Group 20 - "The Knights of NI (Navigation Independence)"
Project Sponsor
The Knights of NI would like to acknowledge and thank our sponsor Dr. Zhishan Guo (zsguo@ucf.edu) for sponsoring our project and for mentoring our team throughout the entire design process.
Project Description
This project is intended to further research in the field of autonomous vehicles with a primary goal of producing an autonomous vehicle with the capability to navigate a reconfigurable course, without striking the course walls or another autonomous vehicle on the course. The vehicle should be capable of navigating the course without any outside assistance and without following a predetermined route.This project implements navigational capabilities into a remote-controlled vehicle by using various onboard sensors such as radar, ultrasonic, and an onboard 3D camera connected to a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and a Central Processing Unit (CPU). The various sensors feed their data to a central computing unit which will make the necessary decisions to either adjust the steering, adjust speed performances to accelerate or decelerate, avoid collisions or avoid obstacles and stop the vehicle.