Nujira has presented its annual prize for the best final year analogue electronics to Imperial College student Alwyn Elliott for his MEng Final Year Individual Project entitled: “Spectral Component Fusion Imaging for Colour Super-Resolution Camera”.
The board of examiners selected Alwyn’s project which was one of a series which together aimed to deliver an electronic controller for a swallowable capsule-based Microrobot.
“Alwyn Elliott is a very good project student who is both well organised and hard-working, and his execution of this project has demonstrated that he is a capable engineer. He took his original idea and concept through to a working demonstrator and delivered great results,” said Dr Timothy G. Constandinou, Lecturer in the circuits and systems group in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College.
The winning project successfully constructed a very high resolution and extremely compact colour camera that can be swallowed and used to examine the gastro-intestinal tract.
The approach taken was to reconstruct the colour image from grey scale images captured by a black and white camera as the object is strobed with red, green and blue light in a dark environment. This approach eliminates the need for individual photodiodes for each colour, reducing the size of the camera, and also the loss of light and resolution caused by the filters in a conventional colour camera.
Nujira CTO, Gerard Wimpenny commented: “We are always looking for good engineers to help us develop our product portfolio, and it is extremely exciting to see the high calibre of analog engineering talent emerging from our universities.”
The Nujira prize for the Best Individual Project in the area of Analog Electronics was launched in 2010 and is open to final year students on the Imperial College Electrical and Electronic Engineering (MEng), Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Management (MEng) and Information Systems Engineering (MEng) programs.
Joint supervisor Professor Christofer Toumazou, Director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Circuit Design at Imperial College London, said: “This is a very practical engineering project, in which Alwyn took a new concept and demonstrated it in practice. He picked quite a complex topic which he handled extremely well. The student clearly worked exceptionally hard and the project is very impressive.”