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NJAV Goals |
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1) Improve the design and implementation of the 2008 vehicle.
2) Have a working vehicle by the End of December 2009.
3) Have an optimal vehicle by the beginning of May 2010.
4) Take 1st in the 2010 IGVC Competition. |
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Welcome to the Home of the NJAV |
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The Autonomous Vehicle project is an awarding project that
teaches students how to communicate and work as a whole
team, separate groups, and individually.
The 2009-2010 NJAV team will design and program
their vehicle to compete in the Intelligent Ground Vehicle
Competition (IGVC). There are certain functional
requirements and constraints on the vehicle that must be
taken into account.
This website will contain most of the information
relative to the NJAV competition and senior project.
Meeting minutes and progress updates will be published
through the website.
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NJAV Updates |
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09/18/09 -
Time line of work progress was created and
is being used as a guide to complete the project. Recovery
of last years vehicle and expense reports completed.
09/27/09 - Hardware
architecture of the old vehicle was completed and analyzed.
The hardware architecture was unsatisfactory, so a rebuild is
required.
10/16/09 - Preliminary Drawings were
constructed by the Mechanicals for a new chassis. The
Electrical engineer designed a universal power box where the
voltage from the batteries will be inputted and various voltages
will be outputted to supply the vehicle with all the power
required. The wireless e-stop is wired directly into the
circuitry of the power box. The Computer Engineer has
began testing each component to develop code and draw data.
10/30/09 - The circuitry for the power
box has been created and soldered but the actual housing has not
been constructed although it has been designed. Progress
for the collection of data has been moving forward and there are
few components left to gather data from. Mechanicals are
now furthering their original design to include a more stable
camera mount.
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