A total of eight categories will be awarded on the evening and attendees from all industries will be present. Several finalists will also be presenting their applications the next day at the NIDays graphical system design conference taking place in the Queen Elizabeth II, London.
The finalists for each category include:
RF & Wireless Comms
• World Records in 5G Wireless Spectral Efficiency Using Massive MIMO
Bristol and Lund Universities - http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17101
• Co-Radar: Combining Two Technologies to Increase Efficiency of Airborne, Space-Borne, and Ground-Based Platforms
University of Strathclyde -http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17259?nisrc=...
Precision Control
• Adaptive Truss: Structural strength when you need it
UCL - http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17210
• Revolutionary Control System for Refinishing Diamond Cut Alloy Wheels
Austin Consultants Ltd - http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17250
Innovative Research
• Kinelab: Assessing the Motor-Cognitive Skills of School Children with LabVIEW
ReSolve Research Engineering Ltd - http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17234
• Recording the Elusive Courtship Song of Fruit Flies
Oxford University - http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17145
Electronic Test and Measurement
• Train Zero Model Based Design Facility
Bombardier & Frazer-Nash - http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17114#
• Sun Explorer: Reliability Testing for The Solar Orbiter Instrumentation
ESR Technology Ltd - http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17189
Physical Test and Measurement
• Characterizing Levitating Space Dust with 3D Scatterometry
University of Helsink - http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17239
• Monitoring and Controlling the Canning Town Flyover Above Crossrail Tunnel Boring Machine
Mabey Hire Ltd - http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17244
Biomedical
• Combating Unilateral Facial Paralysis with Low-Latency Muscle Reanimation
Tampere University of Technology - http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17222
• Saving Lives with the Innovative Bedside Equipment Monitoring System
TBG Solutions - http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17173
Education
• MSc Physics Students Take Ownership of Their Learning with LabVIEW
Cardiff University - http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17230
• Teaching Measurement and Control to 400 Engineering Students Using Mobile Robots and Quadcopters
University of Manchester - http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-17195
Student Design (Winner Decided by Public Vote)
• Stratos II+ Rocket: Smashing the European Altitude Record
TU Delft - https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-47792
• Colorophone: Enabling Blind People to Listen to Light
NTNU - https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-47821
• Project ALAN: Robotic Rehabilitation for Stroke Survivors
University of Leeds - https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-46580
• DeepFreezeROV: Underwater Robot for Arctic Research
Aarhus University - https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-47636
• Roadrunners: The Most Fuel Efficient Urban Car in the World
DTU - https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-47919
• Augmented Communication: Turning Breath into Words
Loughborough University - https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-47488