This project is developing a micro testbed that includes a transcritical heat pump with both hot and cold storages.
Projects
Jan Brueghel Wiki: janbrueghel.net
The researchers will establish and then expand upon an open access, moderated input Wikipedia on the works produced by the Baroque painter Jan Brueghel and his studio.
Highly Sensitive Micro-magnetic Sensor for Cardiac Imaging
This project will develop a novel hybrid MEMS-magnetoresistive sensor to facilitate highly sensitive medical imaging of the human heart.
Aggressively Duty-Cycling Buildings: The Next Frontier in Energy Efficiency
This project combines state-of-the-art sensor networking and novel data processing and control algorithms to determine where people are located inside buildings and actuate the heating and cooling systems accordingly.
Motion Interfaces for Physical Therapy
Real-time motion capture and immersive 3D computer-generated environments are emerging as a powerful approach to numerous challenges, including health care challenges in clinical work and therapy.
Telemedicine Framework for Evaluation and Training of Upper Extremity
This project is exploring ways to utilize technologies to better assess the upper extremity function and allow continuous monitoring to evaluate the success of a therapy or drug intervention.
Center for Time Domain Informatics
This collaboration will produce a framework for extracting novel science from large amounts of data in an environment where the computational needs vastly outweigh the available facilities, and intelligent (and dynamic) resource allocation is required.
Renewable Energy Nanogrid with Electric Vehicle Energy Storage
Researchers are creating the necessary facilities to test solutions to the challenges of a nanogrid-based society.
Using Existing Metering to Identify Energy Waste in Buildings
Developing and applying signal processing, feature extraction, and filtering methods to identify energy waste in buildings on UC campuses.
Social Agents to Support Long Term Healthcare Interventions
The focus of this project is to build a prototype tutor/quiz agent with a knowledge base of human nutrition information.
Digital Birth: Improving Perinatal Outcomes for Under-Served Californians through Game-Based Learning
This project aims to provide interactive education about labor support to potentially decrease the cost of maternity care while simultaneously improving perinatal outcomes.
CitySandbox
A map-based website to bridge the gap between local neighborhood knowledge and larger political institutions.
Analysis and Visualization of News Articles via Sparse Statistics
The researchers aim to provide web-based tools for the analysis and visualization of news articles.
Delivering earthquake warnings using smartphones
Researchers are teaming up to deliver early earthquake warnings with smartphones in California.
Distributed Intelligence Automated Demand Response (DIADR) Project, Sutardja Dai Hall
The Distributed Intelligence Automated Demand Response (DIADR) project aims to reduce peak electricity demand on campus.
Metavid
The open video archive of the US Congress.
Mountain Snow: Measuring California’s Water Supply
Providing real-time water supply information tool enabling optimized usage of increasingly threatened water supplies in California.
Material Practice and Provenance
Where do our building materials come from?
CARNIVORE: A Disruption-Tolerant System for Studying Wildlife
A pioneering study of pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains will generate unprecedented insights into the behavior of one of the region’s top predators.
Wireless Sensing of Circuit Breaker Currents
Knowing how much electricity is being used, and for what purposes, is the first step towards reducing that amount. …
Personal Robotics Project
Robotic laundry requires dealing with non-rigid objects which poses a number of perceptual and manipulation challenges.
Technology and Information Management/Knowledge Services and Enterprise Management
As the U.S. continues in its shift from a manufacturing to a services oriented economy, engineering education must respond.
Bionics Lab
This project aims to develop science, technology, and human resources at the interface between robotics, biological systems, and medicine.
Assistive Technologies
The Assistive Technology Lab performs cutting edge technology research on helping people with…