On Saturday, April 4, members of PAVE gave a presentation during Princeton SWE’s High School Colloquium. The presentation was followed by a tour of Prospect Twelve.
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Continuing Progress
We had a film crew in and around the garage on Thursday, April 2, to take footage for a video that will be shown at the upcoming dedication ceremony for the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education. PAVE will be one of several student projects featured in the video. Pictures from the video shoot will be posted shortly.
In addition, all of our new components for the IGVC robot have arrived and we have a long weekend ahead of us, reassembling the robot so we can get started with software testing.
PAVE to be featured in upcoming edition of TIME magazine
PAVE has finally hit the high road. Thanks to the efforts of our president and our beloved seniors, we have managed to cinch a spot in the next isuse of TIME magazine.
Continue reading PAVE to be featured in upcoming edition of TIME magazine
New Website Layout
For the past week or so, we’ve been working on a new layout for our homepage. Hope you enjoy it! The new layout accompanies our transition to Web 2.0 -you can now follow our incremental progress updates through Twitter, view photos from projects and events on our flickr page, see videos on our YouTube channel, and become a fan on facebook.
We have many exciting events coming up over the next couple of months and a lot of progress to make on our projects. Be sure to check back often for progress updates, photos and more!
We’re Going Social!
PAVE has been slowly expanding its presence to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. We’ve recently added the links to our various social profiles and pages can also be found at the top of the sidebar. We’ll be constantly adding content to our accounts on YouTube and Flickr, as well as tweeting on our Twitter when we make progress. As always, we will continue to regularly update our site with news and upcoming events.
We’ll be adding more “Web 2.0” features to our site in the coming weeks so check back to see the changes.
Photos from the 2008 IGVC
The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) website has been updated with photos from the 2008 competition. Be sure to check out the entire gallery of photos of our team.
Also, the IGVC summary video is currently playing on the Princeton homepage.
New Vision for the IGVC
The PAVE Vision team has begun gearing up for the 2009 IGVC. We will be continuing our stereo-vision approach to obstacle and lane detection, and this year we will be using a Videre Design STOC (Stereo On Chip) color stereo camera. This camera’s innovative design includes an onboard Xilinx Spartan 3 FPGA that can stream live disparity maps to the PC. This frees up resources on our computer for depth map analysis and all the other processes that control the robot.
The image above shows a sample frame from the camera. The source image is at the bottom-left, and the disparity map calculated onboard the camera is shown at the bottom-right. The center window shows the 3D reconstruction of the scene, with the source image mapped onto the point cloud reconstructed from the disparity map.
As the semester progresses, the Vision team will provide updates on the modifications we are making to improve our obstacle and lane detection systems. We look forward to demonstrating our single-sensor approach again at the competition, and hope to make our system even more successful than last year.
PAVE Presents at SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging Conference
Several PAVE students were invited to present their paper, Kratos: Princeton University’s Entry in the 2008 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition at the 2009 SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging Conference on Tuesday, January 20th. The conference, which was held in San Jose, CA from January 18-22, brought together professional and academics in a variety of fields relating to computers, digital imaging and their applications.
PAVE seniors Chris Baldassano, Gordon Franken and Jonathan Mayer presented the paper as part of the Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision sub-conference. The submitted paper was a revised version of the technical paper for which PAVE’s 2008 IGVC team won a first place design award. The work was co-authored by Andrew Saxe ’08 and Derrick Yu ’10, and advised by Professor Robert Schapire of the Computer Science Department.
Princeton ACM/IEEE Chapter Meeting
On Thursday, November 20, PAVE was the featured presenter at the monthly meeting of the joint ACM/IEEE, Princeton Chapter. At the auditorium on the Sarnoff Corporation campus, PAVE gave an hour-long presentation, filled with videos, photos and stories about all of our past projects, including the 2005 and 2007 Grand Challenges, the 2008 IGVC, as well as ongoing research. Afterwards, the attendees met the PAVE members and examined Prospect 12, which was on display for the event.
PAVE would like to thank the ACM/IEEE, Princeton chapter, for this opportunity.
UsabilityNJ
Last Thursday, November 13, PAVE was invited to display Prospect Twelve at the fourth annual UsabilityNJ event for World Usability Day New Jersey 2008. Amongst electric vehicles, bio-fuel vehicles and a few Segways, we had the car on display, and a table setup in the main center with videos demonstrating Prospect Twelve – we were the only autonomous vehicle in attendance. Several lecturers presented in the evening portion of the event, on such topics as maritime policy, traffic improvements and infrastructure in the South Brunswick region, and the Usability contributions of NASA.
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