Presentations on Symposium Day 2004

Time Room Moderator Title Corporate Sponsor Advisor Students Summary Equipment Needed
8:30 9-401 Hwang Interference Suppression using Array Processor Raytheon H.K. Hwang Lijia Chen, Anne Lee, Aijun Song, Jerome Wei, Mike Yu Performance of communication or radar systems operate in the environment with intentional or unintentional interference sources will be severely deteriorated. If the interference waveform operates at the same frequency band, then the undesired interference effect cannot be suppressed by using frequency selective filter. Array processor provides a different way to suppress the undesired interference waveform. Interference suppression capability of array processor is demonstrated by using computer simulations PC, Laptop Connectivity, Demo Cart, Power Point
8:30 9-403 El Naga Safety Compliance System for the Industrial Worker A special thanks to Sam Stokes, MicroSoft Corp. Halima El Naga Henok Kebede, Mike Fahim, Michael Youwakim, Michelle Sangalang To increase workplace safety for employees and increase compliance with safety precautions in the industrial environment, the team has designed a system that is able to detect whether or not an employee is utilizing the required personal protective equipment while working in a designated area or while using specific machinery. The system is built on a platform using Windows CE, C sharp and Visual Basic as programming languages. Hardware elements of our system are comprised of transceivers, as well as a specified sensor to place inside the safety helmet. PC, laptop Connectivity, Sound, Demo Cart, PowerPoint
8:30 9-405 Ketseoglou Six-legged Scouting Robot   Narayan Mysoor Trung Nguy and Albert Grana The robot is designed to scout in areas especially inaccessible for humans. A six-legged design is chosen as means of robotic propulsion because legs can climb maliciously steep and uneven ground. The user runs the robot via a joystick control device that outputs pulse proportional signals, which are transmitted via 72.4 MHz FM RF to the robot's receiver. The receiver connects to a Programmable Integrated Circuit (PIC) microcontroller, programmed in BASIC, to control two SSCII servo motor drivers. These drive the motors by feeding pulse width modulated signals. Each leg and the neck are equipped with 2 servo motors. A wireless video camera and microphone are utilized for sound and vision sensory of the robot, of which their signals are trasmitted via 2.4 GHz RF to a receiver tht connects to the user's TV monitor. Demo Cart
8:30 9-423   Smart Robotic Rover - Hardware Team   Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, Toma Sacco, Henry Xue Juan Cabrera, Mauricio Coto, Chidi Dillibe, Dario Esqueda, Katie Estrada,  Kavin Fraine, Larry Franco, Peeya Ithiphol, Michael Jauregui, Jonathan Jimenez, Otto Jimenez, Javier Ledezma, David Levine, Arturo Meza, Javier Ruiz, Tincy Stephen, Michelle Tadang, Michael Thorpe, Mindy Tran, Ghia-Chi Yeh    PC, PowerPoint
8:30 9-423 Hayden Smart Robotic Rover NASA PAIR Grant/JPL M. Kathleen Hayden   The “Smart Robotic Rover” is an interdisciplinary project designed to integrate cutting-edge NASA related research into the undergraduate educational experience.  Students, under faculty supervision of the Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering Departments, have researched and designed a rover prototype including a robotic arm capable of retrieving objects for examination.  Several cameras are employed on the vehicle to retrieve information for both manual control and semi-autonomous navigation.      
8:30 9-423   Smart Robotic Rover   Special Thanks Abdul B. Sadat (IME Dept Chair), Victor F. Okhuysen (IME),  Clifford Stover (ME), Jeffrey R. Pulver (IME Tech), Ulus Ekerman (IME Tech), James J. Cesari (AERO Tech), Keven Anderson (ME Dept), Zachary Fisher (ME Student), Chris Thompson (ME student) ,Mark Bailey (ECE Dept. Eng.), Mark Van Dusen (ECE Tech), Joe Galdonik (ECE Tech), Sue Moore (ECE Dept Sec), Karen Speaks (ECE Admin Sup) and a special thanks to Sam Stokes, MicroSoft Corp.    
8:30 9-425 Monemi MicroMouse   Saeed Monemi Farouq Mahadin, Jorg Saakian, Amish Sheth A MicroMouse designed to navigate to the center of a maze. VCR + TV, PC, PowerPoint
8:30 9-427 Cheng/Yin DNA Sequence Matching Processor - Part I: User Interface   Yi Cheng and Meng-Lai Yin Carmen Luk, Michael Lin, Martin Tse, Christopher Dokmaji, John Ruiz This project provides DNA matching solutions with parallel processing methods. This presentation addresses the design and implementation of the graphic user interface for the server and the clients. Both wired and wireless clients are supported PC, Laptop Connectivity, Demo Cart, MS.NET environment, LabView 7.0 Express, Xilinx ISE 6, JAVA SDK, Internet Explorer, PowerPoint
8:30 9-429   Wireless Remote Surveillance Camera   Phyllis R. Nelson Eric Aguilar, Jener S. Chang, Ryan M. Loyd, Brian V. O'Keefe, Loc D. Truong This project encompassed the design, implementation and testing of an integrated surveillance system with wireless video transmission and motorized camera control. An amplitude modulated transmission scheme for both the analog video and baseband control signals were designed and implemented from the transistor level. The video signal is broadcast from the remote camera unit to a base unit, where a user can control the camera's pan, tilt and zoom. The control system included encoding and decoding the controls signals with distinct digital waveforms and was implemented on CPLDs. VCR with TV, PC cart or Computer, PowerPoint, Demo Cart
9:15 9-401   Adaptive Radar Clutter Suppression Raytheon H.K. Hwang Lijia Chen, Anne Lee, Aijun Song, Jerome Wei Radar clutter is the extraneous return waveform from the radar background environment. Because the clutter has a large cross-section, radar clutter can seriously degrade target detection. Conventional radar systems assume the clutter is stationary with its energy concentrated at low frequencies. Thus, a fixed high pass filter (HPF) is used to filter out the clutter. This approach has two major problems: (1) it degrades detection of a slow moving target, and (2) it cannot filter out the high frequency clutter. To overcome the difficulties of conventional radar clutter suppression algorithms, this paper proposed two adaptive clutter suppression schemes to enhance the target detection probability. Computer simulations are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed clutter suppression algorithms PC, Laptop Connectivity, Demo Cart, Power Point
9:15 9-403   Microsleep Detector A special thanks to Sam Stokes, MicroSoft Corp. Halima El Naga Rami Yassine, Dat Nguy, Ayman Samaan, Kenneth Chan A system that would detect driver's fatigue by detecting micosleeps and phases of extended eye closures. PC, Laptop Connectivity, Power Point
9:15 9-405   Wireless Home Security System   Narayan Mysoor Khairul Kabir, Sidharth Oza, Bina Petel, Jason Klintong, Vi Ngo, Mohammed Rahman, Ken Ngo Home security system that uses 916 MHz transmitter and receiver to communicate with all sensors. System is capable of monitoring 16 sensors simultaneously. Sensors used in the demonstration are motion detector, glass break sensor, door sensor and a flood sensor. All sensors are connected to the transmitter and the receiver is then connected via Motorola HC11 board to a remote computer. Using C programming, visual monitoring through the computer is done. User may opt to activate a wireless 2.4 GHz camera technology is used to control the lights and camera. VCR + TV, DVD, Computer, Laptop Connectivity, Sound, Demo Cart, HC11 for Windows, MS Office
9:15 9-423   Smart Robotic Rover - Firmware Team NASA PAIR Grant/JPL Yi Cheng, Rajan Chandra, Saeed Monemi Shahid Ali, Joaquin Ancona, Juan Bautista, Eboni Blackley, Kristine Fong, Ariana Geczi, Jonathan Hernandez, Mouawiya Nazer, Santiago Ocampo, Chandra Pariwala, Robert Soler, Edward Son   PC, PowerPoint
9:15 9-425   Implementation of 68HC11 on FPGA   Saeed Monemi Uros Obradovic, Robert Quesada, Samuel Mangampo The design and implementation of a 68HC11 microprocessor on FPGA PC, PowerPoint, Demo Card
9:15 9-427   DNA Sequence Matching Processor - Part II:Power of Parallel Processing using FPGA   Yi Cheng and Meng-Lai Yin Ben Brown, Vince Ngo, Brian Pham, John Siahann, Wei-Chuen Pan, Samuel Wu, Brice Kemle, Chatchai Bushyakanist, Takayuki Kamata This project provides DNA matching solutions with parallel processing methods. This presentation addresses the design and implementation of the USB communications, the matching processor and the Memory issues PC, Laptop Connectivity, Demo Cart, MS.NET environment, LabView 7.0 Express, Xilinx ISE 6, JAVA SDK, Internet Explorer, PowerPoint
9:15 9-429   Integrated Circuit Design   Phyllis R. Nelson James T. Gulak and Benjamin J. Ivers The design and layout of a BCD to seven-segment decoder using Unix based CAD tools. Learning circuit design, layout, extraction and production methods common to the industry PC, Laptop Connectivity, Power Point
10:00 9-401   FPGA Implementation of Adaptive Cruise Control System   Alan Felzer Robin H. Byun, Veasna Chev, Richard Do, Seoung H. Kim, Ronald Maung,  Ronald Maung, Phong Thai, Luu Tran Adaptive Cruise Control System can automatically adjust speed in order to maintain a safe distance between vehicles in the same lane of traffic. DVD, PC, Laptop Connectivity, Sound
10:00 9-403   CMOS Mixed-signal Chip Design: A CMOS Camera System-on-a-chip   Brita Olson Saurabh Desai, Takshi Ishihara, Anil Kumar, Jason Moffa, Jorge Moran
, Angana Sheth		 CMOS camera system-on-a-chip technology is ideal for portable cameras which demand low-power and extreme miniaturization. The design of a 128x128 CMOS camera system-on-a-chip is presented. Tasks include: floor planning, architectural development, performance calculations with simulation verification, mixed-signal component development; design, simulation, layout, verification, final chip assembly and verification. PC, PowerPoint
10:00 9-405   Light Emitting Diode Characterization   R. Frank Smith Hendra Dji, David Gaines, Darin Gritters, Willy Gunarto, Danny Luu, Darwin Ong, Henry Phan, Alvin Querubin, Richard Suhartono, Thuc Tran, David Waterman, Jr., QiQi Zhu The project examines the characteristics of lighting emitting diodes (LED). Parameters such as junction temperature, output versus driving current, beam spread, light output and wavelength are measured. Test equipment for these measurements was constructed by the students PC, PowerPoint
10:00 9-423   Smart Robotic Rover - Software Team NASA PAIR Grant/JPL Salam Salloum, Daisy Sang, Tim Lin Carrie Aguilar, Daniel Aguirre, Erika Denton, Dinh Diep, Alejandro Escalante, Danny Luna, Ricardo Mercado, Cory Mickelson, Jose Munoz, Vi Pham, Brandon Roybal, Mariam Salloum, Nelson Suarez, Tatevik Shakhbandaryan, Stephanie Vassantachart   PC, PowerPoint
10:00 9-425   S.P. Hawkeye   Tim Lin Jake Gajic, Jason Rasmussen, Saul Garibay, Jesus Sahagun, Jaime Alfaro Model electric airplane that is equipped with a digital camera which takes pictures during flight and a wireless video camera which transmits live video images, as seen by the plane, to a TV receiver. The plane is radio controlled using pulse width modulation scheme. The design includes a STAMP II microcontroller, which processes the data in both the transmitter (radio control )and the receiver (airplane). PC, TV with audio/video jack inputs, PowerPoint
10:00 9-427   EYE3 - Electric Safety Wheelchair   Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu Keung Dao, Keung Kwan, Kwong Lau, Sze-Chit Leung, Rebecca Wong, Yiu-Ming Yuen An application of Microchip's PIC® microcontroller to control an electric wheelchair with ultrasonic sensors as feedback signal. The sensors will detect for any nearby obstacle and the PIC® microcontroller will handle all the calculations with analysis of user input and feedback signal to better control the electric wheelchair  
10:00 9-429   Robotic Camera Sysem for Monitoring Seed Germination   Phyllis R. Nelson Brian I. Carramanzana, John S. Cruz, Marianne L. Fortuno, Ian C. Reyes, John-Paul Tioseco, Ryan C. Williams We will construct a system that will enable a user to monitor seed germination with the use of a digital camera. The camera will be mounted on a robotic mechanism controlled by a computer (with a user interface program) and ancillary control systems. The data recovered from the machine will be stored in a database that will be accessible to the user. PC, PowerPoint
10:45 9-403   FPGA evaluation Board Design, Implementation and Fabrication   James S. Kang Omar Castillo, Venustiano Flores, James Fuentes, Jared Johnson, Mitch Le, Rithya Sun, James Tan An evaluation board for Xilinx Spartan-IIE FPGA with various peripherals is designed. The peripherals include ADC, DAC, RS-232, J-TAG, USB, SRAM and Ethernet. A VDHL code is written and tested for each peripheral interface. An external ADC-DAC board is designed and tested.  
10:45 9-405   Class D Amplifier   Robert L Bernick and Toma Sacco Zarni Myomin, Denis Obiaug, Vincent Phan and Toan Le Audio class D amplifier, higher efficiency than other classes PC Cart, Sound, PowerPoint
10:45 9-423   Smart Robotic Rover - Communications Team NASA PAIR Grant/JPL  Gerald Herder, Thomas Ketseoglou Ian Adan, Saeed Barzandeh, Joshua Chavez, Jason de la Guerra, Rick Franco, David Hernandez, Dong Kim, Fady Mina, Bhavin Patel, Olusoji Temidara, Kasey Truong   PC, PowerPoint
10:45 9-425   Control of Servo Motor, using LabVIEW Card   Tim Lin Agazi Woldi, Salih Chandan, Rajeev Singh, Mohamad Dabboussi, Fadi Yossef, Summet Kals In this project we are going to implement the control of servo motor through LabView data acquisition card, we will also have an amplifier to amplify the digital signal sent by the computer. Feedback features will be built into it so that we can see the voltage and current values in real time and manipulate them. The entire control process of the sevo motor will be implemented through the internet using TCP/IP protocol for communication PC, PowerPoint, LabView
10:45 9-429   Optical Fourier Transforms   Phyllis R. Nelson Hoang H. Chau, Adam M. Chi, Raymond T. Tsang Design and construction of a device to display the 2-D Fourier Transform of an object. The illuminator is a laser pointer, and the "objects" are 35 mm slides. PC, demo cart
10:45 9-427   Apollo MP3   Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu Peter Twiss, Jake Heng, Johnny Ma, Robert Larsen, Nghia Tang The Apollo Project consists of implementing a 1GB portable mp3 player using today's current technologies. An Atmel ATMEGA162 microcontroller will be the backbone of the player, along with the revolutionary VLS VS1001K audio chip. The player will use the IBM Microdrive for its storage of music, and will also have an auto turn-off mechanism for when the player is dropped  
11:30 9-403   Motorcycle Fuel Injection Controller Design   Salomon Oldak Billy Chau, Matthew Hampton, Tung Ho, Ana Kim, Stephen Logsdon, Adoracion Mahinan, David Quach A common way to obtain improved general performance in a motorcycle is to adapt fuel injection consumption and ignition timing according to environmental and other variables such as barometric pressure, machine status, air temperature, etc. In this project a microprocessor controlled Electronic Control Unit (ECU) is designed to modify fuel delivery through Pulse Width Modulated injectors and ignition timing according to predefined optimal policies. PC, Laptop Connectivity, Sound, Demo Cart, PowerPoint
11:30 9-405   Teleoperation of a Robot Via the Internet   Toma Sacco Brandon Sights, Glen Montgomery, Peter Lee, Andre Lawrence, Jon Estanislac, Steven Cheng, Steve Locht, Ray Chen, Bo Xu Send commands to the robot anywhere in the world via the internet. Low level autonomous behaviors such as obstacle avoidance, heading alignment and digital feedback motor control. PC, Laptop Connectivity, Sound, VISUAL C++, ICC1I, PowerPoint, multiple network outlets
11:30 9-423   Smart Robotic Rover - Digital Signal Processing Team NASA PAIR Grant/JPL  James S. Kang, Salomon Oldak, Brita Olson, Ilir Progri Salim Abdo, Tes Akpovi, Tewabech Alemu, Mario Bermudez, Donald Cox, Michael Hendricks, Tina Lam, Kristin Madatyan, Steven Morones, Erick Ornelas, Javier Sarabia, Sinh Lam, DeShawn Spencer   PC, PowerPoint
11:30 9-425   Aerial Imaging Robot   Rajan Chandra Tuon Can, Nima Davarpanah, Gerrit Dykstra, Daniel Houth, Orlando Lainez, Nancy Le, Josh Nash, Brian Nguyen, Nisa Pisolyabut, Kathy Yeung The goal of this project is to design and implement an unmanned Aerial Imaging Robot (AIR).  The mission of this AIR is to fly to a designated point given by the GPS system. The AIR will carry a camera; and, using this camera pictures could be taken and be transmitted to the ground station as needed.  Also, the pictures taken could be saved in the internal memory of the AIR so that they can be transmitted to the ground station at later point in time. PC, PowerPoint,
11:30 9-429   Pulse Oxymeter   Phyllis R. Nelson Michael C-J Hwang, Chih-Cheng (Stanley) Chuang Design and build a pulse oxymeter using the sensor from an existing instrument. PC demo cart, Power Point