iDP Project Showcase 2024
The iDP Project Showcase 2024 highlights the work by this year's graduating students in the Innovation & Design Programme. There were close to 40 projects from about 100 final year students, spanning a wide range of themes such as healthcare, mobility, sustainability, smart living, intelligent systems, and immersive reality.
Find out more about their projects that were presented to more than 200 attendees comprising members of the NUS community, industry partners, and the public during the event on 19 April 2024.
Future of Healthcare and Living
This project develops an in-vivo bidirectional selection system to allow directed evolution for bio switches with minimum loss of variance.
DormBuddy aims to enhance student well-being in dormitories by optimising the environment according to their routines and circadian rhythm in their dormitory rooms through connected lights, sensors and drivers.
This project aims to optimise workflow processes for healthcare delivery at home.
Innolax is an innovative natural laxative that enhances healthy gut bacteria and improves liver detox to aid patients suffering from chronic constipation.
This project aims to address the weight issue and the lack of sufficient workspace that MIC@home nurses experience with the current mode of transport for their equipment by providing nurses with lightweight luggage under 10kg, that has specialised drawers for time-efficient access to medical equipment, a deployable workstation and a stable and reliable IV drip stand.
This project aims to design an automated solution in the form of a controlled guided system which as a whole, has the key technical capability of providing safe administration of critical physiotherapy interventions for infants diagnosed with impaired motor function, specifically targeting upper and lower limb movement.
This project aims to alleviate the socioeconomic effects of an ageing population by developing an autonomously locomotive robot buddy for elderly living alone/non-familial/non-friendly persons in an urban household for purposes of remote monitoring, socially facilitation and assistive care.
New Solutions for Industry
In this project, we designed and deployed a 3D LiDAR camera system for autonomous navigation, 3D reconstruction, and 360 image visualisation.
The project aims to develop a higher capacity Surface Wellhead Quick Connector as part of expanding the product offerings in the 15,000 psi range of pressure containing equipment for the oil and gas industry.
In this project, we designed a packing machine in order to automatically pack products into a carton box, as a way to reduce bottleneck in the packing process.
This project aims to solve the lack of fleet controllers for commercially available robots to work in a high human traffic shared workspace by creating a traffic controller that is different from the traditional method of fleet controller where the path can be pre-planned for AMR/AGVs to work in a controlled environment.
The project aims to provide a customised route optimisation solution that reduces operational costs within the food supply chain.
Novel New Materials
In this project, we designed a solid polymer electrolyte with novel graphene oxide nanostructure to deliver high ionic conductivity solution in solid state batteries.
This project aims to tackle the existing electrical performance and reliability challenges in current display IC assembly by designing an Anisotropic Conductive Film (ACF) using advanced graphene 2D material.
This project aims to reduce the wastage of raw materials, high costs and long lead times during the manufacturing of carbon fiber reinforced polymer parts by using a lost cost, reusable material as a new mould material in the manufacturing process.
The project aims to develop optimised parameters for treating oily wastewaters and investigates various catalyst designs to achieve a more cost-effective method overall.
This projects aims to create a 4D-printable hydrogel that changes shape quickly in response to moisture through the development of a novel porogen-based hydrogel formulation and optimization of printing parameters to achieve both high swelling rate and printing accuracy.
Sustainable Future
This project aims to harvest green ammonia from anaerobic digestate by using membrane extraction and resin absorption.
A scalable micro hydro power solution for low head, low flow (run-of-the-river) conditions.
This project intends to mitigate over-fertilisation of arable soils, primarily in Southeast Asia, by providing smallholder farmers with an open source farm management system. This system maintains the soil quality while minimising fertiliser consumption, allowing for more sustained usage of rapidly degrading fertile land.
The project aims to design a solution to reduce operational costs of Singapore’s coastal fish farms through accurate and efficient feed optimisation.
Our project aims to tackle Singapore's food waste management problem by designing an efficient and portable reactor that allows on-site food waste treatment throughout Singapore.
This project aims to effectively and sustainably monitor and model the ecosystems by creating a system with camera vision that collects data from images and the environment.
Up, Up and Away!
In this project, an autonomous target interception guidance software is being developed to enable a drone to independently move towards its target, and a task assignment scheduling algorithm is developed to orchestrate target interception of many targets using a drone swarm.
This project aims to investigate the integration of distributed propulsion systems into blended wing body aircraft to augment low-speed flight characteristics during pivotal phases such as take-off and landing in enhancing flight performance.
This project aims to measure the thrust of the propellant tank with high precision whilst simulating its operating environment (vacuum pressure) by obtaining using the maximum angular displacement of a momentum trap which captures the gas propelled from the additively-manufactured propulsion tank within a vacuum chamber.
In this project, we designed a revamped in-flight entertainment system for a global airline to include new offerings that align with Gen Z's demands and expectations whilst maintaining the airline's reputation for service excellence.
In this project, we designed a cabin crew training system that utilizes text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology for service simulation, the Large Language Model (LLM) to simulate passenger responses, and Virtual Reality (VR) to recreate the cabin environment for better scalability and flexibility.
This project aims to coordinate a swarm of 10-25 drones to search a large indoor area, with unknown obstacles, for targets.
In the USA CanSat Competition, we are challenged to design, build, and launch a miniature satellite that strictly follows numerous stringent requirements, to ultimately fulfil that year's mission.
The project aims to develop a smart aircraft seat system that uses sensors to predict passenger discomfort, especially in the glutes and lumbar areas, based on insights into the correlation between discomfort and passenger physiology, and provides targeted interventions like adjustable air cells to alleviate discomfort by adjusting posture and pressure distribution.
Ideas to Start-up
In this project, we designed a realistic abdominal task trainer to enhance medical students' palpation skills in picking up abnormal liver consistencies and enlargements, thereby increasing their confidence in conducting abdominal examinations.
Caviato is a one-stop platform for regulatory compliance. We help businesses navigate the complexities of regulations by providing a comprehensive end-to-end solution. Our platform streamlines the compliance process, ensuring companies stay ahead of regulations and minimise risk.
Green Doctors Programme seeks to build a circular economy for blister packaging by implementing a sustainable medical blister packaging recycling system in Singapore, helping to foster a more sustainable future for pharmaceutical waste.
the moonbeam co.
We are a sustainable food tech start up that upcycles food by-products to minimise food loss and enhance food security.
Special Competition Projects
Bumblebee
Bumblebee is a student competition team that builds and designs highly intelligent autonomous maritime vehicles that capable of navigating underwater and on the water surface to perform a series of tasks without any remote control assistance in changing environmental conditions.
NUS Formula SAE race car
In this project, we design, manufacture, and build a student formula style electric race car to compete in the 2024 edition of the annual intercollegiate FSAE competition in Michigan.
NUS RoboMaster
NUS RoboMaster is a student-run team comprising members from different academic disciplines, working together to develop nine robots to compete in the DJI RoboMaster University Championships – the ultimate robot deathmatch.
