DCU Expo 2023 Final Year Projects

28 6. SCARAType Robot Design a SCARA type robot that holds a camera. It should be able tomove with accuracy so that it can be moved over sample dishes and said dishes studied with a clear picture. It will replace a cartesian coordinate robot currently in place doing that job. Class Mechatronic Engineering Project Area 3-DModelling, Automation, Device Design, Mechanical Design and Manufacture, Simulation Project Technology Scilab, Solidworks Student Name(s) Taidhg Treacy Email taidhg.treacy5@mail.dcu.ie Supervisor Dr Harry Esmonde 7. OCR Based Text to Speech Aid The project is an OCR based text to speech aid. It is designed to help users convert images of text into PDFs, or MP3 files that can be listened to using anMP3 player on the application. It can scan images of printed text or limited handwritten text, and can also accept PDFs. The application also has translation capabilities for French and German, for users who wish to translate their uploaded documents. It is aimed at students as an aid to help them study by listening to their notes and converting them into PDFs. The project is designed using python and has a UI that was created using TKinter. Class Computer Applications Project Area Computer Vision, Image/Video Processing, Optical Character Recognition, Machine Translation Project Technology Python, Tensorflow, Keras, PyTesseract, OpenCV, MLTU, Pillow Student Name(s) Róisín O’Rourke  |  DavidWeir Email roisin.orourke28@mail.dcu.ie  |  david.weir4@mail.dcu.ie Supervisor Dr Paul Clarke 8. Implementation of aWear Test Method for MetallicMaterials This project aimed to investigate the wear properties, micro-hardness, andmicrostructure of a specimen that consisted of CK45 carbon steel and Inconel 939 individually, and at their interface where they were additively manufactured together to assess any differences. The study sought to determine whether the interface impactedmaterial properties and, if so, whether it was positive or negative and howwould one attempt tominimise any adverse effects. Class Mechanical andManufacturing Engineering (Year 4) Project Area AdditiveManufacturing, Materials Testing Project Technology SEMand EDX Student Name(s) Royes Sharif Email royes.sharif2@mail.dcu.ie Supervisor Prof Dermot Brabazon