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Autonomous Racecar - Racecar2.zip
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Autonomous Racecar - Racecar2.zip
Mentor: Professor Mohammad A. Al Faruque
Developers: Kelvin Phan (CpE), Julian Andrews (CSE), Aaron Liao (CpE), Michael Choi (CpE)
Background: This racecar project is inspired by the F1/10 autonomous racing competition. Professor Al Faraque wishes that in the future, UCI can have a competitive team in the running. This year’s project is a continuation of a previous project started by Zainab and Hamza Khan. Given that human error can be considered a major factor in most vehicular accidents, the use of autonomous vehicles stands to improve the safety of transportation. Fundamentally, the preceding project relied on turn-by-turn directions to navigate without adapting to track conditions or obstacles.
Description: Our goal this year is to improve upon the existing baseline by adding functionality and machine learning--prioritizing on vehicle safety, mobility, and energy efficiency. We will be quantitatively tracking our progress with each implementation of a new feature using these priorities as our performance metrics.
Objective
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Develop robust software on a modular platform to run on an embedded real-time system
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Display metrics like telemetry on a web interface
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Implement adaptability mechanisms through wall-following and obstacle avoidance algorithms
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Utilize information from multiple onboard sensors for on-the-fly decision making
Approach
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Design software in an intuitive way such that program is easy to understand how it works and elements such as motor control can be blackbox, yet modified easily.
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Write readable and well commented code for future teams.
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Acquire as much data as possible to statistically prove end-result differences between different algorithms