Student Projects
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Contact Information
University and Department: California State University, Northridge
Team Members: Craig Euler, Cameron Mills, Travis Baluyot, Mario Servin, Rome Kenmepol and Garrett Leonard
Faculty Advisors: C.T. Lin
Primary Email Address: craig.euler.97@my.csun.edu
Primary Telephone Number (include area and country code): (805) 558-8434
Project Information
Project Title: Intellegent Ground Vehicle
List all parts (hardware, software, etc.) you used to design and complete your project:
The software used for algorithm development is LabVIEW which is a user friendly programming softwear. The hardware consists of an Aluminum chasis, hydrogen fuel cell technology, Laser range finder, GPS, Inertial measurment unit (IMU), video camera and compass.
Describe the challenge your project is trying to solve.
Complete an autonomous course while avoiding obstacles using the laser range finder and staying within a boundary defined by white lines to be detected by a camera, and complete a navigation challenge while avoiding obstacles using the GPS, IMU and laser range finder.
Describe how you addressed the challenge through your project.
By the use of an elliptical tensor, a heading is determined based on the robots local environment. Obstacle avoidance is then performed by an algorithm known as Vector Polar Histogram or VPH for short. For the autonomous challenge, the heading determination is used for the heading and the obstacle avoidance is done to avoid bumping obstacles to complete the challenge. During the navigation challenge, waypoints are provided for the robot to reach and check off which is done by solving the traveling salesman problem to minimize the overall distance the robot must travel. For the navigation challenge, the heading is determined by the GPS and compass data and VPH is used for obstacle avoidance.
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