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Lawn Buddy, Jayson Johnston, Andrew Brown, Jacob Maljian
Lawn Buddy, Jayson Johnston, Andrew Brown, Jacob Maljian
Electrical Engineering
Grass lawns are a common hallmark of the American home. In 2019, a survey from the National Association of Landscape Professionals found that 81% of all Americans owned a lawn [1]. Mowing is a time consuming and costly chore that is part of maintaining a grass lawn. The manual labor in mowing a lawn can exceed 40 hours per year [2]. People commonly incur weekly costs on mowing services to save time. Traditional gas powered mowers are physically demanding and use engines that need routine maintenance. They operate loudly enough that users should be wearing hearing protection and the noise …
Pinpoint: Location Beacon And Tracking, Ezequiel Lopez Iii
Pinpoint: Location Beacon And Tracking, Ezequiel Lopez Iii
Computer Engineering
The purpose of Pinpoint was to create a device that can collect and transmit location information for multiple users on a wireless network. The device would be used to keep track of and communicate with other users nearby. The final design includes a touchscreen display as a graphical user interface (GUI), an XBee RF module for wireless networking, a GPS receiver for location tracking, and a Programmable System on a Chip (PSoC) to control the modules.
Motohud: Intelligent And Safe Navigational Data Presentation For Motorcyclists, Drew Bentz, William Budney
Motohud: Intelligent And Safe Navigational Data Presentation For Motorcyclists, Drew Bentz, William Budney
Computer Engineering
The system uses a GPS (Global Positioning System) sensor, Bluetooth modem, and OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen to display navigational information to a motorcycle rider. Currently supported navigational information are speed and heading, with a framework in place for future turn-by-turn navigation. The system is powered by a lithium-ion battery pack and controlled by an Arduino Micro. For turn-by-turn navigation, an Android powered smartphone running our Android App is required. Our system aims to reduce safety hazards from having to tilt or move one’s head when trying to view speed on a motorcycle speedometer, which is usually mounted down by …
General Direction Routing Protocol, Sean Michael Lydon
General Direction Routing Protocol, Sean Michael Lydon
Master's Theses
The General Direction Routing Protocol (GDRP) is a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
multi-path routing protocol which abstracts localization information (commonly GPS
coordinates) into relative direction information in order to perform routing decisions. By
generating relative direction information GDRP is able to operate with fewer precision
requirements than other protocols. This abstraction also allows the integration of other emerging
hardware-based localization techniques, for example, Beamforming Sensor Arrays.
GDRP does not specifically address the next hop a packet should take, but instead specifies a
direction it should travel. This direction abstraction allows for multiple paths to be taken through
the network thus …