Digital Receivers for Wideband Chaotic Signal

The Aerospace Corporation Engineering, 2010-11

Liaison(s): Dr. Samuel S. Osofsky ’85, Dr. Christopher P. Silva
Advisor(s): Qimin Yang
Students(s): Sarah Yi (TL-S), Dillon Ayers (TL-F), Leo Altmann, Eric Zhang, Mark Ellis (S), William Koven (F)

The Aerospace Corporation has tasked the Harvey Mudd College clinic team with designing, building, and demonstrating the performance of a digital receiver to demodulate wideband chaotic signals produced by the Young-Silva Chaotic Oscillator. The team will characterize receiver performance with figures of merit including bit-error rate and signal-to-noise ratio, explore the sensitivity of performance to variation of system parameters, and produce a professional paper based on the results.