Auburn University Electrical and Computer Engineering
Spring 2017 Online Senior Design Fair
Student teams were instructed to prepare a 3 to 5 minute video representing their project.
Student teams were also instructed to respond to faculty questions promptly throughout the Interaction Period, which extends until Wednesday May 3 at noon. Please direct questions to the email address provided.
List of Projects
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1. SwimView 2.0 |
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2. Duck Commander Learning Environment |
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3. LED Chess Board |
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4. RFID Door Lock |
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5. Smart Table |
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6. ISM-Band UAV Disruptor System |
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7. Formula SAE Electric Powertrain |
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Subject: e-Power |
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8. Combustion Engine Test Stand |
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9. Smartphone Camera Stabilizer Gimbal |
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10. Substation Animal Intrusion Detection System |
Project 1 & 2 are supervised by Dr. Robert Dean. Projects 3 – 10 are supervised by Dr. Mark Halpin.
Detailed project descriptions follow. Some teams provided additional descriptions attached to their videos.
1. SwimView 2.0
Professor: Dr. Robert Dean Sponsor: AU Department of Kinesiology
Students:
Harrison Burch
Demetris Coleman
Avion Foreman
Jungihn Kim
Dustin Spencer
William Stewart
Nick Thompson
Description: SwimView is a robot that will benefit the Biomechanics Lab in the Department of Kinesiology at Auburn University and its efforts to train swimmers of all different skill levels. It has two modes of operation: manual and autonomous. An Xbox controller is used to operate manual functionality and switch between modes of operation.
2. Duck Commander Learning Environment
Professor: Dr. Robert Dean Sponsor: Duck Commander
Students:
• JP Cancilla
• Benjamin Cyr
• Mark Gallagher
• Matthew Mabrey
• Austin Mills
• Anna Pruitt
Description: Build an iOS app for the “Duck Commander: The Experience” exhibit to educate the public about waterfowl, wetland conservation, and challenge users on their waterfowl knowledge.
3. LED Chess Board
Professor: Dr. Mark Halpin
Students: Dennis Brown, Josh Freeman, Zezhou Wang
Description: The project we are going to create is a smart chess board designed primarily for beginners trying to learn the rules of the game. The game of chess can be very intimidating to learn at first, and we are trying to ease the burden that new players may face.
The chess is a board 8 by 8 with LED lighting underneath. Each time a player picks a piece from the board, the LEDs will highlight the move in green light. The player can put down the piece on one of the green positions as a legal move in his round.
4. RFID Door Lock
Professor: Dr. Mark Halpin
Students:
· Brandon Moseley
· Benjamin Reese
· William Vance
Description: Our project consists of a lock that is controlled by an RFID tag reader.
Whenever a valid tag is scanned, the lock opens for about 5 seconds before closing again. If an
invalid tag is read, a 5 second delay is triggered before a new tag may be read. The goal of this
project is to provide people with a more secure lock that is not easily breakable. There is no
lock to pick, and there is no way to create a copy of a key. The only way to gain access to the
lock is by receiving a valid tag from the owner.
5. Smart Table
Professor: Dr. Mark Halpin
Students: Zachary Bonaker, Alex Wright, Matthew Wyatt
Description: To pay homage to the growing “Internet of Things” market of smart devices in both the home and the workplace, our senior design project was the creation of a smart table. Our design is a proof of concept for creating a useful and easily connected workspace tool by integrating a minimal amount of different software and hardware components. The smart table is easily set up and interfaced with by any user using only a smart phone and internet connection and can automatically change its settings based on the user that is currently working on it. Due to medical complications of one of our team members, many features of our original design had to be cut back but we worked to complete the core concept functions that could be easily developed upon to serve a host of further functions.
6. UAV Disruptor System
Professor: Dr. Mark Halpin
Students:
· Trey Brooks
· David Orrison
· Sherman Peek
· Kevin Wozniak
Description: In this project we prove the ability of disrupting UAV performance using a 2.4 GHz signal. The goal was to understand and implement this disruption to prevent our UAV from flying and connecting. We will cover how the system operates and how we can improve and localize for future iterations of a similar project. We also will demonstrate our proficiency at using several lab instruments not used in the labs in our curriculum.
7. Formula SAE Electric Powertrain and Test System
Professor: Dr. Mark Halpin
Students: Michael Bassie, Chantz Embry, Ali Hashmi, Jacob Locke
Description: The Formula SAE Electric team is in the process of designing a new fully electric powertrain and need a way to complete, test, and verify its design. The solution is to develop and build a system to power the powertrain and to validate and tune the powertrain system. This “E-Dyno” will use the Dynojet chassis dyno as a load absorber and measurement instruments will be used to log data that would be able to generate representations such as torque curves, accelerations curves, and energy efficiency. With this data, the powertrain can be adjusted via the motor controllers for optimum performance or efficiency.
From left to right Michael Bassie, Jacob Locke, Chantz Embry, Ali Hashmi
8. Combustion Engine Test Stand
Professor: Dr. Mark Halpin
Students: Jonathan Ashworth, Lydia Herge
Description: This senior design project seeks to modify an existing combustion engine test stand, adding in-cylinder pressure measuring capability. The Auburn University Formula SAE Combustion (AUFSAE) team currently has an engine test stand which is used in the yearly development of the AUFSAE powertrain; however, this stand is not capable of measuring cylinder pressure, limiting the depth of combustion analysis. Adding in-cylinder pressure measurements would give AUFSAE engineers access to in-depth combustion analysis in real time. Finding a method to measure engine in-cylinder pressure without modifying the engine would allow the Formula SAE Combustion team to conduct combustion analysis on the engine used in the car with minimal hassle and cost.
9. Smartphone Camera Stabilizer Gimbal
Professor: Dr. Mark Halpin
Students:
• Kola Balogun
• Kendall Johnson
• Avery Rains
• Aaron Smith
• Kent Thrash
Description: Given the spring semester and limited budget for our senior design project, the team has collaborated and agreed to construct a handheld smartphone camera stabilizer. The gimbal will be marketed towards amateur videographers looking for professional quality at a low cost compared to current models in the market. This device is engineered and designed to correct the user’s involuntary movements or shaking of the smartphone camera while actively filming. By utilizing a micro-controller, the program composed will drive three brushless dc motors by way of real time data fed to the micro-controller from an inertial measurement unit (IMU). The three dc motors will forgive camera movement caused by the user. The motors will be placed orthogonally in respect to each other on a handheld frame to compensate for the roll, pitch, and yaw movements of the user’s smartphone, therefor minimizing movement in each of the three separate axes resulting in a smooth, controlled frame videoing experience.
Figure 1: Gimbel Structure including pitch and roll axis motors.
Microcontroller/handle in final stages of construction (not pictured).
10. Smart Substation Animal Intrusion Detection System
Professor: Dr. Mark Halpin Sponsor: Florida Power and Light
Students: Maxwell Butler, Kevin Namey, Stephen Oliver, Trevor Petski
Description: Our group has inherited a project assigned by Florida Power & Light that requires an animal intrusion detection system which will notify them whenever animals get into their substations.
With an improved FLIR thermal camera, we seek to progress the previous design and create
an email notification system whenever the new camera's alarm is triggered.
