2021 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC)

The proceedings contain 47 papers. The topics discussed include: development of an autonomously navigating robot capable of conversing and scanning body temperature to help screen for COVID-19;unscented filtering of angles-only measurements of orbital debris;document classification with termolator for COVID-19 literature;global landslide forecasting and dynamic susceptibility mapping using a new dataset of geophysical and meteorological features;investigating federated learning strategies for pneumonia image classification;ai for bias detection: investigating the existence of racial bias in police killings;enhanced mobile microclimate system;enhancing the bionic eye: a real-time image optimization framework to encode color and spatial information into retinal prostheses;student research engagement through a web application;a simple microfluidics design for rapid quantification of e. coli in contaminated water;and mechanical design of a rover prototype for exploration tasks on mars: structural and transient dynamics simulation analysis.