The goal of our project was to design and develop an open-source low-cost humanoid robot that would benefit four different fields: education, research/academia, consumer electronics, and extreme environments. By combing the hardware and software together, the humanoid robot was constructed. It has the capabilities to recognize voice commands, process text-to-speech, have interactive facial expressions, recognize faces and colored objects, and have 18 degrees of freedom. On top of that, we have a Bluetooth module integrated with a Bluetooth Android application that allows the user to preset commands and directly interact with the robot.

The task was to build a full flight simulator prototype and duplicate an aircraft’s mechanical features, its environment and its motion. This small-scale prototype of an aircraft was to sit on a platform, which would mimic the actions of the FlightGear Simulator in real time. These moves include roll, pitch, and yaw. The simulator was to also emulate flight controls, such as ailerons, elevators, and rudder. It's also using a motor to help show g-force.

The objective of this project is the creation of a fully autonomous electric vehicle for use in construction and factory environments. The significance of this goal is that it allows for unmanned transportation of materials and merchandise. Technical challenges of this project include object detection, path planning algorithms, and control systems. Our project combines complex software algorithms, hardware interfacing, and communication systems to achieve the desired results. This project relates to many important topics in electrical engineering including control systems, intelligent transportation systems, real time decision making, and sensing.

Remote Control Search and Rescue Car (RCSR) is widely influenced by deployable military drones aimed for search and rescue in a first responder setting. The use case of this item is heavily based on deployment of a drone capable of detecting the consciousness level of a person and sending back the data to a local control server. This allows first responders to locate persons in need with a sense of priority. The designed Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) is capable of identifying persons and their consciousness state and send it back to the server to either map their location or lead them back to the area of deployment.

This system is a stand-alone flight computer and radio pair for small satellite missions, as well as an accompanying ground station. It is designed to be integrated into the standard CubeSat form factor but is not limited to CubeSats, and has an estimated maximum reference mission of a 1000 km orbit. This system enables small satellite development teams to reduce their engineering time costs and focus more on their mission payload. This also enables more people to get into spacecraft development as it lowers the monetary cost of entry and the complexity of building a completely new satellite system. This system has performance and design targets that enable teams to use this system for a variety of missions. The system can downlink telemetry collected from a suite of onboard sensors at a minimum refresh rate of 2 Hz and downlink images taken from an onboard camera at a minimum data rate of 16 kbaud. The flight computer provides ample expansion opportunities for other systems that teams may want to integrate onto their satellite that include serial communication buses, ADCs and DACs, GPIO signals, and voltage rails. This system is able to regulate its own voltage rails, decreasing the dependence on a complicated and discrete power board, and consumes under 10 W under maximum load. This system features two radios, one omnidirectional antenna operating in the UHF band and one directional antenna operating in the S-band. This enables telemetry downlink in any satellite orientation and image downlink when the satellite is pointing at the ground station. This system also features a suite of sensors, including temperature sensing, acceleration sensing, gyroscopic rate sensing, and magnetic field strength sensing to enable the spacecraft to determine, correct, and downlink its spatial orientation, as well as detect hardware faults. It also features a camera which can be used for sun pointing maneuvers or to take pictures of the Earth.

This project is a Rubik’s Cube solving machine. It will take a 3x3 Rubik’s Cube with any scramble and solve it automatically. The machine does so by using one camera as input, and controls a cube with five stepper motors.

The advent of 3D-printing has allowed for cheap manufacturing of custom components without the need for large overhead costs such as creating manufacturing processes or keeping stock inventory since 3D printing can create complex parts with on-demand printing. However, post-printing assembling can still take a significant amount of human labor. The objective of this project was to create a single module of a larger automation process for micro manufacturing. The specific task this module would complete is the of partially assembling a sleeping pad inflator using a custom Selective Compliance Articulated Robot Arm (SCARA) for part translation, a jig press for snapping two parts together, and a computer vision process to verify no defective parts are passed off to the next process. This module was built with the intention that it could be easily repurposed for the assembly of other small arbitrary components.