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2016 JI Summer Design Expo hot on internet of things

2016/08/13 | Main Features

设计展现场2016 JI Summer Design Expo

A lab in the pocket? A mobile phone as an external driving assistant? Watering your house plants remotely? These are just some examples of the more than 80 eye-popping innovative projects exhibited at the University of Michigan- Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute’s (UM-SJTU JI) 2016 summer Design Expo held on August 10. The exhibition showcased projects of JI’s various experimental courses from freshman through senior year, including “Introduction to Engineering,” “Design and Manufacturing III,” “System Design and Implementation” and, for the first time, “Undergraduate Research Projects.” It depicts a comprehensive picture of JI undergraduate students’ accomplishments in research and innovative practice.

Corporate-driven Topics Follow the New Trend of IoT Technology

 

At the exhibition, it was remarkable that many capstone projects focused on providing innovative solutions for practical problems encountered by multinational companies. Among the 30 graduation projects, 25 were sponsored by nine international industry leaders, including General Electric, Siemens, Intel, Ray Technologies, Huawei Technologies, United Automotive Electronic Systems, ZF Friedrichshafen AG and KLA-Tencor. These projects closely related to daily living were derived from the key R & D projects of those industrial giants. Since the inception of corporate-sponsored projects at JI in 2010, more and more multinational companies have been wooing the talented JI students to work on their market-oriented projects. Over the past six years, the proportion of corporate-sponsored projects has been soaring and reached 84% in 2016.

口袋实验室

Lab in the Pocket

Laboratory monitoring typically requires the lab personnel to shuttle back and forth between different laboratories to tediously record the experimental data, sometimes even in a hazardous environment. The Siemens-sponsored project “Pocket Labs – Remote Monitoring of Virtual Reality” effectively solves this problem by combining the two cutting-edge technologies, i.e., Virtual Reality” (VR) and Internet of Things (IoT). The students designed a data collection and visualization system. With just a cell phone and a Virtual Reality headset the laboratory personnel can have an immersed sense moving in the lab and monitor laboratory equipment remotely, as if having the labs in their pockets.
基于智能手机的网联汽车

Low Cost SLAM Realization on Smart Phone

 

The Internet of Vehicle (IoV) has become a hot technology topic. The goal of IoV is to realize driverless cars. To achieve this goal, cars must be able to automatically map the surrounding area and localize themselves. Sponsored by Huawei, the team of project “Smart phone-based Low-cost Solution for SLAM Design” proposed to use a smart phone to achieve simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with low-cost. Without using GPS or network, the app generates a map of the surrounding area and localize the camera on the map using the phone’s camera and inertial sensors, hence the mobile phone has become an external driving assistant device for cars.

基于蓝牙的智能胰岛素笔

Bluetooth-enabled Smart Insulin Pen

In recent years, diabetes has become a major health crisis in China. For diabetic patients requiring long-term use of insulin, the team of project “Bluetooth-enabled Smart Insulin Pen” designed a portable insulin pen to provide patients with a more convenient injection experience. After being connected with a smart phone, the insulin pen mobile application will remind the user of insulin injections and specify the injection dose through Bluetooth data transmission. After successful injection, the embedded microcontroller will also send feedback information via Bluetooth to mobile applications, providing user-friendly real-time management.

Smart and Practical Freshman Innovations

In addition to capstone design projects, the freshman projects are as creative. Comparatively, freshmen paid more attention to practical problems encountered in daily life and proposed unique solutions that are innovative and intelligent.

智能植物管家

Smart Plant Carer

House plants have gradually become an integral part of the living space. The project “Intelligent Plant” tried to build a new relationship between plants and people, turning watering and lighting the plants an interactive process. Team members gave the plants a sense of real-time life by using a touching lamp with breathing effect. In addition, the network control features enable users to remotely control the care of plants through the website.
镭射激光鼠标

Laser Mouse

With the advent of computers, the calluses have moved from people’s fingers to wrists from excessive mouse use. To solve this problem, the “W-Mouse” group replaced the traditional hard mouse body with rubber padded wrist cushion to prevent wrist damage. Moreover, in order to reduce noises and improve the mouse’s overall visual effect, team members also use lasers to replace the traditional left and right mouse buttons.
楼梯清扫智能装置

Stair Cleaning Robot

A four-wheel cleaning robot attracted a lot of attention. The project team combined the dual automatic functions of climbing stairs and sweeping. When the cleaning mode is activated, the four wheels can rotate freely and turning to multiple directions on the stairs, including climbing. In addition, a brush and a fan can be attached with the four wheels to achieve the sweeping function.

Undergraduate Research Projects Inspire Junior Students to Tackle High Tech Topics

The rich exhibition of innovative projects showed that JI strives to create a positive research environment for students. The newly instated exhibit of “Undergraduate Research Project” also awed the visitors.

基于介电弹性体的仿生水母

Bionic Jellyfish Based on Dielectric Elastomer

Bionics is playing an increasingly significant role in the application of science and engineering. In the field of biomimetic robots, the driving and transmission structure composed of traditional rigid material can not completely simulate some animal movements. For example, the mollusk such as earthworms and jellyfish move by peristaltic motion from contraction of muscles which cannot be simulated using traditional rigid material. The team of project “Bionic Jellyfish Based on Dielectric Elastomer” applied the telescopic principle of dielectric elastomer when connected with power to designing a kind of three-dimensional polymer structure similar to the cavity of jellyfish. They explored the feasibility and performance of underwater moving of the three-dimensional structure by simulating jellyfish’s expanding-contracting, draining-filling movement. In the future, this technology is expected to be applied to precision instruments, miniaturized robots, robot bionics and other fields.

DSC_9661副本Students and faculty at the Design Expo

Over the years, JI has been committed to improving the levels of academic innovation and teaching innovation and building a world-class teaching and research Institute in China. JI has become a special zone to nurture innovative leaders with global visions. Through the curriculum, innovation club and related competition opportunities, JI has built a broad platform of technological innovation for undergraduate students.

JI’s experimental courses not only stimulate students’ interest in engineering but also develop their technical communication and creative thinking skills. In 2015, JI added the course “Undergraduate Research Projects” into the curriculum, based on faculty members’ research projects and targeting the junior and senior students. Students are encouraged to participate in SJTU’s PRP (Participation in Research Projects) and IPP “Innovative Participation Program.”
Due to their creativity and excellent presentation, 50% of JI undergraduate students’ IPP projects have been promoted to the Shanghai municipal level and national level.

2016 JI Summer Design Expo Award List

Vg100: Introduction to Engineering

  1. Best innovation Award:
  • Drink Serving Robot
  • NannyBall
  1. Best technology Award:
  • Stair Cleaning Robot
  • High-Speed Photography Assistant
  1. Best performance Award:
  • Portable Finger Print Identified Lock
  • Handy Scanner

VE/VM450 Capstone Design Projects

  1. Silver Award:
  • Parking attendant OA system on Smartwatch
  • Wearable Device Used in Warehouse
  • Low Cost SLAM Realization on Smart Phone
  1. Gold Award:Pocket Labs – Remote Monitoring of Virtual Reality