Felix Blanco Jr.PWM Step-Up Converters Design (Boost Converters)Like most power converts a step-up converter makes use of passive elements to store and transform power from one voltage to another. This…Feb 9, 2020Feb 9, 2020
Felix Blanco Jr.PWM Step-Down Converter Design (Buck Converters)DC-DC converters come in many shapes and sizes. The main goal of a DC-DC converter is to well, change a voltage to what you need! They can…Feb 7, 2020Feb 7, 2020
Felix Blanco Jr.Non-Linear Control of Mag-Lev SystemMaglev systems are not all science fiction, this technology is used in the real world today! From Japanese bullet trains capable of going…Apr 9, 2019Apr 9, 2019
Felix Blanco Jr.Genetic Algorithms — Robot ControlThis post is the last of a long series of posts introducing, explaining, understanding, and finally implementing Genetic Algorithms to…Apr 3, 2019Apr 3, 2019
Felix Blanco Jr.Genetic Algorithms — Implementation Specs.Now that we have a feel for what GA’s are, and what our robotics problem is we can start defining HOW to setup our variables to get the…Apr 1, 2019Apr 1, 2019
Felix Blanco Jr.Genetic Algorithms — Robotics Problem DefinitionThis is the second part of a 5 part deep dive into Genetic Algorithms and its use for solving a simple robotics problem. If you are…Mar 10, 2019Mar 10, 2019
Felix Blanco Jr.Genetic Algorithms — Robotics Intro.One of the coolest things about machine learning, and artificial intelligence is that most algorithms are based on nature. Let it be a…Mar 10, 2019Mar 10, 2019
