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CS 5150
Software Engineering
Fall 2012
Project Suggestion: Development of an Outdoor Localization System using Onboard Vision
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Development of an Outdoor Localization System using Onboard Vision Client Dr. David R. Schneider General Background The Cornell Cup USA presented by Intel competition creation team last year proved that they could create some of the most exciting robotics designs in the world. And they did it at the same time while empowering college teams from other top schools such as Berkley, MIT, UPenn, Purdue, Columbia and many more to create their own embedded systems. With more colleges hoping to take part, more companies looking to join as sponsors this year (and even Bill Nye the Science Guy looking to get involved) this year the team aims to expand and refine the existing ModBot (Modular Robotics Platform)This Year’s Project This CS5150 project will be focused on the development of outdoor localization system that is a part of the “dune buggy” ModBot system. The project is made up of 2 parts. The first part is the most critical and that is the development of a localization system in order to establish the (x,y) overhead position of a fast moving dune buggy rover moving in a field terrain that contains obstacles of known position but also other fast moving dune buggy rovers as well as potentially humans (both armed with lazer tag guns). The developers are fortunate to begin at this phase as they can have a good amount of input as to the design of the environment that must be navigated. Completion of this first part does not need the algorithm to be actually run on the dune buggy but it should function within the needs and constraints of the actual dune buggy.It is anticipated that an on-board vision system will be necessary for the actual dune buggy implementation and hence the second part of the project is the connection of an onboard camera to the dune buggy to perform the localization. On-board vision has been accomplished in the past and transmitted to a base station PC via an in-house developed flexible communication system with only a small amount of latency. However, the on board vision system has not been attempted since the latest updates to communication system. Given the upgrade in both the communication system and in the Intel Atom board used for the on-board video capture, it is strongly believed that this should still be feasible if not work better than before. Work will be featured at the Walt Disney World as part of the prestigious national competition, the Cornell Cup USA presented by Intel. General Information Sessions on the Cornell Cup USA presented by Intel: Monday, 8/27 @ 6:30 PM in Upson B17Thursday, 8/30 @ 6:00 PM in Kimball B11 Tuesday, 9/4 @ 6:00 PM in Upson B17 Wednesday, 9/5 @ 6:00 PM in Upson B17 |
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