Sept 17, 2021
Excited to be working with Tim Cheng, Olive Rappoli, Mischael Anilus, Lily Fullford, Julia Huckaby , Eduardo Vargas, Reid Baris, and Freidlay Steve.
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Tufts/Cornell high altitude sonic anemometer flew to 106,000 feet
Aug 30, 2021
… on a NASA Wallops balloon over New Mexico. The system is a demonstration of a high resolution, high speed, three dimensional relative wind measurement system which can operate at low pressures and temperatures such as Earth’s stratosphere or the surface of Mars. Funding from the NASA PICASSO program. Glad to be working with Don Banfield at Cornell and Chris Yoder at NASA Wallops. More info.
Our paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity.
August 1, 2021
Zijia Zhao, Peter Moore, Casey Owen, Mischael Anilus, Steve Chau, Amish Desai, Michael Emerling, Luisa Chiesa, Makoto Takayasu, and Robert White “Characterization of MEMS Acoustic Sensors and Amplifiers in Cryogenic Fluids for Quench Detection Applications in HTS CICC”, in IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 1-5, Aug. 2021. DOI 10.1109/TASC.2021.3062784
Spencer Schmid successfully defended his Senior Honors Thesis!
May 3, 2021
E. S. Schmid, “Designing of Sonic Anemometer for Martian Environment”, Bachelor of Science Honors Thesis, Tufts University, May 2021.
Martin Majkut successfully defended his Master’s thesis!
April 22, 2021
M. Majkut, “Two-Dimensional Locomotion in a Soft Foam Robot Using Weight Redistribution”, Master of Science Thesis, Tufts University, May 2021.
Peter Tsivis successfully defended his Master’s thesis
April 21, 2021
P. Tsivis, “Wedge Cut Design for Tendon Driven Soft Foam Arm”, Master of Science Thesis, Tufts University, May 2021.
A US patent application was filed on our sonic anemometer invention.
January 7, 2021.
Robert White, Ian Neeson and Don Banfield, “Systems and Methods of Operation of a Sonic Anemometer”, US application number 17/144,097, filed January 7, 2021. Claims the benefit of US Provisional Patent Application 62/958,030 filed January 7, 2020.
Three papers were presented at the Acoustical Society of America Virtual Conference 2020, “Acoustics Virtually Everywhere”
December 7, 2020
Robert D. White, E. Spencer Schmid, Ian Neeson, Jonathan P. Merrison, Jens Jacob Iversen, and Don Banfield, “Ultrasonic Anemometry on Mars” at the 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, “Acoustics Virtually Everywhere”, December 7-11, 2020.
Robert D. White, Zijia Zhao, Casey Owen, Mischael Anilus, Steve Chau, Amish Desai, Michael Emerling, Luisa Chiesa, and Makoto Takayasu, “Cryogenic Testing of MEMS Microphones towards their Utilization as a Quench Detection Method in Superconducting Magnets” at the 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, “Acoustics Virtually Everywhere”, December 7-11, 2020.
Ethan Saff and Robert D. White “Spectral Analysis of Turbulent Boundary Layer Pressure Fluctuations Collected by a MEMS Microphone Array” at the 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, “Acoustics Virtually Everywhere”, December 7-11, 2020, undergraduate research symposium poster session.
NASA recommended our MATISSE proposal on a Martian Sonic Anemometer for funding.
December 3, 2020.
This project is with Cornell, VN instruments, and NASA Ames.
Two papers were presented at the Applied Superconductivity Virtual Conference 2020.
October 24, 2020
Zijia Zhao, Casey Owen, Mischael Anilus, Peter Moore, Steve Chau, Amish Desai, Michael Emerling, Robert White, Luisa Chiesa, and Makoto Takayasu, “Characterization of various MEMS sensors in cryogenic fluids for quench detection applications in HTS Cable-In-Conduit Conductors”, at the Applied Superconductivity Virtual Conference, ASC2020, Oct 24- Nov 7, 2020.
Makoto Takayasu , Zijia Zhao , Luisa Chiesa , Robert White, “Coolant pressure evaluations for a MEMS sensor array quench detection in REBCO CICC superconducting cables” at the Applied Superconductivity Virtual Conference, ASC2020, Oct 24- Nov 7, 2020