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Development of Amphibious Water Sampling Rover for Mosquito Research via Capstone project

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Conference

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 6

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

Page Count

10

DOI

10.18260/1-2--43151

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https://peer.asee.org/43151

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169

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Byul Hur Texas A&M University

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Dr. B. Hur received his B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Yonsei University, in Seoul, Korea, in 2000, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, in 2007 and 2011, respectively. In 2016, he joined the faculty of Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. USA, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. He worked as a postdoctoral associate from 2011 to 2016 at the University Florida previously. His research interests include Mixed-signal/RF circuit design and testing, measurement automation, environmental & biomedical data measurement, and educational robotics development.

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Nathan Alexander

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James Kyle McIlhaney

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Christian Hurst

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Leo Colom

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Abstract

Mosquitos may lay eggs in shallow bodies of water near shore. Water samples may need to be collected for analysis, and manual collection of the water samples can be potentially a hazard to the personnel. For this reason, an amphibious water sampling rover was created by a capstone project team. This capstone project team was formed with five undergraduate engineering technology students. This project was started in the Spring semester of 2022 and concluded in the Fall semester of 2022. This project generated a rover, and the rover can navigate both on land and on water. And it can perform the water sample collection task. The rover can be controlled over a remote PC, and it can collect water temperature data, and the data can be sent remotely over the internet. For wireless communication, a sub-GHz LoRa module is used. The rover can also communicate over WiFi. A GUI (Graphical user interface) program was developed to collect data from the rover and to control the rover remotely. The GUI program obtains the GPS location of the rover and displays the location of the rover on a map. For the control of the rover, ROS (Robot Operating System) was utilized. A Raspberry Pi 3B+ board is used as an intelligence unit of the system. The collected samples can be brought to a laboratory for further analysis. In this paper, the details of the amphibious sampling rover and the educational lessons via this capstone project are presented.

Hur, B., & Alexander, N., & McIlhaney, J. K., & Hurst, C., & Colom, L. (2023, June), Development of Amphibious Water Sampling Rover for Mosquito Research via Capstone project Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43151

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