Senior Design Plan

Assignment 11.3 - Senior Design Plan

Senior Design Timeline

Spring 2025

Explore Project Ideas:
After evaluating our collective interests and previous progress, we agreed that we are passionate about solving real-world urban traffic issues through technology. We plan to continue as a team and build on our Smart Traffic Management System project.

Team Construction:
We’ve decided to continue working together as a group because we bring a solid mix of strengths across software development, simulation modeling, and hardware prototyping. Our collaborative dynamic has been productive, and we’re motivated to carry this forward into senior design.

Summer 2025

Find a Real World Project:
We will research ongoing smart city traffic projects to identify real-world needs or datasets we can build around. If possible, we’ll look for opportunities to test concepts in a campus or local environment.

Prototype/Early Research:
We plan to prototype small-scale traffic detection systems using mock intersections, AI models, and sensors like IR or ultrasonic modules. We’ll also start collecting traffic flow data for training/testing.

Improve Skills:
We’ll each commit time to building technical depth over the summer. This may include learning advanced OpenCV, training ML models, working with SUMO for simulation, or getting comfortable with sensor integration on Raspberry Pi or Arduino.

Fall 2025 -

Finalize the Problem Statement:
We’ll refine and formally define the traffic-related problem we aim to solve, for example, real-time traffic light adaptation using AI vision + sensor input.

Turn Concepts into Engineering Requirements:
Translate our early prototypes and summer work into technical specifications:

Traffic detection accuracy thresholds

Communication latency

Sensor range/power limits

Data throughput

Real-time actuation requirements

Start breaking the system into engineering subsystems:

AI + Sensor Fusion Module

Central Controller Unit

Traffic Light Actuation Interface

Dashboard/Monitoring Tool