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Autonomous Land Vehicle

University
Purdue University
Goals
The Autonomous Land Vehicle or Crawler project seeks to build a radio control buggy that will be able to navigate autonomously.
Issues
As an initial mission, it could travel through a building and send back a video stream to enable first responders to determine if there are injured or hostile individuals inside. We currently have a buggy set up to take control signals sent from a computer via a wireless link. Tuning of these capabilities needs to be done followed by enabling the crawler to navigate increasingly complex spaces.
Tools and Methods
Computer Vision
Image Processing
Control Theory
Desired Majors
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Prep
For this project we need students that can program, control theory, image processing and image processing software, and general system building and tinkering.