Hardware Internship at Kitepower

We are looking for an intern to join our hardware team in Delft. The hardware team is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining all physical components of our systems, for example the Kite Control Unit, kites and ground station.  You will have a challenging internship in renewable energy to apply your academic knowledge and gain valuable working experience. 

Wat ga jij doen

One of these three main projects:

• Improving the Ram Air Turbine, used for generating onboard power to fly indefinitely, at different aspects: noise, size of the blades, breaking of the blades and more. 
• Developing a kite testing and characterization platform to support prototyping scaled, smaller kites, to facilitate the derivation of flight paths and controller settings for our larger kites of the system. This will also help to validate software models for kite design. 
• Improving an automated tether wear inspection system, working on a previous research where convolutional neural network (CNN)- based image classification was used to automate the inspections after each flight. Improvements possible in system design refinement, machine learning optimization, hardware integration and performance validation.

Next to that we can use your help for:

• Identify and troubleshoot electrical and mechatronic issues in the current designs to improve system performance and reliability.
• Conduct thorough testing and validation of mechatronic and electronic components to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.
• Create and maintain documentation related to electrical and mechatronic designs, including schematics, PCB layouts, and assembly instructions.