Channel Title: Monte Carlos Channel Description: Carlos Montalvo is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of South Alabama. He is involved in all types of unmanned aerial vehicle research with a focus on controls of multi-body systems including meta aircraft and coordinated flight. He also has industry experience at Raytheon, Earthly Dynamics and AREAI. His basic research interests include a combination of Dynamic Simulation, Control System Design and Flight Testing all geared to improve the performance of autonomous air vehicles which include fixed wing, rotorcraft, projectile, parafoil vehicles, and multi body systems. These projects are at the intersection of flight dynamics, control and vehicle design. South Alabama Page: https://www.southalabama.edu/colleges/engineering/me/montalvo.html Personal Website: http://www.aerialsystems.org/ All Business Inquiries: cmontalvo251@gmail.com Donations via Venmo: @Carlos-Montalvo-25 Donations via Paypal: paypal.me/montecarlos251 Hablo Español! <video> Python Help - 2D Euler Integration Description: Here I show how to integration a vector field in 2D using Euler's Method. I hope you enjoy the video. I am not planning on uploading this code as it's only ~20 lines of code. </video> <video> SALT Showcase Video Description: In this video one of my students creates a sweet highlight reel of 2023-2024 South Alabama Launch Team (SALT) launches </video> <video> MATLAB Help - ADCS Seminar Series - Speeding Up Code Description: In this video I just go through the code and speed it up a bit. I shave off about 12 seconds over 1 full orbit simulation so it's not great but it's a start. Note: At one point in the video I comment out real(ptp). Unfortunately this caused the simulation to go unstable and thus this has been changed and uncommented in the main branch of the code. https://github.com/cmontalvo251/aerospace/tree/main/adcs_seminar_series </video> <video> MATLAB Help - ADCS Seminar Series Code - Adding Disturbance forces and moments to CubeSat Simulation Description: Here I add solar radiation pressure, atmospheric drag and magnetic dipole moment to the adcs seminar series simulation code. </video> <video> Python Help - Importing and Plotting Complex Excel Spreadsheet Data Structures Description: Here I show how to import data from an excel spreadsheet and I run into some pretty tough issues with the data format. Here I show some interesting techniques on how to get that imported, formatted and plotted. </video> <video> ACD Spring 2024 Highlight Reel Description: Here are the highlights from this year's aircraft design class. We had a bunch of crashes due to wing tip stalls, poor piloting skills and some bad airframe design but over all the semester went really well. </video> <video> RC Car Manual Control using Arduino MEGA Description: In this video my honors students show cases his remote controlled car driving manually using an Arduino MEGA. Code currently here November 2024: https://github.com/cmontalvo251/Microcontrollers/blob/master/Arduino/MEGA/Car/Car.ino </video> <video> Getting Heart Rate from Pulse Sensor in Thonny Description: In this video I use raw data from the Pulse Sensor Amped from Adafruit https://www.adafruit.com/product/1093 and then extract the BPM from that raw data. All code and text files can be found here: https://github.com/cmontalvo251/Python/tree/master/instrumentation/student_projects/Pulse </video> <video> Checking if a File Exists on CircuitPython To Log Data to Disk Description: Here I discuss how to log data to disk on a CircuitPython microcontroller but also make sure that the data file in question is always a new file. First you need to watch my video on how to log data using 3 different methods. Specifically you want to learn about Method3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX0zeIfn2j4&list=PL_D7_GvGz-v1ZyonRi1U8pr7MuUWK8Mld&index=46 The code I made for this video is on Github. https://github.com/cmontalvo251/Microcontrollers/blob/master/Circuit_Playground/CircuitPython/Data_Logging/write_button_presses_disk_new_filenames.py </video> <video> WP Control Loop - Car Physics Engine Part 2 Description: In this video I go over adding waypoint control for a simple 2D car. This is part 2 of this video series on getting a remote control car to drive waypoints. Part1: https://youtu.be/nMbMDfeRGNE Code: https://github.com/cmontalvo251/Python/blob/master/controls/simulations/car_2D_waypoint.py </video> <video> Physics Engine of a 2D RC Car Description: Here I discuss a simple 2D physics engine for a remote control car. This is part of a 2 part series where I go over the physic engine in this video and then go over the waypoint controller in the next video. Part2: https://youtu.be/kmZ2DhOXG0k Code: https://github.com/cmontalvo251/Python/blob/master/controls/simulations/car_2D_waypoint.py </video> <video> Student duct tapes iPhone to a rocket Description: My student attached his iPhone 13 to his level 1 high powered rocket. </video> <video> Swizzle Stik 40 Carbon Wing Flights Description: My students built these two identical balsa and carbon fiber wing aircraft and we flew them with varying success. </video> <video> Circuit Playground Bluefruit - Updating the Bootloader from Command Line Description: Here I explain how to update the bootloader from command line for the CircuitPlayground Bluefruit. Note you need to do this when you have version 0.4.0 or earlier. </video> <video> Fall2024 Rocket Launches Description: Here is a compilation of my students launching their final rocket projects. </video>

Contacts and Links

Description

Carlos Montalvo is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of South Alabama. He is involved in all types of unmanned aerial vehicle research with a focus on controls of multi-body systems including meta aircraft and coordinated flight. He also has industry experience at Raytheon, Earthly Dynamics and AREAI. His basic research interests include a combination of Dynamic Simulation, Control System Design and Flight Testing all geared to improve the performance of autonomous air vehicles which include fixed wing, rotorcraft, projectile, parafoil vehicles, and multi body systems. These projects are at the intersection of flight dynamics, control and vehicle design.

South Alabama Page: https://www.southalabama.edu/colleges/engineering/me/montalvo.html
Personal Website: http://www.aerialsystems.org/
All Business Inquiries: cmontalvo251@gmail.com
Donations via Venmo: @Carlos-Montalvo-25
Donations via Paypal: paypal.me/montecarlos251

Hablo Español!

Videos from channel