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SSY226 Design project in systems, control and mechatronics lp1 HT20 (7.5 hp)

Course is offered by the department of Electrical Engineering

Contact details

Examiner: 
Petter Falkman
Phone: 031-7723723
Email: petter.falkman@chalmers.se
Workplace: Room 5339  

The aim

Using engineering and research skills acquired in previous courses to deliver a result that satisfies the hard-to-please customer (i.e. the supervisor).

Schedule

Tuesday 6 Oct. at 12.00-12.45: Introduction and presentation of projects

Friday 9 Oct.: Each student has sent in a list of five preferred projects. 

Tuesday 13 Oct.: Final project groups and supervisors will be sent out by mail and created on Canvas. 

Wednesday 14 Oct.: Contact your supervisor and arrange a first meeting.

Before study period 2: Prepare a project plan.

Monday 2 Nov. - Friday 6 Nov: Presentation of project plans to supervisors and submission of project plans on Canvas.

Monday 14 Dec.: Draft paper submission on Canvas.

Friday 18 Dec.: Paper-review submission.

Friday 15 Jan.: Upload Presentation/demonstration video on Canvas.

Friday 15 Jan.: Final paper submission on Canvas.

Projects and Contacts

  1. Fake News Mitigation in Social Networks, Contact: Balazs Kulcsar, kulcsar@chalmers.se
  2. Balancing of a bike at low speed, Contact: Maxime Feingesicht, maximef@chalmers.se
  3. Benchmarking Selected Machine Learning Algorithms, Contact: Chi Zhang, chi.zhang@gu.se
  4. Energy Optimal Power-Split Control strategy for BEVs, Contact: Anand Ganesan anandg@chalmers.se
  5. Estimating the state of a self-driving bike, Contact: Maxime Feingesicht, maximef@chalmers.se
  6. Evaluating Prosthesis Ownership via Neurostimulation Attenuation, Contact: Eric Earley, earley@chalmers.se
  7. Control structure of a Labview controlled bike, Contact: Maxime Feingesicht, maximef@chalmers.se
  8. Learning Formal Models for Autonomous Driving Development, Contact: Ashfaq Farooqui, ashfaqf@chalmers.se
  9. Modeling and simulation of the motion of a pick-up arm in contact with electrified lines, Contact: Yiannis Karayiannidis, yiannis@chalmers.se
  10. Online Automated Planning using ROS, Contact: Kristofer Bengtsson, kristofer.bengtsson@chalmers.se
  11. Optimal Fuel Consumption of Hybrid Trucks through RL, Contact: Kristoffer Bengtsson, Kristofer.Bengtsson@chalmers.se
  12. Optimal electricity charging of electrified vehicles using Dynamic Programming, Contact: Ahad Hamednia hamednia@chalmers.se
  13. Optimal electricity charging of electrified vehicles using Nonlinear Programming, Contact: Ahad Hamednia hamednia@chalmers.se
  14. Position-Based Visual-Servoing of AGVs using ROS2/Docker, Contact: Emmanuel Dean, deane@chalmers.se
  15. Modeling an electrically powered hydraulic system, Contact: Arian Ranjbar, arianr@chalmers.se
  16. A-double Reverse Assistance, Contact: Maliheh Sadeghi Kati, maliheh.sadeghi.kati@chalmers.se
  17. Safe lifts, Contact: Arian Ranjbar, arianr@chalmers.se
  18. Simulation of a robotic arm and a gripper, Contact: Yasemin Bekiroglu, yaseminb@chalmers.se
  19. Learning LQR in continuous time, Contact: Yiannis Karayiannidis, yiannis@chalmers.se
  20. eOutlook and navigation control of Porpoise, Contact: arpit.karsolia@chalmers.se
  21. Implementing abstraction methods for sensor deception attacks model, Contact: Sahar Mohajerani, mohajera@chalmers.se
  22. Vision Tracking for Deformable Objects, Contact: Yiannis Karayiannidis, yiannis@chalmers.se
  23. Modelling and verification of automated guided vehicles system, Contact: Martin Fabian, fabian@chalmers.se
  24. Simulation Environment for Robotic Manipulation, Contact: Yiannis Karayiannidis, yiannis@chalmers.se
  25. Map generation based on image stitching and object positioning, Contact: Ze Zhang, zhze@chalmers.se
  26. Object detection and tracking with multiple cameras, Contact: Ze Zhang, zhze@chalmers.se
  27. Trajectory generation using non-linear MPC-control, Contact: Knut Åkesson, knut@chalmers.se

 

The groups

Each project group will consist of 2 to 4 persons. Mixed project groups will be created based on student interest and the aim is to achieve a mix of students based on bachelor degree and university.

 

Workplaces

There are two workplaces that can be used if necessary. CASE-lab in the ED-building and the Production Systems Laboratory in the M-building. These rooms are equipped with tools that can be used. If you need more machines or we can arrange so you get access to the prototype laboratory in the M-building basement. 

 

Description

This course has five parts:

  1. Preparing and presenting a project plan, 
  2. Delivering an engineering result
  3. Writing an article
  4. Peer review another groups article
  5. Presentation and demonstration of result

 

Writing an article

Being a researcher is fun and interesting. Even if you do not plan to continue as a PhD student, a successful engineer should approach new challenges a little bit like a researcher.   In this part of the course the group will identify some challenges of the project and write a research article. The article should not be a project report! Read http://personal.lse.ac.uk/sorensec/this_is_not....html about writing papers. 

The suggestion is to find a detailed challenge that you will solve during the project, for example evaluating various algorithms or defining a model for something. Find other articles by searching at http://scholar.google.se/ that may have done the same thing. Based on the literature study do some evaluation / testing / modeling / hard thinking and write down the result. Then spend some time on writing a discussion about it.

Each paper will be “peer reviewed” by the other students and the supervisor.

 

Examination

The marking grades used are fail, 3, 4, and 5.

50% of the grade is based on the article and 50% is based on the project execution and result.

In the middle of the course you will have a discussion with your supervisor about the grade.  If you continue on the same track, that grade is what you will get. If you would like to change the grade up or down, the supervisor will give you hints.

Each group member will review and grade the group and the group members after the final article has been submitted.

The deadline for the draft-paper, the final paper and the presentations are hard ones. So do not miss them.

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