March 2019

Noah Thompson, Rocket Team Lead Matthew Dickson, Control System Electronics Lead Current Air Brake Design Prototype  INTRODUCTION In order to align objectives with the current aerospace industry and establish WSU as a contender on the world intercollegiate rocketry stage, the aerospace club is developing custom simulations and control systems for complex aerodynamic surfaces. The team’s […]

Design and Justification The buck-boost circuit that was used during the alpha prototype was the most simplistic topology involving just one-switch in the buck-boost converter. Based on a published paper by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering SSN College of Engineering [1], the one switch steps up/steps down the converter that we uses has […]