Project

# Title Team Members TA Documents Sponsor
17 Machine Vision-Based Intelligent Fruit and Vegetable Picking & Sorting Robotic Arm
 Fengyi Jin
Shengyu Xu
Simeng Yan
Wenye Zhang
# Problem
In agricultural production, the classification of produce (e.g., fruits and vegetables) based on dimensions or chromatic features is frequently required. Manual sorting is prone to error and incurs significant labor costs; conversely, a robotic arm specifically engineered for this task enables continuous 24-hour operation while substantially reducing operational expenses.

# Solution Overview
The robotic system leverages computer vision to recognize the size and color of workpieces, facilitating the real-time transfer of spatial coordinates and attribute data to the controller. The control architecture then drives the actuators to align the flexible end-effector with the target for autonomous grasping, followed by precise sorting into predefined areas based on the detected classifications.

# Conponents
## Robotic Arm
Composed of 4-6 motors and rigid arm.
Able to move the end effector to specific position
## Gripper
Penumatic Soft gripper with two fingers to grip objects without harm
## Machine Vision System
Recognize object, category and send object position
## Control unit
Get object position from vision system.
Control robotic arm to certain position.
Control gripper to grip.

# Criteria of Success
Be able to category according to color or size.
Be able to grasp and put objects to certain areas according to their categories.

Logic Circuit Teaching Board

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Partners: Younas Abdul Salam, Andrzej Borzecki, David Lee

The proposal our group has is of creating a board that will be able to teach students about logic circuits hands on. The project will consist of a board and different pieces that represent gates. The board will be used to plug in the pieces and provide power to the internal circuitry of the pieces. The pieces will have a gate and LEDs inside, which will be used to represent the logic at the different terminals.

By plugging in and combining gates, students will be able to see the actual effect on logic from the different combinations that they make. To add to it, we will add a truth table that can be used to represent inputs and outputs required, for example, for a class project or challenge. The board will be able to read the truth table and determine whether the logic the student has created is correct.

This board can act as a great learning source for students to understand the working of logic circuits. It can be helpful in teaching logic design to students in high schools who are interested in pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering.

Please comment on whether the project is good enough to be approved, and if there are any suggestions.

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