Projects: Kristofer S.J. Pister

Current BSAC Projects

BPNX1035: Six-Axis Control of Electrostatically Levitated 1g Mass (New Project)

Hani Gomez; Yichen Liu; Alexander Alvara
BSAC Project Materials (Current), 2024

BPN990: Anti-Drone Radar-Guided Micromissiles

Titan Yuan; Carson Spoo; Cedric Murphy; Jenna Dickman; Asa Garner; Eric Yang
BSAC Project Materials (Current), 2024

BPN987: Single-chip µV Precision ADC for SCµM-V

Yu-Chi Lin; Daniel Lovell; Ali M. Niknejad; Kristofer S.J. Pister
BSAC Project Materials (Current), 2024

BPN985: Multimaterial Nanoscale 3D Printing

Daniel Teal
BSAC Project Materials (Current), 2024

BPN915: Control of Microrobots with Reinforcement Learning

Yichen Liu; Kesava Viswanadha; Zhongyu Li; Emily Tan; Nelson Lojo; Derrick Han Sun; Aviral Mishra; Rushil Desai
BSAC Project Materials (Current), 2024

BPN803: Single Chip Mote

Daniel Lovell; Titan Yuan; Yu-Chi Lin
BSAC Project Materials (Current), 2024

BPN735: Walking Silicon Microrobots

Yichen Liu; Alexander Alvara; Daniel Lovell; Dang Le
BSAC Project Materials (Current), 2024

Past BSAC Projects

BPN924: Multimodality Platform for Neurogenesis and Neural Signal Recording After Stroke

Wentian Mi
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2024

BPN951: Berkeley Low-cost Interplanetary Solar Sail (BLISS)

Alexander Alvara; Bhuvan M. Belur
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2024

BPN956: Time-of-Flight Hardware for the Solar Probe ANalyzer for Ions (SPAN-Ion)

Omar Alkendi; Lydia Lee
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2023

BPN970: Rotary Inchworm Motor for Underwater Microrobot Propulsion

Mauricio J. Bustamante
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2023

BPN948: Wireless Tactile Stimulation with MEMS Inchworm Motors

Dillon Acker-James
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2022

BPN930: Robust MEMS Inchworm Motors

Daniel Teal; Dillon Acker-James; Alex Moreno; Alexander Alvara
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2022

BPN969: Joule Bonding: Localized Solder Bonding for Heterogenous Integration of MEMS

Daniel Teal
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2022

BPN826: Autonomous Flying Microrobots

Nathan Lambert
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2022

BPN958: Printed Miniaturized Li-Ion Batteries for Autonomous Microsystems

Anju Toor
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2022

BPN959: Self-Righting for Micro Robots

Alexander Alvara
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2022

BPN857: Miniature Autonomous Rockets

Alexander Alvara
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2022

BPN890: Hydrogel Actuated Carbon Fiber Microelectrode Array

Oliver Chen
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2022

BPN873: Small Autonomous Robot Actuator (SARA)

Alex Moreno; Austin Patel; Daniel Teal; Andrew Fearing
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2021

BPN902: Jumping Microrobots for Low-Cost Asteroid Prospecting

Daniel Teal
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2021

BPN858: Zero Insertion Force MEMS Socket for Microrobotics Assembly

Hani Gomez
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2020

BPN950: Self-Righting for Micro Robots

Alexander Alvara; Hani Gomez
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2020

BPN903: Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks

Brian Kilberg; Craig B. Schindler; Felipe Campos
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2020

BPN916: Mesh-Networked Micro-Air-Vehicle Systems

Brian G. Kilberg
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2020

BPN899: Design of a MEMS Swimming Robot

Ryan M. Shih
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2018

BPN573: Fabrication and Microassembly of a High-Density Carbon Fiber Neural Recording Array

Travis L. Massey; Jason F. Hou
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2018

BPN744: Self-Destructing Silicon

Joseph Greenspun; Osama Khan; Travis Massey; Brad Wheeler; Ryan Shih
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2017

BPN823: Automated System for Assembling a High-Density Microwire Neural Recording Array

Travis L. Massey
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2016

BPN810: Non-Intrusive Wireless Current Metering of Standard Power Cables Using Vector Magnetic Field Measurements

Naing Ye Aung; Michael C. Lorek
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2016

BPN789: Reconfigurable, Wearable Sensors to Enable Long-Duration Circadian Biomedical Studies

David C. Burnett
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2016

BPN768: Plug-Through Energy Monitor for Wall Outlet Electrical Devices

Michael C. Lorek
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2015

BPN713: Ring GINA: Highly Miniaturized Ring-Format Wearable Mote

Joseph Greenspun; David Burnett
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2015

BPN712: Bridging Research-to-Commercialization Gaps In an Industry/University Ecosystem

John Huggins; Hossain M. Fahad; Hiroshi Shiraki; David Burnett; Nicola Accettura
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2015

BPN683: OpenWSN: A Standards-Based Low-Power Wireless Development Environment

Nicola Accettura
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2015

BPN705: Standard CMOS-Based, Fully Integrated, Stick-On Electricity Meters for Building Sub-Metering

Michael C. Lorek
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2015

BPN648: Fully-Integrated, Low Input Voltage, Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter for Energy Harvesting Applications

Michael C. Lorek
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2014

BPN596: Smart Fence and Other Wireless Sensing Applications for Critical Industrial Environments

Fabien J. Chraim
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2014

BPN696: Energy Monitoring for the Smart Building Using Low-Power Wireless Sensors

Kevin Weekly; Brittany Judoprasetijo
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2013

BPN388: Micro Autonomous Air Vehicles

Ankur Mehta
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2012

BPN624: The Internet of Things: IPv6 for Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks

Branko Kerkez; Fabien J. Chraim
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2012

BPN572: Decentralized TSCH Scheduling for a Floating Wireless Sensor Network

Andrew Tinka; Kevin Weekly; Thomas Watteyne
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2011

BPN470: Low Power All-Digital Transceiver for Wireless Sensor Network

Richard Y. Su
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2011

BPN576: Off-the-Shelf Sensors for Wireless Smart Home Applications

Alex Sun; James Peng; Edmund Ye; Thomas Watteyne
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2010

BPN592: Workshop: Hands-On Intro to Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networking

Dr. Anita Flynn; Dr. Thomas Watteyne; Leo Keselman
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2010

BPN560: Video Over Wireless Sensor Networks: From Camera to Smartphone

Fabien Chraim; Thomas Watteyne
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2010

BPN477: OpenWSN: Open-Source Standards-Based Protocol Stacks for Wireless Sensor Networks

Thomas Watteyne
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2010

BPN479: Protocol-Agnostic Compression in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (PACMAN)

Travis Massey
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2010

BPN559: Interfacing Smart Phones with Low Power Wireless Devices

Nahir Sarmicanic; Thomas Watteyne
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2010

BPN558: 16-Channel IEEE802.15.4 Packet Sniffer

Boyang Zhang; Thomas Watteyne
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2010

BPN524: Wireless Sensor Network Scalability and Deployment in Industrial Automation

Samuel B. Zats
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2010

BPN561: Sensors and Capability Modeling for Palm-Sized Flying Robots

Anita Flynn
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2010

BPN506: Wireless Physician Tracking

Samuel Zats; Steven Lanzisera
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2009

KSJP28: Location Estimation Using RF Time of Flight

Steven Lanzisera
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2009

BPN415: Localization of Footsteps through Ground Vibrations

Travis Massey
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2008

KSJP27/JD: MEMS Design Synthesis and Optimization

Corie L. Cobb
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2008

KSJP30/JD: Electrometrology with MEMS

David Garmire; Hyuck Choo
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2007