Project tag: Robotics and systems

The goal of this project is to expand the RoboPhone application that was developed by Ofer Danino and Ashraf Kattoura. The RoboPhone app can access various smartphone sensors like camera, gyroscope, accelerometer sensor etc. In addition, the app has plenty of virtual sensors like Leds, Thumb Toggle etc. The extension (our project) is to adding capability to the RoboPhone app in which it has a branch for writing a code...

In this work we produced a robot with 6 legs, who’s propose is to be able to pass through any terrain. Each leg is driven by a motor, and so the legs are independent from one another. The robot is driven by ESP32, which was chosen as it has multiple cores, many PWM GPIOs and both WiFi and Bluetooth capabilities. The robot has 5 different states: stand up, walk, turn...

This project is all about developing a control algorithm, which will allow a given quadcopter with a camera and ROS support to execute the following stages: Takeoff, identifying it’s position relatively to a window shaped obstacle, correcting it’s position error, going through the obstacle, turn around (180 degrees), fly back through the obstacle and land. The algorithm was developed in python. In this project, we have implemented an image processing...

Our project focuses on indoor positioning, where no GPS signals can be used. Due to the width of this subject, we limited ourselves to deal only with a specific method of positioning, namely – image processing, and to try to enhance performance only in terms of accuracy and speed (and not, for example, coverage as much space as possible, accessibility and ability to be implemented in various of places or...

OVERVIEW: In recent years, demand has increased for non-GPS means of self-location, employing output from inexpensive sensors. This is because GPS signals are easily disrupted. This project will be based upon output from BNO055 sensor, manufactured by Bosch. The sensor contains gyroscopes and accelerometers on three axes, which calculate bearings relative to true north as well as Euler angles. Sensor output is fed directly into computer via USB connection and...

Vayyar, an Israeli startup company released an RF waves based sensor that can connect to Windows and Linux operating systems. The sensor can connect to either a computer, a phone or a Raspberry PI. This sensor can scan an environment that is close to it and map it. In addition it can recognize objects around it’s environment and their movements. Since the sensor uses RF waves, it can see through...

An inertial measurement unit (IMU) typically has three accelerometers and three gyroscopes. The output of those inertial sensors is used by the inertial navigation system to calculate the navigation solution. Since the sensor measurements contain noise, the navigation solution drifts over time. When considering low cost sensors, multiple IMUs can be used to improve the performance of a single unit. In this paper, we describe our designed 32 multi-IMU (MIMU)...

This project is a part of two projects aimed to implement and validate the paper by D. Segal, A. Bar-Gill and N. Shimkin – Max-Range Glides in Engine Cutoff Emergencies Under Severe Wind. The system includes a real-time software which produce instructions according to an airplane’s parameters inputs and determines the best place to land. The objective of this work is to create the user-side program which uses the algorithm...

Engine cutoff is a recurring emergency in General Aviation, such mishaps can be caused by an engine malfunction, improper aircraft maintenance or even a faulty fuel gauge Our main goal was to develop a system that generates cues, which should enable the pilot to track the trajectory, leading to a safe landing strip The cues depend on height, location, velocity and wind estimation and the best landing site (manually advanced...

As part of the formula project we will develop an autonomous driving system for a driverless racing car, the first stage will make use in Monocular camera so in the first lap we will be able to create a map of the cones which describe the lap borders, based upon this map another team will create the driving path. In addition the system will provide the car’s location in the...

Drones are currently in widespread usage, due to their low price, ease of use, practicality, and suitability for many different tasks.  Since most of drones’ tasks include navigation, autonomous camera-based navigation system has become a fundamental feature that is required by all drones. In this project we check the possibility of implementing autonomous tracking system to control the navigation of a simple drone equipped with a camera (model JJRC ELFIE...

Drones are currently in widespread usage, due to their low price, ease of use, practicality, and suitability for many different tasks.  Since most of drones’ tasks include navigation, autonomous camera-based navigation system has become a fundamental feature that is required by all drones. In this project we check the possibility of implementing autonomous tracking system to control the navigation of a simple drone equipped with a camera (model JJRC ELFIE...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is upon us. Sensors and embedded devices in automobiles, phones, watches, supermarkets, homes, roads and bridges, appliances, industrial and farm equipment, and even wearable technology are already making new kinds of information available and changing the way information is produced, consumed, and experienced. IoT obviously represents a great opportunity for advances in information analysis. The connections between IoT and data storage and processing as well...

This project is a two-part project where we designed and a build a prevention system for forgetting children in a vehicle. The system is based on a few sensors and a Raspberry Pi as the controller/brain. The system has an IR sensor that detects whether it can see a child in its frame or not, and based on a machine learning algorithm (Convolutional Nueral Network) makes its decision. Once the...

The project deals with the integration of a smartphone, a LEGO kit and a personal computer. Adding the smartphone to this kit means adding more functionalities beyond what LEGO provides. In the project we present a research of various topologies and different approaches (offline and online) to implement the system in the most effective way, overcoming the limitations such as slow data exchange rate which is the bottleneck between the...

בשיתוף עם חברת startup המפתחת מערכת נחיה לעיוורים, נעבוד על יישום אלגוריתם לזיהוי עצמים במרחב. המערכת תתבסס על מצלמת תלת-ממד וזיהוי העצמים יתבצע בשיטות של למידה חישובית. הפרויקט יכלול מיפוי תלת ממדי (חלקי או מלא) של הסביבה, רשת נוירונים לטובת סגמנטציה וסיווג של מספר עצמים נפוצים ולבסוף הערכת מיקום המצלמה על סמך העצמים שזוהו.

בפרויקט זה נממש מערכת ניווט אינרציאלית מבוססת מדי תאוצה בלבד (ללא gyro כמוקבל)  על רובוט קרקעי לצורך ניווט בתוך ומחוץ למבנה. לצורך כך נשתמש במספר מערכות אינרציאליות לתכנון הארכיטקטורה של מערכת הניווט. בכדי לשפר את ביצועי הניווט נעזר במדידים נוספים על הרובוט ונבצע היתוך מידע בין המדידים בעזרת משערך לא ליניארי. מוטיבציה – יצירת מערכת ניווט אינרציאלית זולה עם ביצועי ניווט סבירים לניווט לפרקי זמן קצרים. הפרויקט יתמקד בהיתוך מידע בין מערכת ניווט...

כוונון גיטרה אקוסטית נעשה מדי יום על ידי כל גיטריסט, דבר מייגע עבור הגיטריסט המנוסה וקשה עבור מתלמד. המשימה דורשת ידע טכני ומיומנות.  אוטומציה של תהליך הכוונון יכול לעזור לגיטריסטים מתחילים ולהקל על גיטריסטים מנוסים, ללא צורך במיומנות טכנית הפרויקט המוצע  הוא בנייה של מערכת רובוטית שתורכב על הגיטרה  ותכוונן את הגיטרה תוך שימוש בחיישני רטט פייזו-חשמליים שמידע מהם יוזן לאלגוריתמי סינון וזיהוי תדר.  עבודת הכנה בנושא זיהוי התדר בוצעה בפרויקט קודם, ובפרויקט זה...

מערכות לניווט הולכי רגל במתחמים סגורים כגון קניונים, שדות תעופה, סופרמרקטים  מוזיאונים ועוד, מנסות לחשב את מיקומו המדויק של אדם נושא  Smartphone על סמך נתוני המדידים בטלפון.  בפרויקט זה נפתח ונממש אלגוריתם להיתוך מידע בין שתי מערכות חיישנים לבישות אשר ממוקמות במקומות שונים על הגוף וזאת לצורך שיפור ביצועי ניווט של הולך רגל בתוך ומחוץ למבנה.

The goal of this project is to develop a robot that, based on a face image of a person, can draw a portrait of the person. In part A of this project (in SIPL), the face image will be converted to a set of sketches and a representative subset of these sketches will be selected and sorted. In part B of the project (optional, in CRML), a drawing robotic hand...

מכשירי השמיעה האיכותיים הקיימים בשוק יקרים מאוד וקשה לאדם חרש לרכוש אותם.  בפרויקט זה נפתח מכשיר שמיעה איכותי העושה שימוש במיקרו בקר זול במטרה לפתח מכשיר זול הכולל את התכונות של מכשירי שמיעה הנפוצים בשוק.