Students from Afka College of Engineering will present, as part of the college's annual exhibition, more than 80 innovative and original projects in a variety of fields: medicine, transportation, environmental quality, energy and infrastructure, and more. The exhibition will take place on Tuesday, May 22 starting at 13:00 p.m.
Students from Afka College of Engineering will present, as part of the college's annual exhibition, more than 80 innovative and original projects in a variety of fields: medicine, transportation, environmental quality, energy and infrastructure, and more. The exhibition will take place on Tuesday, May 22 starting at 13:00 p.m.
Among the interesting inventions that will be presented: a robot that simulates a guide dog for the blind, a warning system for "dead areas" in a car, heart rate monitoring using a smartphone, an artificial pancreas, a "black box" for a car, the development of a hybrid array that combines batteries and capacitors to increase the driving range of an electric vehicle through recharging , item tagging and tracking software on a smart TV, personal training software before job interviews and more.
Below is a description of the projects:
Smart TV item tracking and tagging software
The developed software enables automatic labeling and tracking of objects for interactive television. Using the software will make it possible to turn regular movies into interactive content that can be used instead of being used on the smart TV. For Dodge, a viewer on a smart TV will be able to choose an item of clothing from the display, the system will know how to identify it, and then the viewer will be able to search for all the information he is interested in, price, where to purchase, and more.
Alert system for "dead areas"
The purpose of the project is to build a prototype for a warning system for finding an obstacle in dead areas on the sides of a vehicle and preventing accidents when crossing lanes on intercity roads. The system works according to the principles of active sonar (high frequency sound wave signal). This is a system that can be installed on any vehicle and will help reduce many road accidents involving cars, buses and trucks due to the difficulty of following the traffic in the "dead zones".
Heart rate monitoring via smartphone
The proposed system is a "quasi-medical" application for smart phones with the Android operating system. The purpose of the project is to derive the heart rate of the user by analyzing the image received from the cell phone camera in real time. The system comes to give an easy and simple alternative for testing the heart rate, saving the tests and comparing the data according to the user's profile.
artificial pancreas
A system that mimics the damaged pancreas of a diabetic patient. The purpose of the developed system is to provide an automatic solution to balance the blood sugar level. The system will be connected on one side to the patient's vein and will monitor the blood sugar level, the results will go to a computer which will calculate the amount of insulin to be released into the body and an infusion pump that releases insulin will be connected to the patient on the other side.
The student who developed the system is a diabetic and developed the system following his personal experience and the difficulty experienced by diabetics in Israel.
Personal training software before job interviews
The software was developed using psychologists and gives the user positive feedback during a conversation. During the development of the software, a dedicated speech recognition algorithm was developed. The system identifies positive and negative expressions in the user's words and returns a statistical index that helps him improve his self-expression and create a desired impression in the meeting. With the help of the system, the user will be able to train for job interviews or business meetings without the need for an expert.
A robot that simulates a guide dog for the blind
The robot will guide the blind person along a known route, identify, warn and bypass obstacles, in order to transport the user safely on the roads. The robot control incorporates signal analysis from the field, sensor detection and an audio system. The goal of the project is to find a solution for guide dogs, the cost of training and maintaining them is very expensive, and therefore not all blind people in Israel get a guide dog. The robot could be a low-cost solution for all the blind and visually impaired in Israel.
Black box for the car
Following a sharp increase in traffic accidents, most of which are caused by human error, there is a need to document the vehicle's behavior during the accident and the time before the accident, and even alert the control center if necessary. Also, the black box allows for the analysis of the driving behavior of the vehicle and the driver, which can be used by car rental or leasing companies. In the system there are three sensors; A speed sensor, a distance sensor (the sensor that checks the distance from the object in front of the vehicle) and a force sensor, which gives an indication of the intensity of the collision.
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Hope they are trying to learn and discover the genes responsible for the fact that there are people who navigate like bats
Thus in the future the treatment or solution for the blind who cannot restore the visual system, beyond
To "see" a bat.