Autonomous Multi-sensor Vehicle w/ Manual Override

Student: Alex Keating 

Project Advisor: Dr. Aleksander MalinowskiProject Co-advisor: Dr. José Sánchez

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Project summary Relevance Beagleboard-XM System block diagram Transducer Receiving Sensor Beam Forming More Distances Goals for Rest of Semester Acknowledgement & Q/A

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Overview

The goal of this project is to create an autonomous vehicle that is more efficient, versatile and an overall better platform for future development. The prototype will test the efficiency of using an on-board DSP to process and control an array of ultrasonic transducers. The resulting system will then be compared to the conventional system already equipped into the Pioneer 3 vehicle.

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Project summary

Using the Beagleboard-XM and DSP techniques fewer sensors can achieve results that are comparable to conventional sensors.

Implementation of Beagleboard–XM will be use of a more current technology.

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Relevance

Beagleboard-XM

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System block diagram

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Transducer

Receiving Sensor

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Beam Forming

Other Distances

Goals for Rest of Semester Developing Gantt chart Determining A/D Building & modeling transducer Building & modeling receiver

Acknowledgement & Q/A

References: Kinser, Lawrence E., Austin R. Frey, Alan B. Coppens, and James V. Sanders. Fundamentals of Acoustics - 4th Edition.

Print. Jang, Won Suk. "Embedded System for Construction Material Tracking Using Combination of Radio Frequency and

Ultrasound Signal." (2007). Web. <http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/7683/1/umi-umd-4958.pdf>.  "Http://beagleboard.org/static/BBxMSRM_latest.pdf." BeagleBoard.org. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. <http://beagleboard.org/>.

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