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- | ====== Continuation of a Path Diagram to Syntax Application ====== | + | ===Dynamic Interface Detection and Control Project=== |
- | **Supervisor**: Jeff Edmonds | + | **Supervisor: Michael Jenkin** |
- | **Required Background**: | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | Contrary to most industries, fine chemical manufacturing is dominated by batch production methods. Increasing economic, environmental and safety pressures are motivating a turn towards continuous synthesis. Rather than making products in one big flask, continuous synthesis involves performing chemical reactions by flowing reagents through a tube. Working in this way provides more control over the reaction parameters leading to increases in product quality, and process efficiency and safety. The flow chemistry industry for fine chemical production is a relatively new but burgeoning field with a projected market capacity of billions of dollars by 2018. |
- | Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a statistical technique that is becoming increasingly popular | + | Extraction of the reaction mixture for purification and/or further processing is an important step in chemical manufacturing. This is a relatively straightforward operation |
- | The software required | + | A key step in the process takes place in a clear tube that is mounted vertically. |
- | To date a promising functional application has been developed in JAVA by a Computer Science student as a 4080 project. The existing software allows the user to draw a path diagram and outputs code for the R package sem. There are a number of improvements to be made (refinements | + | One way of solving this problem is to float a marker at the boundary between the two liquids |
- | More details {{:continuation_of_a_path_diagram_to_syntax_application.pdf|here}}. | + | Specific goals of the project include: |
+ | - Develop a computer vision system that can detect and monitor the interface between two miscible fluids of different density. | ||
+ | - Evaluate the performance of the system over a range of different (and typical) fluids | ||
+ | - Explore the use of different illuminant/ | ||
- | ====== YUsend Thermal Vacuum | + | The successful candidate(s) will have the experience of working with a diverse group of scientists and engineers toward the design and implementation of an automated liquid extraction device with applications across many industries. Upon successful prototyping, |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | For further information please contact, |
- | **Required Background**: | + | Michael Jenkin (jenkin@cse.yorku.ca) or Michal Organ (organ@yorku.ca) |
- | **Description** The YUsend (York University Space Engineering Nanosatellite Demonstration) Lab has procured a Windows XP-based industrial computer and temperature acquisition card (as well as other hardware) for performing TVAC testing of nanosatellites in the CSIL Lab (PSE 003). A “TVAC Test Manager” application written | + | \\ |
+ | ====== DDoS Attack | ||
- | Specific tasks include: 1. Writing temperature acquisition card (OMEGA Engineering CIO-DAS-Temp) drivers for LabView - should be written in Visual C++ or similar and compiled into SubVI format. 2. Write LabView VI's (“Virtual Instrument”) to perform (a) Test set-up activities - checkout of sensor and lamps, assigning neumonics to temperature sensors, setting of alarm conditions for sensors and lamps (b) Acquire and monitor temperature data and control lamp voltage during test, raise operator alarms for temperature or IR lamp anomalous conditions as required © Store temperature and control data for subsequent analysis and reporting. 3. (Optional) Interface the Test Manager with an orbital simulation tool which would be used to compute IR lamp inputs based on a simulation of the nanosatellite' | + | **Supervisor**: Ntalija Vlajic |
+ | **Recommended Background**: | ||
- | ====== Game Playing Framework | + | Not long ago, botnets - networks of compromised computers - were seen as |
+ | the most effective (if not the only) means of conducting Distributed Denial | ||
+ | of Service (DDoS) attacks. However, with the growing popularity and prevalence | ||
+ | of application-layer over other types of DDoS attacks, the DDoS execution | ||
+ | landscape is becoming increasingly more diverse. An especially interesting | ||
+ | new trend is the execution of application-layer DDoS attacks by means of | ||
+ | skillfully manipulated Web-crawlers, | ||
+ | The goal of this project is to design, implement and test a real-world | ||
+ | framework consisting of the following: a) the attacker' | ||
+ | domain specially designed to attract Google-bots and then manipulate them | ||
+ | into generating attack traffic towards the target/ | ||
+ | victim' | ||
+ | component, the project will also look into the statistical/ | ||
+ | estimation of the framework' | ||
+ | to an actual (real-world) target/ | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | ||
- | **Required Background**: | ||
- | **Description** Game playing frameworks in Eiffel such as Eiffelmedia usually wrap C frameworks in Eiffel. The goal of this project is to develop (initially, a simple) framework using pure Eiffel/ | ||
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+ | ====== | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | **Required Background**: | + | **Required Background**: |
- | of Fortran, C or similar language. | + | good math skills, knowledge of C and MATLAB programming languages |
- | **Description**: | + | One of the challenges in remote learning is to allow students to communicate effectively with the lecturer. |
- | polynomial equations, with a view to comparing different known methods. | + | |
+ | The goal of this project is to apply attentive sensing technology (www.elderlab.yorku.ca) to this problem. | ||
+ | |||
+ | In particular, working | ||
+ | |||
+ | - Study the problem of detecting hand-raises in the preattentive sensor stream | ||
+ | - Implement algorithms for detecting hand-raises based upon this investigation | ||
+ | - Evaluate these algorithms in a real-classroom setting, using proprietary attentive sensing technology | ||
- | ====== Enabling SaaS access to an experimental AI planner ====== | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | ====== Attentive Sensing for Sport Video Recording Markets ====== |
- | **Required Background**: Good knowledge of Unix tools / Python, Perl or Awk. Comfort with algorithms and programming. Essential: 2031 -- Software Tools. Desired: | + | **Supervisor**: James Elder |
- | 3402 -- Functional & Logic Programming, | + | |
- | 3101 -- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, | + | |
- | 4302 -- Compilers and Interpreters. | + | |
- | **Description**: This project involves enriching and integrating a set of fairly complex scripts, which are components | + | **Required Background**: Good programming skills; Good math skills; Knowledge |
- | The components are various Unix executables and LISP programs that need to interact in complex ways. The components may be residing in different servers in different universities. Currently integration | + | |
+ | The goal of this project | ||
+ | |||
+ | The general problem is to use attentive sensing technology | ||
+ | |||
+ | The student will work with senior graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists to help modify the attentive sensing technology to operate in these domains. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 1. | ||
+ | 2. Evaluate current attentive algorithms on these datasets | ||
+ | 3. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | |||
- | Learning objectives: | + | \\ |
- | * Understand the technologies and process involved | + | ====== Hunting for Bugs in Logging: applying JPF to log4j ====== |
- | * Study a state-of-the-art AI planner and understand its workings. | + | |
- | * Exercise scripting skills. | + | |
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
- | ====== Predicting Angular Error in Rigid Registration ====== | + | Description: |
+ | Java PathFinder (JPF) is a tool that can detect bugs in Java code. | ||
+ | The Java library Apache log4j allows developers to control which log | ||
+ | statements are output. | ||
+ | to detect bugs in log4j by means of JPF with very limited succes. | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | Recently, in collaboration with Shafiei (NASA) we have developed |
+ | an extension of JPF called jpf-nhandler. | ||
+ | is to apply this extension to log4j. | ||
- | **Description**: | + | [1] David A. Dickey, B. Sinem Dorter, J. Michael German, Benjamin D. Madore, Mark W. Piper, Gabriel L. Zenarosa. " |
- | navigation. Several (seemingly) different approaches for predicting | + | |
- | distance errors in registration are known, but for some surgical | + | |
- | procedures, the angular error in registration is more important. | + | |
- | This project will validate an approach for predicting angular | + | |
- | error in registration; | + | |
- | simulated and actual registration data for testing purposes. | + | |
- | ====== | + | **Required Background: |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======Hybrid 2D/3D User Interfaces for 3D Rotation | ||
- | **Supervisor**: Burton Ma | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | **Description**: Tracked pointers are the most common tools used in surgical | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, |
- | navigation systems. A typical pointer has a tracked | + | |
- | end and a sharp or ball tip on the other end. Finding | + | This project implements and evaluates a new method for 3D Rotation where the user uses both a 2D and 3D user interface to complete the task. The fundamental idea is to use the 3D interface for large-scale manipulation, |
- | of the tip relative | + | \\ |
- | solution to the calibration problem involves pivoting | + | ------------ |
- | about the tip while tracking the target; | + | \\ |
- | stationary, then the target moves on the surface | + | ====== Immersive Virtual Reality Kitchen Planner ====== |
- | Fitting the tracking data to the surface | + | |
- | location | + | **Supervisor: |
- | calibrated tip position obtained using such a spherical calibration | + | |
- | has high variance. This project | + | **Required Background: |
- | there is in the calibrated tip position, and methods for reducing | + | |
- | the variance | + | This project implements a kitchen planner application for an immersive virtual reality system. The implementation will be based on Unity 4. |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======3D Interaction | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | |||
+ | This project implements and tests various 3D Navigation and 3D Interaction methods in an immersive virtual reality system. The target | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ====== Mining Software Repositories Data====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Short Description: | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ======Reliably tracking horizontal eye movements====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Description: | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ======Model-based Design and Development | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | such as Arduino. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Project Description: | ||
+ | |||
+ | Model-based design with code generation tools can be used for simulation, rapid prototyping, | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ======C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | strong C programming skills, solid knowledge | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Description: | ||
+ | two cores on a single-chip with on-chip low latency interprocessor communication between | ||
+ | real-time control with faster/more loops and small sampling window; | ||
+ | and an ARM 32-bit Cortex-M3 host core for communications and general purpose. The selected student will evaluate the capabilities of the | ||
+ | C2000 Concerto family of microcontrollers through testing and investigating open source software for real-time control applications | ||
+ | that runs on C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers. | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ======Real-Time Bidding Platform====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | (CSE3221), strong Ubuntu/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Description: | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ======Circuit and Board Design for a Pulsed Ground Penetrating Radar====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Description: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background** A background in undergraduate-level electronics is very important. | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | More project proposals may be added here in the first week of the winter term. | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | \\ |
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