The students designed a “Digital Ear,” a prototype of a digital hearing device in the brewery operation, and became the winners of the EuroTeQ Collider student competition at CTU. They will present their innovative solution at the international EuroTeQaThon competition in Paris
Date of publication: 2 May 2024
On 29 April, the final presentations of the EuroTeQ Collider project course took place at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. The assignment itself came from the industrial partners of CTU and the EuroTeQ alliance. The proposed topics were linked to the call entitled “Enhanced Connections for Sustainable Futures,” which was further divided into categories labelled People, Nature, and Technology. The expert jury was most impressed by the Anomaly Pulse Masters and SensWise projects, which addressed the challenge of Pilsner Urquell (Asahi). The theme of this challenge was the automatic detection of anomalies in brewery operations, measured by changes in noise levels. The third most successful team, Visionary, worked on an Ororo challenge to solve the automatic generation of bibliographic metadata.
The competition was entered by 41 students from the CTU and, more recently, by students from the Secondary Industrial School of Communication Technology (SPŠST) Panská. Expanding cooperation with secondary schools is also one of the tasks of the EuroTeQ university alliance.
“We are pleased that CTU has invited us to participate in this competition. We want to prepare our students well for study at universities, among other things. Therefore, we are pleased to be in close contact with them, both in the long term as a faculty school of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Information Technology of CTU, and through such shorter-term activities. This experience is without doubt of great benefit to the participating students, but it is certainly also beneficial for our teachers. Pedagogues can take a close look at a university competition and see how our students perform in teams and what demands are placed on them,” said Jakub Šerých, a teacher of vocational subjects at SPŠST Panská, about the involvement of high school students in the competition.
Anomaly Pulse Masters project, which dealt with the topic “Digital Ear” by Pilsner Urquell (Asahi), was awarded the first place as the best work. The students based their project on sound monitoring and noise filtering using the YeastBeast system. In practice, the device will work by triggering an alarm when the system detects a non-standard sound. The implemented software will use machine learning so that it can recognize different deviations from the normal sound pattern defined by the production line operator. The team consisted of Kamran Aghalarli from the Faculty of Information Technology of the CTU, Ondřej Baštař Viktoria Valdmanova and Ramil Farzaliyev from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the CTU, Jessica Louka from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of the CTU, and Tomáš Paška from the SPŠST Panská.
The second prize-winning SenseWise team, consisting of Tuka Al Sabbagh and Šimon Kochánek (Faculty of Biomedical Engineering), Pavel Svoboda (Faculty of Architecture), Dominik Dvořáček (Faculty of Electrical Engineering), Robert Otta and Marek Winter (SPŠST Panská), worked on a task called “Digital Ear.” As part of their solution, a prototype of the MK002 device was created, which works with two directional microphones. The task of the system is to evaluate and distinguish between normal sounds and sounds that do not fall into this category.
Milan Bittner, Pilsner Urquell Malting Manager, evaluated cooperation with CTU as follows: “I was particularly pleased to see that two of the teams that took on our challenge took the first two places. The EuroTeQathon is a valuable experience for students that will help them in their future studies and professional life, while giving them a unique opportunity to test their knowledge, show their growth mindset and courage, and gain practical skills in a real-life environment.”
The third-place project dealt with automatic generation of bibliographic metadata. The client was Ororo. The work was done exclusively by students of the Faculty of Information Technology, Anna Husieva, Kostiantyn Kuznietsov, Artem Shitin, Natik Agaev, and Kostiantyn Zaihraiev. The result of their collaboration is a flexible, easy-to-use, and pre-learnt model, which is available for free and has a very intuitive control (it uses the Easy OCR platform). The only paid component is the use of Chat GPT, to which the system is linked.
All three teams will present their innovative solutions at the international EuroTeQaThon competition in Paris on 8-10 June, where they will compete against other students from partner universities (Technical University of Munich, Technical University of Denmark, Technical University of Eindhoven, École Polytechnique, Tallinn University of Technology, HEC Paris and IESE Business School Spain).
The winners of the international final competition in Paris will conclude their EuroTeQ Collider experience in the EuroTeQ Ignite Bootcamp event in Barcelona.
Photogallery from the event you can find here.
Collider Launch Event – meeting and discussion with industry partners, presentation of challenges:
When: Friday, April 12, 2024; a company representative (senior management) is always present at CTU
Where: CTU – Dejvice campus or online, FEE, room T2:C3-132
• The Collider itself will take place on the following dates:
– 13/04/2024 – 14/04/2024 – preparatory work on challenges
– 15 April – 19 April 2024 – consultations and company visits
– 22/04/2024 – 28/04/2024 – professional processing of challenges by students; the company will provide a mentor team whose challenge you chose
The final presentations will take place on April 29 from 4:30 p.m. in the FEL building, room 209.
Theme for Colliders 2024 and 2025: Enhance Connections for Sustainable Futures is divided into the following categories:
• People
• Nature
• Technology
Students will earn 5 ECTS for their successful participation in the Collider project course (KOS code: CTUQCOL).
For more information, visit EuroTeQ Engineering University • Engineer the future with us! (eurotech-universities.eu)
The following topics have been listed for Collider 2024:
Multiple teams can work on one challenge, but the priority is to have at least one team working on each challenge.
