I haven't added a new blog post in a while (not that anyone really reads this), but I felt I should mention why. With the beginning of this semester now a distant memory, I have had my hands full working on four separate research projects!
Project Evergreen
Evergreen testing is very much underway and boy have me and Alex learned a lot. Everything from buying algorithms to the AI itself to our very understanding of the market has had to be taken out, tinkered with, and put back in again. The incredible thing is, it seems to be working! So far the data indicates that it is profitable and can beat the market. I am hoping this means real trading by December. That'll take a lot of work but I think it's achievable.
Project Echo
The great sonar sequel has begun! The project that rose from the ashes of Project Nautilus has secured funding and assembly of each sonar system starts within the week! The real trick will be coding it all but luckily that isn't my job and instead is the job of some truly skilled programmers. Things are looking up for now but we have a hard deadline to be finished and ready to present findings by April that is something to look out for.
Slingshot to Saturn
For my space mechanics class, I had to do an honors contract. The one I chose (perhaps stupidly) was to design a mission plan to get from Earth to Titan with only one burn at Earth and one at Saturn. This has proven to me an absolute pain in the ass! But, I know have a program that iterates through all possible launch windows and propagates all the trajectories with a beautiful patched conics/iterative calculation method that works fast and efficiently! So long as I stay ahead, this project should not pose too many difficulties from here on out.
Automated Airfoils
This project took some real fighting to get it to work! For this project (also an honors contract) I have been using python and X-foil to calculate lift and drag coefficients for airfoils of all shapes and sizes. This will hopefully lead to a program that can find whatever airfoil you need for a given aircraft. This project will need a fair bit more work though before it is ready to show anyone. Better get to it!
Anyways that's the update. I don't exactly have a lot of time lately so that's all the detail I can really go into. Additionally, Evergreen updates may be a lot less regular and a lot less detailed. As the project enters its final stages, the technology become for obvious reasons a secret. I'll try and keep the blog as updated as I can but as it is probably apparent, I have a busy schedule this semester.
