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This was taken from the inital project list:
The aim of this project is to take the departments go-karts and build in a system to replace the human driver. This will entail (at least), selection of appropriate actuators, motion and distance sensors, development of a navigation system, an interface to the existing control system, and a central computing platform. A suitable navigational goal would include a circumnavigation of S block.
To retrofit one of the EE department's electric go-karts with a drive by wire system, controllable over a single USB interface. Add to this a simple example of a closed-loop controller using sensors and software running on a *nix laptop.
Control the electric motor, servo driven steering wheel and actuated brake pedal via embedded arm microprocessors. The separate micros are connected via a CAN and also leave room for an arbitrary number of analog and digital sensors.
Behavioural-level software runs on a laptop connected to this network via USB.
Develop a more complete sensor network (possibly including computer vision in collaboration with cosc428) alongside more advanced controller software.
