Boaty McBoatface: Autonomous boat

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Submitted by trand8 on Fri, 09/30/2016 - 15:20

Topic:

Team Name:

         Boaty McBoatface

Team's Mentor: Professor Alexander Ihler

Team Members:

Project Goal:

Build a water vehicle that is able to track a moving object while avoiding obstacles fully autonomously.

Idea:

The applications of a boat tracking system is endless. The goal is to have a fully autonomous boat that can follow a leader boat, and avoid collisions at the same time. We will be implementing this system with an array of IR LEDs on the lead boat, which will be sensed by the autonomous boat to allow it to make adjustments in its course to follow that lead boat.

Approach

Artificial Intelligence: Fully autonomous tracking and obstacle avoidance

Market

The industry of water vehicles is not as up to date as the aerospace industry and so we want to be able to advance the field of water vehicles to make transportation easy and up to date.

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