Autonomous Mini Car

Autonomous Vehicle with obstacle avoidence

Have you ever imagined that cars can actually drive for you? Check our project out. Our projects designed a fully autonomous vehicle that could drive you to the destination.   The only thing the user needs to do is to input the destination in our User-Interface, and it is also able to dodge obstacles as it drives you there. Hope you would enjoy your time on our autonomous car.

PowerHouse

The goal of this project is to create an innovative and portable charging device that is able to use Photovoltaic (PV) cells to convert energy of sunlight into electricity. This device will connect to EV Vehicles and deliver enough energy to produce a range of 5 - 8 miles. The layouts will consist of a housing of panels that pull out to expose trays that contain PV cells. Socket Programming as well as a Rasp Pi connected to an LCD is used to monitor trends of energy produced by the PowerHouse device.

Autonomous Racecar Project

Over the past several decades, there has been much effort placed into making cars safer and more fuel efficient. However, the next big automobile innovation that many tech companies and the entire automobile industry is working on are self-driving cars. The main drive behind this is eliminating human error in car related accidents, increasing fuel efficiency, and to make advancements in transportation technology. Companies such as Waymo have made vast progress in autonomous car technology and are expecting to release their self-driving vehicles to the public by 2020.

Non-invasive Current Monitor for Smart Grid Security and Active Load Control

Faraday Effect Visualization

The objective of this project is to measure current along power lines and other power monitoring applications. This device projects polarized light in the presence of a magnetic field near an electrical system. Based on how the light interacts with a magnetic field, data on the amount of electrical current that created the magnetic field can be obtained and sent to a remote device. 

This is the currently developed optical setup for the device:

FSAE Electric Race Car: Electric Vehicle Controls & Tractive System

Team Lithium will continue to design and implement new iterations for the FSAE Electric Race Car student design competition held every year in Lincoln, Nebraska. This project contains the development of the Electrical Vehicle Safety system as well as the improvement in the High Voltage Batteries and DC Motor system. The new designs of the tractive and controls system will be assembled onto the previous version of the race car including changes in the PCB components, Low Voltage and High Voltage Batteries, and the potential swap from Brushed to Brushless DC motors.

Watchdog

Winter Design Review Poster

Watchdog is an RPI-based security system that utilizes a sensor array, a face detection camera with video and picture capturing ability, a door lock motor, a web server with a neural network backend and user interface frontend, and any PC to function as door mechanism that is convenient for the user as well as environmentally friendly.

Lemillion

Lemillion will process textbooks, other course material, and the student exam results to provide a variety of information to students and teachers. By automating many of the basic tasks as well as generating additional learning materials and detailed statistics, Lemillion can help instructors improve students’ ability to learn

Can you hear me now?

Our project involves designing a portable small cell unit that operates at low power and with adjustable bandwidth. The module will be at a size that is small enough to operate at full power and transport to locations such as rural regions, overcrowded areas, and disaster zones.

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