Sponsor
NMSU/Industrial Engineering
Image recognition is a computer vision task that works to identify and categorize various elements of images. Image recognition models are trained to take an image as input and output one or more labels describing the image. In this project, with built-in algorithms on cloud-based AI platform, students submit their training data, select an algorithm and train an image classification model.
Sponsor
NMSU
New Mexico State University (NMSU) has begun to host the New Mexico Department of Health COVID-19 drive-through vaccination event on campus premise starting from Jan 8, 2021, and planned to play a major part in the NMDOH Covid-19 vaccination process. In an effort to aid the NMSU drive-through vaccination event, this project aims at developing a discrete-event simulation (DES) model that can help analyze the performance of the event process from systems engineering perspective. Therefore, it will ultimately provide a platform for decision-makers to make better decisions. During the mass vaccination operation, the DES model would certainly facilitate the NMSU vaccination event, especially when the frequency of the event would increase, and a larger number of people would need to be vaccinated.
Sponsor
NMSU
Mobile diagnostics has gained attention in environmental monitoring, agri-food sectors, and healthcare, which allows for rapid and point-of-care detection of toxins. The current methods for ensuring food safety rely on resource-intensive examination of chemicals and/or pathogens. In remote areas, however, resources are scarce and sophisticated analysis is often difficult. The ubiquitous availability of smartphones enables a broad accessibility in remote or rural regions. Smartphones are equipped with numerous components that can be employed for measurement and detection, such as a fast processor, digital camera, visual display and user interface. Students will develop a smartphone-based mobile diagnostic platform for food analysis by augmenting a smartphone by other accessories.
Sponsor
NMSU
People with severe physical disabilities often feel that the essence of who they are is trapped inside their bodies. The goal of this project is to design and construct an apparatus that allows people with quadriplegia to feed themselves.
Sponsor
CoCoTaHS
CoCoTaHS is a community of volunteers who take daily rainfall recording at a national level. Currently, manual gauges are being used to keep track of recordings and must be manually uploaded to a database for the national weather service. This method only allows for rain collection to take place within city limits, but the need for data in rural areas is just as important. Through this project, students will develop a new method for measuring the amount of liquid precipitation over an area and emptying the rain gauge container, and sending measurement data to the central database using the internet.
Sponsor
NMSU
The cold chain ensures that perishable products are safe and of high quality at the point of consumption. Failing to keep product at the correct temperatures can result in textural degradation, discoloring, bruising, and microbial growth. A high-quality cold chain allows health workers to deliver life-savings vaccines safety (e.g., Covid-19 vaccine). With Internet of Things (IoT)-based cold chain monitoring systems, this issue can be handled in real time, with an entire infrastructure reacting as a single unit.
Sponsor
General Dynamics Mission Systems
With the global introduction of the “Internet of Things” (IoT), sensors and controllers with a variety of capabilities are being utilized. There are multiple classes of sensors (acoustic, pressure flow, light, etc.) and many more manufacturers within a sensor class. In order to validate that the performance is consistent within a sensor class given the variety of suppliers and technologies, output is collected from running the various test scenarios (injecting the same input, and comparing the results for consistency); the vendor-specific log files are collected and the results compared.
This project team will be two-phased: one semester for ideation and developing the characterization needed to downselect a sensor system; second semester to design and fabricate a sensor and controller system.
Sponsor
NMSU
People with severe physical disabilities often feel that the essence of who they are is trapped inside their bodies. The goal of this project is to design and construct an apparatus that allows people with quadriplegia to paint on a canvas.
Sponsor
NMSU
By 2050, the global population is estimated to grow from 7.8 billion to 9.7 billion, requiring a 70% increase in global food production. With finite arable land, water, and energy resources, there is a critical need for new technologies and innovations to improve the efficiency of food production. Precision farming seeks to use new technologies to increase crop yields and profitability while lowering the levels of traditional inputs needed to grow crops (land, water, fertilizer, herbicides, and insecticides). In this research two different technologies, the Internet of things (IoT) and the wireless sensor network are combined in an innovative way for smart remote monitoring systems of crops. Sensor nodes are deployed in fields that gather data about different environmental parameters.
Sponsor
NMSU
The goal of this project is to create a method to retrofit a commercial 3D FDM printer with non‐intrusive, readily available acoustic sensors. A small on-board computer with Python software and cloud tools will be used to analyze the sensor data in order to detect abnormal operating conditions of the printer and alert the user if necessary.
Sponsor
NMSU
Pioneer 3 is a small lightweight differential drive robot ideal for indoor laboratory or classroom use. The robot comes complete with front SONAR, one battery, wheel encoders, a microcontroller, etc. The Autonomous Systems Lab houses two Pioneer 3 robots which were purchased about 10 years ago. The goal of this project is to retrofit a Pioneer 3 robotic vehicle system with updated electronic components to replace the outdated system currently installed. The restored ground robot is expected to serve in various research projects for robot autonomy.
Sponsor
NMSU
The goal of this capstone project is to model and simulate the motion and operation of a 6-DOF robotic arm (e.g., UR3) for performing a series of tasks (e.g., grasp, pick-and-place of masa, pressing the tortilla press maker) related to the tortilla-making process.
