Seminar Series 2014 - BIC Student Projects

Work in Progress Presentations

22, Jul, 2014 11:00-12:30 (1 hour, 30 minutes)
CISTER, Porto, Portugal

In this session a brief summary of current work of each BIC Student Teams will be presented.

1) Reading in Motion

Realtime environment monitoring is required to quickly address issues of pollution of noise, air, water and land. This is especially important in an urban scenario for situational awareness and improved decision making. Current air pollutant sensors are in fixed locations and away from critical places. Our aim is to make a modular UV-based system capable of autonomously taking environmental measurements at different localities and transmit this data in real time.

by Marco Rodrigues (ISEP) and Miguel Sandim (FEUP) oriented by Raghuraman Rangarajan and Vikram Gupta

2) Vision Feedback to Control 3D Motion

Quadcopters provide easy and affordable 3D movement capabilities and enable new robotic tasks. However controlling the position in space of a device with adequate accuracy is a challenge. In this project computer vision is used to provide real-time position feedback and enable simple control in the 3D space of the quadcopter. The target application is an plotter-like demonstration where the quadcopter can draw paths on a vertical wall without human assistance.

by Dalila Lima (FEUP) and Nuno Almeida (ISEP) oriented by Filipe Pacheco and Shashank Gaur

3) Tele-presence robot

Conventional video-conference systems although very useful allow for limited interaction. In this project, we combine a video-conference system with a wifibot to allow for a more interactive experience. Our goal is to allow a user to roam around a remote place and interact with remote users via a video-conference system, e.g. to remotely assist in lab work.

by Joao Pacheco (ISEP) and Paula Fortuna (FEUP) oriented by Pedro Souto and Ricardo Severino

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