Projects

Our Design project is to design and simulate a fully automated parking garage system and to build a prototype of our model. The design will be able to collect cars as they enter the system, transport and store cars into designated parking locations, and retrieve cars upon user request: with no human intervention.
Our team has designed the building setup including the floor layout and car arrangement. To make our model efficient and effective and to ensure customer satisfaction we have developed algorithms to minimize the distance traveled within the system and therefore minimize the car retrieval time. Our model has been simulated using ARENA software to determine system throughput, average waiting times, and average retrieval times. All cars that enter our system will be tracked and may be displayed at all times.

Group 2
Automated Transportation Management System

This project is part of the Industrial Engineering Design of Engineering Systems class taught at the senior level. The Group’s project is aimed at improving the current Rutgers Transportation System in a number of ways. We will be implementing RFID technology to sense student waiting at designated areas for a certain buses. The RFID sensory data will be relayed to a central database server. Bus locations will also be tracked using the Global Positioning Satellites and updated via cellular IP to the database. This information will be used to dynamically reroute buses to satisfy lopsided demand from one campus. There will also be end-user access to receive information on bus locations and ETAs via telephone and the Internet.
The Group anticipates the result of the implementation of our plan to be beneficial to students and the Parking & Transportation Department. It intelligently reallocates resources to cover demand while avoiding wasting resources.

Group 3
Automated Weed Removal System

Removal of weeds in a garden is a hassle and thus it is necessary to eradicate this problem. The task we are given is to design and construct a system that is capable of detecting and extracting unwanted weeds from the ground. Our particular design objectives for the system are the following: the system should be able to clear an area of one-hundred square feet in ten minutes, utilizes software that is able to identify the target weed from memory, and possess mechanism to remove the target weed from the ground.

We derived that there are four main parts of this system: optical vision to detect the weed, mobility to be able to move around the area, removal to extract the weed and a programming interface to interlink the three parts. After much analysis and debate, we have decided to use web-camera for the optical vision part, a remote controlled vehicle for the mobility, a coiled tine attached to a wiper motor and a gear motor for the removal part, and Mat Lab and Visual Basic for the programming interface. There is going to be a fabricated area upon which the system will move.

Group 4
Virtual Window

Our group has been given the task to create a virtual window as our senior design project. What this project asks us to do is use LCD screens (or equivalent) to simulate the views of different city skylines at different times of the day. This virtual window should be 5’x5’ and the user should have the ability to open or close the window, meaning it will be capable of simulating a breeze. The system should change the views on command as well the views should change with time. For example, the view of New York City with sunrise will appear early in the morning. The view will change with time and should show the sunset at sunset time. The views, time of day, and breeze simulation should be controlled via voice command. An example of a command the program should recognize is “New York city, 3:00 pm”.

Group 5
Self Diagnostic Washing Machine

Creating a washing machine that has sensors installed into it to collect data on parts breaking down. This information is collected and used to figure out the life of the parts and the machine and when they will break down. Then the info is put onto a website for a repair center to check this way they can set up a time to schedule a repair.

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