Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
These glasses will be more innovative and useful than smartphones to the visually impaired. 250 million blind people around the world are facing more difficulties due to COVID-19, and the vi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Evidence shows that researchers excavating Ancient Egyptian tombs face problems, such as narrow entrances, increase of toxic gasses, decrease of oxygen, and increase in temperature. The proj…
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Garment classification is a typical first step for carrying out cloth manipulation tasks. This is a challenging feat for neural networks due to clothing’s easily deformable state, which caus…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Oil spills have become a major problem in waterways around the world, more specifically, the Gulf of Mexico. With increasing risks and effects, the necessity of oil containment has become a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Various car companies believe that driver monitoring systems are ineffective, so they try to introduce as much automation into cars as possible. The problem can be solved by creating an inte…
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Memory impairment caused by Alzheimer's disease seriously affects the daily life and even safety of the elderly. For example, if the emergency medicine cannot be found in time, the valuable…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Accurate and robust autonomous landing of fixed-wing aircraft will revolutionize economic, industrial, and military missions that are generally dangerous or suboptimal for humans to perform.…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Walking robots are an important part of the future. Agile, adaptive, and able to walk almost anywhere. They have advantages in hazardous terrain exploration, search and rescue, domestic assi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Medical devices are commonly used by patients worldwide. However, they can be subject to malfunction when they are in use. This can lead to injury, bodily harm, or even death. To combat this…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
According to the WHO, there are currently 2.2 billion people who live with visual impairment in the world. A sighted person is able to take in 3D spatial information by taking the 3D locatio…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Neural networks have improved deep learning, but at times, they can be inefficient. Current networks perform extensive computations on all input data to improve accuracy. However, not all in…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
The existence of adversarial examples, which are inputs that force neural networks to misclassify them, represents a major risk in safety-critical applications of deep learning, such as malw…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
First Award
In order to develop complex relationships between their inputs and outputs, deep neural networks train, and adjust, a large number of parameters. To make these networks function at high accu…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Maintaining optimal indoor air quality (IAQ), humidity, and household safety is a critical aspect of improving overall health. Poor IAQ and improper humidity have adverse health effects. To…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In recent years, analysis of cerebral structures using whole-brain quantitative neuroimaging has been widely recognized for its ability to provide deep insights on neurological disease. Quan…
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Autonomous cars have the potential to become a safer and more efficient alternative to driver-operated vehicles, preventing death and disability. Existing motion planners for autonomous cars…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Screen readers are the primary tool through which Blind and Low Vision (BLV) people use the internet. However, 98.1% of the websites on the internet do not meet WCAG AA guidelines, minimum f…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Deaf and hard-of-hearing people often use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate. Since ASL interpreters are frequently inaccessible, affordable robotic interpreters are a promising alt…
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In the pursuit of increasingly robust artificial intelligence, it is useful to look towards nature for inspiration. Neuroevolution does just this by simulating Darwinian-style natural select…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
People with hearing and speech impairments use sign language as their main form of communication, but it possesses the disadvantage where they cannot communicate with people without sign lan…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
There are over 1 million ASL speakers in North America and it is claimed to be the third most studied language in the United States. The language barrier between people with impaired or no h…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This project focused on the development of a model that maximizes accessibility by accurately and efficiently recognizing American Sign Language in real-time, converting it to text without a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
For more than two centuries, deaf communities in the U.S. have benefited from American Sign Language (ASL) as their main mode of communication. However, in the past decade, with the rapidly…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Transcribing audio files such as MP3s into digital symbolic formats such as Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) files has always been a complicated task, referred to as Automatic Mus…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Landscape painting is a traditional Chinese painting art form with a long history and diverse styles. However, due to pigment technology, preservation conditions and other limitations, most…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Telemedicine & remote diagnosis using Computer-Aided Detection hold the key to timely medical treatment for millions of people, in absence of radiologists in remote regions. Unfortunately, t…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
When a building collapses, survivors are trapped in unknown locations. Locating survivors is crucial in a rescue operation and can be extremely difficult due to the terrain and inaccessibili…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of my experiment was to program and build new scanning technology to determine if different things move in a room while someone is away. I cloned the repository on GitHub (a clou…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Crouch gait is a complex pattern of movement that affects 150,000 children with conditions such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, or spinal cord injuries. Crouch gait severely limits mobility…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In the pipelines, a long and narrow environment both inconvenient and unsafe for man to operate in, machines are often needed to assist in operation and repair. This project aims to develop…