State-Based Plot Coloring

CS 426 senior project

Team #36

University of Nevada, Reno

CSE Department

Spring 2018

For many years, people have suffered from physical and economic damage due to the failure of their machines. To identify the conditions of machines, they needed to open the machines and check what are the problems with their machines. It is not a convenient and efficient way if the structure of the machine is very complex, and the size of the machine is huge. To solve the problems, General Electric (GE) company designs a software called "State-Based Plot Coloring" to visualize surge data from machines in different plots to support users to detect problems within their machines.

State-Based Plot Coloring is a software application which helps users to easily understand the conditions of their machines by visualizing data from their machines. To display data from different machines, plotting methods are used to help users identify what states their machines are in and if there is any problem with their machines. The software displays data with different colors in a Trend Plot, a Cascade Plot, and a Bode Plot. When there are overlaps between states and different machines, the software displays the overlapping states and machines in a user-friendly way, which helps the users check the relationship between different machines and detect problems within their machines.

Team Members

Haoxuan Lin

Team Leader

As a dedicated and hard-working Computer Science student who migrated to the United States, Haoxuan proved himself by gaining senior standing within the Computer Science department. Haoxuan’s interest lies within algorithms and theory. He develops the user interface, and implements the Cascade Plot for this project.

Zachary Young

Programming Specialist

Zachary grows up in Nevada, and he has a broad range of experience in the field of game development. He thrives on challenge, and it was one of the reasons why he chose to major in Computer Science and Engineering. He implements the Trend Plot for this project.

Myeongwan Beom

Programming Specialist

Myeongwan is an international student, and he has always had a strong mechanical aptitude and a strong ability to think critically. He is proficient in operating systems and programming languages. He implements the Bode Plot for this project.

Instructors & External Advisor

Sergiu Dascalu

INSTRUCTOR

Dr. Dascalu is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). He is also the Director of the Software Engineering Laboratory (SOELA) and the Co-Director of the Cyberinfrastructure Lab (CIL) at UNR.

Devrin Lee

INSTRUCTOR

Devrin Lee is an instructor for CS 426 Senior Project in the department of Computer Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is a senior program manager at PCLender LLC.

Eric Gilchrist

EXTERNAL ADVISOR

Eric Gilchrist graduated in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. He currently works for General Electric as a Software Engineer, and he works on their main software product there called “System1”, which is a machine condition monitoring system.