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Mentors: Student: R.David Aleman Ramos

<p>Cubesat are now widespread as affordable tools for teaching and researching for Universities and Research Centers. Although they are simple platforms, their complexity can be increased in a budget. One of the elements that increase the capabilities of cubesats is the incorporation of an attitude (and orbit) control system (AOCS). Simulation of the capability of these subsystems is the first step to assess the convenience to include such subsystems in a platform.</p>

Mentors: Student: Binh-Minh Tran-Huu

<p>Because of the recent sharp growth of the satellite industry, it is necessary to have free, accessible, open-source software to analyze satellite signals and track them. In order to achieve that, as one of the most essential steps, those applications must calculate the exact centers of the input satellite signals in the frequency domain. My project is initiated to accommodate this requirement. It aims to provide a program that can reliably detect satellite signals and find their exact frequency centers with high precision, thus providing important statistics for signal analyzing and satellite tracking.</p>

Mentors: Student: Jayaraj

<p>CalibrateSDR is designed to accurately determine the frequency offset of an SDR via an IQ recording sample. Cheaper SDRs use a low-quality crystal oscillator which usually has a large offset from the ideal frequency. Furthermore, that frequency offset will change as the dongle warms up or as the ambient temperature changes. The end result is that any signals received will not be at the correct frequency, and they would drift as the temperature changes. CalibrateSDR can be used with almost any SDR to determine the frequency offset. As of now, it uses the synchronization channel symbols from DAB+ digital audio stations to determine the offset. The primary focus of this project is to extend the applicability towards more signal standards, so as to make it helpful for the SDR community. As DAB+ is mainly used in Europe, Signal standards like GSM, LTE, NOAA-Weather Satellites, DVB-T (use their sync pulses within the data) can be used. Currently, it uses the pyrtlsdr package, which makes it work with RTL-SDR. Piping the API to work with other SDRs will also make the project have a wide range of applications in the SDR Community.</p>

Mentors: Student: Mario Robert D'Ambrosio

<h3>Visualisation of the MOLTO-3BP Incorporating Matlab Python SDK</h3> <p>I am aware there are many applicants, thus I sincerely apologize and regret my delay but hope I can be given an assignment/evaluation test.</p> <p>I'm applying to the track for the visualisation of the MOLTO-3BP network as I am enrolled to start a graduate program in CS using distributed technology and am interested in the applications of orbital equations and computing problems.</p> <p>My motivation lies in my current interest for Backend and Frontend applications as I also work with a company managing their ML algorithms for data prediction in arbitrage contexts as lead analyst and developer for the Full-stack infrastructure to support such volume and structure the visualisation process for qualitative information (as quantitative is given by volume in this case). I am now interested in leveraging such skillset to perhaps a more researching-focused world in lieu of an economic speculative industrial motivator.</p> <p>I believe the 3BP is very interesting from a theoretical point of view and can be greatly improved with visual filter and newer GUI revamp to its already robust computational engine (orbital eq in the halo numerical model)</p>

Mentors: Student: Ayush Singh

<p>Calibrate SDR is a tool by AerospaceResearch.net in which we would be adding support of GSM, and DVB-T signals for correcting frequency offset that occurred during SDR operation. Calibrate SDR would provide calibration to the SDR community all around the world if these signals exist there.</p> <p>more on Calibrate SDR <a href="https://aerospaceresearch.net/?page_id=2111" target="_blank">blog</a> by Andreas Hornig (my mentor)</p>