| Capstone Design Projects for Term 191 |
| Section | Instructor | Project
Title | Project
Description | Prerequisites |
| 1 | Dr.
Mohamed Abido | PV-Wind-based
PV/Wind DC Microgrid Control and Management | 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 and 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. | |
| 2 | Dr.
Hussain Alzaher | Design
of a Chopper Amplifier for Low Noise Seismic Signal Acquisition | In
seismic signal acquisition systems, a large dynamic range is required. Thus,
the design of a low-noise amplifier is critical. This project is to design
and implement a low-noise pre-amplifier to be used in the front-end of an
digital signal processing unit for Seismic Signal Acquisition system. The
unit will include a chopper amplifier plus capacitor to voltage converter,
variable gain amplifier, a filter stage, and a 24 ADC. Clock generation,
modulation and demodulation are also involved. The data will be transmitted
wirelessly to a recording unit.
| EE303,
EE370, EE390 |
| 3 | Dr. Husain Masoudi | Wireless
Power Transmission Phase II | The
objective of this project is to explore the Wireless Power Transmission
technology and then design and implement a Wireless Power Transmission system
capable in transmitting a house hold AC 110/220 V power wirelessly to charge
an electrical device such as a mobile phone. Engineering design
considerations such as efficiency, practicality and cost must be studied by
this project. The project also is to study the effect of the angle between
the transmitter and the receiver for maximum efficiency. | Requirement:
EE 340 B grade |
| 4 | Dr. Azzedine Zerguine | Build
a complete project in machine learning: Credit card fraud detection. | | |
| 5 | Dr.
Mohamed Mohandes | Design
of a DRON based system for cleaning Solar Panels | Some
countries receive a lot of rain that help cleaning the panels occasionally.
In Saudi Arabia we have less rain and more dust and sand movements. These
factors deteriorate the solar panels efficiency. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(KSA) experiences higher intensities of solar radiation throughout the year
and long hours of daily sunshine durations. KSA is planning to build solar PV
capacity of 200 GW by 2030. Hence automated periodic cleaning of these panels
is essential and need of the hour. In
this project the students will be required to design and implement a creative
solution to this problem. One idea would be to install impeller on a DRON
that blow air downward to clean the solar panels. However, we are interested
on more innovative solutions to this problem. | Prerequisite:
EE390 and programming skills |
| 6 | Dr.
Hussain Al-Duwaish | Identification
and Control of a DC Motor | This
project is about the identification and control of a DC motor experimentally.
The first part of the project is to find the transfer function of the DC
motor using two method. In the second part, the students will design a
suitable controllers based on the transfer function they obtained in the
first part. The third part of the project, will involve implementation of the
designed controller on the actual process. | |
| 7 | Dr.
Ibrahim Habiballah | Design
of Friendly-Interface Learning Media for Power Transformers | User
Friendly Interface (UFI) design focuses on anticipating what users might need
to do. It ensures that the interface has sufficient elements that are easy to
access, understand, and use to facilitate those actions. This project is
meant to design UFI tools that can help understanding the analysis of power
transformers. This will include the equivalent circuits, phasor-diagrams and
the performance (voltage regulation and efficiency) of transformers under
different loading conditions. Different exercises and solved problems will be
designed in a friendly-interfaced learning-media to help better understanding
the function of transformers, and how they behave under different operating
conditions. | |
| 8 | Dr.
Maan Kousa | Advanced
Robot Functions Using EV# and MATLAB | Student
are required to Program the robot using EV3 and MATLAB to do certain advanced
functions (for example: sweeping, arranging things, Transporting goods, …) | Senior
Standing |
| 9 | Dr.
Ali Muqaibel | Posture
Analysis and Correction Using Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) | The
project idea is to design and build a wearable electronic device that is able
to track posture by sensing the head movement of the user, then analyze and
filter the data coming from the sensors to classify and analyze the posture
as appropriate or not, then notifying the user. The project helps in
preventing as well as in treating chronic neck/back pain by making the user
aware of his posture on his daily activities and wrong postural habits when
performing his routinely tasks. The idea can be further improved by
integrating more sensors into the device that detects the behavior of the
user, then generates a proper action. The project will also include a mobile
application that helps in generating reports and statistical data to the user
about his posture performance, which might help in preventing future back
injuries | EE370,
EE390 (At least some students) |
| 10 | Dr.
Salim Ibrir | Fault
detection and isolation using state observers | The
project aims to develop a real-time system including a software to detect
eventual fault operation in AC or DC drives. The technique is mainly based on
construction of auxiliary system that reproduces the fault when it exists. | LabVIEW
programming, Electronics, Motor drives |
| 11 | Dr.
Abdulmalek Zidouri | Attendance
Management System by Using Face Recognition Technique | Automatic
attendance management is intended to replace the manual method. Taking
attendance is time consuming and difficult to maintain. Taking attendance
automatically based on bio-metric features is both secure and fast.
In this method the camera is fixed in the classroom and it will capture the
image, the faces are detected and then recognized with the database and
finally the attendance is marked. In this project we intend to use the face
as the bio metric feature, which is easy to take, less intrusive and well
established using for example Eigen faces, which is a set of Eigen vectors
which are used in computer vision problems of face recognition. | |
| 12 | Dr.
K. Qureshi | Development
of energy harvesting circuits | In
this project, the students will perform a comprehensive literature review of
various energy harvesting circuits. Later few of these circuits will be
developed for energizing various low powered sensors | Good
understanding of EE203 and EE303 |
| 13 | Dr.
Fahhad Al Harbi | Integration
of Split Spectrum Solar Cell System | The
conventional solar cell device designs are based on single junction with
planar interfaces. Such devices are theoretically limited where the maximum
efficiency can not exceed 33%. To pass this limit, different techniques are
adopted. Among the most practical options is to go for multi-junction
designs. In such design concept, different cells are used to harvest light
from different part of solar light spectrum. The most commonly use format is
the two-terminal serially stacked cells. It has already passed 47% in
efficiency. However, such cells are extremely expensive and hard to
fabricate. An, alternative concept is based on multi-terminal Split-Spectrum
Solar Cell (SSSC) in which solar light is split into different bands by a
pre-optical setup and then direct each of the split spectrum into a cell with
matching properties. So, the system is composed of two parts. The first one
is the optical system that splits the spectrum and concentrates the light.
The second part is the set of SCs to be used to harvest the energy from the
split spectrums. In this senior project, the team would design and integrate
an SSSC system starting from ready cells and optical components. | |
| 14 | Dr.
Mohammed Khan | Environmental
Effects on Outdoor Optical Wireless Communication | The
project will involve designing transreceiver circuits to send and receive
modulated audio/video digital signals employing two different wavelength
light as carriers. The system will consist of two-transreceiver circuits with
free-space as a communication channel between them. The environmental effects
such as sand storm, for and rain on the system performance will be
evaluated. | Knowledge
of designing of electronic circuits |
| 15 | Dr.
Ali Arshad Nasir | Digital
Communication Transceiver Design | We
will simulate a baseband digital communication system using National
Instruments LabVIEW software and USRP hardware. Basic digital communication
transmitter and receiver will be designed. Different modulation sizes will be
considered. Bit error rates will be calculated from the simulations. | EE
370 |
| 16 | Dr.
Mudassir Masood | Deep
Learning-based Real Time Face Recognition using Raspberry Pi | A
face recognition system will be developed using convolutional neural network
(CNN). The CNN will be trained on a regular computer. However, the trained
model will be transferred to a Raspberry Pi to perform real-time face
recognition. A camera, a memory card and a screen will be interfaced with
Raspberry Pi. The camera will be used to capture images in real-time, memory
card will be used to hold the trained model and screen will be utilized to
display the identification/recognition results. Python will be used for
programming purpose. | |
| 17 | Dr.
Balghnaim A | Please
contact Dr. Balghnaim | |
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