Instructor: Dr. Islam Eshrah Email: ieshrah@gmail

Instructor: Dr. Islam Eshrah Email: [email protected]

Sponsor: Analog Devices

Next-generation communication systems will require low-loss, densely packed antenna arrays with wide scanning capability, tunable and/or wideband performance, and minimal coupling. This will subsequently entail new or improved designs for antenna array elements, feeding networks, phase shifters, power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, switches, circulators... etc.

Required Skills: Full-wave simulators (CST, HFSS, ADS Momentum or similar), Circuit simulators (ADS or similar)

Student Grade: The majority of the team members should have achieved at least “very good” grade in Microwave Engineering courses.

Project Proposal #1:

Design a 4x8 antenna array for broadside linearly polarized radiation at 30 GHz. Constant gain and impedance matching should be maintained in a bandwidth of at least 10%. The design should give minimal loss in the feeding network and achieve

in the direction along the large dimension of the array. The �scan angle of ±45design should be based on a clear design methodology to lend itself to other operating frequencies.

Project Proposal #2:

Design a low-loss, high-power digital phase shifter operating at 30 GHz, to be integrated directly with the antenna (array element). The phase shifter should be capable of producing phase shift from 0 to 180 degrees with increment of 11.25 degree.

Project Proposal #3:

Design a 4x8 retrodirective phased array operating at 30 GHz. A retrodirective array is one that directs the beam to the same direction it receives the signal at from the user. The design should give minimal loss in the feeding network and achieve scan

in the direction along the large dimension of the array. The design �angle of ±45should be based on a clear design methodology to lend itself to other operating frequencies.

Instructor: Prof. Neamat Abdel Kader

Email: [email protected] The students must choose one of the following projects:

Project 1: Image Watermarking based on image interlacing Abstract As the rapid development in the information and communication technology the copyright protection of

the digital multimedia like image, audio and video is very necessary, digital watermarking plays an important role in this field by hiding a secret information into the original media called watermark, later at the receiver this secret information is extracted out to represent the ownership and the identity of this digital media. Digital image watermarking is categorized according to the need of the original image in the watermark image recovery into two types: non-blind watermarking needs the original image in the watermark image recovery , and blind watermarking don’t need it. And for more robustness in the both types of the watermarking system, the watermark image is encrypted before embedding it in the original image at the sender and then decrypted at the receiver after extracting it from the watermarked image, the secret encryption key may be the same in encryption and decryption as in Symmetric key cryptography or different as in Asymmetric key cryptography. Arnold Transform as a one of the popular Symmetric key image encryption methods recently is used.

The non-blind watermarking is more simple than the blind watermarking where the watermark image recovery is done by a comparison between the watermarked image and the original image where in the blind watermarking the original image is not available, Also The non-blind watermarking is more robust than the blind watermarking because the availability of the original image at the watermark image recovery makes the extracted watermark is more similar to the original watermark than it where the original image is not available.

The main problem of the non-blind watermarking (not exists in the blind watermarking) is that the original image is sent in parallel with the watermarked image which makes double storage capacity in memory [6] and double communication traffic per time (Bandwidth) in the communication channel between the sender and the receiver.

Requirements: Matlab, C++

Project 2 : Mobile-based Visual Localization Aid for the Blind

Abstract

This is a computer vision based project that aims to help a blind person find her/his location in indoor environment. The blind person is equipped with a mobile phone that consists of a camera, a speaker as well as the stand alone localization application. The map of the indoor environments is described by a set of images. The localization is performed by extracting a feature from the image of the unknown location and comparing it the features of the environment. The feature which has the nearest distance to that of the novel image is considered and a voice massage is sent the blind person with the location information.

Color histogram is proposed as the image feature. The project developed using C++ and Symbian OS.

Project 3: A Unified Approach in Speech-to-Speech Translation: Abstract Integrating Features of Speech Recognition and Machine Translation Current translation systems are typically of a cascaded structure: speech recognition followed

by machine translation. This structure, while explicit, lacks some joint optimality in performance since the speech recognition module and translation module are running rather independently. Moreover, the translation module of a speech translation system, a natural of spring of text-input based translation system, usually takes a single-best recognition hypothesis transcribed in text and performs standard text-based translation. Lots of supplementary information available from speech recognition, such as N-best recognition hypotheses, likelihoods of acoustic and language models, is not well utilized in the translation process. The information can be effective for improving translation quality if employed properly.

Requirements: Matlab, C++

Instructor: Dr. Ahmed Khattab

[email protected]:

Abstract —The Internet of Things (IoT) has been widely used to interconnect the available medical resources and offer smart, reliable, and effective healthcare service to the elderly people. Health monitoring for active and assisted living is one of the paradigms that can use the IoT advantages to improve the elderly lifestyle. In this project, the goal is to develop an IoT platform customized for healthcare applications. The foreseen platform collects the data and relays it to either the cloud or a remote server where it is processed and analyzed. Feedback actions based on the analyzed data can be sent back to the user. This requires the development of a mobile APP to serve this purpose. A prototype of the platform is to be built to demonstrate its performance advantages.

Required skills: Outstanding programming skills (Embedded and Andriod) Embedded system design Sensor Circuit interfacing

Graduation Projects Proposals 2017

Dr. Hassan Mostafa ([email protected])

Research Projects (Funded by research agencies)

Project 1: Biomedical Interfacing

- Implementation of biomedical interfacing circuit that receives the analog signal from an

electrode implanted in the brain and provides it in a digital format for further processing. The

interface circuit includes Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), filters, ADC. The main objective of the

design is the power consumption as the design will be implanted in the brain.

-The outcome of this project is expected be a chip layout ready for fabrication in 130nm

CMOS technology with the possibility of fabrication

-CADENCE, and CALIBRE

Project 2: Micro-scale energy harvesting

-Implementation of micro-scale energy harvesting system capable of delivering the required

power to a brain biomedical interfacing circuit using piezoelectric/thermal/RF energy

harvesting system.

-The outcome of this project is expected be a chip layout ready for fabrication in 130nm

CMOS technology with the possibility of fabrication

-CADENCE, and CALIBRE

Project 3: Biomedical Signal Processing

-This project includes providing the Matlab and HDL implementation for the algorithms used

in the detection and prediction of the neural brain signal and sending back an electric stimuli

to treat the seizure (for Epilepsy and Parkinson).

-The outcome of this project is a working FPGA prototype as well as an ASIC tape-out for

fabrication.

-FPGA Programming, ISE, VHDL/VERILOG, MATLAB, CADENCE, CALIBRE

Project 4: SDR Implementation

-This project includes the implementation of the Software Defined Radio on the FPGA (Virtex

7). The standards to be adopted are: 2G, 3G, LTE, WiFi, and Bluetooth.

-The outcome of this project is a working FPGA prototype.

-FPGA Programming, ISE, VHDL/VERILOG, MATLAB

Project 5: IoT Hardware Security

-This project includes the implementation of the hardware security module that will be used

for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. This module should have low power and

moderate throughput. The module should be adapted to different IoT platforms such as

Bluetooth, Zigbee, WIFI, GSM, 3G, and LTE.

-The outcome of this project is a working FPGA prototype as well as an ASIC tape-out for

fabrication.

-FPGA Programming, ISE, VHDL/VERILOG, MATLAB, CADENCE, CALIBRE

Project 6: Open topic

-In this topic, the students are welcome to propose new innovative ideas and they should

perform a presentation for their idea and convince us of their capability and qualifications to

perform it. Presentation time will be arranged through emails.

Design Projects (Funded by companies)

Project 7: (Setcore company: http://www.setcore.com/)

Setcore aims to create its own wireline logging tool that is going to be the first Egyptian/Arab tool ever made which is going to revolutionize the industry and will act as a powerful development for the industry-university link. In addition to involving the students a real life industrial activity which will properly prepare them for their future careers. We are searching for undergrad candidates who are willing to go through this project tirelessly to achieve this project on due date.

Qualifications

x Excellent Circuit design skills. x PCB design skills x Excellent in communications and data transfer. x Hard working & Team Player.

Project 8: (NI company: http://arabia.ni.com/)

This project includes finding an application that utilizes NI myRIO design kit with the RFID tchnology. Several ideas are available but new innovative ideas are welcome. Existing ideas include Robot, Intelligent wheelchair,..etc. This project will apply for the NI global competition in Beirut 2017.

Qualifications

x LABVIEW & Programming Skills

Project 9: Open topic

-In this topic, the students are welcome to propose new innovative ideas and they should

perform a presentation for their idea and convince us of their capability and qualifications to

perform it. Presentation time will be arranged through emails.

x If anyone needs more information on the GP topics, feel free to email me to address your questions.

x You can have a look at last year’s projects by going to the following links:

x https://www.facebook.com/ONELab2016/ x http://scholar.cu.edu.eg/hmostafa/announcements

x If you are interested, please fill in the below form before August 30, 2016.

x If you want to submit in different projects, please use separate form for each project. Each group can apply for up to 3 projects.

x http://goo.gl/forms/bK2qXIuevLRVFg3W2

Acceptance notifications will be sent out by September 10, 2016.

GOOD LUCK

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Advisor Name: Dr. Mohamed Refky e-mail: [email protected]

SN. Project Name 1 Smart Monitoring and Controlling of Power Grid

Abstract

Asmartgridisamodernizedelectricalgridthatusescommunicationtechnologytogatherandact on information in an automated fashion to improve the efficiency, reliability, economics,and sustainability of the production and distribution of electricity. Electronic powerconditioningandcontroloftheproductionanddistributionofelectricityareimportantaspectsofthesmartgrid.The purpose of this project is to deliver a smart system thatmaximizes the efficiency of theproductionanddistributionofelectricityandminimizesthecostonthecostumers.Theexpecteddeliverablesofthisprojectare

§ A smart meter that monitors the consumption of the unit (apartment/Building) andsendsthereadingstotheelectricitycompanyoverthepowergrid.

§ Asmartoutletthatdisplaytheamountoftheconsumedelectricity.§ Communicationprotocoltosendthedataoverthepowergrid.§ Softwareonthecompanysidethatprocessesthecollecteddataandanalysisit.

Theprojectprovideslearning’sonthefollowingadvancements:1. Microcontrollercircuits.2. Communicationprotocols&security.3. EmbeddedCprogramming.4. PCBdesigning.

Interestedstudentsneedto:

§ Formagroupof5-6students.§ Sendanemail to “[email protected]” including their CV and indicate

clearlytheirGPA.Inthesubjectoftheemailusetheprojectnumber(“Project1”).

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SN. Project Name 2 ADC for Software Defined Radio

Abstract

SoftwareDefinedRadio(SDR)isaoneofthehotresearchareasthesedays.Thereasonbehindthis isthatSDRaimstoprovideonechipthat iscapableofdealingwithmanycommunicationstandards.SwitchingbetweenmanystandardsusingonechipmakestheSDRamultifunctionalandprogrammablewhileatthesametimeprovidealow-costandpower-efficientsolution.The purpose of this project is to deliver and analog to digital converter (ADC) thatworks onmorethan2communicationstandards.Theexpecteddeliverablesofthisprojectare:

§ A complete schematic of the proposed ADC along with the simulation results thatconfirmtheperformanceoftheADC.

§ AcompletelayoutoftheproposedADCalongwiththepost-layoutsimulations.§ Writinganacademicresearchpapertobesubmittedtoaninternationalconference.

Theprojectprovideslearning’sonthefollowingadvancements:1. UsingMatlabtobuildmodelsofacircuit.2. UsingofCadence/Eldotobuildacircuitanddosimulations.3. UsingofCadence/Calibretobuildthelayoutofacircuitanddopost-layoutsimulations.4. Writingandacademicpaper.

Interestedstudentsneedto:§ Form a group of 5-6 students. § Send an email to “[email protected]” including their CV and indicate

clearly their GPA. In the subject of the email use the project number (“Project 2”).

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SN. Project Name 3 Smart Traffic Control

Abstract

Smart trafficcontrolaimstobuildasystemthatcombinesexisting trafficcontrolsystemwithartificialintelligencetocreatelightsthattrulythinkbyitself.Thepurposeofthisprojectistodeliverasmarttrafficcontrolsystemthathelpsinsolvingthetrafficjammingproblemandreducesthewaitingtimeofthevehicles.Theexpecteddeliverablesofthisprojectare:

§ Anewsmarttrafficcontrolsystem.§ Simulationresultofthenewsystemusingasimulationprogram.§ Writinganacademicresearchpapertobesubmittedtoaninternationalconference.

Theprojectprovideslearning’sonthefollowingadvancements:1. UsingMatlabtobuildmodelsofasystem.2. Usingofsimulationprogramstobuildasystemanddosimulations.3. Writingandacademicpaper.

Interestedstudentsneedto:§ Form a group of 4-6 students. § Send an email to “[email protected]” including their CV and indicate

clearly their GPA. In the subject of the email use the project number (“Project 3”).

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SN. Project Name 4 Design of a RISC Microprocessor

Abstract

Thepurposeofthisproject isto implementapipelinedRISCmicroprocessorandalsobuild itscompiler.Themicroprocessorwillbedividedintosub-blocks(e.g.ALU,registers,andcodememory)andimplemented using a VHDL code. This code will be uploaded on an FPGA to be tested. Acompilerwillbebuilt toconvert the instructions intomachine language (i.e.0’sand1’s).Thecompilerwillbebuiltusingaprogramminglanguage(e.g.C++orbasic)willbeusedtobuildthecompiler.Theexpecteddeliverablesofthisprojectare:

§ ARISCmicroprocessorimplementedonanFPGA.§ Acompiler

Theprojectprovideslearning’sonthefollowingadvancements:1. PipelinedMicroprocessordesign.2. VLSIimplementationofadigitalsystem.3. Compilerimplementation.4. FPGAusage.

Interestedstudentsneedto:§ Form a group of 5-6 students. § Send an email to “[email protected]” including their CV and indicate

clearly their GPA. In the subject of the email use the project number (“Project 4”).

Dr. Omar Ahmed Nasr Email: [email protected]

Toapply:

1- Teamsthatareinterestedonworkinginacertainprojectshouldsendane-mailtoomaranasr@cu.edu.egby

thelastdayofEidAlAdha.Thee-mailtitleshouldhavethewords(GraduationProjectCHS+theprojecttitle).

Thee-mailhavethefollowingattachments:

a. AzipfilethathasalltheCVs

b. Aseparatefilethathasatablethathasthenames,e-mails,phonenumbers,GPA,specialtalents

(courses,programminglanguages,prizes,…etc)

Name e-mail Phone

number

GPA Special

talents

Attheendofthefile,writeaparagraphstatingthemotivationbehindapplyingtoworkinthisproject

2- Selectionwilltakeintoconsiderationdifferentfactors,especiallytheteammotivationandprevious

experienceandiftheyhaveagoodrecordinworkinginprojects.Gradeswillbeonlyonefactoramongother

factors.

3- Iwillcontactsometeamstomeetbeforeannouncingthefinalacceptedlistofteams.

4- Teamsshouldbereadyforhardwork.Theyshouldbeself-motivated,andbeabletolearnbythemselves.

Self-learningisoneofthemajorobjectivesoftheproject.

5- Iamgivinggoodgradesfortheteamsthatdoagoodjob.Igivebadgradesforlazyteams.

Projects:

1-Distributedsocialnetwork:WehavedevelopedanodecalledDropletlastyearthatcanreplacetheaccesspointsathomes.Themaindifferencebetween

ourDropletandthenormalaccesspointis“programmability”.UserscaneasilyinteractwiththisDroplet.TheDropletisbasedon

RaspberryPiplatform.Toshowitscapabilities,wehavedevelopedamobileapplicationthatcaninteractwiththeDropletat

home.Theuser,whenheisoutsidehishome,canchooseavideotodownloadfromyoutubeorothersites.Theuser,through

themobileapp,sendstheweblinktotheDropletathome.TheDropletdownloadsthevideountiltheusercomesbackhome,

thentheusercanwatchiteitheronhislaptop,mobileortabletthroughawirelesslocalnetwork.Thisisanimplementationto

what'scurrentlycalledvideocaching.Thisreducesthebufferingtimewhenuserswatchthevideoswhentheyreturnbackhome,

andthisalsoreducestheloadonthenetwork.

Inthisproject,ourobjectiveistodevelopa“distributed”socialmediausingourDroplets.Theadvantagesofadistributedsocial

networkaremany.Forexample:

(1)InFacebook,twitter,Google+andothersocialnetworks,allusersdetails,profiles,pictures,videos,locationsandmanyother

personaldetailsarestoredinthe“cloud”.Socialmediaproviderssellthisinformationtoadvertisementagenciestotargetusers

inacertaincategory.Thishasseveralprivacyandsecuritychallenges.

(2)IftheInternetmainfibercablesthatconnectEgypttotheInternetaredisconnectedforanyreason,whichhappenedmany

timesbefore,therewillbenogmail,facebookoranyotherserviceinEgyptatall.

Inthisproject,wewillbuildadistributedsocialmedia.TheuserinformationwillbestoredandcontrolledbyhisownDroplet.

Therewillbenoownerforsuchdataexcepttheuser,andtheuserwillnothavetogiveawayhisverypersonaldetailstoany

entity.Wewouldlikeeithertoadopt,orbuildsomethingsimilartoDiaspora(https://diasporafoundation.org/).

2-TherobotGuard:Robotshavebeenaroundforsometimenow.However,theuseofRobotsinhomesisstillnotcommon.Inthisproject,the

objectiveistobuilda“modular”Robotforhomeusage.Therobotwillhaveseveralfeatures:

1-Ithasavideostreamingcapability.Whentheresidentsareoutsidetheirhome,theycanremotelymovetheRobotaroundthe

hometo“see”what'shappening.Thiscanservetomakesurethatthedoorsarelocked,thewindowsareclosed,theovenisnot

working,therefrigeratordoorisclosed,thehomeis“safe”,..etc.Thiscanalsoinvolvesomebasicvideoprocessingtechniques.

2-Doingbasicfunctionalities.Forexample,pushingonaswitchtoturnONorOFFacertaindevice.

3-Extensible:WewouldliketoremotelyupdatetheRobotsoftwaresimilartotheupdateshappeningindifferentprograms.

Moreover,othermechanicalfunctionalities/armscanbeaddedtotheRobotwithstandardinterface.Forexample,anarmthatis

abletodomorecomplextasks(openingandclosingadrawer)canbeattachedtotheRobot,and,withasimplesoftwareupdate,

thearmshouldbeworkingfinewiththeRobot.Theideaistohaveanextensiblerobotathome,andtheuserscanbuymore

functionalities,eitherinsoftwareorhardware,ifneeded.

3-A“very”smartmeter:Smartmetersthatmeasuretheelectricityconsumptionandsendsthisusagetotheelectricitycompany,andmaybereceiving

someinstructionsfromtheelectricitycompany,havebeeninproductionforsometimenow.Inthisproject,wewouldliketo

implementasmartmeterwithanadvancedfeaturecalledNILM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonintrusive_load_monitoring

ThemainideaofNILMistoallowthedeterminationoftheelectricityconsumptionoftheindividualdevices.Forexample,itcan

“estimate”theconsumptiongeneratedbyaircondition,theheater,thefans,…etc.Moreover,itwillbeconnectedtoadatabase

anditwillestimatethecostofthebillusingthecurrentelectricityprices.Ifthepricesarechanged,themeterwillupdateits

equationforcalculatingthecost.Otheradvancedfeaturescanbeaddedifthesefeaturescanbedonelikecomparingthe

consumptionoftheapartmenttoothersimilarapartments,givingadvicesonhowtosaveenergy,..etc

Althoughthetopicisrelativelynew,somecompanieshavebeenestablishedinthisarea.Check

http://wiki.nilm.eu/index.php?title=Companies_offering_NILM_products_and_services

and

http://neur.io/

4-ParticipationinRoboconcompetition:https://www.aburobocon.net/

5-ParticipationinDARPAgrandchallenge:https://spectrumcollaborationchallenge.com/

checkthedetails!

Instructor: Dr. Hanna Kirolous Email: [email protected]

RF school registrar system

Abstract: A registrar system that uses RF ID cards together with embedded micro controller is to be designed and implemented. The system has the following features: * Automated entry control at the school gate * Automated class attendance registration and reporting * Access control to student's data and transcripts via special terminals The system is meant to enhance entry and data security, and facilitate report generation.