In the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, we allow students to select their own teams and their own projects. Potential customers come before the class in the Fall semester and present their requests, and the teams brainstorm ideas for projects that might incorporate devices or techniques they want to learn to use. Then the teams choose their projects and write a proposal document which is reviewed by the instructor. After review and possible revision, they order parts to start their project, if necessary. In the Spring semester, teams assemble prototypes and write code, conduct tests, refine designs, and then assemble a final model so they can be presented to customers, if they have one, to each other, and to the world, at Design Day.
Jack G. Mottley – Associate Professor
jack.mottley@rochester.edu
585-275-4308
Team Members Colin Blake, Electrical and Computer Engineering ’24Hugh Gallagher, Electrical and Computer Engineering ’24Eric Wenner, Electrical and Computer Engineering ’24 Mentors Jack Mottley, Daniel Phinney, Tre DiPassio Project Description…
Two part system for collecting weather data and sending it back to a user in the form of a bedside alarm clock.
Are you tired of wasting time and money delivering packages and items around the University of Rochester campus? Look no further than our cutting-edge Autonomous Delivery Robot! With this autonomous robot (nicknamed RPS), you can rest assured that your deliveries will be made safely and efficiently, without the need for constant human intervention.
Team Mentor Professor Mottley and Professor Phinney Abstract Wildfires burn 7 million acres of land in the US every year. We present a read-out integrated circuit (ROIC) designed to be…
Team Mentor Professor Mottley and Professor Phinney Abstract Our project aims to solve the problem of communicating within line-of-sight in a noisy environment. To solve this problem, we designed and…
A robot which navigates between points on campus, delivering packages.
An analog circuit designed to quickly and accurately detect jams in high-speed scanners.
A solar panel system which utilizes sensors to position the system in a way to track the sun.
A one or two sentence description of your project.
A one or two sentence description of your project.
all-TErrain Rolling Robot using Autonomy
Underwater distress signal detector
A helmet that can guide visually impaired people to walk freely and have a vague image of their surroundings using stereo sound.
A launcher that locks on to a pre-defined target and fires a ball.
A one or two sentence description of your project.
A Driver Board for AGR’s Spectre
A smart water dispenser system able to dispense drinking water to the user while keeping track of daily intake amounts.
Why not take a virtual trip through the eyes of a robot that uses a camera and displays it to the user’s VR headset. VIRTua Bot allows you to do just that with your android smartphone.
Make a low cost system to measure mini-scale object displacement.
Stay motivated to keep up with your fitness goals by taking care of a virtual pet!
This system is a cheaper alternative option to chemical water treatment meant to sterilize drinking water with UV-C light by controlling water flow in order to achieve proper irradiation time.
Using the interactive detection robot, the user will be able to wirelessly control the device and visually see its surroundings using the camera module. The RPLidar enables a 360° view of the robot’s environment.
Retrofitting a forklift with an open-source autonomous-warehousing system.
An automated hydroponic plant growth system that is monitored online by a user
The surveying altimeter is a cheap, portable, and easy-to-use method of determining the relative height differences between points of interest.
Creating an accurate SLAM estimation for indoor obstacle mapping, exploration, and flight execution.
Designing a system to allow a visually impaired person to better navigate their environment.
A stationary unit designed to help facilitate the testing and storage of COVID-19 tests.
Our project was to implement a system of light reflectors that autonomously track the sun’s position and focus the light on a solar panel to maximize the incident light intensity and hence more power capture. The system was to be significantly cheap compared to buying multiple solar panels and capture more than double the solar power than using an ordinary solar panel.
Our senior design project is implementing an AI chess board. It uses Python and the popular chess engine Stockfish on a Raspberry Pi to show the user with LEDs where the computer would like to make its move. Our project was a success and could be used as a beginning step to make a more complex and intuitive chess board that plays chess against a user.
The original intention was to make a robot that would retrieve tennis balls. The focus has now been switched to make a realistic robot simulator that can navigate to waypoints, which would be provided by tennis ball locations. OpenCV is used for tennis ball recognition to provide locations for the simulated robot to navigate to.
Industrial scanners are often prone to jams, which are costly both financially and time wise. Our projects uses audio recognition algorithms to automatically detect and stop jams in real time. For our project, we are using an scanner provided by IMBL.
ProcBlocks is an educational tool designed to introduce students to the basics of computer organization. Each component of the processor can function separately, allowing for different configurations of the “blocks” to be used. The final product would include some kind of instructional text, covering the basics of transistors, construction of digital logic, intermediate hardware constructs, and the use of computational components in a complete processor.
MOTLEY (Main Organizing Terminal for Low Energy Usage) focuses on the creation of a Smart Home using a Raspberry Pi as the central device. Similar to the google home, we are able to control our in-house made and thoughtfully designed custom peripherals through the use of this Pi, granting our user the ability to remotely control various devices in their homes from their current location.
Our project is concerned with utilizing the electromagnetic spectrum from the sun to generate and store electricity. Baseline application is capturing the temperature differential created by the sun between a roof and the inside of an attic. Further applications include using black body emissivity and radiative cooling to provide solar energy harvesting in places where traditional voltaic cells are not feasible.
The AI Sorting System takes a photo of a recyclable object, weighs it, and scans it with a metal detector. It inputs this data into a program that classifies the item as plastic, metal, or glass. The system includes 3 bins, one for each material. LEDs will light up on one of the bins and its lid will flip open, indicating that the recyclable should be placed in that bin.
Our project is a “Data Glove” worn by a user and composed of several types of sensors for mapping human hand motion. A virtual environment is used to show the glove’s capabilities in capturing natural motion, with its primary purpose being for virtual reality applications. We use the Unity game engine to create our simulation and feed data from our glove to a simulated robotic hand. Ideally, this is completed in real time and can capture movements live.
Using a rope of LEDs, connected to a Raspberry Pi with our software, we will read the audio signal from an HDMI cable and display colors on the LED strip that match the tone of the music. . The goal of our project is to be able to create a visualization to convey a similar feeling to people that are unable to hear the music.