Research Projects under Professor James M. Conrad

• Embedded systems and sensors.
• Robotics:  autonomous vehicles and small autonomous insects.
• Wireless systems and devices
• Engineering education.

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Research project/topics

1. Inexpensive Autonomous Robotic Vehicle - the "Zapatabot":
   • Control of motors and other actuators
   • GPS dead reckoning - continuation of work by Sid Ahuja
   • Sonar/ultrasonic sensors
   • Camera recognition of objects
   • LIDAR recognition of objects
   • Area obstacle discovery and mapping
   • Path planning based on object maps - continuation of work of Sharayu Ghangrekar
2. Assistance with the following NASA project
   • Understanding FPGA boards and capabilities
   • Understanding FPAA boards and capabilities
   • Embedded systems and avionics for space flight
   • Embedded systems and avionics for lunar habitats
3. Wireless test bed for communications protocols
4. Wireless sensor networks
5. Assistance with Embedded Systems Book
   • Read through several embedded books and summarize them in one paragraph
   • Identify new Renesas QSK labs for the book.
   • Test labs identified for the boards
6. Parallel processing algorithms