With augmented reality technology that can accurately track a smartphone’s motion through 3D space becoming more prevalent,
assistive technology researchers saw the opportunity to utilize it for navi...
Given the detrimental environmental impacts from the fast fashion clothing industry, this research project delves into the recycling of textiles for thermal insulation and energy conservation. The pre...
Chomowicz, Julia Coleman, Samantha Sims, Dianna Dusek, Jeff
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During a research period of June-August 2020, a team of students from the Laboratory for
Adaptation, Inclusion, and Robotics developed fabric-based pneumatic actuators for use in
at-home physical th...
Chin, Erica Greenberg, Aaron Pletcher, Kendall Sullivan, Michael
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Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture is one of the most common sports injuries in the United States with over 100,000 cases per year.. In order to return functionality to the knee, ACL reconstruct...
The Parietal Systems-Olin SCOPE team developed a shared, location-based, to-do list application for iOS which uses "The Reality Miners" platform as a service. The idea was selected from over 800 locat...
This SCOPE team was tasked with building a lawnmower which would sense the state of the mower and its surroundings, allow the driver to have an informed view of the surroundings, record driving dynami...
Kautz, Kory Koh, Allen Krishnan, Tara Nafis, Heidi
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The Hutchinson/Barry Controls-Olin SCOPE team worked to develop an active vibration control system for hand-held construction equipment. Workers who use this equipment for extended periods of time are...
Gaynor, David Gubba, Geetanjali Pleiss, Geoff St. Onge, Travis
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The FAA has indicated plans to allow commercial use of UAVs beginning September 30, 2015. Agriculture is a prime potential application, and AGCO would like to be prepared to take advantage of such an ...
Farison, Molly Heyns, Michael Ma, Jenny Wilson, Daniel Mathew, Sarah
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The Boston Scientific SCOPE Team researched bronchoscopy tools and procedures and worked with physicians to develop areas of opportunity for Boston Scientific’s pulmonary development team. Boston Scie...
Optimizing airplane components for mass while ensuring the part will still be strong enough to stand up to the heavy loads experienced during flight requires the use of powerful computational optimiza...
Belland, Matt Crosby, Reyner Cuadra, Andrea Kolisetty, Aiswarya Reid, Tanner
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Autodesk has developed a collection of five simple 3D modeling applications aimed for prominence in the consumer computer-aided design software market. They are interoperable and all can post content ...
Booth, Paul Huang, Jialiya Ryan, Tim McKay, Jon Moon, Seungwhan
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The Facebook-Olin SCOPE team built a platform that catalyzes the growth of an ecosystem around devices that document and share everyday interactions in the physical world. Facebook’s Open Graph allows...
The goal of the Raytheon-Olin SCOPE team was to identify pairs of communication and radar waveforms that could be superimposed through a single nonlinear amplifier while still fulfilling primary commu...
Bethune, Jessica Heine, Andrew McMullen, Robert Noglows, Jessica Pandolfo, Tom
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This SCOPE team worked in collaboration with the Army Research Lab to design and fabricate a small, man-portable, autonomous ground vehicle to support ARL's research work in advanced autonomy algorith...
Becht, Samantha Duggar, Thomas Emanuel, Blair Iyer, Arjun
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Orica is a multinational supplier of mining chemicals and services. The Orica-Olin SCOPE team investigated opportunities for automation of dirty and dangerous tasks associated with the surface mining ...
Kirschner, Jared Kolker, Eric Loh, Philip Z. Ting, Nathaniel
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Innovation in CT scanners lies in improving the quality of the images and decreasing scan times; thus as the number of elements in 2-D CT detector arrays and rotation speed both increase newer scanner...
Microfluidics is rapidly becoming a large field in research, especially for medical applications. Two of its most attractive attributes are the ability to perform high-throughput experiments and the a...
Over the course of this year nest specimens from four of the ve Colletidae subfamilies and annalyzed their properties. It was demonstrated by previous work at this institution that the nest cells of a...
For my research, I set out to create a vision system to enable an aqueous vehicle to autonomously navigate harbors. The application in mind for this system is for robotic (unmanned) research vessels f...
Green building standards like the Living Building Challenge promote the construction of net-zero energy buildings. In order to meet these standards, alternative heating and cooling methods become nece...
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are a class of biodegradable polymers which can be produced via bacterial synthesis. They have garnered interest due to their potential as a biodegradable alternative to p...
The nature of this research is to prototype different types of perching landing gears for drones. Using natural mechanisms found in animals, our team created two bio-inspired designs of perching landi...
We have derived compact algebraic bounds for the limit behavior of the magnetic coupling coefficient, κ, for axially aligned multilayer coils. These bounds are validated experimentally. We have also f...
An engineer is defined as “a person who has scientific training and who designs and builds complicated products, machines, systems, or structures.1” This paper will explore a new definition of enginee...
Current robotic sailing relies on sensing wind direction and moving the sails to a position that is appropriate for that relative wind angle. The research to date shows that a correctly tuned sail in ...
