Course Information

Professor: Dr. Doran Wilde

Professor: Dr. D.J. Lee

Professor: Dr. James Archibald

Teaching Assistant: Spencer Fowers

Lab Time: TTh 12:00 - 12:50 PM, 369 CB

Summary:
In this project, teams of undergraduate students develop the technologies to allow a small vehicle (an off-the-shelf RC truck) to operate completely autonomously. All vision and control processing is done using on-board sensors and processing using a custom FPGA board that includes both a conventional processor and reconfigurable logic for custom device interfaces and custom computational blocks. Near the end of the semester, vehicles compete in a challenging competition that thoroughly tests the quality of each team's design and implementation.

In 2006, vehicles competed over an obstacle course marked by colored garden hoses. In 2008 and 2009, the vehicles navigated a race course marked by colored pylons. In 2010, the vehicles will play a form of capture-the-flag using custom laser-tag modules developed at BYU.

Prerequisites: ECEn 425, ECEn 427 or ECEn 483, C or C++ Programming, VHDL

Policies: Academic honesty, preventing sexual harassment and discrimination, and students with disabilities.

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