E&RT Project Reports

CSCI P545 Embedded & Real-Time Computing

Mon Dec 7 10:32:53 EST 2009 [SDJ]

Project Reports

The index below links to selected project reports by P545 students. I have included some of the comments I made in evaluating the reports. I think that most of these reports represent satisfactory work for first-year graduate students. None of them are yet in publishable form (workshop papers, technical reports, conference articles) in terms of presentation, but a couple of them are close.

Note: Unless you advise me otherwise, I will feel free in the future to include your reports in this list next year.

Year Report Comment
2007 [PDF] This report is incomplete in several respects, including the lack of any experimental telemetry. But what it does, it does well. Incidentally, it was written by an undergraduate student.
2008 [PDF]
[PPT] Good organization. Should use code documentation generation . More explanation needed. Useful information in presentation not included in the report.
[PDF]
[PPT] Very good organization, but some confusion between requirements, design, and implementation. Unformatted formulations difficult to read. Use code documentation generation. Design solution seems too complicated, but has interesting aspects. Presentation is good.
[PDF]
[PPT]
[HTM] The swarming approach is interesting but the report is too sketchy with respect to implementation (note: code was submitted to automated documentation generation). Presentation is more informative, but requires verbal explanation; so is of little lasting value. With better documentation this could be a publishable experimental study.
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[PPT] The report and presentation are very good, over all. Formatting is poor in places (e.g. Sec. 3.6). In Figs. 12 and later, plotting a line to fit the discrete lat-lon points may be misleading and may supress useful information. Various aspects of short-range planning and obstacle clustering are interesting, but it would be better to solve simpler problems first.
2009 [PDF]
[HTM] The report is exemplary, ...
... as are the accompanying individual lab reports. The presentation is strongest on testing and design aspects, and somewhat weaker on implementation aspects.
[PDF]
[PDF] This group developed a Java framework for CartFS and ...
... used it to implement the lab project. The presentations are well crafted and perspicuous. There is a bit too much focus on implementation and too little on design, but considering the goals of the project, this is understandable.
[PDF]
[PDF] The lab report desribes a "swarming" approach to path planning. ...
... The project report describes infrastructure for connecting video feeds to SyncFS components. Both reports are nicely presented.
[PDF] This lab report does a good job of presenting the experimental aspects, particularly with respect to throttle/braking control.
[PDF] A nicely developed approach to reactive contol based on force vectors. There are many opportunities for continued and experimentation and development. Some might lead to publishable case studies.
[HTM] A project integrating Matlab and CartFS. Examples of GPS following and speed control using Neural Nets are presented. The documentation is not complete, but this is an excellent candate for further experimentation.
[PDF] A useful and well document project report describing a Python waypoint list class.

Year	Report	Comment
2007	[PDF]	This report is incomplete in several respects, including the lack of any experimental telemetry. But what it does, it does well. Incidentally, it was written by an undergraduate student.
2008	[PDF] [PPT]	Good organization. Should use code documentation generation . More explanation needed. Useful information in presentation not included in the report.
	[PDF] [PPT]	Very good organization, but some confusion between requirements, design, and implementation. Unformatted formulations difficult to read. Use code documentation generation. Design solution seems too complicated, but has interesting aspects. Presentation is good.
	[PDF] [PPT] [HTM]	The swarming approach is interesting but the report is too sketchy with respect to implementation (note: code was submitted to automated documentation generation). Presentation is more informative, but requires verbal explanation; so is of little lasting value. With better documentation this could be a publishable experimental study.
	[PDF] [PPT]	The report and presentation are very good, over all. Formatting is poor in places (e.g. Sec. 3.6). In Figs. 12 and later, plotting a line to fit the discrete lat-lon points may be misleading and may supress useful information. Various aspects of short-range planning and obstacle clustering are interesting, but it would be better to solve simpler problems first.
2009	[PDF] [HTM]	The report is exemplary, ... ... as are the accompanying individual lab reports. The presentation is strongest on testing and design aspects, and somewhat weaker on implementation aspects.
	[PDF] [PDF]	This group developed a Java framework for CartFS and ... ... used it to implement the lab project. The presentations are well crafted and perspicuous. There is a bit too much focus on implementation and too little on design, but considering the goals of the project, this is understandable.
	[PDF] [PDF]	The lab report desribes a "swarming" approach to path planning. ... ... The project report describes infrastructure for connecting video feeds to SyncFS components. Both reports are nicely presented.
	[PDF]	This lab report does a good job of presenting the experimental aspects, particularly with respect to throttle/braking control.
	[PDF]	A nicely developed approach to reactive contol based on force vectors. There are many opportunities for continued and experimentation and development. Some might lead to publishable case studies.
	[HTM]	A project integrating Matlab and CartFS. Examples of GPS following and speed control using Neural Nets are presented. The documentation is not complete, but this is an excellent candate for further experimentation.
	[PDF]	A useful and well document project report describing a Python waypoint list* class.*