Graduate Research Assistant
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
• Assembled and assisted in designing the circuitry and mechanics of sky scanning system to optimize PV tracking• Constructed a closed-loop algorithm within an Arduino microcontroller to control the scanning system and evaluate decisions based on sensor signals• Trained a Gradient Boosting Regressor model in Python to predict PV output from sensor signals• Tested and calibrated sensor data against PV panel output to develop and train a model for predicting PV power• System Patented: Mil'shtein, Sam. Asthana, Dhawal. Snell, Jeffrey. Brooks, Bill. Design of Operation of Miniature System Controlling PV Tracking. U.S. Patent, filed December 6, 2022. Patent pending.