Capstone and senior design project ideas for undergraduate and graduate students to gain practical experience and insight into technology trends and industry directions.
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This is a list of inspiring projects based on industry trends for your capstone, senior design project, or final year assignment. These projects help you learn about technology trends while becoming an important and valued contributor to the advancement of technical computing and Model-Based Design with MATLAB and Simulink. Even more, you gain official recognition for your problem-solving skills from technology leaders at MathWorks.
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Predict faults in pneumatic systems using simulation and AI/machine learning.
Impact: Improve efficiency and reliability of industrial processes.
Expertise gained: Artificial Intelligence, Industry 4.0, Cyber-Physical Systems, Digital Twins, Embedded AI, Health Monitoring, IoT, Machine Learning, Modeling and Simulation
Design and implement a motion planning algorithm for off-road vehicles on rough terrain.
Impact: Expand the frontiers of off-road exploration and navigation using mobile robots for precision agriculture, firefighting, search and rescue, and planetary exploration.
Implement Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) algorithm for closed-loop speed control system for a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM).
Impact: Improve the customer experience with advanced control strategies to handle the sudden changes in the load with better dynamic control performance.
Leverage a deep learning approach to extract behavioral models of mixed-signal systems from measurement data and circuit simulation.
Impact: Accelerate mixed-signal design and analysis thereby reducing Time-To-Market for semiconductor companies.
Expertise gained: Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Modeling and Simulation, Neural Networks, RF and Mixed Signal, Optimization, Signal Processing
Improve performance, stability, and cost effectiveness of data centers by designing a cooling algorithm that keeps the system running as efficiently as possible.
Impact: Contribute to the performance, reliability, and efficiency of data centers worldwide.
Expertise gained: Big Data, Sustainability and Renewable Energy, Cloud Computing, Control, Deep Learning, Modeling and Simulation, Parallel Computing, Predictive Maintenance
Develop a deep learning neural network for audio background noise suppression.
Impact: Advance hearing aid technology through research in speech enhancement and noise suppression and improve the quality of life of persons with a hearing impairment.
Expertise gained: Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Signal Processing
Design a 3D virtual environment to test the diverse conditions needed to develop an autonomous vehicle.
Impact: Contribute to autonomous vehicle development by creating virtual test scenes that can be used with many simulators across multiple vehicle development programs.
Expertise gained: Autonomous Vehicles, Automotive, Modeling and Simulation
Realistic synthetic sensor data will soon eliminate the need of collecting tons of real data for machine learning based perception algorithms. Accelerate this transition by creating a real-time camera distortion model.
Impact: Reduce development efforts of autonomous vehicles and robots.
Expertise gained: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Modeling and Simulation, Neural Networks
Help accelerate the design and development of autonomous systems by providing a framework for mechanical actuators analysis and selection.
Impact: Help evaluate and select actuation systems across multiple industries (robotic, automotive, manufacturing, aerospace) and help designers come up with novel actuation solutions.
Rotor-flying manipulation will change the future of aerial transportation and manipulation in construction and hazardous environments. Take robotics manipulation to the next level with an autonomous UAV.
Impact: Transform the field of robot manipulation.
Expertise gained: Drones, Robotics, Manipulators, Modeling and Simulation, UAV
Internal combustion engines will continue to be used in the automotive marketplace well into the future. Build a MIMO airflow control to improve engine performances, fuel economy, and emissions, and start your career in the automotive industry!
Impact: Improve environmental friendliness of engine control by tier 1 automotive supplier.
Expertise gained: Autonomous Vehicles, Automotive, Control, Modeling and Simulation
Smart devices and robots have become part of our everyday life and human-robot interaction plays a crucial role in this rapidly expanding market. Talking to a machine is going to complete change the way we work with robots.
Impact: Open up the opportunities to create robots that can be an intuitive part of our world.
Expertise gained: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Robotics, Signal Processing, Natural Language Processing, Mobile Robots, Human-Robot Interaction, Low-Cost Hardware
Legged robots with manipulators will be the ideal platforms to traverse rough terrains and interact with the environment. Are you ready to tackle the challenge of operating robots outdoor?
Impact: Contribute to state-of-the-art technologies for exploration and search and rescue transformation.
Expertise gained: Robotics, Control, Image Processing, Manipulators, Mobile Robots, Modeling and Simulation
After robots conquered ground, sky and space, they are going deep sea next. Explore the frontier of autonomous underwater vehicles by doing a project on robot collaboration and competition underwater.
Impact: Advance underwater exploration and AUVs collaboration for the future of ocean engineering.
Expertise gained: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, AUV, Embedded AI, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Sensor Fusion and Tracking, SLAM