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What is Senior Design?
Senior Design is a course that every engineering student at the University of Central Florida must go through to become an engineer.
Senior Design is composed of two semesters that involve a project that incorporates the research, design, test, and implementation of a project.
The length of the course is one year long and taken during an engineer's senior year in college. In the first semester students spend a majority of their time
researching and writing a 120 page technical paper that details the approach which will be taken when constructing
the actual project. The second semester involves the construction of the project with research as needed.
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Project Summary?
The coil gun is a system that shoots a projectile using an electromagnetic field. The power source for the gun is a standard 120 V AC outlet which is connected to the primaries of a 1:4 step up transformer.
The 480 V of AC power is converted to DC through a rectifier to charge the 5mF capacitor bank. Through a silicon-controlled rectifier the current pulse needed to generate a pulse to induce the field is obtained.
The surge current from the capacitors bank to a coil wound around a barrel experiences a large current.The current pulse usually reaches around 600-900A. That current creates a magnetic field that magnetizes a steel projectile and causes it to be pushed throughout the
end of the barrel.
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Project Specifications:
100 ft/s Muzzle Velocity
180 Degree Horizontal Motion
120 Degree Vertical Motion
FPGA Initializes Cap Charging
FPGA Guided Firing or Manual Switch
Accepts 120 V AC Input
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