Publications and Presentations
Awards
Won the 1st place award in the 38th Annual California State University Student Research Competition held at Cal Poly SLO on April 26-27, 2024.
Won the exemplary presentations in the CPP annual Student RSCA Conference held on March 2, 2024. Was nominated to represent Cal Poly Pomona at the 38th Annual California State University Student Research Competition held at Cal Poly SLO on April 26-27, 2024.
Won the best undergraduate student paper award in the IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium 2023 (WTS), held on April 21, 2023. https://www.cpp.edu/˜wtsi/index.html
Won the 1st place award, 2nd place award and the 3rd place award at the IEEE Student Engineering Team Challenge 2023 (SETC), Virtual, July (2023).
Won the exemplary presentations (two teams) in the CPP annual Student RSCA Conference as the only College of Engineering winners held on March 4, 2023(co-advised with Prof. Steven Dobbs). Was nominated to represent Cal Poly Pomona at the 37th Annual California State University Student Research Competition held at San Diego State University on April 28-29, 2023. https://www.cpp.edu/cppsrc/current-conference/awardees.shtml
Won the best undergraduate student paper award in the IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium 2022 (WTS), held on April 8, 2022. https://www.cpp.edu/~wtsi/index.html
Won the exemplary presentation at the CPP annual Student RSCA Conference, held on March 5, 2022. Was nominated to represent Cal Poly Pomona at the 36th Annual California State University Student Research Competition held at San Francisco StateUniversity on April 29-30, 2022. https://www.cpp.edu/cppsrc/current-conference/awardees.shtml
Won the 1st place award and the 3rd place award at the IEEE Student Engineering Team Challenge 2021 (SETC), Virtual, August (2021).
Won the top presentation in the CPP annual Student RSCA Conference Engineering and Computer Science Session, held on March 7, 2020. Was nominated to represent Cal Poly Pomona at the 34th Annual California State University Student Research Competition held at CSU East Bay on April 24-25, 2020. https://www.cpp.edu/cppsrc/current-conference/awardees.shtml
Won the 3rd place award at the IEEE Annual Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), held at Long Beach, on November 11, 2018.
News Media
“Extending UAV Flight Endurance”, CPP Engineering Magazine, Fall (2020) https://www.cpp.edu/engineering/coe-magazine/20-21-coemag/student-research.shtml
“Battery as Integrated Structure High Endurance UAV”, CPP Streaming Channel for the CSU Student Delegates, Spring (2020) https://bit.ly/ourcppstreaming
“Five engineering student teams are virtually competing at the annual CSU Student Research Competition from April 24-25!”, CPPengineering Social Media, Spring (2020) https://www.instagram.com/p/B Yf08CnLmd/?utmsource=ig web copy link
“Students Pin UAV Hopes on Exotic Material”, PolyCentric Website, Fall (2018) http://polycentric.cpp.edu/2018/12/students-pin-uav-hopes -on-exotic-material/ https://www.cpp.edu/˜ilab/about/news .shtml
“Cal Poly Pomona Inclusive Poly - UAVs project”, a series of videos tied to the theme of a Polytechnic Advantage, Spring (2019) https://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=gkmQ0GZXVqs&feature=youtu.be
“Solutions by Pomona Engineers - Aerospace Engineering, Electrical, and Computer Engineering”, CPP College of Engineering Magazine, Fall (2019) https://www. cpp.edu/engineering/documents/coe-magazine/coemag-19-20- webfinal.pdf
Conferences
M. Hoang and A. Ov, ”BANSHEE UAV (Battery as iNtegrated Structure High Endurance Experimental UAV, Robotics)”, presented orally at the 38th Annual California State University Student Research Competition, Cal Poly SLO, April,(2024) https://studentresearch.calpoly.edu/38th-annual-california-state-university-student-research-competition
K. Arellano, D. Paek, S. Dobbs and Z. Yu, “High Endurance UAV Student Project Pedagogy as a Continuous Undergraduate Engineering Teaching Tool”, Proceedings of Pacific Southwest Section of ASEE, Nevada, April (2024).
Z. Yu, S. Chen, N. Kim, A. Lo, “Designing Regenerative and Sustainable High Endurance Unmanned Ariel Vehicles”, presented orally at the 11th IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), 2024
M. Hoang, A. Ov, W. Zhu, S. Dobbs and Z. Yu, “BANSHEE UAV (Battery as iNtegrated Structure High Endurance Experimental UAV, Robotics)”, presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) , April, (2024)
M. Hoang, A. Ov, W. Zhu, “BANSHEE UAV (Battery as iNtegrated Structure High Endurance Experimental UAV, Robotics)”, presented at CPP students research conference in CPP (RSCA), March, (2024)
S. Chen, "Automated Ground Station," presented orally at the Transportation Research Board 103rd Annual Meeting as apart of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Research Fellowship, January, 2024.
M. Hoang and Y. Karwal, ”BANSHEE UAV -Robotics, Battery As iNtegrated Structure High Endurance Experimental UAV - Robotics”, presented orally at the 2023 Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR), Cal State University, Fullerton, November,(2023) https://sccur2023.sched.com/event/1VSK0/battery-as-integrated-structure-high-endurance-experimental-uav-robotics
S. Chen, K. Yu, R. Yang, “Automated Toy Sorter”, presented orally at the CPP 8th Annual Creative Activities & Research Symposium (CARS), August,(2023) https://www.cpp.edu/our-cpp/events-workshops/cars/current/presentations/presenter-directory.shtml
Christopher Lai, Minh Tri Chau, Maggie Hoang, Aaron Madrigal, “Autonomous Ground System Integration for High-Endurance UAVs”, presented at the IEEE Student Engineering Team Challenge 2023 (SETC), Virtual, May (2023)
Joseph Rico, Justin Ocampo, Mark Paz, Alec Johah Justice, Gwynn Sumagaysay, “BANSHEE UAV Structures & Manufacturing”, presented at the IEEE Student Engineering Team Challenge 2023 (SETC), Virtual, May (2023)
Shadman Sakib Ahmed,Talia Kester, Cameron Joseph Matchinsky, “Wireless Telecommunications Network for High-Endurance UAVs”, presented at the IEEE Student Engineering Team Challenge 2023 (SETC), Virtual, May (2023)
Maya Tene, Andrew Fisher-Shin, “BANSHEE UAV”, presented at the IEEE Student Engineering Team Challenge 2023 (SETC), Virtual, May (2023)
Jaehyun Kim, Larry Pereira, Curtis Lacey, Jasmine Mirbasoo, “Powerline Induction”, presented at the IEEE Student Engineering Team Challenge 2023 (SETC), Virtual, May (2023)
C. Lai, “Demonstration of Wireless Synchronization Methods in Autonomously Controlled Fleet of Drones”, IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), Boston, April (2023).
T. Kester,C. Matchinsky, “Implementation and Investigation of High Endurance UAVs in a 4G LTE Network for Monitoring Powerlines”, IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), Virtual, 2023
C. Lai, “Methods of Automating Power Swapping Mechanisms for Extending UAV Flight Missions”, IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), Boston, April (2023).
C. Lai and M. Hoang, ”BANSHEE UAV - Battery As iNtegrated Structure High Endurance Experimental UAV”, presented orally at the 37th Annual California State University Student Research Competition, San Diego State University, April,(2023) https://research.sdsu.edu/csucompetition
A. Lo and J. Rico, ”Technology Demonstrator for the Research of High Endurance and Regenerative UAVs”, presented orally at the 37th Annual California State University Student Research Competition, San Diego State University, April,(2023) https://research.sdsu.edu/csucompetition
A. Lo, “SINCHDrone UAV: Preparations for Technology Integration and Testing”, Proceedings of Pacific Southwest Section of ASEE, LA, April (2023).
Z. Yu, A. Lo and S. Dobbs, “SINCHDrone Technology Demonstration UAV Hybrid Incorporating Power Regeneration Technologies & Weight Minimization”, IEEE Conf. on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), virtual, 2023
C. Lai, M. Youssef, B. Chang, M. T. Chau, M. Hoang, K. Oda, Q. Tran, M. Hamida, S. Souvannakoumane, Y. Karwal, “Battery Vending Machine”, presented orally at the CPP 8th Annual Creative Activities & Research Symposium (CARS), August,(2022)
M. O’Connell and C.Watson, ”BANSHEE UAV”, presented orally at the 36th Annual California State University Student Research Competition, CSU East Bay, April,(2022) https://www.csueastbay.edu/csr/csu-src-2020-programfinal.pdf
M. O’Connell, C. Watson, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “Airplane-Quadcopter UAV Hybrid Incorporating Power Regeneration Technologies & Weight Minimization”, presented orally at IEEE Conf. on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), April (2022)
D. Mata, R. Pillai, R. Sandoval, S. Ahmed, D. Lee, M. O’Connell, J. Kidwell, S.Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “Autonomous Flight of High-Endurance UAVs to Monitor Powerlines”, presented orally at the IEEEWireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), April(2022) https://www.cpp.edu/˜wtsi/Schedules.html
M. O’Connell, C. Watson, D. Portillo-Gonzalez, and D. Mata, “Battery as iNtegrated Structure High Endurance Experimental UAV (BANSHEE UAV)”, presented at CPP students research conference in CPP (RSCA), March, (2022) https://web.arch ive.org/web/20210318180125/https://www.cpp.edu/cppsrc/c urrent-conference/program/index.shtml
A. Damelio, D. Guzman, S. S. Arellano, and K. Jackson, “UAV In-Flight Wireless Charging from Power Lines”, presented at the IEEE Student Engineering Team Challenge 2021 (SETC), Virtual, August (2021) https://ieeesetc.org/setc2 021-winners/
D. Sanqui, P. Thai, C. Watson, and M. Demonte, “Using Robotics for Identifying and Labeling Packages”, presented at the IEEE Student Engineering Team Challenge 2021 (SETC), Virtual, August (2021) https://ieeesetc.org/setc2021- winners/
D. Mata, R. Pillai, T. S. Yik, and Y. Yang, “Banshee Autonomous Flight”, presented at the IEEE Student Engineering Team Challenge 2021 (SETC), Virtual, August (2021) https://ieeesetc.org/setc2021-winners/
Y. Yang, X. Ma, M. Pan, P. Sun, and R. Sandoval, “Titan Providence: Self-navigation drone”, presented at the IEEE Student Engineering Team Challenge 2021 (SETC), Virtual, August (2021) https://ieeesetc.org/setc2021-winners/
C. Duncan, M. Abbas, and P. Ayad, “Manufacturing for an Inductive Charging Component of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Quadcopter”, presented at the IEEE Student Engineering Team Challenge 2021 (SETC), Virtual, August (2021) https://ieeesetc.org/setc2021-winners/
C. McGarry and B. Khmel, “Battery Spar”, presented at the IEEE Student Engineering Team Challenge 2021 (SETC), Virtual, August (2021) https://ieeesetc .org/setc2021-winners/
J. Zheng, C. Hua, N. Garapati, and C. Ruvalcaba, “Power Management System for a Quad Copter”, presented at the IEEE Student Engineering Team Challenge 2021 (SETC), Virtual, August (2021) https://ieeesetc.org/setc2021-winn ers/
H. Yong, J. Rojas, S. Bustos, A. Viernes, and Q. Gong, “UAV Flight Endurance Testing”, presented at the IEEE Student Engineering Team Challenge 2021 (SETC), Virtual, August (2021) https://ieeesetc.org/setc2021-winners/
J. Lee*, N. Papp*, K. Le*, C. McGarry*, S. Bhakta*, K. Tarroza*, M. O’Connell*, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “High-Endurance UAV Via Parasitic Weight Minimization and Wireless Energy Harvesting”, presented poster at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 8th Annual Conference on Technologies for Sustain- ability (SusTech), April, (2021) https://ieee-sustech.org/archives/home -2021/program-2021/program-tracks-2021/
S. Dobbs, Z. Yu, J. Lee*, J. Ilagan*, B. Khmel*, M. Loi*, N. Papp*, E. G. Rogel*, C. McGarry*, C. Duncan*, P. Frem*, K. Maldonado*, C. McGinnis*, H. Yong*, S. Bustos*, Q. Gong*, C. Duncan*, M. Abbas*, S. Ry*, K. Luo*, P. Ayad*, and M. O’Connell*, “Bringing Hybrid Senior Project Courses in Engineering Education During The Pandemic Challenge”, Presented at the Pacific Southwest Section of ASEE, Virtual on April (2021) https://sites.asee.org/psw/
J. Lee, V. Mkrtchyan, and C. McGinnis,“Battery as iNtegrated Structure High Endurance Experimental (BANSHEE) UAV”, presented at CPP students research conference in CPP (RSCA), March, (2021) https://web.archive.org/web/20 210318180125/https://www.cpp.edu/cppsrc/current-confere nce/program/index.shtml
J. Lee and J. Castro, ”BANSHE UAV”, presented orally at the 34th Annual California State University Student Research Competition, CSU East Bay, April, (2020) ht tps://www.csueastbay.edu/csr/csu-src-2020-programfinal.p df
T. Kidd, P. Esquivel, D. Bui, R. Uyehara, E. Pyun, P. Larlar, E. Romero, M. O’Connell, C. Silva, S. Bhakta, G. Oetting, R. Valdezotto, J. Kim, J. Castro, J. Lee, S. Dobbs, Z. Yu, K. Anderson, and P. Sun, ”Power Management, Generation, and Storage Methods for Sustainable UAV Flight”, presented poster at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 7th Annual Conference on Technologies for Sustain- ability (SusTech), April, (2020) https://site.ieee.org/sustech/conference /student-poster-contest-2020/student-poster-contestants2020/
J. Castro, A. Rivas, J. Kim, E. Botello, F. Contreras, V. Martinez, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, ”Supercapacitors”, presented poster at CPP students research conference in CPP (RSCA), March, (2020) https://www.cpp.edu/cppsrc/current-confe rence/program/poster-creative-pres.shtml
G. Oetting, R. Valdezotto, K. Weatherman, A. Melikian, M. Repollo, J. Lee, D. Assefa, J. Wells, B. Jayaratne, J. Kim, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, ”BANSHE UAV”, presented orally at CPP students research conference in CPP (RSCA), March, (2020) https: //www.cpp.edu/cppsrc/current-conference/program/oral-pre s.shtml
J. Kim, C. Wu, Z. Kuang, H. Zhao, N. Cao, D. Magluyan, D. Kawamoto-Kindred, 411 S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, ”Using Robotics to Assemble Supercapacitor”, presented poster at CPP students research conference in CPP (RSCA), March, (2020) https: //www.cpp.edu/cppsrc/current-conference/program/poster-c reative-pres.shtml
G. Oetting, ”Extended Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle via Structural Electrical Power Storage and Energy Generation Devices”, AEROTECH 2020 in Pasadena, CA, March (2020) https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-pap ers/content/2020-01-0041/
B. Flint, A. Caterio, J. Hartogh, I. Sahagun, C. Lee, D. Patel, B. Zhu, A. Nair, A. Sargsyan, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, ”Aeroelasticity Induced Power Generation For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)”, presented orally at CPP students research conference in CPP (RSCA), March, (2019) https://www.cpp.edu/˜cppsrc/curr ent-conference/program/presenter-directory.shtml
S. Castillo, A. Esparza, C. H. Kuo, A. Nocedal, A. Pitawanakwat, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, ”Robotic Arms of Graphene Supercapacitor”, presented poster at CPP students research conference in CPP (RSCA), March, (2019) https://www.cpp.edu/ ˜cppsrc/current-conference/program/presenter-directory.s html
A. Caterio, B. Flint, S. Castillo, S. Dobbs, K. R. Anderson and Z. Yu, ”Power Management System Design for In-Flight Power Generation and Storage in UAVs”, presented poster at IEEE Annual Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), Novem- ber, (2018) http://sites.ieee.org/sustech/2018/12/suste ch-2018-poster-contest-winners/
M. Tisbe, N. Ferguson, A. Ramos, J. Lee, C. Nguyen, B. Cheng, A. Lau, and Z. Yu, ”3D Printing Graphene-Enhanced Li-Ion Battery and Graphene Supercapacitors”, presented orally at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), June (2018) http://associations.sou.edu/aaaspd/2018POMONA/Symposia18.html#6
J. Franco, B. Cheng, M. Tisbe, I. Pollard, S. Dobbs and Z. Yu, ”AIPG - Aeroelasticy Induced Power Generation”, presented orally at the International Summit on Conventional and Sustainable Energies, March (2018) https://sustainableenerg ies.conferenceseries.com/2018/
List of Publications
M. Hoang, A. Ov, S. Chen, D. Huynh, Y. Karwal, S. Ahmed, N. Kim, J. Vega, S. Nunna, M. Nastase, H. Song, B. Lam, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “Design of Autonomous Battery Swapping for UAVs”, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (IEEE AIM) 2024
D. Paek, K. Arellano, S. Dobbs, C. Lai, Z. Yu, “High Endurance UAV Student Project Pedagogy as a Continuous Undergraduate Engineering Teaching Tool”, Proceedings of Pacific Southwest Section of ASEE, April (2024).
M. Hoang, S. Chen, M. Go, Z. Yu, A. Lo, A. Brumley, M. Li, R. Santiago, S. Dobbs, and J. Ocampo, “Designing Regenerative and Sustainable High Endurance Unmanned Ariel Vehicles”, IEEE Xplore, 2024. IEEE Conf. on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), 2024
C. Lai, H. Song, A. Madrigal, M. Youssef, B. Lieng, M. Hamida, Q. Tran, P. Ngo, B. Chang, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “Demonstration of Wireless Synchronization Methods in Autonomously Controlled Fleet of Drones”, the International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation (IJMNDI) 2024, 11(1), 1.
A. Lo, M. Cha, S. Dobbs, C. Lai, Z. Yu, J. Rico, and M. Tene, “SINCHDrone UAV: Preparations for Technology Integration and Testing”, Proceedings of Pacific Southwest Section of ASEE, Virtual, April (2023).
S. Ahmed, D. G. Lee, J. Vong, M. Cha, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “Implementation and Investigation of High Endurance UAVs in a 4G LTE Network for Monitoring Powerlines”, IEEE Xplore, May 24, 2023, pp.1-9. IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS) 2023 proceedings,2023, doi: 10.1109/WTS202356685.2023.10131813
C. Lai, M. T. Chau, R. Thai, S. Souvannakoumane, C. Watagoda, K. Oda, S. Robinson, G. Razungles,S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “Methods of Automating Power Swapping Mechanisms for Extending UAV Flight Missions”, IEEE Xplore, Apr. 19, 2023, pp.1-10. IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS) 2023 proceedings, 2023, doi: 10.1109/WTS202356685.2023.10131699
K. Kudebeh, J. Baez, L. Austin, Z. Yu, A. Lo, S. Dobbs, and J. Rico, “SINCHDrone Technology Demonstration UAV Hybrid Incorporating Power Regeneration Technologies & Weight Minimization”, IEEE Xplore, 2023, Apr. 19, 2023, pp.124-129. IEEE Conf. on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), 2023, doi: 10.1109/SusTech57309.2023.10129572
D. Mata, R. Pillai, R. Sandoval, S. Ahmed, D. Lee, M. O’Connell, J. Kidwell, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “Autonomous Flight of High-Endurance UAVs to Monitor Powerlines”, IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS) 2022 proceedings, and InternationalJournal of Interdisciplinary telecommunications & Networking (IJITN), 2022, 14(1), 14 .
M. O’Connell, R. Santos, B. Ho, I. Hasan, J. Kidwell, L. Gamino, C. Corral, D. Portillo-Gonzalez, L. Ortiz Echeverria, F. Ruotolo, I. Sanchez, J. Rojas, A. Dominguez, D. Mata, D. Sanqui, M. Abbas, C. Ruvalcaba, H. Zhao, D. Godfrey, M. Youssef, A. Viernes, C. Hua, S. Huynh, P. Ayad, C. Watson, A. Damelio, R. Villalobos, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “Airplane-Quadcopter UAV Hybrid Incorporating Power Regeneration Technologies & Weight Minimization”, IEEE Xplore, June 14, 2022, pp. 154-160: IEEE Conf. on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), 2022, doi: 10.1109/SusTech53338.2022.9794156.
C. Wu, J. Kim, D. Magluyan, D.K. Kindred, Y. Zhou, N. Cao, H. Zhao, Z. Kuang, T. Kidd, S. Dobbs and Z. Yu “Using Robotics to Assemble Graphene Supercapacitor”, TechConnect Briefs 2021: TechConnect World Innovation Conference in Washington DC, October (2021), pp. 122-125. https://briefs.techconnect.org/p apers/using-robotics-to-assemble-graphene-supercapacitor
J. Kim, A. Rivas, S. Wu, V. Martinez, F. Contreras, J. Castro, E. Botello, T. Kidd, S. Dobbs and Z. Yu, “Novel Graphene Supercapacitor Structure Design for UAV Power Storage”, TechConnect Briefs 2021: TechConnect World Innovation Conference in Washington DC, October (2021), pp. 228-231. https://briefs.techconne ct.org/papers/novel-graphene-supercapacitor-structure-de sign-for-uav-power-storage/
S. Dobbs, Z. Yu, J. Lee*, J. Ilagan*, B. Khmel*, M. Loi*, N. Papp*, E. G. Rogel*, C. McGarry*, C. Duncan*, P. Frem*, K. Maldonado*, C. McGinnis*, H. Yong*, S. Bustos*, Q. Gong*, C. Duncan*, M. Abbas*, S. Ry*, K. Luo*, P. Ayad*, and M. O’Connell*, “Bringing Hybrid Senior Project Courses in Engineering Education During The Pandemic Challenge”, Proceedings of Pacific Southwest Section of ASEE, April (2021). https://peer.asee.org/hybrid-senior-project-co urses-in-engineering-education-during-the-pandemic-chall enge
J. Lee*, N. Papp*, K. Le*, C. McGarry*, S. Bhakta*, K. Tarroza*, M. O’Connell*, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “High-Endurance UAV Via Parasitic Weight Minimization and Wireless Energy Harvesting”, IEEE Xplore, 2021 https://ieeexplore.iee e.org/abstract/document/9467437
J. Castro, T. Kidd, Jo. Kim, J. Lee, G. Oetting, R. Valdezotto, Ja. Kim, K. Weatherman, M. Repollo, D. Assefa, A. Melikian, P. Esquivel, J. Wells, A. Frazier, B. Jayaratne, R. Paz, S. Dobbs, Z. Yu, and P. Sun “Battery as Integrated Structure High Endurance UAV”, CPP Bronco Scholar, May 18, 2020. http://broncoschola r.library.cpp.edu/handle/10211.3/215905
T. Kidd*, Z. Yu, S. Dobbs, K. Anderson, G. Oetting*, S. Castillo*, and J. Kim*, “UAV Power Management, Generation, and Storage System Principles and Design”, IEEE Xplore July 27, 2020: IEEE Conf. on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), 2020, pp. 1-8. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/ 9150499
G. Oetting, “Extended Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle via Structural Electrical Power Storage and Energy Generation Devices”, Proceedings of AEROTECH 2020 in Pasadena, CA, March (2020). https://www.sae.org/publications/t echnical-papers/content/2020-01-0041/
Z. Yu, S. Dobbs, K. Anderson, P. Sun, B. Zhu*, A. Nair* and S. Wu*, “Fabrication of a Lower Weight, All 3D Printed Graphene Supercapacitor”, Proceedings of TechConnect World Innovation Conference in Boston, MA, June (2019). https: //briefs.techconnect.org/papers/fabrication-of-a-lower-w eight-all-3d-printed-graphene-supercapacitor/
S. Dobbs, Z. Yu, K. Anderson, J, Franco*, A. Deravanessian*, A. Lin* and A. Ahn*, “Design of an Inflight Power Generation and Storage System for Use in UAVs”, IEEE Xplore March 21, 2019: IEEE Conf. on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), Long Beach, CA, USA, 2018, pp. 1-8. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ab stract/document/8671363
A. Lo*, M. Cha*, S. Dobbs, C. Lai*, Z. Yu, J. Rico*, and M. Tene*, “SINCHDrone UAV: Preparations for Technology Integration and Testing”, Proceedings of Pacific Southwest Section of ASEE, Virtual, April (2023), (submitted).
S. Ahmed*, D. G. Lee*, J. Vong*, M. Cha*, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “Implementation and Investigation of High Endurance UAVs in a 4G LTE Network for Monitoring Powerlines”, IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS) 2023 proceedings,2023, (submitted).
C. Lai*, H. Song*, A. Madrigal*, M. Youssef*, B. Lieng*, M. Hamida*, Q. Tran*, P. Ngo*, B. Chang*, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “Demonstration of Wireless Synchronization Methods in Autonomously Controlled Fleet of Drones”, IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS) 2023 proceedings,2023, (submitted)
C. Lai*, M. T. Chau*, R. Thai*, S. Souvannakoumane*, C. Watagoda*, K. Oda*, S. Robinson*, G. Razungles*, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “Methods of Automating Power Swapping Mechanisms for Extending UAV Flight Missions”, IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS) 2023 proceedings,2023, (submitted).
K. Kudebeh*, J. Baez*, L. Austin*, Z. Yu, A. Lo*, S. Dobbs, and J. Rico*, “SINCHDrone Technology Demonstration UAV Hybrid Incorporating Power Regeneration Technologies & Weight Minimization”, IEEE Conf. on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), 2023, (accepted).
Senior Project Symposium
Maggie Hoang, Alexander Ov, Don Huynh,Winson Zhu, Yash Kawal,”Robotic Ground System for Autonomous Battery Replacement”,presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2024)
Maggie Hoang, Don Huynh, Jose Vega, Javin Paryani, Ruben Banzon, Chase Ashley, Brian Lam, ”Ground Control Station”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2024)
Maggie Hoang, Yash Karwal, Andrew Bird, Ivan Liu, Noe Medina, Phu Ngo, Ricardo Pereyra, Shadman Ahmed, Kyle Shieh, Chris Valencia, Elijah Tolosa, Jamison Maglaya, Aden Lam, ”Battery Vending Machine”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2024)
Maggie Hoang, Alexander Ov, Winson Zhu, Yeachan Okh, Ruben Banzon, Cilsbert Hurtado-Hernandez , Christiana Erendira, Daniel Garibay, Kevin Yu, Joshua Carrasco, Caden Hong, ”Battery Transfer Pod”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2024)
Alton Lo, Rebecca Santiago, Matthew Li, Christopher Montoya, Alex Hernandez, Adrien Smith, Arriana Brumley, Tyler Villalba, Daniel Malimban, Aidin Weissler, Ryan Driessen, Dean Preston, Carlo Ariel De Leon, Jose Ramirez, Kai Arellano, Daniel Paek, Juan Bosque, Isaac Khan, ”BANSHEE UAV: Battery As iNtegrated Structure High Endurance Experimental UAV”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2024)
Alan Morales, Andrew Caudillo, Cidorin Jomo, Cory Ung, David Torres, Francisco Munguia, Garrett Wong, Jose Hernandez, Nhi Le, Sam Ortega, Zachary Ibarra, Isaac Khan, ”E-VTOL Aircraft Power Management System with In-Flight Charging Technologies”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2024)
Daniel Acosta, Hoang Nguyen, Andy Sui, Donovan Arroyo, Amy Jiang, Tristan Vuong, Justin Phuc Le Nguyen, Alvin Cheng, Tom Solomon, Alexa Hurtado, ”Powerline Detection and Communications”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2024)
Christopher Lai, Bethany Chang, Maggie Hoang, Kaye Oda, Aaron Madrigal, Minh Tri Chau, Shawn Wang, ”Robotic Ground System”,presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2023)
Maggie Hoang, Don Huynh, Brian Lam, Ryan Thai, Jaecheol Han, Borick Lieng, Christopher Lai, Bethany Chang, ”Ground Control System”,presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2023)
Christopher Lai, Kaye Oda, Shanthi Robinson, ChathuryaWatagoda, Mohamed Hamida, Bethany Chang, ”Battery Vending Machine”,presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2023)
Christopher Lai, Bethany Chang, Minh Tri Chau, Jinrun Liang, Matthew Alaniz, Anthony Mora, Saketh Nunna, Quyen Tran, ”Battery Transfer Pod”,presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2023)
Christopher Lai, Bethany Chang, Aaron Madrigal, Harris Song, Yash Karwal, Borick Lieng, ”Flight Automation”,presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2023)
Christopher Lai, Bethany Chang, Shawn Wang, Alex Hoang, Ernesto Quintana, Derick Phan, Nash Russak, Nathan Kim, ”Solar Power System”,presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2023)
Shadman Ahmed, Talia Kester, Cameron Matchinsky, Kenny Lee, Jimmy Vong, Joseph Kurone-Ghariban,Kevin Gutierrez, Clarissa Simental, Nina Fajardo, ”Wireless Telecommunication Network for High-Endurance UAVs”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2023)
Ricardo Pereyra,Mireille Santoso, Bon Yeong Ku, Dhruval Bhatt, Bryan Kim, ”Structural Battery to Increase UAV Flight Time”,presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2023)
Jaehyun Kim, Larry Pereira, Jasmine Mirbasoo,Curtis Lacey,Talia Anis, Mohammed Enam, ”Inductive Charging on the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2023)
I. Khan et al, ”BANSHEE UAV Senior Project 2022-2023 ARO Engineering Symposium”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2023)
Isaac Khan, Maya Tene, Alec Justice, and Shadman Ahmed, ”BANSHEE UAV Showcase of Excellence 2023”, presented orally at Engineering Showcase of Excellence, April, (2023)
Reynaldo Martinez, Liam Austin, HyeRin Yoo, Issak Valdez, Dylan Godfrey, Hanqing Zhao, WallaceWu, Philbert Chang, Andrea Dominguez, Ricardo Pereyra, Kevin Umana, Dhruval Bhatt, ”Structural Power Regeneration and Storage of UAVs”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2022)
Derek Mata, Ryan Sandoval, Deekshna Balkrishnan, Shadman Ahmed, Kenny Lee, Joseph Kurone, Christopher Watson, Michael Youssef, Christopher Lai, Matteo Demonte, Paul Thai, Ali Mohammed Ali, Minh Tri Chau, Sandor Souvannakoumane, Kyrie Kudebeh, Kyle Garcia, Steven Huyuh, ”Autonomous Flight and Charging of High Endurance UAVs”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2022)
M. O’Connell, L. Gamino, R. Santos, D. Portillo-Gonzalez, I. Hasan, “BANSHEE UAV (Battery As iNtegrated Structure High Endurance Experimental Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)”, presented orally at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2022)
J. Lee, F. Tahmak, V. Mkrtchyan, J. Ilagan, V. Hairapetian, E. G. Rogel, N. Papp, K. Brooks, J. Ramas, M. Evans, D. Cuateco, K. Medina, K. Le, and M. O’Connell, “BANSHEE Flying Battery UAV”, presented orally at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2021)
C. McGinnis, J. Lee, and J. Ilagan, “BANSHEE Flying Battery UAV Project”, presented orally at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2021)
C. Duncan, K. Luo, S. Ry, M. Abbas, and P. Ayad, “Manufacturing for an Inductive Charging Component of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Quadcopter”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2021)
K. Maldonado, R. Pillai, B. Nguyen, and D. Mata, “Banshee Autonomous Flight”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2021)
D. Sanqui, M. Youssef, E. Samaniego, and J. William-Mensah,, “Using Robotics for Identifying and Labeling Packages”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2021)
H. Yong, J. Rojas, Q. Gong, S. Bustos, and A. Viernes, “UAV Flight Endurance Testing”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2021)
H. Yong, R. Pham, and S. Kongettira, “High-Endurance UAV Research”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2021)
C. McGarry, and B. Khmel, “Battery Spar”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2021)
A. Damelio, D. Guzman, S. S. Arellano, and K. Jackson, “UAV In-Flight Wireless Charging from Power Lines”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2021)
J. Zheng, C. Hua, N. Garapati, and C. Ruvalcaba “Power Management System for a Quad Copter”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2021)
A. Rivas, J. Castro, J. Kim, F. Contreras, V. Martinez, K. Tarroza, R. Pandit, E. Botello, and D. Karthikeyan, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “Novel Graphene Supercapacitor Structure Design for UAV Power Storage”, presented orally at Engineering Project Symposium, May, (2020) https://www.cpp.edu/engineering/activi ties/showcase-teams.shtml
T. Kidd, P. Esquivel, D. Bui, R. Uyehara, E. Pyun, P. Larlar, E. Romero, M. O’Connell, C. Silva, S. Bhakta, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, ”UAV Power Management System Design Principles”, presented orally at Engineering Project Symposium, May, (2020) https://www.cpp.edu/engineering/activities/showcase-team s.shtml
J. Kim, C. Wu, D. Kawamoto-Kindred, D. Magluyan, Z. Kuang, H. Zhao, and N. Cao, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “Using Robotics to Assemble Supercapacitor in College Senior Capstone Projects with K-12 Outreach”, presented orally at Engineering Project Symposium, May, (2020) https://www.cpp.edu/engineering/activities /showcase-teams.shtml
G. Oetting, R, Valdezotto, M. Repollo, K. Weatherman, D. Assefa, A. Melikian, J. Lee, J. Wells, C. Gonzalez, A. Frazier, M. Bradley, B. Jayaratne, J. Ilagan, E. Rogel, K. Le, R. Paz, M. Villasaldo, J. DeSilva, M. O’Connell, S. Dobbs, Z. Yu, K. Anderson, P. Sun, “BANSHE UAV (Battery As iNtegrated Structure High Endurance Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle)”, presented orally at Engineering Project Symposium, May, (2020)
B. Zhu, A. Nair, Z. Yu, S. Dobbs, and K. Anderson, “Graphene-Enhanced Li-ion battery and Graphene supercapacitors”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2019) https://guidebook.com/guide/157507/poi/11923692/?pcat=81 5394
A. Caterio, D. Patel, A. Sargsyan, Z. Yu, S. Dobbs, and K. Anderson, “Power Management System Design for In-Flight Power Generation and Storage in UAVs”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2019) https://guidebook.com/guide/157507/poi/11923690/?pcat=81 5394
B. Flint, J. Hartogh, I. Sahagun, C. Lee, J. Chu, H. L. Gonzalez, S. Dobbs, Z. Yu, and K. Anderson, “Inflight Aeroelastic Wing Induced Power Generation for UAVs using Solar , Thermal, Vibration, Graphene Supercapacitors and Power Management Techniques”, presented orally at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2019) https://guidebook.com/guide/157507/event/23336324/
S. Castillo, A. Esparza, C. H. Kuo, A. Nocedal, A. Pitawanakwat, S. Dobbs, and Z. Yu, “Robotic Arms Assembly of Graphene Supercapacitors for In-Flight Power Generation and Storage in UAVs”, presented orally and poster at Engineering Project Symposium, April, (2019) https://guidebook.com/guide/157507/event/23248148/ https://guidebook.com/guide/157507/poi/11923691/?pcat=81 5394
M. Tisbe, N. Ferguson, A. Ramos, J. Lee, C. Nguyen, J. Bauzon, and Z. Yu, “3D Printing Graphene-Enhanced Li-Ion Battery and Graphene Supercapacitors”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, June (2018)
I. Pollard, S. Betts and Z. Yu, ”Inflight Power Management and Generation in UAV”, presented orally at Engineering Project Symposium, June (2018)
B. Naguit, Y. Liang, M. Masli and Z. Yu, ”Inflight Power Management and Generation in UAV”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, June (2018)
B. Cheng, A. Lau, A. Armienta , A. Botello, J. Lopez, A. Collazo and Z. Yu, ”On the Automated Assembly of Graphene Supercapacitors”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, June (2018)
R. Costa, F. Garcia, B. Lianoz, M. Olvera, G. Sifuentes and Z. Yu, “Graphene Supercapacitor Electrodes”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, June (2017)
D. Palomino, O. Arreola, S. Sposato, E. Toral, E. Gonzalez, S. Galvez, C. Hoffman and Z. Yu, “Power Regeneration from Flutter”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, June (2017)
J. O’Malley, E. Na, T. Eusufzai, R. Calles, D. Joon Sohn and Z. Yu, “Aircraft Flutter for Energy Capture Technologies Power Management”, presented poster at Engineering Project Symposium, June (2017)