Sponsors

Aili Wang

Sponsored Projects

  • Touch Controlled Programmable DC Power Supply Circuit (Spring 2024)
  • Mask Detection System (Spring 2021)
  • simplified device for fasteners counter (Spring 2021)

Binbin Li

Sponsored Projects

  • A climbing robot for building 3d printed concrete wall (Spring 2024)
  • MEMS-based Feedback Controller (Spring 2023)

Chushan Li

Sponsored Projects

  • Autonomous Transport Car (Spring 2024)
  • Wireless Fast Charging Autonomous Car (Spring 2024)
  • Digital Controlled LED Rotating Display System (Spring 2023)
  • Digital Design Tool for Magnetic and Thermal Components (Spring 2022)
  • Digital design tool for power converters (Spring 2022)
  • A MULTICORE ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT CONTROL SYSTEM (Spring 2021)
  • A novel hanging remote door opener (Spring 2021)

Cristoforo Dimartino

Sponsored Projects

  • ML-based Weather Forecast on Raspberry Pi (Spring 2023)

Fangwei Shao

Sponsored Projects

  • Clickers For ZJUI Undergraduate Mk Ⅱ (Spring 2024)

Gaoang Wang

Sponsored Projects

  • Visual chatting and Real-time acting Robot (Spring 2024)
  • Dancing Scoring Robot (Spring 2023)
  • Raspberry Pet Pal (Spring 2023)
  • Robot for Gym Exercise Guidance (Spring 2023)
  • A Deep Learning Based Paradigm in 3D Human Pose Detection and Estimation in Multi-View Videos (Spring 2021)
  • A Wearable Device Outputting Scene Text For Blind People (Spring 2021)
  • Radar Object Detection Model for Autonomous Driving (Spring 2021)

Hongwei Wang

Sponsored Projects

  • Project Polaris: An Air and Ground Autonomous Collaboration System (Spring 2022)
  • An EMG-Controlled Robotic Glove for Rehabilitation (Spring 2021)
  • An Indoor Human Activity Detection System and Intelligent Buildings (Spring 2021)
  • Drone-SUGV Cooperative System (Spring 2021)

Howard Yang

Sponsored Projects

  • Search and Identify (Spring 2024)
  • Recommend songs by your mood (Spring 2022)

Huan Hu

Sponsored Projects

  • Bird-Watching Telescope with Real-Time Bird Identification (Spring 2024)
  • Privacy-protected Elderly monitoring system: Wi-Fi and wearable sensors (Spring 2024)
  • Virtual Band (Spring 2024)
  • Miniaturized Breath Sensors (Spring 2022)
  • Health Monitoring System Based on Radar Fall Motion Detection (Spring 2021)

Jiahuan Cui

Sponsored Projects

  • Drone Delivery System for Takeaway Business (Spring 2024)
  • eVTOL Drone (Spring 2024)
  • Movable Robotic Arm Platform (Spring 2024)
  • Electromagnetic Launch System with Switchblade Drone (Spring 2023)
  • Fixed wing drone with auto-navigation (Spring 2023)
  • VTOL Drone with Only Two Propellers (Spring 2023)
  • Fixed-wing rescue UAV (Spring 2022)
  • An Engineering Solution to Auto Chess Set (Spring 2021)
  • Design, manufacture, and control system development for fixed wing drone (Spring 2021)

Kemal Celebi

Sponsored Projects

  • Continuous Roll-To-Roll LB Film Deposition Machine (Spring 2024)
  • Miniterized Langmuir Blodgett Trough (Spring 2023)
  • Interfacial nanocoater (Spring 2022)

Liangjing Yang

Sponsored Projects

  • Airport Baggage Robot (Spring 2024)
  • Supernumerary Robotic Limbs (Spring 2024)
  • An immersive human-driven robot detecting foreign matter in tubes (Spring 2023)
  • An Intelligent Assistant Using Sign Language (Spring 2023)
  • MassageMate: Smart Robot Masseur (Spring 2023)
  • Remote Driving System (Spring 2023)
  • Haptic Device (Spring 2022)
  • Intelligent Texas Hold 'Em Robot (Spring 2022)
  • X-reality interface for human-robot interaction (Spring 2022)
  • Camera-based Augmented Reality Endoscope Auxiliary System (Spring 2021)
  • Keebot, a humanoid robot performing 3D pose imitation (Spring 2021)

Lin Qiu

Sponsored Projects

  • Smart Power Routing with MPPT-Based Wind Turbine (Spring 2024)
  • High-renewable microgrid for Railway Power Conditioner(RPC) (Spring 2023)
  • Microgrids (Spring 2023)

Mark Butala

Sponsored Projects

  • Seat U: Sensing System for Real-time Library Seat Occupation Detection (Spring 2021)
  • Wireless Charging Table Supporting Multiple Devices with Arbitrary Placement (Spring 2021)

Meng Zhang

Sponsored Projects

  • Automated IC Card Dispenser System for Residential College (Spring 2024)
  • Fingerprint Recognition Door Lock (Spring 2024)
  • VEHICULAR EDGE COMPUTING SYSTEM (Spring 2024)
  • Robot Vacuum (Spring 2023)
  • Semantic Communications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Spring 2023)

Olesksiy Penkov

Sponsored Projects

  • A Micro-Tribotester to Characterize the Wear Phenomenon (Spring 2021)

Pavel Loskot

Sponsored Projects

  • 3D model of a satellite footprint over the Earth (Spring 2024)
  • Arduino-Powered Network Flow Visualization Toolbox (Spring 2024)
  • Display for ODEs (Spring 2024)
  • Submarine Model (Spring 2024)
  • 3D Scanner (Spring 2023)
  • Remote Robot Car Control System with RGBD Camera for 3D Reconstruction (Spring 2023)
  • Thermo-Camera Based Energy Consumption Monitoring System (Spring 2023)
  • Authentication System for SARS-CoV-2 Management (Spring 2022)
  • Identification and tracking of UAVs (Spring 2022)
  • A Multiple Sensors Human Movement Detection Framework for Interactive Games and Applications (Spring 2021)

Rakesh Kumar

Sponsored Projects

  • A Transformer (Spring 2023)
  • An Autonomous Pool Cleaner (Spring 2023)
  • Augmenting AR/VR with Smell (Spring 2023)

Ruisheng Diao

Sponsored Projects

  • Advanced Modeling and Display of ZJU International Campus Power System (Spring 2024)
  • Electric Load Forecasting (ELF) System (Spring 2023)

Shurun Tan

Sponsored Projects

  • A micro-penetrometer for snow and soil structural analysis (Spring 2024)
  • Image acquisition, 3D reconstruction and a visual interactive digital heritage system (Spring 2024)
  • A Direct Digitally Modulated Wireless Communication System (Spring 2023)
  • A mm-Wave Breath Monitoring System for Smart Vehicle Applications (Spring 2023)
  • UAV-borne SAR, InSAR, and TomoSAR System (Spring 2022)
  • Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for Electromagnetics Education (Spring 2021)
  • Auto Model Navigation with SNN Prototype on FPGA (Spring 2021)
  • Integrated Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing System on UAV (Spring 2021)

Simon Hu

Sponsored Projects

  • Campus Tour Guide by AI-Powered Autonomous System (Spring 2024)
  • Digital Twin Bridge Monitoring System (Spring 2024)
  • V2V Based Network Cooperative Control System (Spring 2023)
  • Low-cost sensor for seamless road quality monitoring (Spring 2022)
  • Smart and Connected Traffic Light With Autonomous Vehicle (Spring 2022)
  • A crowd-sourcing urban air quality monitoring system with bikes (Spring 2021)

Timothy Lee

Sponsored Projects

  • AR Sandbox (Spring 2024)
  • Particle Image Velocimetry (Spring 2024)
  • Robotic T-shirt Launcher Mark III (Spring 2024)
  • Smart Power Routing (Spring 2024)
  • Laser System to Shoot Down Mosquitos (Spring 2023)
  • Clickers for ZJUI Undergraduate (Spring 2023)
  • High Noon Sheriff Robot (Spring 2023)
  • Observation Balloon For Testing Centers (Spring 2023)
  • Robotic T-Shirt Launcher Mark II (Spring 2023)
  • Tea Blend Distributor (Spring 2023)
  • Autonomous Food Delivery Robot (Spring 2022)
  • Camera Shy (Spring 2022)
  • Directed fan (Spring 2022)
  • Fountain show (Spring 2022)
  • High-precision handwriting reader (Spring 2022)
  • Mimicry Stage Lighting Control System (Spring 2022)
  • Movable Pizza Oven (Spring 2022)
  • Personalized information display mirror (Spring 2022)
  • Robotic T-shirt launcher (Spring 2022)
  • Unified model for flash boiling of binary mixtures (Spring 2022)

Wee-Liat Ong

Sponsored Projects

  • intelligent robot arm (Spring 2024)
  • Teaching Heat to Student (Spring 2024)
  • A Desktop-Size Environment-Controlled Greenhouse for Multi-Variable Optimization of Crop Growth (Spring 2023)
  • Smartphone-based Fluorescence Microscope (Spring 2023)
  • Desktop-size Environment-controlled Greenhouse for Soilless Cultivation of Lettuce (Spring 2022)

Wenchao Chen

Xiao Yan

Xuguang Wang

Sponsored Projects

  • Smart Refrigerator Inventory Add-on Unit (Spring 2022)

Yang Xu

Sponsored Projects

  • Sensor-based Automatic Delivery Vehicle (Spring 2021)

Yu Lin

Sponsored Projects

  • Automated Chinese Traditional Chimes with Song (Spring 2024)
  • Intelligent fire protection ecosystem (Spring 2024)
  • Smart Laundry FoldBot (Spring 2024)

Yushi Cheng

Sponsored Projects

  • Epicast: Augmented Board Game (Spring 2024)

Zuozhu Liu

Sponsored Projects

  • Dental Health Monitoring System (Spring 2023)
  • 3D Oral Scan Teeth Model Segmentation Using Deep Learning (Spring 2021)
  • Federated Learning with Medical Data (Spring 2021)
  • Unsupervised Representation Learning in 3D Medical Image (Spring 2021)

Said Mikki

Sponsor

Sponsored Projects

  • Automated Pour-over Coffee Machine with Imitation Learning (Spring 2024)
  • A Wearable Device That Can Detect Mood (Spring 2024)
  • Actions to Mosquitoes (Spring 2024)
  • Automatic Intelligent Fishing Pod (Spring 2024)
  • FPGA-based object tracking, obstacle avoidance, and voice-activated trolley (Spring 2023)
  • Autonomous Behavior Supervisor (Spring 2022)
  • InWhat: An Intelligent System for Wardrobe (Spring 2022)

Control System and User Interface for Hydraulic Bike

Featured Project

Parker-Hannifin, a fluid power systems company, hosts an annual competition for the design of a chainless bicycle. A MechSE senior design team of mechanical engineers have created a hydraulic circuit with electromechanical valves, but need a control system, user interface, and electrical power for their system. The user would be able to choose between several operating modes (fluid paths), listed at the end.

My solution to this problem is a custom-designed control system and user interface. Based on sensor feedback and user inputs, the system would change operating modes (fluid paths). Additionally, the system could be improved to suggest the best operating mode by implementing a PI or PID controller. The system would not change modes without user interaction due to safety - previous years' bicycles have gone faster than 20mph.

Previous approaches to this problem have usually not included an electrical engineer. As a result, several teams have historically used commercially-available systems such as Parker's IQAN system (link below) or discrete logic due to a lack of technical knowledge (link below). Apart from these two examples, very little public documentation exists on the electrical control systems used by previous competitors, but I believe that designing a control system and user interface from scratch will be a unique and new approach to controlling the hydraulic system.

I am aiming for a 1-person team as there are 6 MechSE counterparts. I emailed Professor Carney on 10/3/14 and he thought the general concept was acceptable.

Operating modes, simplified:

Direct drive (rider's pedaling power goes directly to hydraulic motor)

Coasting (no power input, motor input and output "shorted")

Charge accumulators (store energy in expanding rubber balloons)

Discharge accumulators (use stored energy to supply power to motor)

Regenerative braking (use motor energy to charge accumulators)

Download Competition Specs: https://uofi.box.com/shared/static/gst4s78tcdmfnwpjmf9hkvuzlu8jf771.pdf

Team using IQAN system (top right corner): https://engineering.purdue.edu/ABE/InfoFor/CurrentStudents/SeniorProjects/2012/GeskeLamneckSparenbergEtAl

Team using discrete logic (page 19): http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/86206/ME450?sequence=1