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ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autonomous indoor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) navigation requires mapping techniques to build an accurate space estimation for flying. This work proposes a system to map an indoor environ…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award
Cleaning external windows on commercial high-rise buildings is expensive and potentially very dangerous as it is traditionally labour intensive. There is an increasing awareness of the comme…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The human knees are the largest and the most complex joints in the human body. However due to its actives and the way it is formed, it is also the most injured joint with over 6 million pati…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Our research problem is creating a fully automated hand. This research applies to surgical robotics and the advancement of surgical techniques, but it also has applications in industrial pro…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In 2017, Silver et al. designed a reinforcement learning algorithm that learned tabula rasa without any human-generated data. They applied this algorithm to the games of Go, Chess, and Shogi…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autonomous vehicles have the potential to vastly increase road safety and reduce the environmental impact of personal vehicles. While this technology is still in development, rapid progress…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Objective: To meet the need for changing the ratios of pictures in different situations, this paper presents an image processing tool which can intelligently resize the pictures according to…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The American people and worldwide citizens face the daily consistent threat of those with concealed weapons. Each day, human lives are lost due to concealed weapons. Recent and memorable exa…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In recent years, the classical computer vision problem of super-resolution has been approached with deep learning technologies, e.g., convolutional neural networks (CNNs). These new techniqu…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project was to create a computer simulation of an intersection with no traffic controls (stop signs or traffic lights), and develop artificial intelligence capable of mak…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Society is used to consume technology and isn’t interested in creating it, little kids don’t receive enough stimulation for developing logic and creativity skills. Consequently, the interest…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Breast cancer is currently the second leading cause of death among American women even though breast cancer mortality rates have decreased by 36% since 1989-2012. This decline has often been…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Estimating the future course of cancer is invaluable to physicians; however, current clinical methods fail to effectively use the vast amount of multimodal data available. To tackle this pro…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are traditionally used in computer vision, but have recently gained traction as sequential models. In this paper two improvements to temporal convolutiona…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Purpose: Diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that damages the light-sensitive retina, affects an estimated total of 93 million people globally. As one of the leading causes of blindness, it…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
The primary objective of this project is to develop autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) to generate semi-dense point clouds of the interior of buildings. These point clouds can be used…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Polygenic developmental diseases affecting humans like autism spectrum disorder often have unknown causes and are difficult to cure. Gene expression and regulation is among the most importan…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Despite its significance, there is currently no cure for the disease. The early diagnosis of AD is essentia…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Situations of low visibility make it difficult to carry out tasks safely or efficiently when it involves observing the surrounding environment. To help make said tasks easier, visual aids th…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Emotion recognition from human voice by machine is a challenging task, but it has great potential to make empathic human-machine communications possible. In conventional approaches, extensiv…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Visually impaired humans lead very difficult lives. They often must rely on external sources to help them. Many of these external sources are guide dogs and walking sticks. The problem with…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
There is, as of now, no objective method of measuring the difficulty of a given problem. Since biological brains are too generalized, however, a substitute becomes necessary for experimental…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
In recent years, congestion in the global airspace has escalated at an exponential rate, increasing the probability of an air collision. Furthermore, many companies plan to deploy autonomous…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This project evaluates multiple machine learning (ML) algorithms to determine optimal accuracy in detecting breast cancer. It also analyzes the effect of applying Principal Component Analysi…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
During a prolonged time execution, deep recurrent neural networks suffer from the so-called \textit{long-term dependency problem} due to their recurrent connection. Although Long Short-Term…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Robotic arms are perhaps the most important manufactured tool in the world. However, manufacturing robotic arms are very expensive, costing over thousands of dollars. The project is presenti…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Desktop 3D printing has a massive potential market, however, due to the high cost, complexity and difficulty of use there hasn’t been widespread adoption yet. My printer aims to be the cheap…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the U.S. Although it comprises less than 1% of new diagnoses, melanoma accounts for the vast majority of skin cancer deaths. The American…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
This project aims to develop a technology-based solution that gives people opportunity to realize a way of transportation in which cargo platform keeps horizontal position during all time, f…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this research project is to give a practical, portable and economic solution to “energy-poor” people in remote areas of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, as well as encourage co…