Analysis for autonomous operation of robots

Fourien Inc. is a high tech company, based in Edmonton. We develop various products ranging from nano sensors to large scale robots. Through this intrapreneurship project with VFC, Currently, we are looking to train students (who can possibly join us later). The project involves understanding and analysis of autonomous robotics where the students will be developing skills in robotics technologies such as robotic operating system (ROS), control system, programming and solving analytical problems. We support hands-on approach towards learning therefore the students will be given multiple assignments. They were briefed about possible approaches to solve a certain problem but they themselves will have to find ways towards an acceptable solution. We believe, the students' achievements through this project will be highly useful in our regular R&D work on autonomous robotics. Key tasks of this project include: 1. Exploring and programming different sensors which can be used in autonomous operation of a robot 2. Understanding and completing various short tasks using ROS 3. Participating in team discussions to brainstorm different ideas towards a solution of a key problem This opportunity for the students to work with our company will prepare them for their jobs after graduation. They will understand industrial problems, approaches to analytically solves the problems and work in a group. The students will also be provided mentorship towards their professional development and getting them ready for the industry.

Data visualization and display on a webpage

We are developing a website which displays structured data from a database. The database can store the data (a lot of numbers) coming from various sources such as files, sensors, manually entered etc. The website is based on various technologies such as MySQL, Django, HTML, CSS etc. The main goal of the project is to display thumbnails (on the homepage) of selected charts where the main objective is to keep data size to be small. The thumbnails will represent some highlighted charts from profiles of different users. The thumbnails will show the name of the user and a snapshot of the chart.

Curve fitting in C#

We collect a lot of data (numbers) from our nano sensors. We have developed C# based desktop app where the data is acquired in a computer and then stored in a file. The data is also plotted for about a second before the next data stream comes in. For each data stream, we need to fit a mathematical function on the data so that we can calculate different characteristics of the sensors. We mainly need to develop a library so that we can pass on all of the data to the library and then get result. The resultant fitted curve will also be overlayed on the raw data from the sensors.

Electrical board design

We are developing various nano sensors where we need to collect data using different electronics. The sensors produce data in the form of resonance frequency. Therefore we need high speed electronics to sample and collect the data from the sensors. For that we need to develop electronics which can track the resonance frequency of the sensors. The board will contain different components such as amplifiers, filters and data processing acquisition units. The main goal of the project is to develop a module which can filter the data and track the resonance frequency of the sensors