Jeff (The Brown-Eyed Albino)
The Mini Grand Challenge (named after the DARPA Grand Challenge) is a competition started by Penn State Abington, in which you must create an entirely autonomous vehicle. This means that you simply press a button, and have the beast go. The challenge portion of the MGC is that your vehicle must follow and stay on a path for three quarters of a mile, stop for people, watch for forks/road cones on the path, search for GPS coordinates, then go off-road for the last quarter mile. Neato!
One interesting point about this challenge is that in the five or so years that it's been running (it's an annual deal), no one has been able to complete the course.
Construction is going smoothly, so I'll try to keep you updated. No promises about other content though, this is quite time consuming.
The Brown-Eyed Albino
3 comments:
This is very very difficult but obviously a very challenging project. I wish you every success with your MGC project.
Nilz
GPS Deals
Thanks for the encouragement, Nilz! I believe I'm going to have the hardest time doing Image Recognition, but I may end up using sonar and infrared for obstacle avoidance, and color recognition for the road cones.
Thanks for the link on GPS deals, but I've already got most of the supplies I need. I'll try to keep everyone posted on our progress!
The Brown-Eyed Albino
Thank you so much for providing such a information. It has a big help for me. Hope to see more info updated.I must bookmark this article!
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