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 (inferred)
Over 430 million people worldwide struggle with disabling hearing loss, and among those that are deaf, 80% of individuals resort to using a form of sign language to communicate. Today, we re…
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 (inferred)
Reinforcement learning, a machine learning training method based on rewarding desired behaviors and punishing undesired ones, has taken the field of artificial intelligence into a new age. A…
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…
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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…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
First Award
Skin cancer is the most prevalent cancer worldwide with 8 million incidences and 120,000 annual deaths. Visual inspection has a 40% misdiagnosis rate, causing treatment delays leading to inc…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Misinformation is widespread on the internet, and one of the most pervasive ways this presents itself to adolescents is in the form of images manipulated on social media. Teens post pictures…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Thomas Jefferson once said: 'The olive tree is surely the richest gift of heaven.' However, despite their economic significance, olive crops remain vulnerable to diseases, resulting in farme…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
It is estimated that by 2050, an alarming 33 billion tons of plastic waste will be on the Earth, overshadowing the Empire State Building by 105,000 times. Since 1960, the recycling rate has…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This research proposes Scan-Drop as an aerial integrated response during the flood search and rescue missions. This integrated response provides emergency support through proactive observati…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This study investigated the hypothesis that visual stimuli can significantly influence olfactory perception, potentially altering or enhancing the actual scent experience. By building an AI…