EECS

Installing permanent external home speakers typically requires you to run wires through internal and external walls. This process requires damaging both internal and external walls leading to costly repairs. There is also the real concern of asbestos exposure when doing this sort of project on older homes which adds an uneccessary danger to external home audio. The Sonido wireless solar-powered speaker aims to eliminate the need for internal-to-external wiring on a house while providing audio entertainment outside the home.

Background:

The Point to Point Self Adjusting Microwave Link is a deployable system that gives companies, hobbyist and the military the ability to get a communication link up with little manual labor. This system must be capable of self-aligning, given an azimuth, to the transmitting site location without the need of having technicians do a manual path alignment. This system is motivated by the idea that while testing missiles, there can be negative results when radio links go down.

Goals & Objectives

Develop a auto-aligning microwave link, aligning to the highest RF peak power to maximize the link’s efficiency. Consisting of a transmit site and receive site to establish an efficient microwave link.

Team Members

David Tiao

      tiaod@uci.edu

Wilfredo Paraiso

      wparaiso@uci.edu

Jeffrey Du

     jeffreld@uci.edu

Advisors

Professor Zak Kassas

     zkassas@uci.edu

Dr. Mahdi Maaref

     mmaaref@uci.edu

Hello We are team Oculus. 

Ultrasound technology is currently being used to visualize the interior structure of the eye for locating abnormalities. However, the major limitation of this approach is that most of the ocular ultrasonography viewing devices can only display two-dimensional scans that provides the physician with limited spatial information, complicating the process of diagnosing the patient. And there are few products on the market that can create a three-dimensional model of the patients’ eyes to diagnose intraocular diseases. There have been documented attempts to develop systems that can produce 3-D models and are suitable for use on the human body. However, various obstacles have slowed down the progression and success of these systems. Since the sequence of the acquired tomographic images is crucial to the formation of the desired 3-D model, the geometry of the body part must be known in order to avoid any distortions, and the...

THEIA is a portable and affordable take on the modern Heads-Up Display. Attachable to any pair of eyewear, THEIA provides any user with a concise display of information right in front of their line of sight. Cyclists need not distract themselves by looking down at an external speedometer when their speed is displayed on the road ahead of them. People concerned with their calorie intake can see the nutritional facts of their food as they look at it. Facts about various items can be displayed as those items appear in the line of sight of the user. THEIA is meant to be compact and portable, able to attach to any eyewear as to not require the fabrication of a special pair of glasses. THEIA also uses affordable and convenient technology as to not discount individuals who wish to have a HUD but cannot afford the current AR glasses on the...

The OpenWheel is an open-source, one-wheeled electric skateboard.

The purpose of the following project is to create a general purpose data acquisition system for use in sensing applications. As a proof of concept, the system is configured to interface with a biological subject through electromyographic surface electrodes. The signals of interest are arm and hand contractions. The overall objective established for the fall was to construct a rudimentary system prototype. The intention was to test amplification of low frequency signals and allow for single and dual channel data acquisition that is transmitted to a user interface via serial connection. The interface serves to display the acquired signals in real-time waveform plots. In order to achieve the quarter goal, a few methods of design and engineering were implemented. SPICE analysis was used to assist in the selection of a low-frequency, small signal amplifier. The rest of the components were selected based on currently available commercial circuits. The control system...

The "Traffic Light Optimizer" is a project designed to better the flow of traffic at intesections through logic synthesized by object detection.

In response to developing countries’ dependence on inefficient international search and rescue teams (ISAR), the GPS Sound Sensor (GPSSS) is a device that can detect the direction of a sound source using time delay of arrival (TDOA) processing. Ultimately, the goal is to send data into an Android App and display the direction of the sound source and the location and orientation of the device. A potential future addon for this device is detecting that the sound source is from a human (rather than an animal), thus decreasing false positives and becoming more reliable [1].

The GPSSS’s main purpose is to be used in search and rescue (SAR) after natural disasters. SAR teams in developing countries do not usually have the manpower or funding to cover wide areas to search for survivors. Non-government organizations such as Red Cross or other ISAR teams often arrive too late to help and save...

This project will revolutionize asset transportation.

The autonomous target scoring drone project description was brought forth by the United States Navy.  The specifications call for a drone that is connected wirelessly to any laptop at some pre-specified base station.  Through some graphical user interface, a user would specify a list of GPS coordinates that would contain physical archery-style targets laid out on the ground.  The drone would then fly autonomously fly to each target and perform image processing on each target.  Each target would have a mark of some kind on it, and the image processing module would produce a score representing how far away the mark is from the center of the target.  All of this information is to be shown on the graphical user interface so the user can see exactly what is happening.

Our group has taken some design liberties with this specification, while still maintaining the core specification of the project.  We...

CaseCulture is an electronically customizable phone case where the user is able to control the design by sending a image to the phone case via an app and bluetooth. We aim to to design a case that is structurally strong, slim, and sleek - all while being economically affordable.

The purpose of brain computer interface is to allow those with complete or severe loss of motor functions, to control an avatar in a video game. 

UAV Forge is a multidisciplinary engineering senior design project with a focus on designing, building and programming unmanned aerial vehicles. Our goal this academic year is to travel to Maryland to compete in the 18th annual Student Unmanned Aerial Systems Competition (SUAS) hosted by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). The competition is held in Webster Naval Air Station, in Patuxent River, MD, from June 17th to 20th.

The Californian economy is heavily dependent upon
agriculture, which provides about $82 billion per year,
as well as 760,000 total jobs. Much of this industry is
dependent on the humble honeybee. Currently,
farmers must maintain hundreds of hives, making
maintenance an incredibly difficult task. BeeAware
aims to help farmers by offering an automated health
monitoring system. An autonomous vehicle will fly
from hive to hive using computer vision, taking
measurements of the sound emanating from each hive,
and using DSP analysis to quickly find a rough measure
of the health of each hive.

The Californian economy is heavily dependent upon
agriculture, which provides about $82 billion per year,
as well as 760,000 total jobs. Much of this industry is
dependent on the humble honeybee. Currently,
farmers must maintain hundreds of hives, making
maintenance an incredibly difficult task. BeeAware
aims to help farmers by offering an automated health
monitoring system. An autonomous vehicle will fly
from hive to hive using computer vision, taking
measurements of the sound emanating from each hive,
and using DSP analysis to quickly find a rough measure
of the health of each hive.

We are Team Just Say Yes.

Members:

Alberto Barbosa, Stanley Chen, Harry Duong, Phillip Lai

Our device reads a character through a camera. By convolutional neural networks it predicts a character with some confidence level then once that confidence reaches a threshold the device outputs the character onto a Braille display.

<p>We are team Just Say Yes.</p>

<p>This image to Braille converter takes in an input character from a video stream via camera. Through a convolutional neural network it predicts the character with a confidence level. It then sends that character onto the Braille display if the confidence level is high enough.</p>

Team members: Alberto Barbosa, Stanley Chen, Harry Duong, Phillip Lai

Our project is used to measure the radiation pattern of millimeter wave. It consists of a structure that supports an antenna, and another one that supports a motor and a rotating aluminum arm where a receiving open-ended waveguide is mounted. A Raspberry pi is used to communicate to a motor and at the same time control a network analyzer to take measurements while the analyzer scan an open-ended waveguide over a semicircle above the antenna at a specific distance. Millimeter wave is important for wireless applications, anti-collision systems, imaging systems, and future 5G communications

The UCI Modular CubeSat team aims to build a low-cost nanosatellite capable of supporting a variety of payloads that will be launched into low-earth orbit. The CubeSat team’s ultimate goal is to create an open source CubeSat design for future projects to replicate. This design will drive down costs and facilitate the democratization of space. The current two units CubeSat will perform a six-month mission in a low earth polar orbit taking data from the payload, a variable emissivity device, and transmitting that data down to the ground station on campus.

Background

As part of the UC Irvine Intelligent Ground Vehicle team, students will be in charge of designing and testing a vehicle that will be able to autonomously navigate through an obstacle course for participation in the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC).

The IGVC offers a design experience that is multidisciplinary, theory-based, hands-on, team implemented, outcome assessed, and based on product realization. It encompasses the very latest technologies impacting industrial development including intelligent transportation systems, military applications, and manufacturing. The deadline of the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition creates a real-world constraint that provides potential winning recognition and financial gain.

Goal and Objectives

As a new project at UCI, our ultimate goal is to at least compete and perhaps win the rookie award for the 2019 Autonav Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. Our goal for this project is to create a 2.5’ x 3.5’ x 6’ ground vehicle that can complete a...

Summary:

UAV Forge is a multidisciplinary engineering senior design project with a focus on designing, building, and programming unmanned aerial vehicles in order to complete flight missions under a time limit. Through research and hands-on experience, students are able to work towards creating an autonomous aircraft. This project, UAV Forge, aims to allow students to gain technical skills and learn more about the engineering process. We hope to further current UAV technology through image capture and recognition, vertical takeoff and landing, and more. Through inspiring innovation and teamwork between the different students in MAE, EECS, CPE, CSE and CS majors, students are able to come out of the project with a broader knowledge of the different engineering fields.

Coordination of swallowing with respiration might have some bad effects for the preterm infant as feeding requires integration with neuromotor control and cardiorespiratory stability. The pharynx is the shared anatomic pathway for both swallowing and breathing. During infant feeding, swallow influences respiratory efforts, as respiration is inhibited centrally during pharyngeal swallowing. Therefore, the precise coordination of sucking, swallowing, and breathing is necessary during bottle feeding. However, in a coordinated nutritive sucking cycle, breathing is interposed between swallows in a sequential pattern (Bu’Lock et al., 1990), and respiration can be interrupted at any point in the cycle of inspiration or expiration by the swallow (Vice and Gewolb, 2008). The clinical application of monitoring respiratory wave patterns may be helpful in identifying the infant’s readiness to initiate and progress feeds orally. This measure of variability may also be used as a screening tool clinically to identify coordination patterns in infants with oral...

Neos aims to solve one of the world's most common hazards. Despite progressive technological advancements in car safety, these improvements alone are not sufficient enough in reducing the amount of car accidents happening on a daily basis. With the introduction of the Smart Speed Limit Sign (SSS), Neos hopes to not only create a safer driving experience where everyone will be more knowledgeable and aware of the conditions they are driving in but also to decrease the costly bills associated with accidents.

Modern race car telemetry systems are used professionally so the cost of these systems is not a concern such as it is to amateur racers.  Entry level data loggers cost upwards of 600 dollars so we set a goal to create an affordable yet efficient data acquisition system for racecars as long as they have an OBD-II port. Even though this has been attempted in the past, we have also set another goal to make the software we develop user friendly since past attempts were difficult to use.

Our goal is to combine the most advanced software frame with the most light weight hardware to implement a most powerful system.

There are many devices need to be maintained every day. For example, a gas leak has to be monitored every day and reduce the risk of much more huge risks. That’s the reason why we proposed this Robot Car with many sensors, including a camera. We are dedicated to building a platform for better monitoring the abnormity in various kind of factories. Getting data doesn’t mean problems are solved. We will also be building a website to provide a platform for users to interact with the Robot Car. In this website, the user can adjust the normal ranges for the sensor data, like temperature.   

Now we are almost done with the hardware part and will focus on the software part more in the remained days.

Drone has been utilized in variable fields. It lowers the cost, increases working efficiency and flexibility, and extend work field to  places that humans cannot reach. In east Asian agriculture, pH value of water is vital to the growth of crops. Extreme change of pH value causes unrecoverable damage to crops, so a reliable consistent autonomous pH value detector is necessary,

Amazot Go is a cashierless grocery store that uses facial recognition to allow customers the quickest shopping experience of their lives.

I-Hand is a robotic hand that can finish some tasks based on operator's mind under different situations. 

UGV Forge is an autonomous rescue vehicle that is quick to land, locate, and deliver supplies to given GPS Coordinates. Working in part with UAV Forge, our vehicle is designed to be dropped out of the sky from an autonomous air vehicle and use GPS coordinates provided from the radio ground station to navigate to the destination. Our vehicle incorporates local sensors (Ultrasound, Barometer, Bump sensors, LiDar) for short distance autonomous navigation and radio wave communication for long distance autonomous navigation (Radio Wave communication, GPS Receiver).  However, UGV Forge is a modular project with more then one purpose as our design is not limited to strictly delivering supplies. The UGV Forge vehicle also serves a green initiative to help conserve water in agriculture. UGV will be capable of autonomously mapping the water concentration of a region of grass or soil in order to determine where water is being wasted and where water...