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Raising Awareness to Waste Collection and Recycling in Urban Spaces – An EPS@IS...
Bohon, Nina; Durand, Olivier; Emmelot, Charlotte; Hellemans, Koen; Jasny, Lukas; Reisinger, Kathrin; Duarte, Abel J.; Malheiro, BeneditaThe European Project Semester (EPS) at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) is a capstone engineering design programme in which students, organised in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, develop a solution for a proposed problem, taking into account sustainability, ethical and market concerns. This paper describes a research project aimed at raising awareness and changing behaviour in relatio...
Smart Supermarket Cart - An EPS@ISEP 2023 Project
Orós, Miquel; Robu, Marian-Daniel; van Klaveren, Hessel; Gajda, Dominika; Van Dyck, Jelte; Krings, Tobias; Duarte, Abel J.; Malheiro, BeneditaThe technological revolution experienced over the last two decades, together with changes in shopping behaviour, has led supermarkets to consider smart shopping trolleys. Recently, several companies have tested and implemented smart services and devices, such as smart shopping carts with scanners, automatic payment methods, or self-payment locations, to maximise supermarket profits by reducing staff and improvi...
Smart Stress Relief – An EPS@ISEP 2022 Project
Cifuentes, Gema Romera; Camps, Jacobine; Nascimento, Júlia Lopes; Bode, Julian Alexander; Duarte, Abel J.; Malheiro, Benedita; Ribeiro, CristinaMild is a smart stress relief solution created by DSTRS, an European Project Semester student team enrolled at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto in the spring of 2022. This paper details the research performed, concerning ethics, marketing, sustainability and state-of-the-art, the ideas, concept and design pursued, and the prototype assembled and tested by DSTRS. The designed kit comprises a bracele...
Cattle Monitoring Blimp – An EPS@ISEP 2023 Project
Blommestijn, Krijn; Dallongeville, Kylian; Paulsen, Maximilian; Mamos, Michal; Gupta, Sonia; Duarte, Abel J.; Malheiro, Benedita; Ribeiro, CristinaThis paper describes the project based learning experience of a multidisciplinary and multicultural team of students enrolled in the spring of 2023 on the European Project Semester at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (EPS@ISEP). Animo is an original blimp based concept that aims to help farmers better manage their livestock. Its development was motivated by the difficulty to effectively monitor cat...
Citizen Engagement in Urban Planning – An EPS@ISEP 2022 Project
Cardani, Carla G.; Couzyn, Carmen; Degouilles, Eliott; Benner, Jan M.; Engst, Julia A.; Duarte, Abel J.; Malheiro, Benedita; Ribeiro, CristinaInvolving people in urban planning offers many benefits, but current methods are failing to get a large number of citizens to participate. People have a high participation barrier when it comes to public participation in urban planning – as it requires a lot of time and initiative, only a small non-diverse group of citizens take part in governmental initiatives. In this paper, a product is developed to make it ...
Smart Adjustable Furniture – An EPS@ISEP 2023 Project
Prończuk, Astrid; Mertz-Revol, Clément; Hinzpeter, Jan; Smeets, Julie; Chmielik, Mario; Duarte, Abel J.; Malheiro, Benedita; Ribeiro, CristinaSmall living spaces require ingenious solutions that are functional, ergonomic and, above all, reconfigurable. This project for smart, ergonomic and adjustable furniture was embraced by a team of students from different countries, universities and study areas enrolled in the European Project Semester (EPS) at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP). EPS is a design project where international students ...
Al2O3 ultra-thin films deposited by PEALD for rubidium optically pumped atomic ...
Cunha, Florival Moura; Silva, Manuel F.; Gomes, Nuno M.; Correia, J. H.This communication shows the recipe for plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> ultra-thin films with thicknesses below 40 nm. Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> ultra-thin films were deposited by PEALD to improve the rubidium optically pumped atomic magnetometers’ (OPMs) cell lifetime. This requirement is due to the consumption of the alkali metal (rubidium) inside the vapor cells....
Insect Farming – An EPS@ISEP 2022 Project
Copinet, Benjamin; Flügge, Finn; Margetich, Leonie Christine; Vandepitte, Marie; Petrache, Paul-Luchian; Duarte, Abel J.; Malheiro, BeneditaIntensive cattle farming as a means of protein production contributes with the direct emission of greenhouse gases and the indirect contamination of soil and water. The public awareness towards this issue is growing in western cultures, leading to the stagnation of meat consumption and to the willingness to adopt alternative sustainable sources of protein. A solution is to farm insects as they present a reduced...
Urban Exploration Game – An EPS@ISEP 2022 Project
Blaschke, Lina; Blauw, Bram; Herlange, Chloé; Pyciak, Anita; Zschocke, Jakob; Duarte, Abel J.; Malheiro, Benedita; Ribeiro, Maria Cristina de CastroTourists nowadays tend to avoid tourist traps and are looking for engaging ways to explore cities in the limited time they have. Standard options to explore cities seldom offer a combination between efficiency and fun. Furthermore, a search for an exploration city app returns an unlimited supply of lookalike websites and apps, all claiming to be the best. This paper reports the development of QRioCity, an effic...
SCARA Self Posture Recognition Using a Monocular Camera
Tinoco, Vitor; Silva, Manuel F.; Santos, Filipe N.; Morais, Raul; Filipe, VitorRobotic manipulators rely on feedback obtained from rotary encoders for control purposes. This article introduces a vision-based feedback system that can be used in an agricultural context, where the shapes and sizes of fruits are uncertain. We aim to mimic a human, using vision and touch as manipulator control feedback. This work explores the use of a fish-eye lens camera to track a SCARA manipulator with colo...