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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.

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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.

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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.