The PAVE crew had quite an exciting adventure at this year’s Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. After many, many long hours of driving, non-stop software writing and days of hard work, the team has returned safety to Princeton, NJ with lots of good memories, a prestigious award and a strong desire to finally get some rest! Read more about our trip after the break.
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PAVE Weekly Roundup!
We’ve been so busy with build sessions and meticulous planning for our projects that we’ve hardly got time to update our website. Here’s a roundup of what we’ve been doing recently:
Test fitting Prospect Twelve’s new roof rack. Photo by Derrick Yu
Prospect Twelve‘s hardware team have finished cutting and assembling 80/20 extruded aluminum pieces for the vehicle’s new roof rack. The redesign allows for much more efficient assembly and more flexible sensor mounting options.
The 2010 IGVC team has officially named PAVE‘s entry in the 2010 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. Phobetor continues the tradition of naming our IGVC ‘bots after Greek deities. The team has also been working hard to machine parts for the vehicle’s drivetrain.
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PAVE Announces Participation in 2010 IGVC
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be participating in the 2010 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC), which will run from June 5-8, 2010 in Rochester, Michigan. At this point, we are still finalizing our plans for our 2010 entry, which is yet to be named. Check back in the coming months for news and updates on the progress of our 2010 IGVC team.
Website Updates and Improvements
We’re constantly maintaining and updating our website, and lately we’ve done a few major uploads of publications and content:
- Our 2009 IGVC design report is now available as a pdf download.
- A paper on our method of lane detection, written by Derrick Yu as part of a Junior Independent Work project is also now available as a pdf download.
- We’ve finally gotten around to updating our navigation page for the 2008 IGVC.
In addition, we’re working on embedding all of our videos and adding a gallery of our photos. However, you can always visit our flickr group and our YouTube channel for photos and videos, respectively. We’ll also be updating our site with more content about Argos, our entry in the 2009 IGVC.
PAVE at the 2009 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition
The Princeton IGVC team will be arriving in Rochester, Michigan on Thursday for the 17th annual IGVC. The competition begins tomorrow with the first round of design competitions. We will be making our design presentation on Saturday. Today, our team is enjoying a day at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, before completing the remaining two hours to the competition location. We’ll be updating the blog with plenty of photos and videos as the competition progresses. Check back soon!
IGVC Progress
The IGVC team continues to make good progress after recovering from setbacks encountered prior to exhibiting during the NYC FIRST Regional Competition. Since last week when the new electrical system components arrived, the team has been working to get the robot wired up and rolling on its wheels again.
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Princeton team finishes successful in 2008 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition
PAVE is very proud to announce that our participation in the 2008 IGVC competition has been extremely successful. We have won the following awards:
– 6th Place Autonomous Challenge (lane-following / obstacle avoidance)
– Completed JAUS Challenge (ability to communicate over the DoD’s standard message protocol for unmanned systems)
– 4th Place Navigation Challenge (GPS waypoint-following / obstacle avoidance)
– 1st Place Design Challenge (based on technical paper, oral presentation and robot inspection)
– Rookie of the Year
– 3rd Place overall (out of 47 teams)
A summary video will be posted shortly.
IGVC team members: Andrew Saxe ’08, Chris Baldassano ’09, Ben Chen ’09, Gordon Franken ’09, Will Hu ’09, Jonathan Mayer ’09, Tom Yeung ’09, David Benjamin ’10, Derrick Yu ’10
A sidenote about the videos: We are aware that there has been some trouble accessing the summary videos we posted on youtube. This problem has been fixed – the videos should now load normally.
PAVE Wins IGVC Design Competition
We are extremely proud to announce that the Princeton team has won first place in the Design Competition of the 2008 IGVC. The Design Competition evaluated teams’ technical papers as well as an oral presentation and a robot inspection. We were selected as one of 6 finalists this morning, and gave a second oral presentation to a new set of judges in the afternoon. The winners were announced during an awards ceremony at 5pm. Congratulations to all of the Design Finalists: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, University of Detroit Mercy, Missouri University of Science and Technology, California State University Northridge, and École de technologie supérieure.
Today’s video summary:
IGVC – Day 3
Today was a very successful day. This morning we went through several practice runs on our presentation – we had a lot of material to present and only 10 minutes to do so. Our presentation was at 3pm, and we talked with four IGVC judges. They asked us a number of detailed questions on our implementation – it seemed as though they were very impressed with our robot. Please watch a video summary of today, including highlights from our presentation. The rest of the afternoon was spent debugging and fine tuning our systems in preparation for the Navigation and Autonomous challenges on Monday.
IGVC – Day 2 Summary Video
We’ve been spending a lot of time gearing up for our design presentation, which was this afternoon, so this video summary from Day 2 is coming a little late. We hope you are enjoying our daily progress updates. Please feel free to e-mail any questions or comments to us.