Specifications
2
Wind Turbine
Responsibility – Travis
Block Status – To be acquired
Solar Panel Array
Responsibility – Travis
Block Status – To be acquired
Wind Charge Controller
Responsibility – Keith & Travis
Block Status - To be acquired
Battery
Responsibility – Keith
Block Status – To be acquired
D/C»A/C Converter
Responsibility – Keith & Travis
Block Status - To be acquired
A/C Outlets
Responsibility – Keith & Travis
Block Status – To be acquired
Mirrors
Responsibility – All group members
Block Status - To be acquired
Turret Mechanism
Responsibility - All group members
Block Status - To be acquired
Display
Responsibility – Dylan & Imran
Block Status - To be acquired
Microprocessor
Responsibility – Dylan & Imran
Block Status - To be acquired
Solar Charge Controller
Responsibility – Travis
Block Status – To be acquired
D/C Outlet
Responsibility – Keith & Travis
Block Status - To be acquired
Figure 1 - Block Diagram of Overall System Layout
2 Definition
2.1 Motivation
Recently the IEEE – UCF Student Branch was contacted by a member of the student
branch of IEEE at Waseda University in Tokyo Japan. He was in central Florida to look
at potential research opportunities when he told the UCF student branch officers about
the situation that Japan is still in. I am sure you are aware that Japan is still recovering
from the tsunami that struck earlier this year in March and since then they have been
plagued with power outages sometimes to the point where it is difficult for the
universities to even hold classes. Since then the two student branches have been
sending back and forth correspondence on how they could find a solution to this
problem and have been able to come up with the following.
Japanese companies sympathetic to the problem have been contacted who have
agreed to donate solar panels and micro wind turbines that engineering students from
UCF will be able to install around the Waseda campus such that in the event of a power
outage the power generated and stored by these devices will be enough to power a
projector and a laptop computer, the bare essentials to hold a respectable lecture. We