EECS

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...

    The purpose of this project is to make an efficient projected musical interface. This will allow the user to interact with multiple instruments such as a piano or drum-pad. All of this will be observed through machine vision technology in order to detect human interaction with the specific key being pressed or interacted with.

   Our goal for this project is to produce a working prototype that allows the user to create music on any flat surface and integrate this into existing music production software to enable these songs and beats to be saved and edited further. This project is made to make this sort of technology more accessible to people who want to pursue music in a different, yet efficient manner. Our initial objective is to integrate machine vision with a projected display to replicate the essence of a piano.

Collision avoidance is a popular option for motorized vehicles. A system in place would decrease the probability of human error in collisions and provide a safer flow of transportation. As technology exceeds human expectations, autonomous vehicles will soon emerge and become readily available to the masses. An avoidance system onboard autonomous vehicles that detects when another object is nearby can decrease the overall number of collisions. In the real world, autonomous vehicles will act as a swarm, and if they detect an oncoming object, they will turn in a specified direction, or halt, until the object is no longer obstructing.

Our project pertains to the establishment of a WiFi Mesh Communications system to serve as a proof of concept which will be applied to the Antarctic Ross Ice-Shelf ANtenna Neutrino Array (ARIANNA) System. The primary goal of this communication system is to enable transmission and reception of data between antennas in an array such that information may be transmitted along a determined path to a base station. In essence, this WiFi Mesh will enable efficient communication between several slave nodes and a master node housed at a centralized base station such that data is able to be transmitted and received over large distances of approximately 1 km. This same concept can be generalized and extended to various fields given that the conditions/constraints and data types are known. 

This project aims to build a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that could autonomously complete a series of flight missions including avoiding obstacles, image capture and recognition, and dropping payloads. This is a multidisciplinary project. Students and faculty from both engineering school and ICS work closely together to integrate all the mechanics, avionics and software parts into a system and make it fly. The project will compete in the 2019 AUVSI SUAS competition.

The EVSE Smart Charging System is an engineering project that aims to tackle the mass adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) as the standard for transportation for California, causing load on the grid to worsen. Aiming to align with the California Zero Net Energy goal by 2020, this project approaches the mass transition through the angles of the user, utility, and the state.

This project will solve an important problem in environmental monitoring, simplifying the task of collecting data in hard to reach locations on a body of water. Autonomous data systems can produce much greater amounts of data, more often, over a larger area than conventional approaches. The project is interdisciplinary, requiring skills in hardware, computer engineering, telecommunications, control systems, and sensors.

Construction companies often overestimate or underestimate the amount of materials needed for construction. This costs the company money in extra delivery fees and unused material. Our project aims to solve this problem by accurately outputting the quantity of materials needed and the associated cost through an image of the building’s framing schematic. In order to achieve this goal, we are using a convolutional neural network to train a model to recognize key features such as walls, windows, doors, and posts.  Once these features are extracted, we will use another algorithm to determine the quantity of materials needed and the cost.

Our technology will be a dual component system that combines both negative pressure wound therapy and micro-nanobubble technology. With both technologies, our product will provide a steady stream of super-oxygenated fluid to irrigate and aerate the wound through a foam dressing while simultaneously acting as a vacuum to suck up all the debris, fluid, and infected tissue in and around the wound into a waste collection system. These two therapies, together, would kick-start the healing process, while preventing bacterial infection, reducing the time a patient spends in the hospital, the cost in treating their wounds, and further complications that would require surgery.

Learn more about bubtech and the team here: http://www.bubtech.uci.design/

Our project is the f/m electrocardiography monitoring. The product is a non invasive fetal and maternal ECG signal transmitter that transmit real time signals via bluetooth to a android device where it will extract the signals received into the maternal and fetus heart rates. We’re currently picking up from where our TA left off and is working on improving the current design to be capable of producing 3 different channels for monitoring the maternal or fetus health. Our goal is to have a completely working upgraded version of the previous f/m electrocardiography monitoring system by the end of the quarter.

We are providing a cheaper and more convenient way to help patients deal with their communication issues in the late stage of ALS by using eye-tracking system to capture motions and process them to understandable instructions and supporting them with a friendly graphical user interface that allow user to construct text messages or select stored customized messages for their daily demands.

In addition, we are dedicating to support social welfare by selling our products at affordable price and making our project as a non-profit, open source platform.