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UC Engineering Final Year Project

Showcase 2019

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As part of the Bachelor of Engineering with Honours degree at UC, our students complete a Final Year Project which builds on the knowledge they’ve gained during their first three years of study.

Many of the projects are industry-sponsored, giving them the opportunity to solve real-world problems. At the Showcase is a sample of some of these Final Year Projects represented on posters for you to view. We encourage you to vote for your favourite, for the inaugural ‘People’s choice’ award.

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Nuts and Bolts Cafe

Showcase floor plan

Software

Electrical and Computer

Mechanical and Mechatronics

Forest

Mechanical and Mechatronics

Welcome desk

Creyke Rd entrance

Note: the Industry Cocktail Function will be held in the Recharge Lounge on Level 2.

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Project Student(s) Sponsor

Forest Engineering

Two-stage revolution? Tom Rendell Forestry360

Factors affecting processing efficiency Nick Berry Hancock, Tokoroa

Mitigating dust from log stack Georgie Craig Port of Tauranga

Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering

Develop a passive radar system for detection of aircraft, UAVs (drones) and large birds

Isaac Bus, Alexander Greer, James Coleman, Michael Jopson Dawn Aerospace

Hip Movement SensorTheodore Harbers, Shawn Richards, Hugo Bidwill, Timothy Townsend

Dr Jung Yoo

Patient Rehabilitation Inertial Tracker System Jozef Crosland, Thomas Lancaster, Shannon Booth ENZTEC

Future Features of ETEL Transformer Design Software Jackson Godfrey, Gregory Bates, Patrick Berry ETEL

Bird scaring robotJeremy Burns, Kate Chamberlin, Kane Findlay, Samuel Hollis, Ryan (Yat Chung) Leung

FAR

Electronic Wind Sensor for SailingThomas Morrison, Thomas Bingham, Andrew Limmer-Wood, Gabriella McLeay

Igtimi

Battery Technology in Mainline LocomotivesChrysteon Dias, Suhao Zhang, Benjamin McKenzie, Alexander Boyd

Kiwi Rail

Air-Insulated High Voltage Measurement / Hydro Generator Simulator

Benjamin Buckley, Jessica Silcock, Mark Struthers, Maria Langdale, Emily Adams

Meridian Energy

Power Factor Correction Analysis and DesignCameron Wyatt, Najwa Khairul Anuar, John He, David Klein Ovink

Methanex NZ Ltd

Earth fault IoT sensor Laura Harding, Jed Mcdermott, Daniel de Gouw, Ke Gao Mitton Electronet

IO Package for Simulation Hardware Nicole Smith, Shun Lyu, Janitha Gunathilake, Michael Hatton Pacific Simuators

Wireless Tree Tap Michael Franks, Robert Anderson, Callum Davidson, Kate Olsen School of Forestry

Battery management system for home storage. Oliver Quarmby, Samuel Johnson, Jesse Baxter, Michael Muldrew Sunshine Solar

Unified Vehicle Platform RefreshPaul Matthew Palitog, Sage Gwatkin, Scott Davidsen, Ronan Fraser

Tait Communications

Power Management Unit Dylan White, Isaac Abbot-Martin, Liam Crum, Jack Wilkie Tait Communications

Assessing supply security and quality at Grid Exit Point (GXP) due to high uptake of renewable energy resources and battery storage system in distribution network

Michael Ellerington, Tyler Patterson, Grace Russell Transpower

Long range photoelectric trigger system for an active LED target

Tessa Mann, Jeffrey Chen, Shrina Kumar, Jack Boulton Trimble

Condition assessment of Aluminium Overhead Conductors

Fergus Duggan, Duncan Mcleod, David Bredda, Raamkumar Manickavasagam

UNISON

FSAERick Sanders, Matthew Northcott, Anthony Watson, James McEwen

University of Canterbury

Eco Marathon CarLawrence Sheddan, Gregor Moonen, Alexander Ryde, Aidan Prior, Tom Somerville, Henry Wills

University of Canterbury

Development of a Rocket Telemetry System Ryan Hall, Samuel Pell, Hamish Robertson Venture Southland

IoT/WiFi connectivity of domestic sensors Michael Brorens, Akshit Gupta, Kieran Hitchchock, Jeena Joseph Vynco



Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics Engineering

Lion’s Den: various projectsLuke Doyle, Daniel Humm, Jintao Wen, Oliver Knopp, Gerard Evans, Irfan McQuinlan, Thomas Goodman

BVT

Track cycling start gateMax Shorter, Arianna Ryan, Nathan McKnight, Marco Tyler-Rodrigue

Canterbury Track Cycling

AIC14 – Insulin FAERIES and the delivery of insulinConnor Benton, Ted Lerios, Aurelio Crestanello, Max van Empel, Joshua Lowe

CDHB

Strategies to reduce environmental impact and/or use of alternative fibre materials in production of MDF-like panel products

Matthew Barry, Ella Fisher, Mink Witowski, Talyah Mayron Daiken

Solving the plastics waste problem at the local levelJacob Maloney, Oliver Ng, William van Loon, Tashana Mehta-Wilson

Dept Mechanical Engineering

Noise minimization of a cryogenic gas to liquid system

Arthur Cooke, Yihang Liu, Cameron Smith, Monique Frost Fabrum

Heat loss minimization of a cryogenic gas to liquid system

Thomas Cresswell, Max Goddard-Winchester, Joanna Milne, Cjay Semilla

Fabrum

Noise attenuation designs for gas pressure regulating equipment

David Cleary, Aiden Pons, Raj Prasad, Larissa Wilson FirstGas

Dial Feel measurement Lochlan Boddy, Richard Clapshaw, James Fone, Daniel Wright Fisher & Paykel Appliances

DishDrawer connectPatrick McCallum, Edward Popham, Nathan Walker, Ziyang Wang

Fisher & Paykel Appliances

Infant Care project Ezilna Feldtmann, Cherie Vasta, Lucas Toovey, Vincent Flusk Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

Chassis & AeroCameron Arvidson, Ryan Coey, Ben Eagle, Oscar Gittings, Ian Talbot

FSAE

Powertrain & SuspensionPaige Cuthbert, Dylan Familton, Cameron Richards, Nika Ross, Mason Kennedy

FSAE

Automated alignment and routing of composite trench covers

Joshua Green, Jamie Sommer, Sudtavee Maneerit, Cameron Shellard

Gracol Composites

Waterjet thrust bearing condition monitoring Christopher Bull, Jake Shields, Blair Masters, Nicholas Lam Hamilton Jet

Water filtration panels retro-fitable to flood barriers Kaia Bishop, Peter McCormick, Tim Quennell, Anthony Walters Hydro Response

Levitation: Complete Structural Isolation w/ Magnets Wei Shen Chia, Amy Strang, Alex Towse, Dylan Davy KiwiNet

Spray deposition sensors for NZ agriculture Tim Ellis, Nicholas Krause, Jed O’Brien, Ye (Shaun) Kang Lincoln Agritech

Electrode and Nozzle for Agricultural Electrostatic Spraying System

Arun Raju, Rachel Schultz, Rhys Fitzgerald, Josh Kerr, Simon Janssen

Lincoln Agritech

Innovations to extend the life of single use medical equipment

Sebastian Jones, Phoebe King, Jeremy Whiting, Frederick Wright Medsalv

Aerodynamic developments for rally carsReuben Eggers, James Goldingham, Hugh McCoshim, Shaun Palmer

Paddon Rallysport

Universal Headtop Julian Alexander, Nathan Arscott, Benjamin Rowan, Teck Soon RPB

New luge cartMax Attwell, Charles Christey, Daniel Fairuz, Cory Sutherland, Isabella Strang

Skyline

Headgear for U13 Rugby Jack Keys, Liam Membery, Tim Scott, Ryan Stewart Sports & Ex Science

Shock and vibration pofiling of a rugged myoelectric prosthetic hand exposed to everyday use cases

Keith Algar, Freya Dixon, Rebecca Lilley, Ben McEwen Taska

DIET: Next-Generation Breast Cancer Screening Systems

Stefano Barfucci, Reuben King, Thomas Maslin, Jemima Wu Tiro Medical

Heavy trailer drawbar design for manufacture Greg Alheit, Kyle Bosselmann, Marcus Jones, Richard Wiley TransTech Dynamics

Strategies to mitigate and drain flooding in Westport Erika Gollnick, Badrul Hashaim, Isaac Wilkinson, Leo WrightWest Coast Regional Council

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Software Engineering

ESR Automated Method for Single Bloodstain Measurement

Alex Tompkins ESR

Gough Group Cat Connect Opportunity Information Funnel

Josh Burt Gough Group


Patrick Laffey Gough Group


Tyler Kennedy Gough Group

Oblique Pro Scooter Movement Detection Matt King Oblique Pro

Oblique Pro Requirement Gathering & User Experience for a Social App & Website

Aidan Smith Oblique Pro

Orion Employ Machine Learning to Identify & Categorize Orion Low Voltage Assets

Andrew Spearman Orion

PiPloT Automated Deployment & Self-Serve Analytics of an IoT Cloud

James Toohey PiPloT


Morgan English PiPloT


Braden Alsford PiPloT


Joshua Bernasconi PiPloT

Seequent Dam Monitoring Digital Twin Rebecka Cox Seequent

Seequent Digital Geological Mapping Patrick Ma Seequent

South Pacific Sera Ltd Visit Wilding Pines with a Drone Lachlan Brewster South Pacific Sera Ltd

South Pacific Sera Ltd Visit Wilding Pines with a Drone James Morritt South Pacific Sera Ltd

South Pacific Sera Ltd Visit Wilding Pines with a Drone Jack Hay South Pacific Sera Ltd

South Pacific Sera Ltd Visit Wilding Pines with a Drone Alan Brook South Pacific Sera Ltd

Trimble Hotspot Analysis of Production Code Jono Hills Trimble

Personal Project: TiVo for live audio recording in a mobile context

Ollie Chick University of Canterbury

Deep Learning Text Compression Tim Hamblin University of Canterbury

Developing a Game to Support Teaching Pointers & Memory Management (or 14 Bone fracture)

Eoghan Roberts University of Canterbury

Implement Browser Testing of Website Oscar Stockill University of Canterbury

Implement feedback collection in Django website Joshua Meneghini University of Canterbury

BitFit Exercises Maree Palmer University of Canterbury

Code Smells & Defects Detection Eiran Ling University of Canterbury

Recording Design Decisions on-the-fly from slack Jack O’Donoghue-Steel University of Canterbury

Gathering & Interpreting Data from Sensors to Calibrate Movement

Elizabeth Wilson University of Canterbury

Gathering & Interpreting Data from Sensors to Calibrate Movement

Cameron Auld University of Canterbury



Investigating the Effect of Adding a Chatbot to EER-Tutor

Robert Bruce University of Canterbury

Gamifying EER-Tutor Courtney Hoskin University of Canterbury

White Crow PM Hayden Taylor University of Canterbury

Fastest SQL Gun in the West Jennifer Halvorsen University of Canterbury

Whole Slide Image Pre-processing Alogrithms for Applications in Digital Pathology

Imas Neupane University of Canterbury

Extraction of Nuclear Morphometric Patterns from Histopathologic Images

Andrew Davidson University of Canterbury

Developing a decision-tree learning Algorithm capable of handling categorical data in Scikit-learn

James MacKay University of Canterbury

Path planning alogrithms for multiple agents James Regan University of Canterbury

End-to-End Adaptive Video Transmission in multi-hop Autonomous UAV Swarms

Benny Schmidt University of Canterbury


Brooke Rakowitz University of Canterbury


Tom Kearsley University of Canterbury

Software Engineering practices and methods in Game development in NZ

Timothy McKenzie University of Canterbury

Personal Project Social Platform Andy French University of Canterbury

Personal Project Social Platform Matthew Knight University of Canterbury

Personal Project Social Platform Matilda Porterfield University of Canterbury

For the first time this year attendees at the Final Year Project Showcase were able to vote for their favourite project, this was very popular with attendees, and fiercely competitive between some students. The award was announced by Mark Jermy Deputy Head of Mechanical Engineering, and trophies awarded by Deputy Vice Chancellor Ian Wright.

People’s Choice Award Winner:Project Poster: “Vibration Profiling of a rugged prosthetic hand” Project Sponsor: Taska – David Lovegrove, and Ross DawsonProject Students: Keith Algar, Freya Dixon, Rebecca Lilley, and Ben McEwen

CONGRATULATIONS!

Peoples Choice Award 2019

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VIBRATION PROFILING OF A RUGGED PROSTHETIC HAND

PROBLEM • Understand the performance of the Taska

prosthetic hand under a variety of use-cases

TEAM (P57) KEITH ALGAR FREYA DIXON REBECCA LILLEY BEN MCEWEN DR. STEFANIE GUTSCHMIDT

THANK YOU TO TECHNICIAL STAFF: JULIAN MURPHY JULIAN PHILLIPS TONY DOYLE

TASKA PROSTHETICS: DAVID LOVEGROVE ROSS DAWSON

METHODOLOGY • Determine resonant frequencies of the hand • Determine frequency bands of typical use-cases

(excitation inputs) • Design + build test-rig & data acquisition device • Test-rig validation through end-user testing • Analysis of results

RESULTS • Comprehensive data collection using test-rig and

data acquisition device • Identified frequency bands of use-case input signals (Fig. 1) • Identified resonant frequency bands of hand

(Fig. 2) • Identified critical use-case frequency bands

(Fig. 2 & Table)

CONCLUSION • Different behaviour for closed/open hand: Open hand was more critical at lower frequency inputs

• Open hand critical frequency bands identified: 50-80 Hz, 150-220 Hz • Closed hand critical frequency bands identified:

70-100 Hz, 200-600 Hz (combined all directions) • See Table for overlap between resonant

frequencies of the hand & some typical use-cases • Maximum acceleration of sensor: 16.9g

Cuff & Isolator

Accelerometer (on finger)

Buzzer

LED

Shaker

Use Case Acceleration Range [g] Overlapping Frequencies [Hz]

Walk ±1.1

- Run ±4.6

- Electric Beater ±4.8 70, 250-300

Lawnmower ±10.9 0-100

Hand Bump (Fig. 2) ±16.8* 70, 160-210 Drill

±16.9* 70, ~390

Hammer (Fig. 1) ±16.9* 70, 80-120

Tennis ±16.9* 70, 100, 400-460

Shovel ±16.9* 70, 100

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Figure 1: Frequency bands of hammer (handle) input and resonance of hand in grip position. Figure 2: Overlapping frequency bands of hand bump (user

testing) and resonance responses of the hand in an open position (lab testing).

* Maximum amplitude of accelerometer reached

Beca

BVT

Canterbury Track Cycling

CDHB

Daiken

Dawn Aerospace

Dr Jung Yoo

Dynes Transport

ENZTEC

ESR

ETEL

Fabrum

FAR

FirstGas

Fisher & Paykel Appliances

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

Forestry360

FSAE

Gough Group

Gracol Composites

Hamilton Jet

Hancock, Tokoroa

Hydro Response

Igtimi

Kiwi Rail

KiwiNet

Lincoln Agritech

Medifab

Medsalv

For more information on sponsoring a future project please contact:

Grahame BurgessCollege Relationships and Engagement Manager | Kaiwhakahaere HonongaCollege of Engineering | Te Rāngai Pūkaha

University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha

E: [email protected]

T: +64 3 369 4279 www.canterbury.ac.nz/engineering/industry

We wish to thank the following sponsors:

Meridian Energy

Methanex NZ Ltd

Mitton Electronet

Nerra

Oblique Pro

Orion Group

Pacific Simuators

Paddon Rallysport

PeaceHealth Medical Group

PiPIoT

Port of Tauranga

Ravensdown

RPB

Seequent

Skyline

South Pacific Sera

Sports & Ex Science

Sunshine Solar

Tait Communications

Taska

Tiro Medical

Transpower

TransTech Dynamics

Trimble

UNISON

Venture Southland

Vynco

West Coast Regional Council

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