The objective of this project is to design and implement performance improvements for WPI's intelligent ground vehicle, Prometheus, leading to a more competitive entry at the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. Performance enhancements implemented by the project team include a new upper chassis design, a reconfigurable camera mount, extended Kalman filter-based localization with a GPS receiver and a compass module, a lane detection algorithm, and a modular software framework. As a result, Prometheus has improved autonomy, accessibility, robustness, reliability, and usability.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Doherty, Ryan Marie
• Kalauskas, Peter Scott
• Akmanalp, Mehmet Ali
• Peterson, Ellen Elizabeth
• Gorges, Jeffrey Joseph
• Polido, Felipe

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042711-130820

Advisor

• Michalson, William R.
• Nestinger, Stephen
• Stafford, Kenneth A.
• Ciaraldi, Michael J.
• Padir, Taskin

Year

• 2011

Date created

• 2011-04-27

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering
• Robotics Engineering
• Interdisciplinary
• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright