INFOMATRIX 2011 SUCCESS STORIES

VIR 7.1 (Visual Investigation Robot) Gold Winner

VIR 7.1 is a robot for remote visual investigation. It is controlled from computer by means of radio waves. It also can be controlled from a remote control, which I built from a brick game console. The image captured by mini-camera, or by the photo camera, mounted on the robot, is being transmitted in real time and displayed on the computer screen. All the buttons of the photo camera can be remote controlled, most important ones being: ‘on/off’, ‘focus’, ‘shot’, ‘zoom+’ and ‘zoom-’. The robot has a 5-joint hand, by the help of which it can grab different objects for more detailed investigation, or for moving them from one place to another. The mini-camera, mounted on his hand, allows the user to easily control the movements when he wants the robot to grab an object. There is a bright LED, mounted on the mini-camera, which lights up when the mini-camera turns on, for illuminating the object in front of it. The robot has another, brighter LED, mounted near the photo camera, for seeing in the dark. Both image and sound are transmitted through radio. The robot has two microphones and one FM receiving module, connected to a speaker. These allow the user to communicate with people in robot’s neighborhood.
The robot also can speak. It has an MMC Card for voice files. When turned ON, it says “Activated … Power level is xx percent”. It also can say “I see you”, “Can I help you?” etc.
VIR 7.1 can get to places unreachable for people, and transmit video and audio information from there. By the help of the 7.1 mpx photo camera, the robot can take high-quality pictures, for detailed future investigation. more details

MOVehicle (Multipurpose Operating Vehicle) Gold Winner

The idea is to create a multi purpose robot equipped with a robotic arm and a video camera. The robot is to be mobile, wireless controlled by a computer through external devices suited for enhanced precision in robot and robotic arm movement. Such a robot can be used to demonstrate precision of electronic devices from household tasks such as pouring water into a glass to military applications such as bomb or mine disposal where a cheap and precise robot may save the lives of many. It can also be used in hazardous environments like toxic and radioactive ones.
The robot is a four wheeled platform (two wheel rear drive, two front caster wheels) and equipped with a robotic arm with a hand-like extension with the possibility of attaching tools such as wire cutters. The current project also involves adding a wireless camera, with controllable pitch and yaw for surveillance purposes and obtaining a visual on the robotic arm in order to be operated effectively from a distance of ~100m. more details

Program for local presentations using network system(PLPN) Gold Winner

Since we seem to have much more to do in such a limited time, many facilities become more necessary in our everyday lives including information technology, which is accepted as one of the most efficient and useful tools today. As a result, computers are adopted to many performances as well as many presentations in order to increase the efficiency and to reduce the amount of time spent. In those performances given to a large group of audience, a projector and, at least, one computer are widely used. In most case, there are usually a centre computer connected to the projector, and all the presenters have to move their data into it before their presentations begin. That means, the more the presenters and their data are, the more time will be taken. Besides, it is absolutely inconvenient and inefficient beginning for everyone.

In this project, we focus on those performances that each group of presenters has their own computer such as academic conferences, software contests, and students’ presentations in classes, where there are a large number of presenters as many as the audience. There must be a projector and a network system, too. Therefore, we will be sure that many people in these cases are irritated by the two main problems mentioned above. more details

Cubed Gold Winner

Is it possible for us to live in a society of which we are losing control? This is where we stand. If technology would be the only one to have broken its boundaries, our problems would have been serious enough. The most feared fact is that many other social processes have already started to develop without control, frenetically oscillating and resisting all our efforts to guide them.
Urbanization, ethnic conflicts, migration, demographic expansion, delinquency – we could give thousands of examples from domains in which our efforts to influence change seem more and more absurd, more useless.
Change doesn’t influence only society, but each and every of its individuals. At the beginning of March, an eleven year old child died of old age. Although he had only eleven years old from a chronological point of view, he was suffering from an odd disease known as Progeria – premature aging- and presented the characteristics of a 90 year old person. The symptoms of Progeria are senility, artery scleroses, baldness, tired muscles and wrinkled skin. And when he died, the boy was truly an old man. In his eleven years, he had gone through all the biological and physiological changes of a lifetime. more details

Through the Looking Glass Gold Winner

The story starts with a play portrayed by a handful of stylized caricatures. Each of them mimic a distinct personality trait and each act out a specific role in the play. The characters seem to be life-like and autonomous. Their roles and their personalities complete each other, creating a full and unique personality.

This hints us to the next part of the clip, where we learn that the characters were nothing more than rigid, lifeless dolls that were a plaything for a certain individual. As we learn more about this person and the context we find that war has erupted in the world and that the earth was swallowed in the nuclear aftermath. He is the only man alive, chosen from a select few to live out his life in a fallout bomb shelter, safe from the outside horrors. We learn that he has spent the better part of his life in the shelter with no one else than his inner self. In his painful loneliness he crafted dolls from the image of the pieces of his soul. And with his imagination he breathed life into them. more details

Crime Seed Gold Winner

This movie discusses the problem of unemployment, especially its passive effects on individuals & society in the upcoming days. It also talks about its effect on raising the average of crime with a simulation of the most dangerous crimes resulting from unemployment

The purpose of showing these crimes is to warn people about the outcomes of unemployment in the future, and trying to fix the situation and solve the problem before it becomes too late. We directed these scenes in a short promotional movie. more details

Debugging Gold Winner

A city lives and is being developed in a peaceful way. Unfortunately some people are not happy with this option, and a stone aimed at the neighbour’s vegetable garden leads to hostility. Quite resembles a well-known computer game named snakin’ – a brick has towns for breakfast and villages for dinner, it takes up generations and civilizations. Within the course of the animation film this analogy is reproduced time by time in different shapes, so the audience to feel the theme even in a deeper way. But, if compared to a snakin’, the hazard is more than real - an absorbing war starts, greedy chaos and destruction arise. But will the debugging happen?

In the progress of development the author had 47 cups of coffee; Windows was restarted 4 times with a message “Run out of memory”. As a result it came out with a few thousand frames, created with the Macromedia Flash program; such instruments as Brush Tool, Text Tool, Motion Tween, Brain and Fantasy Tool were used, and dozens of images were imported from PhotoShop CS3 (the entire job was done exclusively with a mouse, without any tablet). Music and special effects were developed with the help of FL Studio software. more details

NeurosLab Gold Winner

It is a software tool that uses an artificial intelligence paradigm, namely Perceptron. Software can create feed forward neural networks, with some numbers of Perceptron Current interest generated on artificial neural networks, is determined largely by the hope that these technology-based human brain model, will be able to resolve the types of problems, which are well beyond the resolution capabilities of computers today.

The limits are, how much memory your computer has, because the data to allocate dynamic memory.Neural networks require large amounts of data for algorithms and a large computer data for learning.

The software allows simulation of various applications using neural networks, such as: Approximations of functions, predictive values are given when n elements, and network generate the n +1 data .Tolerant software like: handwriting recognition, OCR and neural networks ability to be used as associative memories, using the software can be viewed, compared to the target error after a number of epochs and ability to learn network depending on the configuration chosen. more details

Smart Grid Gold Winner

Since we seem to have much more to do in such a limited time, many facilities become more necessary in our everyday lives including information technology, which is accepted as one of the most efficient and useful tools today. As a result, computers are adopted to many performances as well as many presentations in order to increase the efficiency and to reduce the amount of time spent. In those performances given to a large group of audience, a projector and, at least, one computer are widely used. In most case, there are usually a centre computer connected to the projector, and all the presenters have to move their data into it before their presentations begin. That means, the more the presenters and their data are, the more time will be taken. Besides, it is absolutely inconvenient and inefficient beginning for everyone.

In this project, we focus on those performances that each group of presenters has their own computer such as academic conferences, software contests, and students’ presentations in classes, where there are a large number of presenters as many as the audience. There must be a projector and a network system, too. Therefore, we will be sure that many people in these cases are irritated by the two main problems mentioned above. more details

Hope and Freedom Gold Winner

A person should look into the future hopefully. Only that time he/she has much higher aims. Living in a happy and peacefu world should be the person’s biggest aim fort he future. Now then, how can a happiness be created in such a world that so many people are leaving.

All mankind are living under the same sky and steppig on the same land. All people are breating the same air either with white and black man, with beautiful and ugly , with friend and enemy. Even the world that vietim and killer lives is not different. The way of creating a happy world can be provided with people who have free conscience and kind-hearted. A person can change his hearth either into a rose garden by doing a favour or a jail by doing evil. Having a free considence is only be provided by doing favours to people.

It’s said that we live in the same world. That means a place where we live together and share must of the things together. Now then, although we live in the same world, do we realize people who starved or passed away due to wars. more details

The way to reach success Gold Winner

Our project is a computer generated public advertising project with the name “the Way to Reach Success” shortly “YES”, and the main objective of the project that that freedom is based on self-deception - is an illusion. The fact that the pointless waste of time, bad habits, crime - is a dead end. No hope for something real in the future in such a case. Prerequisites for such a pseudo freedom appear in the life of every teenager, but everyone needs to be able to stand and see the gap at the edge where they were? What kind of freedom they choose? Will it be the follower or a leader, their hopes of executing or serving his life time. Our whole project is to prevent the possibility when a teenager can turn on the wrong path. The project gives young people real freedom, without illusions, without self-deception. Everyone can choose the direction to taste and gain recognition, success and prestige in it. The young people will have the qualities such as commitment, responsibility, creativity, self-control and organizing of own life. more details

Friendship Gold Winner

Our every day is filled with some things, either - school, university, work аnd we perform duties directly related to it. Often, each new day at the same time like and unlike our past ... Every day we meet with different people, we can see them every day or see for the first time in our life. We can know everything about them or nothing. This is a big world. World of people. Therefore, it is very important with whom do you go through the life, and it is important who exactly is close to you, who can support you in a difficult moment. This person – is your friend. We found the relationship between hope and freedom through friendship. Who is a friend? Friend - is the one who knows you better than yourself, this is the man who can understand you, understand your problems, which takes you so what you are. What is hope? Hope - is something for which we all live. In this life we want to achieve some success, heights. We love and suffer. We find and lose. We live and hope ... We hope to get all the things we want so much, hope for the sense, hope for understanding. What is freedom? Freedom - is a choice. Choice in the literal and figurative meaning. Freedom - is the hope ... when you are free, you believe that everything can be overcome, to go your way. Your friend can help you to pass this way. Way of your life. more details