Embedded systems are ubiquitous and at the heart of innovation happening in numerous application domains today, such as in automotive, aerospace, networking, medical, consumer and home electronics, industry automation, smart grid, robotics, and supercomputing.
This project has an open-ended research objective of utilizing embedded systems in various application domains to enhance the capabilities and intelligence embedded inside a target application. We have designed numerous working prototypes that employ embedded computing systems, as part of this project: flying drones with Kinect-based reconnaissance capabilities, mobile robots for emergency rescue and land mine detection using smart sensors and vision algorithms, interactive teaching guitars with FPGAs, brewery automation with multiple distributed micro-controllers, solar energy harvesting based computing platforms, smartphone controlled deadbolts, car and home automation systems, and robots, and wearable computing systems using flexible, lightweight, and networked computing devices.