Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Background: Escalating natural disasters demand rapid, efficient, and safe response solutions. This project introduces a cost-effective autonomous drone system designed for disaster relief a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Zoro is a robotic quadruped meant to explore and map unknown or dangerous environments using many sensors such as an Xbox Kinect for IR depth sensing and mapping and encoders, touch sensors,…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Visually impaired individuals have dif?culty understanding their environment and the actions of others due to their limited visual abilities. Previous research has shown that approaches used…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Rolling bearings transmit a rotary motion between two bodies. Faulty components generate more friction which translates into dissipation of additional energy and heat which in turn increases…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The World Health Organization estimates that a staggering 2.2 billion individuals worldwide suffer from vision impairments, which drastically limit independence and quality of daily life. Al…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Gripper are robotic hands that are usually made to simulate the things human hands can do. Many modern-day grippers focus on in-hand manipulation and the ability to adapt to objects of diffe…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
Problem: Wheeled robotics research and commercial application development is inhibited by the lack of a powerful, durable, and accessible robotics platform that can operate omnidirectionally…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Surface electromyography (sEMG) and mechanomyogram (MMG) signals are two prominent modalities in gesture recognition, increasingly employed in medical applications. These signals can be capt…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
This project developed a leader-wingman drone swarm that can autonomously detect and track objects of interest (OOI). The leader drone is a custom-built X500 quadcopter equipped with a Jetso…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The goal of this project is to develop an automatic American Sign Language (ASL) production system that generates high-quality ASL captions for multimedia content, making it accessible to th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project was to analyze the anatomy of the human hand and translate its mobility into a functional robotic hand (Alice) with the ability to translate English into American…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Over the past decades, robotics has become an increasingly popular method to engage students in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math(STEM). However, due to the lack of af…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
3D printing is a groundbreaking technology that has enabled innovation in various aspects of our modern world, but one key issue that continues to limit its use is that of maintenance. In th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
Since the pandemic, online chess has seen unprecedented growth in its user base. This growth is largely due to players being unable to convene physically in quarantine and wanting to play ga…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Remote sensing technologies have revolutionized the ability to detect and classify tree species. This is vital for sustainable management and conservation, and especially early detection and…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Having robots at home could help with accomplishing many daily tasks. As larger percentages of the world’s population begin to age, as well as there being many people with disabilities, havi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Survival chances of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients are near zero after 10 minutes, but EMS response rates are on average 9 minutes or longer. This project developed the first indoor…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness. The eye disease is particularly pervasive in developing countries, where there exists a severe insufficiency of ophthalmologists. C…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The emergence of extensive amounts of fake news on the internet made real-time fake news detection (FND) through computational tools a necessity. However, the non-availability of annotated d…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This paper reports on an innovative under-actuated bipedal lizard-inspired robot that utilizes lateral bending of its body to achieve high-speed stable running. A digital dynamic model of th…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Current ResNet structure uses convolution kernels to preserve local information of an image. In contrast, ViT divides an image into patches to calculate their global attention. With enough a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Purpose: This study addresses road accidents caused by driver fatigue and drowsiness. With a slight level of fatigue and a desire to sleep, a person's reaction drops by almost 16%, causing t…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In 1950 Alan Turing designed a test with the goal of finding an answer to the question "Can Machines Think?" In Turing test there is a human and a machine that is judged by another human acc…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Through our design, we have employed two machine learning models. First, a visual transcript of hand signs, and other physical features must be established, and accurately return a string of…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Text-generation AI services are unaffordable for most people at $10 to $20 a month. I developed and published an open-source efficient text-generation algorithm called grouped sampling to en…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Aquaponics is a food production system that combines the growing of plants with raising fish. The purpose of my Automatic Aquaponics engineering project is to provide a way for people to gro…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
The ongoing climate change and water pollution crises have threatened coral reefs and their ecosystems, leading reefs to terrible fates such as bleach, disease, and loss of growth. From this…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Purpose When artificial neural networks are deployed in real world situations, they often show flaws in their handling of data outside the training set. This kind of data is called out of di…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The remarkable success of deep neural networks (DNNs) has led to great interest in their adoption in critical applications such as healthcare, autonomous vehicles, and law enforcement. DNNs…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
A brain tumor is a foreign growth within the brain that disrupts function. Brain tumors are one of the most deadly forms of cancer with a mortality of 80%. As a result, a quick and accurate…