The splashy introduction to the course. Description of the project and rules outline. Explanation of assessment items, demos and reviews. Information on class rules, procedures and policies. Provides some useful resources, people and contact details.
Striking a balance is making everybody equally unhappy. Mechatronics design requires trading off multiple competing system parameters whilst meeting the overall performance objective.
Main sheets, spinnakers and belaying pins ahoy! A short sharp introduction to the key concepts of wind-powered propulsion, recap of fluid dynamics principles, and how airfoils and buoyancy work. Discusses how aerodynamic sail systems and hydrodynamic hull systems function together.
Don't know your Kalman Filters from your Weighted Averages? This lecture provides a brief description of the underlying philosophy of filtering and sensor fusion, with focus on various kinds of filter you may encounter.
In class demo of basic and advanced soldering techniques. You really had to be there!