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Radioactive Material Handling Mechanism

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Creating a safer laboratory environment for radiological workers by designing safer Radioactive Material Handling Mechanism (RaMHaM) containers used in non-destructive neutron beamline tomographic imaging research. Team: Jay Lin collaborating with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory Advisor: Peter Hosemann (NE) Los Alamos National Lab needs a container to transport radioactive spent fuel rodlets from… Read More »

Transportation Strategies for Smart Cities

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Team: Yuet Man Kan (CE), Tanat Vanichpipat (CE), Evan Christianson (CE), Pei-Wen Hu (CE), Eindra Aung (CE), Sushmitha Sree Gumireddy (CE), Cong Luo (CE) Advisor: Alexander Skabardonis (CE) Commuters everywhere experience frustration and delays due to traffic congestion. Dense urban areas such as San Francisco create the largest problems. The general solution is to expand… Read More »

[Zendar] Developing an Affordable Alternative for Autonomous Vehicle Localization using High-Definition Radar Images

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Team: David Scanlan (IEOR), Pierre-Louis Blossier (ME), Johan Gerfaux (IEOR), Bowen Wang (ME) Advisors: Jimmy Wang (Zendar), Lou Ggraniou (Zendar), Gabriel Gomes (ME) Localization of autonomous vehicles on the road currently relies on LiDAR (using lasers) and camera sensors which simultaneously map the environment around the car. Using high-definition radar images, we propose an algorithm… Read More »

Self-Driving E-Bike Design

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Bike-sharing programs such as Citibike and Ford Gobike require rebalancing operations that are highly manual-intensive and costly. The team designed self-driving E-bikes that can automatically balance themselves, decreasing the operating cost of bike-sharing programs. Team: Min Kim, Robert Ou, Ivan Xia Advisor: Prof. Seth Sanders Self-driving bikes can make bike-sharing program more efficient. Bikes can be… Read More »

Advanced Mobility Strategies

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The Advanced Mobility Strategies team worked with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) to implement Transit Signal Priority (TSP), a technology which allows buses to communicate with traffic lights to reduce the number of red lights encountered. Capstone Team: Andrew Chuing, Kris Datta, Thibault Jauffrineau, Alec L’Amoreaux, Hamza Syed Capstone Advisor: Alexander Skabardonis Buses… Read More »