My mac keeps freezing when turned on from Sleep

Hello,
I bought in iMac last Summer. About a couple weeks in, I started having issues with my iMac freezing when I would turn it on from Sleep mode. This would not happen every time but instead, intermittently. It also will manifest itself in different ways: programs will freeze one at a time until all programs are frozen I just have spinning wheel, sometimes it will freeze and shut itself down, sometimes it will go to a grey screen, etc. This has made it an extremely hard issue to reproduce at the drop of a hat. The main reason this alarms is that I have a 4-year old Macbook that still works incredibly well, despite being slowerThroughout the past months, I have done just about everything I can think of (and was told to do by Apple support) to resolve this issue.
I have:
Reset the SMC and PRAM
Tried booting in Safe Mode
Deleted the EnergySaverPreference .plist file
Spent hours on the phone/text with various Apple technicians troubleshooting the issues.
Twice done a clean wipe and re-installed OSX. I had this problem with both Yosemite and Mavericks. I have made sure to never restore my Time Machine back ups but instead, bring isolated files in one by one and no "System Files" – just songs, music, documents, and applications. 
Twice taken it in to the Apple Store to be repaired and nothing has been done to resolve the problem. I just got it back and within two days, it froze again in the same manner as before.
My technical specs are: iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013,) 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB 1600 MHz DDR Ram, running OSX Yosemite 10.10.2.
I feel like I am really beginning to run out of options. I feel like I can not trust this machine to do daily tasks or the large projects for which I bought it.  I do not have AppleCare but obviously this feels like a pre-existing software or hardware issue and I'm still under warranty. Apple has implied that there would be no way for me to receive any money back and the likelihood of getting a device replacement is very low. I don't have a car so taking my iMac via taxi or lugging it around via public transportation is both very inconvenient and a bit pricey for me. Any advice, technical, for customer-relations, or otherwise?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here's what I got:
Anonymous UUID:       F7046045-224A-33C4-D416-BA38288F06AA
Tue Mar 24 21:47:30 2015
*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff800c1c1694): "launchd died\nState at Last Exception:\n\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2782.10.73/bsd/kern/kern_exit.c:361
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff8116843e50 : 0xffffff800bd2fe41
0xffffff8116843ed0 : 0xffffff800c1c1694
0xffffff8116843f40 : 0xffffff800c1c135c
0xffffff8116843f50 : 0xffffff800c24b386
0xffffff8116843fb0 : 0xffffff800be36e86
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: launchd
Mac OS version:
14C1514
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 14.1.0: Thu Feb 26 19:26:47 PST 2015; root:xnu-2782.10.73~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 270413F7-3B44-3602-894F-AC0D392FCF8E
Kernel slide:     0x000000000ba00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff800bc00000
__HIB  text base: 0xffffff800bb00000
System model name: iMac14,1 (Mac-031B6874CF7F642A)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 17919473593239
last loaded kext at 10628493338895: com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.7.3 (addr 0xffffff7f8e359000, size 36864)
last unloaded kext at 10755631197884: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC 4.2.2b5 (addr 0xffffff7f8e330000, size 16384)
loaded kexts:
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.7.3
com.apple.filesystems.smbfs 3.0.0
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.70
com.apple.driver.AGPM 100.15.5
com.apple.driver.ApplePlatformEnabler 2.1.7d1
com.apple.driver.X86PlatformShim 1.0.0
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch 85.3
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.3.2f6
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver 124
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.6.1
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver 269.25
com.apple.driver.AppleOSXWatchdog 1
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 269.25
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.1
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHWAccess 1
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com.apple.driver.AppleHV 1
com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 4.3.2f6
com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltIP 2.0.2
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