Title: IGVP: Towards coordinated vision- and GPS-based navigation
Lead: Matt Bauer
Advisors: Dr. Varahamurti, Dr. Juliano, Dr. Renner

The purpose of the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Project (IGVP) is to design and assemble a fully autonomous unmanned ground robotic vehicle that can negotiate a course with obstacles and perform tasks assigned to it during the competition. The vehicle will be capable of autonomous navigation with camera vision, ultrasonic range finders, and global positioning systems.

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This project is organized as two independent, but cooperating, senior project teams:

  • Vision-based navigation team
    • Albert Aguilar
    • Matt Bauer
    • Bruce Longacre
    • Ryan Sargent

  • GPS-based navigation team
    • Jake Baker
    • Takeshi Hirao
    • Roger Makishima
    • Brad Riesenberg
The eventual goal is to seamlessly integrate these two approaches.

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Video archives:

  1. Setup and view of protoboard control box (April 4, 2006)
  2. OCNL Hallway test, showing drift (April 4, 2006)
  3. OCNL Hallway test, longer run (April 4, 2006)
  4. Setting up for outdoor run (April 6, 2006)
  5. Outdoor test run (April 6, 2006)



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