This project focuses on realizing a series of operational improvements for WPI's unmanned ground vehicle Prometheus with the end goal of a prize winning entry to the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Challenge. Operational improvements include a practical implementation of stereo vision on an NVIDIA GPU, a more reliable implementation of line detection, a better approach to mapping and path planning, and a modified system architecture realized by an easier to work with GPIO implementation. The end result of these improvements is better autonomy, accessibility, robustness, reliability, and usability for Prometheus.

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Creator

• Fitting, Eric J.
• Rodriguez, Michael Anthony
• King, Samson Michael
• DeMello, Craig Alan
• McConnell, Gregory Duncan

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042612-121350

Advisor

• Padir, Taskin
• Michalson, William R.

Year

• 2012

Date created

• 2012-04-26

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Robotics Engineering
• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright