Project Title: Design and Implementation of A Snake Robot
Abstract:
The main aim of this project is to build a snake-like robot and investigate how the movement of snakes can be used for robotic movement. The goal is to build a robot that mimics the movement and appearance of a real snake in order to gain its advantages. One of the main issue in building robots is the robot movement and a robot must often be able to move in different environment and conventional movement methods of robots are based on wheels as the tool for generating propulsion. These types of robots, despite their several benefits, struggle in narrow and debris filled environments. One type of movement, which does not struggle with the ability to manoeuvre through different environments and narrow spaces is the locomotion of the snake and is therefore an interesting movement pattern to observe. The snake robots can have application in working in harsh and dangerous environment such as extinguishing fires or in the search and rescue missions.
Students Names: Aysha Sami Mahmoud Habash, Jana Abdal Salam Saliem Sheikh Ali, Nourhan Mohammad Ibrahim Ahmad Ibrahim
Supervisor: Dr. Nader Meskin
Project Title: Antarctica Ham Radio Transceiver through Es’hailSat
Abstract:
As part of their contribution to the society Es’haiSat has donated part of its payload onboard Es’hailSat II to carry ham radion (amature radio) transceiver. This was in coordination with Qatar Amature Radio Society to allow wider outreach for amature radio users in Qatar through the wide coverage of Es’hailSat [1]. This project aims to design and implement an amature radio transceiver to be used as an Antarctica Qatari ham station capable of transmitting and receiving data to and from the Es’hailSat ham radio payload, ultimately enabling Qatar to be put on the map of nations exploring and communicating to and form the Earth’s south pole.
Students Names: Jawaher Rashid A A Al-Mohanadi, khaloud Rashid S M Al-Mejali
Supervisor: Dr. Tamer Khattab
Project Title: Towards the Development of Next Generation Perovskite Solar Energy Technology
Abstract:
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have recently emerged as one of the most exciting fields of research of our time, and rightly so the World Economic Forum in 2016 recognized them as one of the top 10 technologies in 2016. With 22% power conversion efficiency, the PSCs poised to revolutionize how power is produced, stored and consumed green and grid-free energy that would lead the near future “paradigm shift” in the energy sector. However, the widespread use and deep market penetration of PSCs require addressing the stability and toxicity issues. Fresh undergraduate students will be involved to in this green energy theme to address these issues. They will be trained in such a high-profile field in an exciting learning environment, fostering capacity building. This project aligns with the road map of both QNRF and research at Qatar University (Energy, Environment & Resource Sustainability) by addressing Solar PV (emerging technologies and performance improvement). It will be a very plus to Qatar University by enhancing research and technical skills in the emerging field of perovskite PV technology, and will prepare fresh engineers for such a Qatar’s national priority.
Students Names: Dana Saleh A M Al-Sowaidi, Nawal Saleh M S Almoftah, Zeinab Mahmoud Mansour Elsayed
Supervisor: Dr. Farid Touati
Project Title: Design and Implementation of a Wearable Carotid Neckband Doppler System for Early Detection of Carotid Artery Stenosis
Abstract:
With 15.2 million deaths out of 56.9 million deaths worldwide, Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) represent the major cause of death and disability worldwide and are responsible for 27% of the death toll among all the diseases with carotid artery stenosis. The chronic degenerative disease remains asymptomatic and is identified by the accumulation of cholesterol and fatty material at the arterial walls. Therefore, atherosclerosis causes the decrease of elasticity in the arterial walls and thickening. However, this pathology can remain undetected for a long period, plaques possibly will lead to a total blocking of the blood vessels, which is the main underlying reason of strokes. Therefore, the early diagnosis of the atherosclerosis is crucial. In this project, students needs to design a wireless neckband ultrasound Doppler system for acquiring Doppler signals from both carotid arteries. The acquired signal needs to be sent to a database using smartphone application. In the databse and sever, deep machine learning model should be deployed to identify and quantify the Carotid Artery Stenosis and the result should be updated in the user’s smartphone application used for data acquisition. The proposed neckband Doppler system can be used for continuous monitoring of blood flow dynamics in the common carotid arteries in home and point-of-care settings.
Students Names: Fatema Fareed Mahmoud Hamadelneil, Hind Nasser Y Y Al-Jofairi, Taif Mahdi M Almkhlef
Supervisor: Dr. Muhammad Enamul Hoque Chowdhury / Dr. Sumaya
Project Title: Myocardial Infarction Detection in Echocardiography
Abstract:
Echocardiogram uses ultrasound to generate a visual image of the heart. The created internal structure provides a view of the heart blood flow, assisting doctors with an accurate read to the heart’s shape, size, and valves function. By indicating the heart pumping efficiency through the blood velocity as it leaves the heart, an Echocardiogram is used to diagnose blood clots and infections, in addition to detecting previous heart attacks. In this project, a classification system for detection of Myocardial Infarction (MI) in Echocardiography will be developed and experiments will be performed over the benchmark Echo dataset, HMC-QU [P1-P2]. Furthermore, this project will quantify the true wall motion occurring in left-ventricular (LV) wall segments so as to assist cardiologists diagnose early signs of an acute MI as shown in Figure 1. It will further enable medical experts to gain an enhanced visualization capability of echo images through color-coded segments along with their “maximum motion displacement” plots helping them to better assess wall motion and LV Ejection-Fraction (LVEF). The outputs of the method can further help echo-technicians to assess and improve the quality of the echocardiogram recording.
Students Names: Roudha Khater Y K Al-Sulaiti, Shahd Mahyar Ali, Shaima Fuad Ismail Al-Baseer
Supervisor: Dr. Serkan Kiranyaz / Dr. Ridha Hamila / Dr. ChowdhuryMuhammad Enamul Hoque Chowdhury
Project Title: Harvesting System from Speed Bump – Design and Development
Abstract:
Energy harvesting from speed bumps is a promising technology that utilizes the kinetic energy of the vehicles in generating electrical power while passing through it rather than wasting the energy. Each vehicle possesses potential as well as kinetic energy based on the static or motion position. Thousands of vehicles travel through highway networks and other road systems every day, which means a considerable amount of energy is wasted every day. This project would investigate the feasibility of power generation from a road section of DOHA by harvesting energy from speed breakers considering standards and regulations from government bodies, including Ashghal and Kahramaa.
Students Names: Khadiga Khaled Ibrahim Elsayed Ahmed, Mayyar Ahmed Youssef Soliman Elbarbari, Nasiba Mohammad Rashid Rasti
Supervisor: Dr. S M Muyeen
Project Title: Design and control of a PWM microinverter
Abstract:
Renewable energies such as wind, biomass and solar are the best alternative energy candidates, with the latter being more suitable for GCC countries. Besides, the energy generated from photovoltaic (PV) modules is one of the elegant examples of harnessing solar energy, as it is clean, pollutant-free and modular. Furthermore, recent advances in PV technology, especially grid-connected PV systems revealed the preeminence of using multiple small inverters called (Microinverters) over using the conventional single inverter configuration. Nonetheless, due to microinverter’s small ratings designers prefer transformerless designs because transformer removal achieves higher efficiency and power density. In this project, a 600W grid-connected transformerless microinverter prototype will be designed, analyzed, controlled, simulated, prototyped, and tested. The 500W power-electronics based transformerless microinverter will be implemented. The performance of the design is established using computer simulation and will be validated in hardware. Its enhanced capabilities should be highlighted.
Students Names: Noor Abdulrahman D H Al-Nabti, Noora Awwad S A Mohammed
Supervisor: Dr. Lazhar Ben-Brahim
Project Title: QUbeSat: Qatar University CubeSat Project (MSDP)
Abstract:
The current existing CubeSat module at Qatar University (QU), QubeSat1 has a passive attitude determination and control system (ADCS). The main objective of the existing one is to make sure that the satellite is oriented towards Earth with the phase containing the camera lenses since the mission is focused on Earch observation. Future missions of the QubeSat2 will require active control of the satellite attitude to enable astronomy based mission for space observation objectives. The design of the ADCS will have also certain stability requirements and needs to meet several CubeSat mission constraints.
Students Names: Mawada Mokhles Salaheldin Hussein Abdelaty
Supervisor: Dr. Tamer Khattab
Project Title: Design of a distribution substation, earthing /grounding, and protection
Abstract:
Medium voltage substations are connected to the transmission system, which lower the voltage from high level to medium level using transformers. The objective of this project is to design an earting/grounding for the distribution substation. A full study of the substation has to be performed, size of cables and rods for the substation grounding should be obtained. Short-circuit current calculation is needed to design propoer protection devices. Lightning ptotection should be considered. The objective of this project is to design a distribution substation for a typical substation according to KAHARMAA standard. The substation consists transformers, protection devices, earthing cables and so on. Short-circuit current calculation is needed to design propoer protection devices. And, finally protection coordination design is needed. Grounding and lightning ptotection should be considered.
Students Names: Aljazi Jamal A H Saleh, Hissa Abdulaziz A A Al-Hammadi, Sara Nasser M M Aljaber
Supervisor: Dr. Hasan Mehrajardi / Dr. Atif Iqbal
Project Title: Deep Machine Learning for Detecting Deepfakes
Abstract:
Deepfakes is the act of faking the information content like speech, image and/or video and substitute it by another likeness content using AI and machine learning means for the purpose of changing the original meaning and misleading people. Indeed, deepfakes are simply synthetic audios, images and videos generated by neural networks by imitating real observed datasets. Actually, the action of faking content is not a new cocept, the increased computational power and the leveraged powerful techniques from AI and machine learning made the threat from deepfakes serious and is not hypothetical anymore. Nowadays, anyone with mobile phone can easily manipulate, modify and fake the media content and things that never really happened have become disturbingly easy to create. Deepfakes will have big impact on our life since it has implications in all fields that rely on data, like politics, health, society etc. he term Deepfake is typically associated with synthetic data generated
Students Names: Dalal Essa T A Al-ansari, Hanadi Faleh M A Alhajri, Maryam Abdulla S A Alhajri
Supervisor: Dr. Ridha Hamila/ Dr. Serkan Kiranyaz