Team members:
- Mir Ziyad Ali
- Liron Kopinsky
- Chris Wallace
- Sarah Whildin
- Joseph Yadgar
For our capstone project we will design an energy tracking system that will position solar panels in order to get maximum power. We will store the energy into batteries and use it to power the rest of the system. Under low light or no-light conditions, the system will go into a standby mode to conserve energy until sufficient power is present. To construct the digital section of the system we will be using a Xilinx FPGA board with a soft-processor core. This FPGA board will then connect to another PCB that will contain any additional hardware for the system such as the motor controllers used in positioning the solar panels, the batteries, battery chargers, level-shifters, flash, and any additional equipment that we find necessary. While this idea is designed with satellites and other autonomous applications in mind, we may include an LCD to display status information about the system for demonstration purposes.