BU-CROCCS - Research

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The project can host up to two students. The work involves building an optical sensor based on flexible polymer substrate such as: flexible nanostructured optical sensor (GMR) as well as plastic optical fiber. The sensing is based on the change of the refractive index of the polymer due to the presence of the organic compounds causes change in optical resonance or attenuation. The students are expected to gain (1) good understanding about optical sensing (2)using 3D printing (3) optical lab skills (4) characterizations and (5) Signal processing and data analysis.

2026-10-05

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The project can host one student. The project focuses on building a readout system centered around multispectrum color sensor that interprets changes in the surrounding (organic volatile compounds for example) in terms of the amplitude of the different channels included in the sensor. The student is expected to gain (1) 3D printing experience for housing and mounting (2) The use of IoT for data collection and signal processing. (3) Data analysis

2026-10-05

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This internship project involves the following tasks. (1) Develop a receiver unit that performs position and orientation estimation in 3D. (2) Evaluate the estimation accuracy through experiments. (3) Integrate the receiver to a moving robot for real-time tracking.

2026-10-02

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This internship project involves the following tasks. (1) Integrate a visible light positioning module to a moving robot. (2) Fuse the position and orientation estimates using Kalman filtering. (3) Evaluate through hardware experiments the improved accuracy in robot navigation obtained from using visible light positioning.

2026-10-02

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This internship project involves the following tasks. (1) Develop an app for a smartphone to capture images of LED light sources. (2) Apply image processing to extract data signals from LED images. (3) Apply signal processing to detect the unique ID of the LED. (4) Develop a GUI to show the current location on a digital map.

2026-10-02

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This internship project includes the following tasks. (1) Assemble a line-tracking car robot and mount a small water tank with a sprayer or a seeding module onto it. (2) Integrate a visible light positioning module to a car robot. (3) Distribute water to the plants or perform seeding based on their designated zones. Used software: Arduino IDE, Python or any other programming language.

2026-10-02

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Expected outcome: 1. Low-cost single-axis rail/cart system carrying the BABANE arm between multiple soil parcels, with docking repeatability @. Updated firmware, GUI, and BOM.  Duration: 3–6 months  Number of students: 1  Prerequisite: CAD (Fusion 360), (Arduino), stepper motor control, Python; basic manipulator kinematics a plus  Hardware: Stepper motor, Belt or lead-screw, 3D printer (chassis)  Software: Arduino (C++), Python operator GUI (v2 interface), (Optional extension: Visible Light Positioning — LEDs + photodiode/camera receiver for centimeter-level docking, aligned with optoelectronics research.)

2026-09-25

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Expected outcome: Hybrid 3D reconstruction pipeline (Depth Anything + COLMAP) integrated into the existing R.A.D.I.S.H. app, with a solution for textureless/reflective/white artefacts and extended validation across 5 artefacts. Duration: 3-6 months Number of students: 1 Prerequisite: Computer vision/3D reconstruction background, Python programming, notions of photogrammetry or SfM a plus Hardware: Higher-resolution camera sensor (upgrade from ESP32-CAM), turntable setup, Peppers Ghost display rig, polarization filter or structured-light components (for the textureless/reflective solution) Software: Python, COLMAP, Depth Anything (V1/V2), MediaPipe

2026-09-25

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Expected outcome: Open-source Python pipeline for automatic camera-projector calibration, surface-adaptive image warping, and drift-triggered re-calibration on non-planar (e.g. curved/dome) surfaces. Duration: 3-6 months Number of students: 1 Prerequisite: Python programming, ideally OpenCV; basic linear algebra/camera geometry (projective transforms, homographies) a plus, can be learned on the job Hardware: Standard webcam, projector, checkerboard/ChArUco calibration target, 3D printing Software: Python, OpenCV (calib3d, structured_light modules), NumPy

2026-09-25

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The project can host one student and it is divided into two main parts: 1- Design, realization and test of the device of interest. 2- Developing a publishable manual that can be used by others to achieve the same results.

2026-01-07

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The project can host 2-3 students and it is divided into three main parts: mechanical hand implementation, sensing of themuscles motion, and signal processing for ordering the motors to move the prosthetic hand forthe desired operation.

2025-10-29

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2023-03-21

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2023-03-21

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Expected outcome: A system prototype that can scan and recognize different type of breads available in a bakery. It can also compute the total amount of cost associated with the recognized breads. Used tools and software: Python, Nvidia Jetson, MySQL (database)

2022-11-09

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Expected outcome: Students are required to simulate and create hardware (including PCB design) of certain areas of the system.Number of students: 1-2Prerequisite: Knowledge of both analogue electronics, especially RLC circuitry and transformers, digital electronics. For the latter, knowledge of FPGA and its programming is helpful though not a must.Hardware: Terasic DE0-CV Development board, Software: Intel Quartus Prime, RS DesignSpark PCB

2022-10-11

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Expected outcome: A low-cost method to determine the values of the components in the equivalent circuit of LEDs. A PCB with circuitry that counteracts the LPF characteristic of the LED and extends the LED’s bandwidth.

2022-10-11