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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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Advisor Profiles |
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DR. Orlando Hernandez |
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Dr. Hernandez received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from
Southern Methodist University in 2002. He is currently an
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey. His research
interests include color image segmentation and retrieval,
computer vision, image processing, and high performance
specialized VLSI architectures to perform these tasks. From 1993
to 2003, he was with Texas Instruments and Maxim in Dallas,
Texas where he held positions in Design and Design Management.
He is currently the Director of the National Science Foundation
sponsored Image Processing & Understanding Lab, and the Computer
Architecture & VLSI Lab at the College of New Jersey.
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DR. Yunfeng Wang |
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Dr. Wang received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from
Tiajin University, Tianjin, China in 1992. She also
obtained
both a MSE degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in
2001 and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2002 from
Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, MD. She is currently an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The
College of New Jersey. Her research interests include
hyper-redundant manipulators, mechatronics, and biorobotics.
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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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