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Why build an autonomous food delivery robot? Why can't people just walk to pick up their food? What's wrong with traditional food delivery couriers?

The Autonomous Food Delivery Robot addresses the problem of time consumption. People could spend extra time to pick up their food, but they may end up spending more time than they'd prefer to. Team AutoFood is focused on solving this problem, as time is not a luxury many students can afford to waste, especially in the ever-stressful exam season.

The project aims to achieve 3D reconstruction in real time by using multiple 2D images from the scene but with different views. The project combines machine vision, multiprocessor coding, and computer graphics to be able to acheive accurate results in real time. Initially, the camera's internal parameters (focal length, pixel size, etc...) and external parameters (location in the relation to other cameras) needed to be determined. After calibrating the cameras, these measurements are used to determine the epipolar geometry of groups of camera, so that these images can be rectified.

The Image and Video Streaming Doorbell with Local Storage is a project intended to provide a house monitoring system with local private storage for security concern. The goal for this project is to offer consumers with a mobile app and web access to video live-streaming and to receive notifications. The database is used to store all the historical records and the users' information. Our end goal is to allow the users to have a smart doorbell without worrying about their personal information being disclosed by other parties through the cloud storage.

The purpose of the Smart Pill Container is to assist consumers with taking pills on time and keep record when they do take them successfully. Our product achieves that by having an alarm system to alert the user that it’s time to take their pills; we then check if the correct day on the pill box has successfully been opened and closed using reed switch sensors. Both those parts currently work and are the base functionalities for the prototype right now.

Smart parking system is a fog-based manager that aims to establish channels of communication between autonomous vehicles, wireless devices, fog system, and the cloud in order to optimize parking logistics across various parking structures. The goal of this project is to develop the technology that will provide autonomous vehicles with the optimal path to the closest available parking spot, broadcast parking availability and manage parking structure capacity.

We are faced with a future where there will not be enough land to produce food for the entire population. By 2050, the world population is projected to increase to about 9 billion people. However, an estimated 50% of the world’s arable land may be unusable by then, as traditional agricultural practices in the last 50 years have left 60% of all ecosystems degraded. 

People hesitate on which category their waste belongs to and inevitably make mistakes when separating them. With our design, the general public/users no longer need to spend time separating waste. The waste disposal and recycling service can have higher overall efficiency. 

The goal of this project is to design and construct a waste bin capable of separating the waste into different categories by using image recognition. 

This project is aimed to build a device that simplifies the process from acquiring pH electrical signal to finalize the results by utilizing wireless transmission technology. Then, the data is uploaded onto the cloud and users can manage and visualize the results remotely on the cloud.

To build a small-scale smart hydroponic greenhouse by using several sensors that monitor various parameters related to plant nutrient levels and environment parameters and is able to adjust them when a deficiency is detected. Moreover, O2 and CO2 densities will be monitored to estimate plant health. All this information will then be access via an Android application.

The project uses RFID technology to read in tags' information and stores the data in a database, which can be accessed from anywhere to remotely monitor inventory items.

Current PCB manufacturing methods utilize wet chemicals that are either reprocessed for recovery or disposed of as wastewater. Moreover, current manufacturing of PCB have not been scaled down to the consumer level, unlike FDM/SLA printing and CNC machining which now take forms in profiles fit for “prosumer” use.

EchoSense is a personal surrounding safety detection system that alerts cyclists of approaching vehicles. It uses a Lidar sensor on a rotating platform mounted on the back of a bicycle to scan for approaching vehicles at the 180-degree range. If a vehicle's velocity relative to the cyclist is too fast, EchoSense will send a Bluetooth Low Energy signal to the cyclist's Android phone to alert the cyclist of the approaching vehicles.

In today’s digital ecosystem, hackers are a concerning threat. It is widely known that any system connected to the Internet is vulnerable. But what about an “air-gapped” computer? One that is not directly connected to the Internet or any other system that is connected to the Internet. The goal of this project is to demonstrate data leakage from an air-gapped computer via ultrasound. We envision an external system with WiFi for outside access that can bidirectionally communicate with the hacked computer efficiently and accurately.

There are cars could follow traffic or maintain in the lane and keep distance. We wish to design a module, that allow our vehicle to follow a target object in complex situation where there are interference from non-targeting objects. This module could then be implemented to other vehicles platforms such as drones.

A new type of drone is designed to make short-distance delivery more efficient and convenient. A powerful controller and many sensors are adopted in this project to ensure the flight stabilization and autonomous landing on the predetermined destination. We have already tested and finalized the ultrasonic sensor that will be employed in our drone for obstacle detection purposes. Besides, we have implemented the camera to capture the logo at the destination. The logo is served as a marker that signals the drone destination when employed.

The goal of our project is to enhance the experience of flying business class. With the help of Thales, we are implementing cameras into the cabin of the business class to monitor the well-being of passengers. We plan to use object detection software to retrieve information in order to allow flight attendants to better serve passengers. This information would include if a passenger has a drink or plate that is almost empty, if they have their seatbelt fastened, or if the seat is reclined.

The goal of the project is to design and implement a smart wearable device that can measure ECG, Respiration and other health data for the user. The results can be displayed in real time graph on the phone apps for Android.

In extension of cities and technology there is always a need of surveillance to monitor for incidences of interest. Traditionally, the surveillance systems are stationary, and they are only able to cover limited areas. To achieve reliable monitoring via stationary sensors in a large area, it is necessary to deploy a huge number of them. Even in cases where the cost is not a major prohibitive factor, with the current technology, the communication bandwidth utilization certainly is a limiting factor.

This project is aiming to design and build a Robotic Arm which is able to pick and place items on the table and sort them by color and shape.

• The robot arm is based on XYZ system and powered by 3 closed-loop step motors.

• The image processing part includes a web camera and a computer. The camera will detect color and shape of items and give feedback to the robot arm how to move each item.

This project was origianlly created with the intent to take video calling to the next level. Our idea was to create a robotic avatar that could be controlled by one of the users during a video call. This lucky user would be able to see eveything that the robot's camera could, through their computer screen. With this as their visual aid, they would control the movements of the robot though sensor gloves. The second user would see their partner's face on a screen mounted on the robot, and would witness the movement of the robot's arms mimic that of their friend.

The estimated rate of bridge failures in the United States is between 87 and 222, with an expected value of 128. Though this is not a big number for the entire nation, it is enough to warrant concern for people who commute over bridges every day in their daily lives. To ease the stress over bridges that may potentially collapse, traffic routing can be performed in order to prevent a bridge from being overload.

SensorCake is a framework of simple IOT (Internet of Things) devices that can be connected together to create a customizable IOT stack that acts as one unit. Each of these devices, called “modules,” combines a sensor (or actuator) with a battery-powered, WiFi-enabled microcontroller in order to send data about the environment (or act on the environment in some way). With SensorCake, our primary goal is to allow users to build IOT solutions that fit their unique challenges and needs, even without in-depth knowledge of electronics.

Our purpose in this project is to make an automated target scoring drone that would be able to score mortar tests.  It was originally proposed to us as being partnered with the Navy, which we later talked to them to secure the project.  The purpose of the project is to get the current target scoring more efficient.  The system that is currently in place is a manual drone that can only process one image at a time, so it can cover only one test at a time.  Our drone will be automated and able to go to several different locations.  It will be able to process far more than the current system ca

The goal of this project is to design and create an in-door blimp that, in addition to improved safety features, address the issue of short flight time of traditional quadcopter design. This project’s drone does not require the constant lift provided by motors, instead relying on the buoyant forces of a helium balloon. As such, this project’s drone will have significantly longer navigation time. Additionally, using traditional quadcopter drones involve certain risks such as being hit by propellers driven by high rpm motors or being struck by an out-of-control quadcopter.

We've all been there. You're at the grocery store and you pay $4.99 for a seasoning. You head home, move some items around in your pantry to discover it's already there behind the Cheerios cereal box! Why purchase items you already have just because you forget about them? Should you throw out an expired can of spinach? Well CT Smart Systems is proud to present the Smart Pantry System (SPS) -- an Internet of Things Kitchen Inventory Tracker! Your inventory is readily available to you via our app (for iOS) and you can track what you have in real time, any time.

Our project goal is to create an ad hoc three “car” network between three Raspberry Pi microcontrollers. We will be using three Zigbee dongles connected to the Raspberry Pis to create the mesh network. Sensors will then be connected to the Raspberry Pis to extract information from the environment of the car(temperature, humidity, speed). The information received from these sensors will then be sent over the network between the cars so that each car is able to see the gathered information no matter which sensor they individually possess.

The Around The World HF Antenna takes its roots from the old artform of HAM Radio. We use FT8 protocol signals and, using our antennas, bounce them to different continents off the ionosphere.

This glove is meant to make it easier for construction workers to get their job done by offering them a variety of tools for their hand. Inaccurate measurements when doing construction can be fatal. With construction work constituting 21% of deaths for private industries, any improvement to the workers’ safety is beneficial. The metriglove will combine construction tools with modern day technology to make measurement and other simple recognition tasks seamless, thus improving their efficiency and quality of work.

Our project hopes to increase the lifespan of structures and tools being used in today's society where we only have heuristics to determine the life of large structures. We aim to provide some objective measure of the lifespan of the tools we use and the structures we occupy.

 We are building a wearable mouse