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University of Central Florida Senior design
UNDER WATER ACOUSTIC PINGER
Group 19: Zhen Cai, Jonathan Mohlenhoff, Cassondra Puklavage
Sponsor: Robotics Club at UCF
The purpose of this project is to create an independent system for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that can listen for and locate an underwater pinger.
This system would send heading and depth information to the AUV, enabling the AUV to travel to the pinger. This project includes knowledge and implementation
of several areas of electrical and computer engineering. The system will have to use analog and digital hardware, along with software and mathematics to
decipher the incoming information.
An overhead view of the competition site and mission layout.
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Mechanical design of the subvehicle.
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Zhen Cai is a senior student of the Computer Engineering department at University of Central Florida.He is graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering within the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. He is currently interning at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control facility. He will continue his master degree at University of Central Florida in the Fall of 2011. He enjoyed watching footballs and making sushi.
Jonathan Mohlenhoff is 23 years old and is graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering within the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. He is enrolled for the fall semester of 2010 for continuing his education with Masters in Electrical Engineering concentrating in electromagnets and signal processing. He has received a full scholarship for graduate school from the DoD through the SMART Scholarship Program and will be interning with the Air Force at Robin’s AFB, Georgia. He has had a Professional Internship with the Walt Disney World Co. in Sustaining Engineering and currently works as an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the ACTIVE Lab at the Institute for Simulation and Training (IST) of UCF. He has also been very involved in extracurricular activities through the Robotics Club at UCF as the current President and has previously been team leader for several of the projects.
Cassondra Puklavage will be graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering within the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. She received the Provost Fellowship from UCF and will be pursuing a Masters in Computer Engineering in the fall semester of 2010. She will follow the ISML (Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning) track. She is currently working as an undergraduate researcher in the ISL (Intelligent Systems Lab) of UCF. She is also very involved with the Robotics Club at UCF both as a serving officer and the current team leader of the AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) project.