Capstone
The Senior Design Capstone Project is a team-oriented program for engineering students to gain design experience by creating innovative product prototypes.
It involves applying theoretical knowledge to real-world engineering constraints, such as sustainability and health and safety.
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Past projects
Spring 2023: The LanternPredator (The project ranked 6th out of 71 participants, making it into the top 10)
Abstract: Lanternflies are an invasive pest species that can cause significant economic damage to agriculture by affecting plants and crops and disrupting the balance of natural ecosystems. These insects have a fast reproduction cycle, can withstand high-temperature variations, and have no natural predators in the US, making it very difficult to control their spread. Motivated by this environmental issue, we designed the LanternPredator, an autonomous pest control robot to help control the population growth of lanternflies. The proposed solution integrates machine learning algorithms for detecting the right insect species, an acoustic stimulus to attract the insects to a zap trap, and sonar for autonomous navigation.
Team members: David Banyamin, Wei Gou, Mark Rezk, Wictor Fedorowiat
Advisor: Dr. Daniel Burbano Lombana
Fall 2022: Navigation Implementation of Industrial Vehicles
Abstract: Smart warehousing is the process of automating all the activities performed in a regular warehouse where raw materials and manufactured goods are stored. Smart warehousing has several advantages, from reducing operating costs and processing time to reducing human safety risks and optimizing physical storage space. The primary goal of our project is to develop an autonomous vehicle capable of navigating in a warehouse environment following a specific path. This research seeks to boost productivity in industrial settings by minimizing the wasteful movement of robotic vehicles, resulting in less time lost. This can open the door to a more general setting where a swarm of cooperative robots can fully automate the warehouse.