Electrical and Electronic Engineering

AI Catering System with Jetson Nano

Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The 4th Engineering InnoShow / By

This project is to design an AI catering system for automating the tedious tasks by using jetson nano and robot in order to reduce the operating costs and increase efficiency of the restaurant operation. In this project, three AI robot: Tableware classification robot, Tray collection Jetbot and Trash collection Jetbot are developed. The robots are operated by Nvidia Jetson Nano computer, a computer specialized for AI development. The robots can reduce the long queuing time for ordering and food collection, messy dirty dishes and wastes lead to high workload on dish washing, unpopular food waste collection mechanisms and floor trash recycle in a restaurant. A demo restaurant is built in this project.

Fire Evacuation Assistance Robot

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How occupants can evacuate during emergency in High-Rise building has raised different engineer’s concern since last century. The aim of this project is to develop an autonomous robot that assists the emergency evacuation of the disability and injuries in the Temporary Refuge Space and Refuge Floor. The immediate assistance is a combination of urgent medicine delivery, remotely monitor of patient’s status (from face expression judge the urgency) and task assignment from the building management office. The robot is designed to work with other smart cities system like SCADA and Building Management System (BMS) under Artificial Intelligence & Internet of Things Internet Of Thing (AIoT) network, so that the building management can access, monitor, and control the robot from anywhere in the world.

HKU Racing 2020

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Formula Student UK is an educational engineering competition. The competition aims to develop enterprising and innovative young engineers and encourage more young people to take up a career in engineering. Formula Student UK 2020 will be held at Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, UK. HKU team will join the Electric Vehicles Class 1 Division competition.

MEASURE: A SenseHat Smart Home Measuring System

Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The 2nd Engineering InnoShow / By

This project fully utilises the sensors on SenseHat to build a SenseHat smart home measuring System MEASURE. There are three functionalities provided by MEASURE: Level meter, Compass, and HomeKit Integration. Level meter can detect if a line is horizontal or if a surface is flat, and a compass can calculate the degrees turned as well as finding correct directions. If not in use, MEASURE can be a perfect HomeKit accessory that reports readings to your device. So MEASURE is a smart tool that can detect temperature and humidity right at your mobile and help determine positions for furniture placement. It can also provide angle guidance for homemade DIY stuff, and assist you in many other areas.

Ping

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When the internet first came into existence, it came with a mission: to bring people closer together. After more than 20 years of development, we have witnessed the birth of many life-changing innovations like social networks. They can help in connecting us with more and more people, even distant ones, yet only in a virtual form. This is where the problem starts to emerge: virtual content and connections are dominating our lives, disconnecting us from the real world. This is a problem we would like to address with Ping. It is a next-generation social network aiming at reconnecting our users back to reality so that our users will be able to pay more attention to the people and events around them, but not only to the virtual content shown on a 5-inch screen in front of them.

HKU Engineering students @ IBL Global Inclusive STEM+ Leadership week

Computer Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The 2nd Engineering InnoShow / By

This year marks the expansion of the Global Inclusive Leadership Program from China to Thailand. More than one thousand students in eighteen institutes from Greater China, Thailand and the UK participate in the leadership weeks. Students immerse themselves in a cross-cultural and social-mixing environment to develop and work closely together to come up with solutions that go beyond their training while adapting themselves in different cultural settings and developing global-minded perspective. For the participants, it is a journey of self-discovery and self-development. Among the values and skills students acquire in the program, innovative ideas, unconditional love and the spirit of teamwork stand out as the most noted and will help them to prepare for the future – a future of global citizenship. As one of the most respected educators in Thailand remarks: “it is truly an education of the twenty-first century.”

ClearBot 2019: Decentralized Robot Swarms to Clean our Oceans

Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The 2nd Engineering InnoShow / By

Ocean plastics destroy our natural marine and coastal habitats, endanger wildlife across the globe, pollute our food chain, and ultimately affecting the global water-food-energy nexus. Here, we present ClearBot, a scalable, AI-powered, plastic collecting intelligent robotic solution to address the ocean plastic epidemic with a sustainable community-centric symbiotic ecosystem.

HKU Racing

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Formula Student is a renowned educational engineering competition, combining practical engineering with soft skills including business planning and project management. It is a proving ground for students who want to create and change the world. Electrification of transportation system is here, the combination of electric powertrain and traditional mechanical system has made this competition attractive to lots of industries leading to companys’ attention and support. This competition jump starts our students’ knowledge and skills set for their future career. HKU Racing is the first team from Hong Kong to compete in Formula Student (European series).