First Level Course Projects

Here you can find a list of project proposals for the courses of "Progetto di Ingegneria Informatica" and "Progetto di Robotica" (5 CFU for each student). See Project Proposals for other kinds of projects and theses.

BioSignal Analysis

Brain-Computer Interface

Title:	Driving an autonomous wheelchair with a P300-based BCI
Description:	This project pulls together different Airlab projects with the aim to drive an autonomous wheelchair (LURCH) with a BCI, through the development of key software modules. Depending on the effort the student is willing to put into it, the project can grow to a full experimental thesis. Tools and instruments C++, C, BCI2000 Linux Bibliography R. Blatt et al. Brain Control of a Smart Wheelchair [1]
Tutor:	Matteo Matteucci (email), Bernardo Dal Seno (email)
Start:	November 2008
Number of students:	1
CFU:	5-20

Title:	Online automatic tuning of the number of repetitions in a P300-based BCI
Description:	In a P300-based BCI, (visual) stimuli are presented to the user, and the intention of the user is recognized when a P300 potential is recognized in response of the desired stimulus. In order to improve accuracy, many stimulation rounds are usually performed before making a decision. The exact number of repetitions depends on the user and the goodness of the classifier, but it is usually fixed a-priori. The aim of this project is to adapt the number of repetitions to changing conditions, so as to achieve the maximum accuracy with the minimum time. Depending on the effort the student is willing to put into it, the project can grow to a full experimental thesis. Tools and instruments C++, BCI2000 Bibliography E. Donchin, K.M. Spencer, R. Wijesinghe. The Mental Prosthesis: Assessing the Speed of a P300-Based Brain-Computer Interface [2]
Tutor:	Matteo Matteucci (email), Bernardo Dal Seno (email)
Start:	Anytime
Number of students:	1
CFU:	5-20

Title:	Reproduction of an algorithm for the recognition of error potentials
Description:	Error potentials (ErrPs) are event-related potentials present in the EEG (electroencephalogram) when a subject makes a mistake or when the machine a subject is interacting with works in an expected way. They could be used in the BCI field to improve the performance of a BCI by automatically detecting classification errors. The project aims at reproducing algorithms for ErrP detection from the literature. Tools and instruments Matlab Bibliography P.W. Ferrez, J. Millán. You Are Wrong! Automatic Detection of Interaction Errors from Brain Waves [3] G. Schalk et al. EEG-based communication: presence of an error potential [4]
Tutor:	Matteo Matteucci (email), Bernardo Dal Seno (email)
Start:	Anytime
Number of students:	1
CFU:	5-15

Computer Vision and Image Analysis

Title:	Video surveillance system for indoor Environment
Description:	The goal of this project is to develop a video surveillance system based on background subtraction algorithm. The idea is to use a single static camera to track moving objects in a known environment. The skills required for this project are: C/C++ and OpenCV library Linux o.s. The project can be turned into a thesis extending the algorithm for camera network.
Tutor:	Matteo Matteucci (matteucci-AT-elet-DOT-polimi-DOT-it)
Start:	Anytime
Number of students:	2-3
CFU:	2.5-15

Machine Learning

Title:	Learning API for TORCS
Description:	TORCS is a state-of-the-art open source racing simulator that represents an ideal bechmark for machine learning techniques. We already organized two successfull competitions based on TORCS where competitors have been asked to develop a controller using their preferred machine learning techniques. The goal of this project is to extend the existing C++ API (available here) to simplify the development of controller using a learning framework. Such an extension can be partially developed by porting an existing Java API for TORCS that already provides a lot of functionalities for machine learning approaches.
Tutor:	Daniele Loiacono (loiacono-AT-elet-DOT-polimi-DOT-it)
Start:	Anytime
Number of students:	1 to 2
CFU:	5 to 12.5

Title:	EyeBot
Description:	TORCS is a state-of-the-art open source racing simulator that represents an ideal bechmark for machine learning techniques. We already organized two successfull competitions based on TORCS where competitors have been asked to develop a controller using their preferred machine learning techniques. So far, the controller developed for TORCS used as input only information extracted directly from the state of the game. The goal of this project is to extend the existing controller API (see here) to use the visual information (e.g. the screenshots of the game) as input to the controllers. A successfull project will include both the development of the API and some basic imaga preprocessing to extract information from the images.
Tutor:	Daniele Loiacono (loiacono-AT-elet-DOT-polimi-DOT-it), Alessandro Giusti (giusti-AT-elet-DOT-polimi-DOT-it), and Pierluigi Taddei (taddei-AT-elet-DOT-polimi-DOT-it)
Start:	Anytime
Number of students:	1 to 2
CFU:	5 to 12.5

Title:	SmarTrack
Description:	The generation of customized game content for each player is an attractive direction to improve the game experience in the next-generation computer games. In this scenario, Machine Learning could play an important role to provide automatically such customized game content. The goal of this project is to apply machine learning techniques for the generation of customized tracks in TORCS, a state-of-the-art open source racing simulator. The project include different activities: the automatic generation of tracks, the section of relevant features to characterize a track and the analysis of an interest measure.
Tutor:	Daniele Loiacono (loiacono-AT-elet-DOT-polimi-DOT-it)
Start:	Anytime
Number of students:	1 to 2
CFU:	5 to 12.5

Title:	TORCS competition
Description:	TORCS is a state-of-the-art open source racing simulator that represents an ideal bechmark for machine learning techniques. We already organized two successfull competitions based on TORCS where competitors have been asked to develop a controller using their preferred machine learning techniques. The goal of this project is to apply any machine learning technique to develop a successfull controller following the competition rules (available here)
Tutor:	Daniele Loiacono (loiacono-AT-elet-DOT-polimi-DOT-it)
Start:	Anytime
Number of students:	1 to 2
CFU:	5 to 12.5

Ontologies and Semantic Web

Wiki Analysis

Wiki Page:	A Unifying Framework for Semantic Annotation
Title:	A Unifying Framework for Semantic Annotation
Description:	See http://davide.eynard.it/elc/
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Research Area:	Social Software and Semantic Web
Research Topic:	Semantic Annotations

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Wiki Page:	A tool to find and store annotations into a unifying semantic ontology
Title:	A tool to find and store annotations into a unifying semantic ontology
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Research Area:	Social Software and Semantic Web
Research Topic:	Semantic Annotations

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Wiki Page:	AGW
Title:	AGW - Automatic Guided Wheelchair
Description:	Control system design of an electric wheelchair for autonomous drive with obstacle avoidance
Tutor:	[[MatteoMatteucci | ]] (, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , … further resultswarning.png Some part "<nowiki>…</nowiki>" of the query was not understood. The symbol "[[" was used in a place where it is not useful. The part "]]" of the query was not understood. Results might not be as expected. Some subquery has no valid condition. ), [[Marcello Farina | ]] (, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , … further resultswarning.png Some part "<nowiki>…</nowiki>" of the query was not understood. The symbol "[[" was used in a place where it is not useful. The part "]]" of the query was not understood. Results might not be as expected. Some subquery has no valid condition. ), [[Luca Bascetta | ]] (, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , … further resultswarning.png Some part "<nowiki>…</nowiki>" of the query was not understood. The symbol "[[" was used in a place where it is not useful. The part "]]" of the query was not understood. Results might not be as expected. Some subquery has no valid condition. )
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Research Area:	Robotics
Research Topic:	Robot development

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Wiki Page:	Adaptive Behaviors for Robogames
Title:	Adaptive Behaviors for Robogames
Description:	The goal of the project is to develop a system to adapt behaviors of a robot to the way of playing of a human player
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Research Area:	Robotics
Research Topic:	Robot development

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Wiki Page:	Adaptive Predicates
Title:	Adaptive Predicates
Description:	Adapting predicates to the robot needs
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Research Area:	Robotics
Research Topic:	Robot development

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Wiki Page:	Affective Robot force sensor
Title:	Affective Robot force sensor
Description:	Implementation of a new force sensor for the robot used in affective rehabilitation
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Research Area:	Robotics
Research Topic:	Robot development

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Wiki Page:	Affective Robotic Rehabilitation of Upper Limbs
Title:	Affective Robotic Rehabilitation of Upper Limbs
Description:	Evaluation of the affective status of people involved in robotic rehabilitation
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Research Area:	BioSignal Analysis
Research Topic:	Affective Computing And BioSignals

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Wiki Page:	Affective VideoGames
Title:	Affective VideoGames
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Research Area:	Affective Computing
Research Topic:	Affective Computing And BioSignals

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Wiki Page:	Alien-Bot
Title:	Alien-Bot
Description:	The goal of the project is to develop an interactive game between an autonomous robot and a remotely-controlled one, based on the metaphor of the movie Alien.
Tutor:	[[AndreaBonarini | ]] (, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , … further resultswarning.png Some part "<nowiki>…</nowiki>" of the query was not understood. The symbol "[[" was used in a place where it is not useful. The part "]]" of the query was not understood. Results might not be as expected. Some subquery has no valid condition. )
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Research Area:	Robotics
Research Topic:	Robogames

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Wiki Page:	Autonomous Robot for emotional interaction
Title:	Autonomous Robot for emotional interaction
Description:	Expressing emotions in interaction with children wih disabilities.
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Research Area:	Robotics
Research Topic:	Robot development

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Wiki Page:	BCI & artifacts
Title:	BCI and artifacts
Description:	BCI and artifacts
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Research Area:	BioSignal Analysis

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Wiki Page:	BCI based on Motor Imagery
Title:	BCI based on Motor Imagery
Description:	This project is aimed is to control an external device through the analysis of brain waves measured on the human scalp.
Tutor:	[[MatteoMatteucci | ]] (, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , … further resultswarning.png Some part "<nowiki>…</nowiki>" of the query was not understood. The symbol "[[" was used in a place where it is not useful. The part "]]" of the query was not understood. Results might not be as expected. Some subquery has no valid condition. ), [[RossellaBlatt | ]] (, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , … further resultswarning.png Some part "<nowiki>…</nowiki>" of the query was not understood. The symbol "[[" was used in a place where it is not useful. The part "]]" of the query was not understood. Results might not be as expected. Some subquery has no valid condition. ), [[BernardoDalSeno | ]] (, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , … further resultswarning.png Some part "<nowiki>…</nowiki>" of the query was not understood. The symbol "[[" was used in a place where it is not useful. The part "]]" of the query was not understood. Results might not be as expected. Some subquery has no valid condition. )
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Research Area:	BioSignal Analysis

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Wiki Page:	BCI on Sockets
Title:	BCI on Socket
Description:	Communication on TCP/IP between BCI Software modules
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Research Area:	BioSignal Analysis
Research Topic:	Brain-Computer Interface

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Wiki Page:	Balancing robots: Tilty, TiltOne
Title:	BalancingRobots
Description:	Meta-project about balancing robots.
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Research Area:	Robotics
Research Topic:	Robot development

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Wiki Page:	Ballbot
Title:	Ballbot
Description:	A unicycle robot, running on a ball
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Research Area:	Robotics
Research Topic:	Robot development

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Wiki Page:	BasketBot
Title:	BasketBot
Description:	Development of a robotic basket
Tutor:	[[AndreaBonarini | ]] (, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , … further resultswarning.png Some part "<nowiki>…</nowiki>" of the query was not understood. The symbol "[[" was used in a place where it is not useful. The part "]]" of the query was not understood. Results might not be as expected. Some subquery has no valid condition. )
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Research Area:	Robotics
Research Topic:	Robogames

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Wiki Page:	Batch Learning for Poker
Title:	MRT: Batch Learning for Poker
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Research Area:	Machine Learning

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Wiki Page:	BinaryTags
Title:	Binary tag system for the creation of relations in a semantic wiki
Description:	Aim of the project is the design and implementation of a semantic extension of the wiki system JSPWiki, to allow users annotate links between pages with tags; binary tags may then be turned into semantic relationhips and added to the substanding ontology, with the help of a suggestion tool.
Tutor:	[[DavidLaniado | ]] (, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , … further resultswarning.png Some part "<nowiki>…</nowiki>" of the query was not understood. The symbol "[[" was used in a place where it is not useful. The part "]]" of the query was not understood. Results might not be as expected. Some subquery has no valid condition. )
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Research Area:	Social Software and Semantic Web
Research Topic:	Semantic Wikis

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Wiki Page:	C-SLAM
Title:	C-SLAM
Description:	Development of a Cognitive SLAM system
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Research Area:	Robotics
Research Topic:	Robot development

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Wiki Page:	CPG for Warugadar
Title:	CPG for Warugadar
Description:	Study Central Pattern Generation, develop a CPG implementation in Matlab or Python. Adapt the method to a quadruped robot (Warugadar).
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Research Area:	Robotics
Research Topic:	Bio Robotics

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Robotics

Title:	Simulation of 6-DOF Robot Manipulator
Description:	The goal of this project is to develop a simulator for a 6-DOF robot manipulator, using the ode (open dynamics engine) library for simulating the rigid body dynamics. The project involves three different phases: Building the physical model of the manipulator Implementing the forward and inverse kinematic routines Implementing the trajectory planning routines Implementing the control modules Implementing an interface to control the robot movements This project allows to put into practice what has been explained during the first part of the course of Robotics. The project can be turned into a thesis, by using the simulated manipulator to perform some learning experiments.
Tutor:	Marcello Restelli (restelli-AT-elet-DOT-polimi-DOT-it)
Start:	Anytime
Number of students:	2-3
CFU:	10-15

Title:	Calibration of IMU-camera system
Description:	This work is about the problem to calibrate a system composed by an XSense Inertial Measurement Unit and a Fire-i Camera. The pro ject will be focus on the problem to estimate both unknown rotation between the two devices and the extrinsic/intrinsic parameters of the camera. This algorithm allows to use the system for SLAM or robotics applications, like a wereable device for autonomous navigation or augmented reality. Tools and instruments Matlab/C++ Links Matlab Toolbox for mutual calibration [5] List of pubblications[6]
Tutor:	Matteo Matteucci, Davide Migliore
Start:	Anytime
Number of students:	1
CFU:	5-20

Title:	Robot games	300px
Description:	The goal of this activity is to develop an interactive game with robots using commercial devices such as the WII Mote (see the Robogames page) Projects are available in different areas: Design and implementation of the game on one of the available robots Design of the game and a new suitable robot Implementation/setting of a suitable robot Evaluation of the game with users (in collaboration with Franca Garzotto) These projects allow to experiment with real mobile robots and real interaction devices. The project can be turned into a thesis by producing a new game and robot.
Tutor:	Andrea Bonarini (bonarini-AT-elet-DOT-polimi-DOT-it)
Start:	Anytime
Number of students:	1-2
CFU:	5-12.5

Title:	Robocup: soccer robots
Description:	The goal of this activity is to finalize the team of robots that will participate to the robocup world championship in Graz next summer (see the Robocup page and the MRT Team page) Projects are available in different areas: Implementation of mechanical and electronical parts of the robots for the management of the ball and kicking Design of robot behaviors (fuzzy systems) Coordination of robots New sensors These projects allow to experiment with real mobile robots. Participation to the championships is a unique experience (2000 people, with 800 robots playing all sort of games...) The project can be turned into a thesis by facing different problems in depth.
Tutor:	Andrea Bonarini (bonarini-AT-elet-DOT-polimi-DOT-it), Marcello Restelli (restelli-AT-elet-DOT-polimi-DOT-it)
Start:	Anytime
Number of students:	1-2
CFU:	5-12.5