RAS-SIGHT Projects

Past RAS-SIGHT Projects

Autonomous Robots for Coastal Restoration
Download Digest: Underwater Robot for Water Quality Monitoring in Pipelines (Georgia State University | Ashwin Ashok)
Elephant – Train Collision Prevention System
Where is the Missing Person? Unmanned Aerial System Contest
Download Digest: Humanitarian Innovation: Portable Lab, Training, Workshop and Hackathon (American University of Beirut | Imad Elhajj et al.)
Download Digest: A Robot in My World: A Robotic Solution for Elderly Homes (Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco | Paulo Goncalves)
Download Digest: Autonomous Multimodal Robotic Perception System for Intelligent Wildfire Detection and Monitoring (Univ. of Lisboa & IDMEC | Maria Sousa et al.)
Download Digest: Automated Assistive Breathing Device with Sustainable Energy Source for Disaster Response and the Developing World (Ohio State University | Jeffrey Skidmore, Daniel Vazquez, and Amanda Haney)

Minesweepers Competition
Download Digest: Gear for Automation: Using Robotics to BRING BACK jobs for Workers in Garments Industry (North South University, Bangladesh | Lamia Iftekhar)
Prototyping a Motorized Commode Chair (UMBC | Kavita Krishnaswamy & Tim Oates)
Download Digest: Out of the Shadows: Leveraging Robotics Education to Improve Prosperity in the Developing Nation of Myanmar (Univ. of Toronto | Jonathan Kelly)
Download Full Report | Download Digest: Bridging Robotics Education between High School and University: An Outreach Development in Southeast Asia (Nankai University | Jeffrey Tan)
Underwater Robot for Water Quality Monitoring in Pipelines

Poultry Egg Incubator (Al-Balqa Applied University | Sulieman Meqdadi)
Download Full Report: RAS Humanitarian Technology Day 2017
Download Full Report | Download Digest: The PSYONIC-ROMP Collaboration: Providing Affordable, Advanced Prosthetic Hands in Quito, Ecuador (PSYONIC & ROMP | Aadeel Akhtar & David Krupa)
Download Full Report | Download Digest: Low-cost Handheld Plant Health Monitoring Device for Resource Limited Regions (IIT Kharagpur & TU Munich | Tania Bera & Subhamoy Mandal)
Download Full Report |Download Digest: Establishing Robotics Labs in Underprivileged Schools to promote STEM based Education for Enhancing Skill Sets Prior to Entering Higher Education Settings (NED | Muhammad Nabeel, Hiba Latifee and Muhammad Khurram)
Download Full Report | Download Digest: Variable stiffness prosthetic grasper with myolelectric control (UPB | Cecilia Tapia, Oscar Urquidi and Markus Pakleppa)
Download Digest: The Honey Bee Initiative- Smart Hive (George Mason University | Daniel M. Lofaro and Christopher Taylor)

Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-free World
Download Full Report | Download Digest:Use of Drones for Air Quality Monitoring (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru | Monica Abarca, Carlos Saito, Francisco Cuellar)
Conservation Drones for Wetlands
Download Full Report | Download Digest: Active Information Seeking for Autonomous Aerial Robotic Search and Rescue (UNevada, Reno, USA | Kostas Alexis)
Download Full Report | Download Digest: Humanoid robots for therapeutic treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) children (Jaume-I University, Spain | Enric Cervera)
Download Full Report | Download Digest: Enhancing the Speak Up! Suite of Voice Powered Games (Carnegie Mellon University | Amal Nanavati, M. Bernardine Dias, & Aaron Steinfeld)
Download Full Report | Download Digest: EDUBOTS: Interactive Cooperators to Develop Educational Robotics (University of Nariño, Colombia | David Cisneros Insuasti)
Download Full Report | Download Digest: Home-based Rehabilitation for Children with Cerebral Palsy using Wearable Technologies (UMass Lowell, USA | Momotaz Begum)
Download Full Report | Download Digest: Epidemiological Surveillance through Automated Tracking of Blood Samples (NortheasternU, USA | Taskin Padir)

Download Full Report | Download Digest: Teaching English in Rural Africa through Conversational Robotic Agents (Univ. of Washington, USA | Maya Cakmak and Leah Perlmutter)
Download Full Report | Download Digest: Prevention, Combat and Aftermath of Forest Fires: A Robotic Solution (Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal | Paulo Goncalves)

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