This is my senior design project. We were tasked with designing an outreach program to introduce high school students to advanced engineering and mathematical concepts, should they be interested in pursuing a career in the STEM fields. We settled on designing a tracking activity for the students using an underwater acoustic transmitter/receiver system, in which they would use underwater ROVs to locate and track a "shark" ROV using only the feedback from their acoustic system.

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As the project manager for the second semester, I led a team of math, engineering, and computer science majors for this project. I kept my team on schedule and ensured that everyone knew what they were doing for each week. As the engineer, I worked closer on the hardware side of the project, and designed, implemented, and tested the transmitter/receiver system. We were able to show that the transmitter and receivers were highly directional when used underwater, up to a range of 1 meter.

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Other highlights of this project include the particle filter that was developed for the tracking simulation. This was a tracking method that was very similar to a Monte Carlo simulation, which calculates the probabilistic likelihood of the target "shark" ROV being in a specific position, given that the data received will be very noisy and uncertain.