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2022

Senior Design AY 2021-2022

Senior Design Instructor: Dr. Paul Fortier

ECE 457/458 Design Project I/II is the capstone design experience where students expand their abilities and develop important real world engineering problem solving skills. The students were divided into eight groups. The details are given below.

*Indicates Team Leader

Student Members

  • Tabitha Aguiar*
  • Rylee Gant
  • Kaitlyn Hart
  • Kennedy Morales
  • Joshua Proulx

Project Title

Upper Ocean Profiler: Development of a Charging Protocol

Project Description

Design charging system for use in between deployments of an ocean sensing robot. The system must recharge multiple subsystem batteries simultaneously on land, and monitor and log their remaining power while deployed in the ocean.

Faculty Advisor

Dr. John Buck

Customer

Dr. Amit Tandon & Mr. Patrick Pasteris, UMass Dartmouth

Student Members

  • Isabella DiBona*
  • Christopher Gravelle
  • Zakaria Faddi
  • Kenan Chen

Project Title

Underwater Acoustic Navigation System Using Differential Phase

Project Description

Design an underwater navigation system incorporating a stationary beacon that encodes bearing information for a receiving device such as a UUV.

Faculty Advisor

Dr. David Brown

Customer

Dr. Corey Bachand, BTech Acoustics, LLC

Student Members

  • Jin Feng Lin*
  • Kevin Venttura
  • A.J. Gabriel
  • Andrew Furze

Project Title

Machine-Learned Signal Identification and Localization in a Software-Defined Cluttered RF Environment

Project Description

Design an FPGA supporting a machine learning algorithm to detect, classify and localize specific RF sources in a noisy environment.

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Paul Fortier

Customer

Dr. Ruolin Zhou, UMASS Dartmouth

Student Members

  • Marcel Vieira*
  • Darian Kavu
  • Robert Sheran
  • Quintin Carvalho

Project Title

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for a Wheeled Ground Robot

Project Description

Design verification and validation tests for wheeled robot navigation and object avoidance.

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Ruolin Zhou

Customer

Dr. Lance Fiondella, UMASS Dartmouth

Student Members

  • Michael Bisbano*
  • Ryan Ferreira
  • Daniel Lopes

Project Title

Machine Learning Direction of Arrival Estimation for Bathymetry Sonar Imaging

Project Description

Explore feasibility of Machine Learning’s application in DOA estimation and develop a model to test the performance of ML against conventional methods of determining DOA.

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Ruolin Zhou

Customer

Eric Mallard, Edgetech

Student Members

  • Spencer Dowty*
  • Arthur Grizotte
  • Antz-lee Francois
  • Thomas Lattanzi

Project Title

MADWEC – Using Renewable Wave Energy to Power Underwater Vehicles

Project Description

ECE/MNE project to construct underwater recharging station for AUVs. ECE team designing floater battery recharging PCB, as well as AUV electrical docking and charging system.

Faculty Advisor

Dr. David Rancour

Customer

Dr. Dan MacDonald & Dr. Mehdi Raessi, UMASS Dartmouth

Student Members

  • Michael Bourgeois*
  • Cameron Pasteris
  • Cedric Leonardo
  • Michael Cushman

Project Title

Convert Jet Ski to Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV)

Project Description

MNE/ECE project to convert a jet ski into a remote controlled or semi-autonomous scientific experiment delivery vehicle. ECE students will design all environmental sensing, control and actuation sub systems.

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Honggang Wang

Customer

Philip Nicolescu & Russell Sylvia, UMass Dartmouth SMAST

Student Members

  • Avery Jackson*
  • CJ Berg
  • Nan Wang
  • Jack Chisholm-Dalzell

Project Title

Underwater Communications Modem on an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV)

Project Description

Imrove a prototype acoustic modem and integrate into a UUV to aid in underwater communications.

Faculty Advisor

Dr. David Brown

Customer

Dr. Corey Bachand, BTech Acoustics

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