Senior Design

Team members: Shreyank Amartya John Bullock Spencer Curra Alex Fous Andrew Gans Avalanche safety is becoming of increasing importance as the outdoor community explores the winter terrain more frequently. Currently there exist a variety of technological and educational techniques designed both to prevent and to manage human related avalanche burials...

The goal of our capstone project is to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle that can autonomously navigate an unknown environment while simultaneously creating a 2D map. This 2D map will be streamed in real time to a host computer that communicates with the vehicle over Wi-Fi. This makes the system...

The SkiTron system will consist of three components, a Heads Up Display (HUD), a wrist mounted controller, and a smartphone application. The system will take user information from the phone such as incoming calls and texts, current music, speed, altitude, and location and overlay this information with their field of...

Repetition is important for retaining information. Many people put notes on their bathroom mirrors to remind themselves of important events, details and tasks. This can be messy and, of course, relies on the user to remember to write the reminder in the first place. Our project, Alfred, takes this concept...

Fuel cost is a significant expense to dirt bike riders, and gas powered dirt bikes produce large amounts of carbon emission that pollute the environment. Our project is to convert a gas- powered dirt bike into an electric powered dirt bike. By doing so, we can eliminate fuel cost and...

Wireless charging of electric vehicles is attracting attention within many technologically advanced countries, and we find the idea of dynamic wireless charging particularly exciting. In a dynamic charging system, an electric vehicle would be able to receive power while in motion, in stop-and-go traffic, or while parked. Intuitively, these alternatives...

SKINlapZ is a proof-of-concept product to make laser tattoo removal a robotic system. The state of the art entails a licensed provider guiding a specialized laser by hand at a fixed height over the patient's tattoo in a procedure that is expensive and generally not covered by insurance. SKINlapZ allows...

The problem with battery powered devices is that runtime is dependent on battery capacity. Battery powered devices that can travel outside a reachable distance for users require retrieval or to be navigated back to the user before the battery runs out of energy. Resolving this issue requires an implementation of...

Based on observation of exponential growth of number of transistors on an integrated circuit chip, Moore's Law predicted in 1965 that transistors will halve in size every 18 months. Although this phenomenon has proven correct for half a century and transistors continue to grow exponentially smaller, due to constraints in...

The goal of our project is to produce an air hockey opponent with artificial intelligence that can competitively play against any user. Recently, older tabletop games have been remodeled and engineered to include robotics. This allows the user to feel as if they are playing against another human player which...