Capstone Design Projects for Term 182
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| Section | Instructor | Project Title | Project Description
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| 1 | DR. M ABIDO | PV-Based DC Microgrids with Energy Storage Systems | The concept of DC microgrid is gaining significant interest due to its several advantages over AC microgrid. DC microgrid facilitates high penetration of renewable energy sources to the grid and contributes to the global reduction of carbon footprint.
The voltage regulation of DC microgrid is a challenging task in order to prevent circulating current among different distributed energy sources connected in parallel. Another crucial issue is to manage active power among the distributed sources, loads and connected utility grid. Energy storage systems help to combat these challenges. In this work, a small scale DC microgrid is considered which is comprised of photovoltaic energy source, local loads and hybrid energy storage system. A control strategy based on DC bus voltage regulation will be investigated for energy management in the system.
For PV-based DC Microgrid:
1. Design and implement a PV system.
2. Design and implement DC/DC converter.
3. Design and implement a voltage controller.
4. Design a hybrid energy storage system.
5. Build the complete setup by integrating the system components.
6. Test and evaluate the performance of the designed system
Note:
This project is a step to build a multisource DC microgrid. Full coordination and integration with the concurrently offered project, “Wind-Based DC Microgrids with Energy Storage Systems” is expected.
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| 2 | DR. MUHAMMAD ABUELMAATTI | Please contact DR. ABUELMAATTI | |
| 3 | DR. IBRAHIM EL-AMIN | A Smart Phone Based Electrical load and Appliance Control | This is an advanced way of controlling home appliance from a conventional manual switch pressing system. It uses an Android mobile with a user graphical interface application in it. The control circuit is attached to a number of devices to be controlled through a relay mechanism with a Bluetooth communication module.
Prerequisites: Micro controller |
| 4 | DR. MA AL-ABSI | Oscilliscope based curve tracer Version II | The curve tracer is a specialized electronic equipment used to analyze the
IV characteristics of discrete semiconductor devices such as diodes, transistors. This project is an intention to design, simulate and prototype an electronic circuit along with the use of an oscilloscope to replace the existing expensive curve tracers.
Prerequisites: EE 303 |
| 5 | DR. M DERICHE | Machine Learning for Self Driving Cars | The project is about developing a working prototype of a small self driving car using off-the-shelf components and ML algorithms developed at KFUPM. The prototype should be able to avoid obstacles, stop at signs, turn in different directions, and move at different speeds.
Prerequisites: preferably image processing skills and MATLAB or Phython software |
| 6 | DR. AHMED MASOUD | The Robo-Scanner | The objective of this project is to build mobile scanning element that can provide an image to a user of the bottoms of objects such as cars. The system consists of a mobile platform that is carrying a wireless camera in an upright position. The platform can be ordered to move forward and in reverse. The camera stream images to a computer or a smartphone. The stream of images is assembled to obtain a full picture of the obstructed view of object’s bottom.
preferably image processing skills and MATLAB or Phython software
Tasks include:
1- prototyping the mobile platform and controlling it
2- Streaming wirelessly image data to the host
3- Compiling the image stream to obtain a photo of the bottom of the object
Assessment scheme:
The work will be divided into weekly tasks which the member of the group will individually carryout. Each week, the member of the group will provide a progress report and a presentation about the task that was assigned to them. The marks of the report will be used to determine the 60% individual mark of each member.
Prerequisites: Ability to proto-type, ability to build electronic interface circuits, good programming skills, ability to read and write technical documents |
| 7 | DR. M MOHANDES | Siesmic Data Compression | The students will review, implement, and compare several compression algorithms using MATLAB for Seismic Data.
Prerequisites: Image processing, probability and stochastic Processes |
| 8 | DR. M SHARAWI | A Radio Frequency (RF) source locator | The project will come up with a radio frequency (RF) source locator via the measurements of the RF power levels within the environment. The system will include the use of RF electronics, motors and microcontroller board.
Prerequisites: EE340, EE303 |
| 10 | DR. S. AL-AHMADI | Outdoor visible light communication | The implementation of an outdoor vlc system
Prerequisites: EE 419
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| 11 | DR. A AWAMI | Autonomous Management of Home Energy Consumption | The objective of this project is to design and implement an intelligent control strategy for house appliances so as to mitigate voltage issues. The controller will be assumed to receive as an input the house voltage signal. Other potentially useful inputs will also be considered (e.g. voltage sensitivity at the point of connection). The control strategy to be implemented should decide on which load(s) to be turned off based on certain criteria, such as the house owner's preferences and other convenience indices. The controller will send control signals to the house appliances accordingly. The control action will be in effect as long as requested by the electric utility company. |
| 12 | DR. M. AL-MUHAINI | Please contact DR. M. AL-MUHAINI | |
| 13 | DR. ADIL BALGHONAIM | Face Recognition | Algorithm will be developed to recognize faces
Prerequisites: Computer Programming |
| 14 | DR. BELHAJ CHOKRI | Design and control of a PV cleaning Robot | The operation of a Photovoltaic panel is subjected to the surrounding environmental variables such as ambient temperature variations and the accumulation of dust particles on PV surface. High temperature and dust particles accumulation are the major causes of loss of efficiency. The cleaning robot is intended to clean the entire panel surface and to cool it at the same time. The design is planned to sense the surrounding variable and conduct the surface cleaning by air blowing, PV panel surface sweeping and or water injection.
Prerequisites: EE380
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| 15 | DR. A. HUSSEIN | Wind-Based DC Microgrids with Energy Storage Systems | The concept of DC microgrid is gaining significant interest due to its several advantages over AC microgrid. DC microgrid facilitates high penetration of renewable energy sources to the grid and contributes to the global reduction of carbon footprint.
The voltage regulation of DC microgrid is a challenging task in order to prevent circulating current among different distributed energy sources connected in parallel. Another crucial issue is to manage active power among the distributed sources, loads and connected utility grid. Energy storage systems help to combat these challenges. In this work, a small scale DC microgrid is considered which is comprised of wind energy source, local loads and hybrid energy storage system. A control strategy based on DC bus voltage regulation will be investigated for energy management in the system.
For Wind-based DC Microgrid:
1. Design and implement a wind system.
2. Design and implement AC/DC converter.
3. Design and implement a voltage controller.
4. Design a hybrid energy storage system.
5. Build the complete setup by integrating the system components.
6. Test and evaluate the performance of the designed system
Needed Equipment:
Wind simulator, AC/DC converter, loads, supercapacitors, batteries
Note:
This project is a step to build a multisource DC microgrid. Full coordination and integration with the concurrently offered project, “PV-Based DC Microgrids with Energy Storage Systems” is expected.
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| 16 | DR. JHONATHAN PRIETO ROJAS | Wearable System for Vital Signs Monitoring | Design and optimization of a wearable system, currently under development in collaboration with KAUST, to monitor vital signs (including temperature, skin hydration, heart rate, and others), and implementing it on a stretchable printed circuit board (sPCB).
The main tasks are:
1. Optimization of sensor's conditioning circuits for low power operation.
2. Optimization of wireless communication system with smartphone.
3. Fabrication using novel manufacturing approach on stretchable PCB.
4. Testing of the monitoring system. Prerequisites: Experience with sensors and PCB fabrication is preferred |
| 17 | DR. HUSSEIN ATTIA | Revolutionary Cane for Blind People: Face Detection and GPS | When you are blind, it is crucial for you to recognize the people arround to be more socially involved and safer as well!
In this project, an Revolutionary Cane for the Blind will be designed and implemenetd. The cane will be equipped with a camera to capture the image of
any individual to approach the blind and sends a message through BlueTooth to an ear-piece to inform the blind about the name of the individual.
The cane will detect faces up to 10 metres away, vibrating when detecting a recognisable individual from a bank of images stored on an internal SD memory card.
Also, GPS system will be embedded in the cane to help the blind find his way and navigate the world. A project that relieves the pain and suffer
of blind people.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2015-05-facial-recognition-cane.html#jCp
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| 18 | DR. MUHAMMAD KHALID | A Smart Home Energy Managy System | In this project, a Smart Home Energy Management System will be developed to operate home appliances in an optimum approach. It is targeted at reducing the consumption of energy by detecting the residents' activity and identifying it among three states such as Active, Away, or Sleep. The proposed project may use the WiFi technology for data transmission inside home and the GSM technology for external communication.
Prerequisites: Fundamental concepts in electrical engineering |
| 19 | DR. FAHAD AL ISMAIL | Developing an Energy Management System Considering a Customer Satisfaction Model with Real Time Operation Monitoring | Residential energy management (REM) systems facilitate the application of residential demand response programs to manage the increasing demand of electricity in power systems. The load curtailment at high price periods and the load shift from high-price to low-price periods are the main results of REM implementation, which may improve the technical and economical operation of the distribution systems. Customers’ satisfaction should be considered in the REM procedure to motivate the customers to respond to the received price signals. This project proposes an optimization-based REM to minimize the customer's energy cost and increase the satisfaction factor, which is modeled as a function of load curtailment.
Prerequisites: Excellent background in C++ and Matlab |
| 20 | DR. FERAS AL DIRINI | Please contact DR. FERAS AL DIRINI | |
| 21 | DR. YAQUB MAHNASHI | A Multi-source Energy Harvesting System | The aim of this project is to design and prototype a multi-source energy harvesting system that harvests power from three or more different ambient sources (solar, RF, vibration ..etc) to deliver tangible power to a wireless sensor node or a bio-implantable device. The system will be built on a standard PCB.
Prerequisites: EE203. Preferred skills: good circuit design, PCB design and implementation.
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