EECS Projects

FUSION Engineering Project: Autonomous Vacuum (Team Oompa Loompa Broombas)

BME
CEE
EECS
MAE

The objective of the FUSION Engineering Project is to design and create a functional autonomous vacuum cleaner. Each team must adhere to certain design specifications set by the Project Directors and will compete with each other at FUSIONCon in May 2023. Each team’s goal is to create a cost-effective robot while maintaining functionality.

FUSION Engineering Project: Autonomous Vacuum (Team swiffer diss track)

BME
EECS
MAE

Background:

The FUSION Autonomous Vaccum project aims to provide members with the opportunity to work with a diverse range of other engineering majors while aquiring hands-on experience with Arduinos and CAD modeling.Although we share the same objective as the other project teams within FUSION, we will differentiate ourselves with our unique design and approach to problem-solving in order to be a competitive oponent in the end-of-the-year competition. 

 

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FUSION Engineering Project: Team Peter's Anteaters

EECS
MAE

In this project, we will be creating an autonomous cleaning robot that resembles the form of a Roomba. Upon completion, our cleaning robot will go through a challenging obstacle course where it will need to avoid obstacles while simultaneously vacuuming up dust and debris in the play field. Through this project, we are synthesisizing several disciplines of engineering including mechanical, robotics, electrical and computer engineering in order to accomplish our goal. 

Smart Pill Container

Smart Pill Container
EECS

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.

UAV FORGE

EECS
MAE

Project Description: 

UAV Forge is a multidisciplinary engineering design team focusing on designing, manufacturing, programming, and testing autonomous aerial vehicles. The design aims to fulfill the constraints that allow the team to participate in the AUVSI SUAS 2023 competition season.

UAV Forge

EECS
MAE

UAV Forge is a multidisciplinary engineering design team that focuses on the design, manufacturing, programming and testing of autonomous aerial vehicles. The design aims to fulfill the constraints that allows the team to participate in the AUVSI SUAS 2021-2022 competition season. The AUVSI competition requires that the system’s UAV have autonomous flight capabilities, ability to perform object avoidance of stationary and dynamic objects, the ability to do object detection, localization, and classification. The system must also perform an airdrop task wherein UAV Forge will be manufacturing an assembly that will allow the UAV to drop payloads that safely land on designated targets. Though the emphasis for this year’s team is to perform well in the competition setting, the primary objective is to ensure the undergraduate students participating in the project apply their engineering skills to a compelling real-world problem.

UAV Forge MAE 189 (Spring 2023)

UAV Forge
EECS
MAE

Background

“The SUAS competition is designed to foster interest in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), stimulate interest in UAS technologies and careers, and to engage students in a challenging mission. The competition requires students to design, integrate, report on, and demonstrate a UAS capable of autonomous flight and navigation, remote sensing via onboard payload sensors, and execution of a specific set of tasks. The competition has been held annually since 2002.

UCI CubeSat

EECS
MAE

 

BACKGROUND:

UCI CubeSat is a student-led effort to design, manufacture, and launch a 2U nanosatellite to conduct experiments on a UCI research payload called a variable emissivity device (VED).

These experiments aim to ascertain whether the VED will be viable for use as a cheap, reliable method of thermal management on future spacecraft. UCI's CubeSat, AntSat1, will relay data on performance in various degrees of solar exposure and at varying adjustable emissivity values while in orbit.

 

OBJECTIVES:

UCI CubeSat

EECS
MAE

The CubeSat team at UCI is a student-led effort to launch a 2U nanosatellite into orbit to test two UCI research payloads. The satellite operates with five subsystems (Power/Payload, Communications, Avionics, Structures/Thermal, and Systems Engineering), in addition to housing two payloads. 

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