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# Title Team Members TA Documents Sponsor
6 E-music Performance System
Most Marketable Award
 Hans Banerjee
William Karcher
 Kevin Bassett appendix0.pdf
design_document0.document
final_paper0.pdf
other0.zip
presentation0.pdf
proposal0.pdf
We plan to create a specialized e-reader and separate director's remote control for the purposes of a music ensemble. Printing costs for a large marching band get out of control, and managing a large repertoire of sheet music can be difficult for a performer in a marching band setting. An e-reader suited for the marching band would tackle both of these problems; no printing and the ability to easily and quickly manage a large amount of music. Also, it can be hard to hear a conductor's commands during a loud sporting event. Commands to turn to a specific page, or to play louder or softer can often be difficult to audibly convey, and would be easier to interpret if they were visual. These functions can be implemented into the device, making it more than just an e-reader and more of a complete e-music-performance system.

NOTE: File 1 is a ZIP file containing all the code executed by the Cypress PSoC microprocessor in our reader unit.

Amphibious Spherical Explorer

Kaiwen Chen, Junhao Su, Zhong Tan

Amphibious Spherical Explorer

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The amphibious spherical explorer (ASE) is a spherical robot for home monitoring, outdoor adventure or hazardous environment surveillance. Due to the unique shape of the robot, ASE can travel across land, dessert, swamp or even water by itself, or be casted by other devices (e.g. slingshot) to the mission area. ASE has a motion-sensing system based on Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and rotary magnetic encoder, which allows the internal controller to adjust its speed and attitude properly. The well-designed control system makes the robot free of visible wobbliness when it is taking actions like acceleration, deceleration, turning and rest. ASE is also a platform for research on control system design. The parameters of the internal controller can be assigned by an external control panel in computer based on MATLAB Graphic User Interface (GUI) which communicates with the robot via a WiFi network generated by the robot. The response of the robot can be recorded and sent back to the control panel for further analysis. This project is completely open-sourced. People who are interested in the robot can continue this project for more interesting features, such as adding camera for real-time surveillance, or controller design based on machine learning.

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