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Undergraduate Symposium Submission, 2020 – Anthony Mirabito, Cole Bidrawn, Lindsey Toney, Selena Nevel, and Noah Dingler – CEFNS<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nWith global greenhouse gas emissions increasing at a concerning rate, significant attention is being focused on ways to reduce anthropogenic emissions. At the local scale, cities such as Flagstaff are taking the initiative to address these environmental concerns. One issue, and the focus of this research project, is the reduction of single-occupancy vehicle (SOV) usage in the local community. To contribute to this effort, we are working with Disability Resources, Northern Arizona Intergovernmental Public Transportation Authority (NAIPTA), and the County Board of Supervisors to extend access to the EcoPASS to NAU students who are registered with Disability Resources. Additionally, we are coordinating NAU’s first Bike Fix-It Clinic in partnership with community bike shops, the NAU Cycling Club, and the NAU Bicycle HUB, to educate students about bike maintenance and encourage alternative transportation on campus. We are in contact with local bike shops to determine their interest in volunteering their time and expertise by donating equipment, running booths, etc. This event will coincide with a tabling event at April’s Downtown Flagstaff First Friday to educate the public on SOV usage and help raise awareness for Earth Month and a Bike to School\/Work Week hosted by our classmates in a different ENV 490C section. We are also in the process of producing a list of transportation grant recommendations with accompanying application information to be left for future capstone groups. The results of this project will be compiled into a final summary report to provide continuity for future projects addressing SOV usage.<\/p>\n

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Undergraduate Symposium Gallery Submission, 2021 – Marzouq Kraidees, Fatemah Alawadhi, Xingyu Liu, Mubarak Alluwimi – SCE<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nElectric Drives labs have been more important for the students to know more about electric drives and DC Motors. Therefore, our project is to design a new platform to perform electric drive lab courses. We want to create a new platform because the platform we are using currently dSPACE for the electric drives labs is too expensive. We are going to replace the dSPACE with the Arduino. Arduino is a cheaper solution that can function as the dSPACE functions. Therefore, the hardware form is based on Arduino, and the software is based on MATLAB\/Simulink. Our client Dr. Venkata Yaramasu teaches electric drives courses at Northern Arizona University. He is interested in power electronics and electric vehicles. In this project, these high-cost boards were replaced with low-cost, compact boards in order to perform all dSPACE labs given by our client Dr. Yaramasu. We will use an Arduino DUE, which will be cheaper than the dSPACE device. A compact inverter board is planned to be redesigned to a smaller size that will interface with the Arduino board and the DC motor. Moreover, the MATLAB\/Simulink software will be used to control the electric drives by designing the circuit diagram in Simulink; therefore, it will be implemented in Arduino. Thus, this project’s main task is to replace the dSPACE hardware and software with an Arduino board receiving signals from the MATLAB\/Simulink software and develop a compact inverter board in a small size to interface Arduino with electric motor drives.<\/p>\n

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Undergraduate Symposium Submission, 2020 – Goh, Boon Liang, Faisal Khamees, Yahya Molla, and Mohammed Alnuwaysir – SCE<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nSensorless Control for Electric Vehicle Motor<\/p>\n

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\nAt the Advanced Motors, Power Electronics, and Renewable Energy (AMPERE) laboratory, we would like to design and test the sensorless control techniques for Electric Vehicle (EV) motors such as induction motors and permanent magnet synchronous motors. These sensorless strategies offer several key features such as reduction in cost, more compactness due to the sensor absence, less maintenance system, improved noise immunity, suitability for hostile environments, and increased mechanical robustness. The goal of this project will be to design a silicon carbide traction inverter with higher reliability, efficiency, and power density which is suitable for mass market automotive applications. Additionally, this project will develop novel control for efficient motor operation at different loads both in constant power and torque regions. The speed sensorless control will improve the overall system reliability and robustness.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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