Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the field of medicine, healthcare workers are regularly exposed to radiation over extended periods of time, which lead to various health problems. Although numerous regulations and guidel…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
During the 1950s, the Gros Michel species of bananas were nearly wiped out by the incurable Fusarium Wilt, also known as Panama Disease. Originating from Southeast Asia, Panama disease is a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Accidents involving visually impaired people while walking are one of the serious social issues (e.g., falling off station platforms and crossing crosswalks without acoustic signals). The ri…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Functional brain networks represent dynamic connectivity patterns among brain regions that change across cognitive states and in response to disease or injury. Graph-based models are a relat…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
When moving autonomously, robots struggle to move to an exact target position, usually overshooting the goal. This is because it is impossible to infinitely decelerate (or stop immediately).…
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Second Award
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a neurological disorder that affects 18 million individuals worldwide. The debilitating condition leaves patients with severely impaired mobility due to spasticity or…
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Fourth Award
Object recognition is an important task in image processing and a fuzzy neural network (FNN) is a popular tool for object recognition. However, when applied to datasets that present complex…
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“Ophidia Vision: Inside the Terrarium Lab” is an experiment that used machine learning to detect a reptile’s identity (a ball python). The scientific question is: Can a facial recognition ma…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this experiment is to determine if the efficiency of traffic flow can be improved by leveraging the strengths of Artificial Intelligence (Al), the best Machine Learning (ML) m…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project is to aid individuals and communities by moving snow. A robotic snow plow would be able to be controlled from inside a house to remove snow from sidewalks and dri…
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Parkinson's Disease (PD) is the second most prevalent progressive neurodegenerative disorder. The development of new therapeutic approaches requires a better understanding of the underlying…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This Computer Vision project detects signs on the road. The model is meant to support blind pedestrians, who wouldn’t be able to use their canes to understand these aspects of their surround…
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The researchers became aware of the current social alienation of patients suffering from diseases that cause mobility loss, such as Parkinson's, Lou Gehrig's, Lewy Body, and CTE. Those patie…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
My project involved creating an autonomous robot that can identify and repair potholes on roads. The robot is designed to measure the dimensions of each pothole and use an eco-friendly mater…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Pedestrian and vehicle trespassing is a significant problem in the railroad industry. According to the Federal Railroad Administration, 94% of rail-related deaths occur at railway crossings…
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In Vietnam, landslides occur frequently and cause great damage to traffic infrastructures and human lives. Follow-up search and rescue campaigns risk the lives of rescue personnel and civili…
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Second Award
Heart disease is the #1 global killer. Left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) analysis via echocardiography is crucial for heart failure detection. However, traditional EF calculation is a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Since 2001, actor-critic algorithms have combined “the strong points of actor-only and critic- only methods” (Konda & Tsitsiklis, 1999) to reduce the time needed to train a reinforcement lea…
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Conversational agents are increasingly used in a wide range of fields, from entertainment or manufacturing to finance or healthcare, since they facilitate human-machine interactions and can…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the new normal, teleconferencing has become increasingly adopted. However, people adopting sign language depend on interpreters in live online interactions, compromising their independenc…
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The sign language interpreter with built in translator is a communication device that aims at improving communication between deaf and able hearing communities. The research was conducted wi…
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Long-term medication management for chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease requires medication adherence. However, research shows that only 50% of patients with chro…
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Today, many countries are experiencing fires, environmental and natural disasters. As a result, firefighters and rescuers are used. But often they themselves become victims of such natural p…
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Fourth Award
Modern Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are potent catalysts for scientific-industrial impact. To maximize performance and hypothesis space, however, DNNs involve excessive parameters – impeding…
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Third Award
Disabled people experience difficulties in many areas of daily life. The main reason for these difficulties is the great gap in the research about the solutions to the daily life problems of…
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Fourth Award
Rubbings are important world cultural heritages. It provides crucial roles in humanity like arts, history, and politics. However, due to the poor portion and weathering process, most rubbing…
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This study applies natural language processing to fake news comment sections as a novel framework for efficient, real-time detection. Online social networks are essential tools to communicat…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
First Award
Working on high voltage power lines is a hazardous task, and the risks associated with this type of work are numerous and significant, proven by the electrical industry’s high mortality rate…
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The past three years have seen SARS-CoV-2 wreak havoc on society with limited effective treatments available due to the amount of trial and error involved. However, with recent advancements…
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Second Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder primarily prominent in individuals 65 years and older (the elderly population). Despite advances in the medical field, the diagnosis…