IGVC
From Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering
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Team Structure
Goal: Win $10,000 (first place in everything, no pothole collisions)
Project Managers: Tony Zhu '11 (hanz@) and Brenton Partridge '12 (bpartrid@)
Team responsibilities are described in Team Structure.
Hardware
Google Wave version:
Speakers
Research: Derrick
Sensors
Camera Camera Housing
- CAD: Arul
New Camera Evaluation
- Research: Josh
New digital compass
Refill Tires
Tension Chain
Dampen Tower Oscillations
Research: George
New Paneling
Requirements
- Response to serviceability, style
- Fewer bolts to remove
- Reduce thermal expansion
- Waterproof
Hingeable top panels
Packaging Neatness
reduce computer size
Motherboard: MSI X58M (research by Laszlo)
- micro ATX
- ~$170
Case: micro ATX ~$30-50
location of components
tray mounts Champher corners
Touch Screen Interface
Research: Derrick iPod Touch Requirements
- Remote Desktop client? ($25)
- VNC client? ($6)
Software
(Coming Soon)
Testing
- Cones, Barricades
- Painted Lines
- Fence
- Sand/light beige tarp
- various color trash bins
- Potholes (2ft diameter, two inches depth or 2ft diameter white circles to simulate) If we hit a pothole we can't win the prize $$$
- 15% grade
- Facilities--Permission for testing locations
- Buy small generator for re-charging.
