Prof. Fiorentini MS Laboratory Future Students
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Listed below are the main research projects I have worked and I am currently working on.
Current Research Projects
SAE Buckeye AutoDrive II Challenge
- Sensing and perception technologies
- Simulation
- Integration of AV compute platform
- Software development
- Deep learning
- Artificial intelligence
- Sensor fusion
- Navigation and mission planning
- Autonomous vehicle controls
Past Research Projects
Control Applications in Automotive Engineering
- system optimization and control design of advanced turbocharged engines;
- analysis and control design of automotive thermal management systems;
- experimental testing and modeling of automotive batteries, alternators and ancillary loads;
- optimal energy management of the automotive electrical system;
- vehicle energy harvesting;
- in-cylinder pressure estimation;
Optimization and Control of Advanced Turbocharged Engines
Control Design for Air-breathing Hypersonic Vehicles
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All our MS students are asked to work on hands-on projects that allow them to gain the necessary experience to land great internships and full-time jobs after they graduate. Below you can see what some of our students thought about their project experience during our MS Program.
I worked on Multi-Sensor Integration and fusion subsystem. We used an ARM Cortex core microcontroller for sensor fusion which is also an industry standard architecture used in many wearables and Internet of Things (IoT) products. In my internship I used a similar ARM Cortex microcontroller for firmware development of wireless dimmer at Lutron Electronics. I could start off with the project at Lutron immediately without having to go through a learning curve to familiarize myself with the ARM Cortex architecture because of my project experience. Also, in the project we implemented a data logger to store the sensor readings in an external memory, the exact same thing of storing data in an external memory was required in my internship and because of my previous project work experience I could implement it very quickly. Overall, the project work was very helpful for me in finding and doing well in my internship”.
Varun Karthikeyan, second year MS student, Summer Internship at Lutron - Now Hardware Design Engineer at Apple Inc.
“Working on a multi-controller platform gave me exposure to solving the problem of synchronizing measurements and control action between two processors. It was the first time I worked on embedded python and an operating system platform. This was something that directly helped me in designing subsystems of the embedded platform for the end of line tester for Tesla Model-3. In the second semester, I worked on devising algorithms for robot position estimation, path planning and trajectory control. I also had the chance to prototype this in hardware. The project effectively completed the loop of conceptualization, simulation and physical implementation as I was involved in complete bring up of the system. This exercise helped me better understand the bigger picture of battery management systems which comprises of inter-relations between fields like cell chemistry, control systems, state estimators and battery electronics. I thank Dr. Lisa and the sponsored project I worked on for giving me such a unique opportunity to further my domain knowledge”.
Abhishek Roy, second year MS student, Summer Internship at TESLA - Now Embedded Software Engineer (Charging systems, battery management) at Apple Inc.