• Autonomous Braking and Driver Assist Technologies Project
    On this page, you will find photos and video (when possible) of working solutions to the Autonomous Braking and Driver Assist Technologies project given in Advanced Robotics & Automation.  The students use Vex Robotics kits to design a vehicle capable of successfully completing the project.  They gear and design the vehicle to drive as quickly as possible at a stationary object (wall) and the car must stop itself before hitting the obstacle, even when the driver is still trying to accelerate the vehicle.  
      

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     A working field test of the autonomous braking feature of a student-designed Vex vehicle for this project:
     

     

    A working field test of the autonomous braking feature AND the autonomous override features required for this project.  The override feature allows the driver to retake control of the vehicle after an autonmous stop or completely disable the system in heavy, stop-and-go traffic:

     

     
    A first person point-of-view from a robot completing a field test.  The video was shot with a GoPro camera mounted to the robot:
     
     
     
     
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