Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC)
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The JHU Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) design team is designing a robot to compete in the annual IGVC competition. The robot must meet a number of specifications and must be able to navigate a large course while avoiding obstacles and staying within the boundaries. Our robot, using the base of a motorized wheelchair, currently uses sonar sensors to avoid objects, uses a video camera control line following, and uses a GPS antenna to navigate to specific coordinates. The system is controlled by a laptop mounted on the robot, running LabView.
Interested students should contact Adam Gross.
Advanced Team Member Domains
- Adam Gross - Design Team Leader
- Alex Hernandez - Component power engineering
- Aidan Folwer - GPS & LabView integration
- Ching Lin - Video & LabView integration
- Michael McEleney - Sonars & LabView integration
Team members have access to a Google Docs repository with all of the team documents. Below is an excerpt of our Fall 2011 Goals:
Components
- Jazzy 1113 ATS - motorized wheelchair
- JC 200 - joystick
- Sony Mobile HD Snap Camera MHS-CM1 - video camera
- GPS - MTK-3301
- Honeywell Digital Compass Solution HMC6352 - digital compass
- MaxBotix LV-MaxSonar-EZ0 High Performance Sonar Range Finder - sonar
- Seed Studio Works 315 MHz remote relay switch - for wireless emergency stop button
- Dell Vostro 1520 - laptop computer onboard the robot
- National Instruments USB 6211 - DAQ
- LabView software
