Bioreactors are optimal environments for organisms to convert raw materials into desired products
Insect Bioreactors convert biowaste into nutrient-dense compost
- Benefit: Capture economic value from biowaste that would otherwise be discarded
- Ex: Beer brewing fermentation, waste water treatment
Digital Twin
There is a multi-level abstraction between the physical world and virtual layers. From simplest to most complex, these are:
- Digital model: isolated representation of physical system that predicts how it might behave (e.g. CAD files, 3D models in game design)
- Digital shadow: digital model that updates with input from real physical system
- Digital twin: digital shadow that can be modified to alter the physical system in bidirectional system
Objective
The objective of this capstone project is to build a perception monitoring system including:
- Segmentation: count individual insects, estimate population size
- Pose estimation: track insect movement, classify alive vs. dead, precursor to behavior analysis
- Phenotyping: determine insect size, growth stage
- Behavior analysis: classify more complex insect behaviors combining segmentation and pose tracking
