacht Control
Electronics Participants Kyte Feng, Jeff
Johnson, Sandeep Kamath, Livleen KaurFaculty
Advisor Charlie Knezevich Sponsor
Autonomous Model Yacht Race Contest

• Objective To design a sailboat control unit
  capable of interfacing up to 60 sensors and
  actuators Background Autonomous Model Yacht
  race coordinator requires a prototype control
  unit capable of navigating unmanned sailboat from
  San Diego to Tahiti

• Results / Status
• - Completed modular hardware interface
• - Working computing platform capable of
  interfacing with sensors and actuators
• - Reprogrammable HW and SW

• Approach Methodology
• 4 design phases
• - Part Selection
• - Sensor interface design
• - Actuator interface design
• - Software design

• Conclusion
• HW phase of design is complete and requires only
  minor modifications for different applications.
  SW requires more complex programming in order to
  navigate over complex course

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Project Title Autonomous Model Yacht Control
Electronics Participants Kyte Feng, Jeff
Johnson, Sandeep Kamath, Livleen Kaur Faculty
Advisor Charlie Knezevich Sponsor Autonomous
Model Yacht Race Contest