Supporting IIB projects in problem solving and design
Examples of previously funded projects (2022-2023 Academic Year)
How do Tornadoes Work? An Introduction to Experimental Fluid Dynamics
by Aiden Jones
Reports: (1) Project Summary (2) Outreach Activity
Design of a Bidirectional Power Charger to serve for Smart Crowd-Based Grid Stabilisation
by Eeshta Suresh
Reports: (1) Project Summary (2) Outreach Activity
A Biologically-Enabled and Inspired Self-Healing Cementitious Composite
by Emilie Pauwels
Reports: (1) Project Summary (2) Outreach Activity (3) Presentation
The Acoustic Diagnosis of Middle Ear Problems
by Jessye Tu
Reports: (1) Project Summary (2) Outreach Activity
Hydrogel BioPrinting
by Noah Gordon
Reports: (1) Project Summary (2) Outreach Activity (3) Presentation
Visual Artificial Intelligence in Soft Robot Control
by Richard Marques Monterio
Reports: (1) Project Summary (2) Outreach Activity
Mystery of the Spinning Bottle Cap
by Sam Stephenson
Reports: (1) Project Summary (2) Outreach Activity
Examples of previously funded projects (2021-2022 Academic Year)
Trying to Understand Antimicrobial Resistance
by Ali Ahmed
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Plastic-Sand Bricks
by Egle Augustaityte
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Rammed Earth Beams
by Eoghan Butler
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Self-Shaping Wooden Structures
by Sam Dixon
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Pixel-Less Displays
by Oliver Gustafsson
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Flexible Electro-Osmotic Systems for Healthcare
by Emma Sun
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Design and Control of a Multi-modal Soft Gripper
by Shogo Washio
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Examples of previously funded projects (2020-2021 Academic Year)
Note that due to COVID-19, the outreach activities in this year took place online, rather than in-person as in a normal year.
Natural and Carbon Fibre Composites for Automotive Applications
by Kate Bassil
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Solar Updraft Towers for Greenhouse Gas Removal
by Jamie Clarkson
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Portable / Disposable System to Measure Liver Optical Backscatter
by Robert Hudson
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Proposed outreach activity
Conformal Geometric Algebra for Robot Kinematics
by Zach Lambert
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Investigating Computer Vision-Based Approaches in Lie Detection
by Ara Mambreyan
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Development of a Miniature Water CPC (Condensation Particle Counter)
by Julie Pongetti
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Examples of previously funded projects (2019-2020 Academic Year)
Note that due to COVID-19, the planned outreach activities could not take place in this academic year, but the proposed outreach activities are presented below, alongside the case-study reports of the project work which happened during the course of the academic year.
Thermoacoustic Cooling
by Ziyang 'Schoen' Cao
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Proposed outreach activity
Supporting Key Stage Two (KS2) Teachers to Deliver Integrated STEM in Primary Schools
by Courtney Collins
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Proposed outreach activity
Detection of Voids Beneath Railway Sleepers
by James Crossley
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Proposed outreach activity
Capacitive Soft Skin for Shape Estimation
by Chon Hei 'Hearst' Lam
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Proposed outreach activity
Gaussian Process Inference Modelling of Dynamic Robot Control for Expressive Piano Playing
by Cheryn Ng
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Proposed outreach activity
Can Bamboo Replace Willow in Cricket Bats?
by Ben Tinkler-Davies
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Proposed outreach activity
Examples of previously funded projects (2018-19 Academic Year)
Surgical Microdrilling for Arthritis Treatment
by Anya Davidson
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Pre-stressed Stone Staircases: Do They Explode?
by Rachel Attwood
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Tensile Test Instrument for Soft Biological Tissues
by Hannah Streat
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Affective Buildings
by Olufolajimi Babasola
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Self-Balancing Bicycle
by Philip Salmony
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Distributed Sensing in Soft Robotics
by Neil Kraewinkels
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Design and Evaluation of an RF System for Performing Trilateration of a Rocket
by Matt Coates
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Examples of previously funded projects (2017-18 Academic Year)
Automatic Parking System for Wirelessly Charged Electric Vehicles
by Aleksandr Bogomil
Reports: Project summary and Outreach activity combined (PDF)
Control and instrumentation for transplant organ circulation machine
by Amy Hall
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Robot Picking Challenge
by Michael Cheah
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity - joint with Ed Bray
Robot Picking Challenge
by Kieran Gilday
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics
by Joshua de Gromoboy Dabrowick
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Supertall Timber
by Will Hurrell
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Tactile based robotic control for the examination of a soft object
by Ed Bray
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity - joint with Michael Cheah
Ed Bray and Michael Cheah joint Outreach activity
Examples of previously funded projects (2016-17 Academic Year)
Design of a 3rd year undergraduate teaching project based around a recumbent trike
by Giorgio Sterlini
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
ENIGMA: Resurrection of the Bomba Kryptologiczna
by Michael Truby
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
"My Honeycomb Rings"
by Alasdair Unwin
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Products, Materials, Manufacturing and Design - hands-on teaching resources
by Madeleine Steer and Alex Horne
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Seismic Testing of Unreinforced Masonry Vaults
by Callum Fleming
Reports: (1) Combined project summery and outreach activity report
Timber Skyscraper - A Proposal for the City of London
by Daniel Blower
Reports: (1) Project summary (2) Outreach activity
Examples of previously funded projects (Prior to 2016-17 Academic Year)
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RLR20, 2 April 2023