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A portable, ultra-Low cost NMR device
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) provides powerful measurements that remain inaccessible in many applications due to the instruments' size and expense. Recent research efforts have focused on creating handheld devices with ...
Mechanism for actuating seaweed harvesting device
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Mechanical systems to automate a critical aspect of the seaweed farming process were designed and iterated to determine their feasibility as a substitute for human labor on a commercial large-scale seaweed farm. This paper ...
Support vector machine gesture recognition for a wearable assistive robot for patients with hand osteoarthritis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Osteoarthritis affects tens of millions of adults in the US alone. A frequent form of this disease is hand osteoarthritis, which affects certain joints of each hand, typically symmetrically. While there is currently no ...
Development and validation of a systems-level cost optimization tool for solar-powered drip irrigation systems for smallholder farms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Drip irrigation is a micro-irrigation technology that has been shown to conserve water and significantly increase crop yield. This technology could be particularly beneficial to the world's estimated 500 million smallholder ...
Exploring mechanisms for harvesting of farmed seaweed
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
In this thesis, I explore different harvesting mechanisms for farmed seaweed off of a line. The seaweed market is large and growing globally, and currently relies heavily on manual labor and coastal waters for the farming ...