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Team 2107

Team Members

Faculty Advisor

Paul Simmerling
Paulo Silva
Brendan Sayers

Shalabh Gupta

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The goal of this project is to build a small-scale car setup employing a variety of different sensors like (depth/camera) to generate ground truth labels that will be used as training datasets for a vehicle maneuvering on a road. We will test and develop machine learning (specifically deep neural networks) that uses the sensor information to construct a vehicle motion in response to the sensor information.   To accomplish this goal, a testbed was built that uses Robot Operating System (ROS) to control a sensor-suite capable of self-driving. This suite includes a camera, LIDAR, inertial measurement unit (IMU), and encoders. These sensors are connected to an Arduino/Raspberry Pi that is wifi connected to an external laptop which processes the neural network. This allows for two modes of operating: the training teleoperation mode, and the neural networking mode. In the training mode the robot is controlled by a standard gamepad controller and the data recorded by the car is recorded on the laptop. In the neural network mode, the vehicle drives around the track autonomously.