Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Every week, at least 2 rangers lose their lives globally due to patrolling in forests. This forces them to face deadly threats from every direction, including traps, wildfires, and fighting…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This research addresses the pivotal role of the agricultural sector in the Philippine economy, constituting 9.43 percent of the GDP and engaging 30 percent of the labor force. Corn, the seco…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Patients with mobility issues or lower limb injuries often require caregiver assistance. Lower extremity exoskeletons can ease this burden. However, the current models lack terrain adjusting…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Autonomous unmanned vehicles (drones, etc.) require fast and resource-efficient perception and control to perform in dynamic, unpredictable real-world environments. Comprehending visual real…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Natural Language Processing has led to the development of voice recognition technology, and taking speech analysis further can lead to the development of technology to aid in treatment of sp…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Extraterrestrial exploration has predominantly employed rover robots due to their proven reliability. Recent research, however, suggests that legged robots, with their superior mobility and…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This study presents a novel back-end-of-line compatible optoelectronic device specifically engineered for neuromorphic computing and visual processing applications. As the foundation of mode…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
To ascertain complex relationships between inputs and outputs and function at high accuracies, Machine Learning algorithms require vast amounts of high-quality data. In many instances, the q…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Two similar but different tasks for autonomous robots are exploring an area and searching within an area for a moving target. A common algorithm for exploring an area is frontier-based explo…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Over 10 million people worldwide are diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease (PD), a neurodegenerative disorder significantly impacting daily life. Freezing of Gait (FoG), affecting around 80% of…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) is the second most common form of skin cancer. Moreover, accurate, early diagnosis for pre-metastatic SCC is imperative; post-metastasis patient survi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness among working-age adults. Early detection is crucial to reducing DR-related vision loss risk but is filled with challenges. Manual…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Robots that require smooth, precise, and robust movement along flat ground have become ubiquitous: warehouse operations, competitive robotics, and assistive robots in human spaces like offic…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Property theft is a prevalent social issue that plagues countless communities around the world. In 2022, over 6,500,000 cases of property crime nationwide were recorded, a 7.1% increase comp…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This research addresses the challenge of estimating human body key points from radar images, a crucial capability in computer vision with applications in surveillance, gesture recognition, a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
As global food demand continues to increase, food supply continues to be consistently damaged by crop disease. At least 20% of crops worldwide are lost in the harvest and post-harvest stages…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This study addresses the ethical implications of using artificially intelligent neural networks for medical diagnosis, with a focus on skin diseases. While such networks have demonstrated hi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
ChatGPT is a widely utilized resource with billions of users projected worldwide, simultaneously handling numerous tasks. However, its cost and efficiency have become a matter of concern due…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Major earthquakes, main and aftershocks, are common in different parts of the world. Depending on their scale, these natural movements can cause structural damage to habitable places; struct…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Deep learning models are being tested to analyze medical images for a variety of applications, ranging from identifying diseases to accurate predictions. However, the amount of data availabl…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Machine Learning is the statistical analysis of data used to solve problems. The purpose of this project is to use Machine Learning models to improve the efficiency and accuracy of a robotic…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
For as long as humanity has been able to observe, the question of flight has always been. From the beginning, with ornithopters, to now full commercial airline use, despite the numerous adva…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have become a transformative technology that can change our daily lives. One of the many applications is to significantly reduce the more than 40,000…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Recent studies show that small cerebrovascular abnormalities are the cause of many brain disorders. Early diagnosis and monitoring of the abnormalities in vivo at the micro-level facilitates…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The integration of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) technology with 3D scanning systems has significantly advanced the reconstruction of high-fidelity 3D models. In this essay, we explore the h…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Machine learning and neural networks have seen a rapid increase in popularity over the past few years. Spiked neuron networks (SNN) are a third generation neural network that offer many bene…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Deep reinforcement learning(DRL) has shown significant promise in a wide range of applications including computer games and robotics. Yet, DRL policies require very long training times resul…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and lip reading presents a promising avenue in communication technology, particularly for enhancing accessibility and human-computer interact…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Automotive traffic in its current form serves as a major problem for the United States' car driven society. Looking for ways to increase efficiency could lead one to the evaluate the efficac…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
People lose their ability to move their neck muscles for various reasons. There are fixed support apparatuses but the muscle that is not moved gets weaker. Therefore they contribute negative…