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