Team 25: Wind Turbine Blade Tip Tracker
Blade attachment design featuring two GPS antennas and an electronics enclosure for data storage and processing.
Knowing a wind turbine blade’s deflection is vital to engineering and validating more efficient blades. We used groundbreaking techniques in GPS systems to track the position and orientation of a blade tip moving at 190 mph. These systems, when iterated through an extensive testing approach and coupled with post processing algorithms, tracked the position accurately to the size of a tennis ball!
Sponsorship
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
Director
Tom Wilke
Team Members
- Joel Carlson
- William Dellinger
- Justin Hall
- Keaton Jones
- Alexei Kazantsev
- Austin Spafford
- Elena Stirk
- Josh Umiamaka
- Eric Wagner