Selected Applied R&D

Instrumentation, electronics, and hardware prototyping.

Alongside its autonomy research, Icarus Dynamics maintains a working applied-engineering practice — precision instrumentation, embedded electronics, and rapid hardware prototyping — available for task-order-scale engagements.

01Featured Work

1.1

Research-Grade EIS Potentiostat

Design and documentation of a research-grade electrochemical impedance spectroscopy potentiostat: full analog front-end architecture, excitation and measurement chain, and signal-path design for low-noise impedance measurement.

What was built

Analog front-end designed and documented down to the noise budget
Component-level IC selection rationale for the full measurement chain
KiCad schematic capture and PCB layout

1.2

Electroosmotic Pump Hardware

Development of electroosmotic pump (EOP) hardware for electrokinetic fluid handling — solid-state pumping with no moving parts, applicable to microfluidics, thermal management, and compact fluid-delivery systems.

What was built

Pump hardware developed for electrokinetic fluid handling
Supporting drive electronics and integration
3D-printed test fixtures and enclosures produced in-house

02Further Capabilities

2.1

Embedded Systems & PCB Design

KiCad schematic capture and layout, microcontroller firmware, and precision analog front-ends — full design packages with source, Gerbers, and BOM.

2.2

Additive Manufacturing & Rapid Prototyping

Functional fixtures, enclosures, and mechanism prototypes — an integrated design-build workflow from CAD to physical hardware in-house.

2.3

Soft Robotics & Compliant Mechanisms

Compliant mechanism design for unconventional actuation, developed alongside the electrokinetics work above.

03Deliverables

What an engagement produces.

Electronics design packages (KiCad source, Gerbers, BOM, assembly docs)
Embedded firmware with source and interface documentation
Test reports with measured data and noise-budget analysis
Fixtures, enclosures, and mechanisms with native CAD and STEP files
Sensor payload integration with interface control documentation

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