IGVC Team at Embry-Riddle
Daisy-C
International Ground Vehicle Competition 2020
Competition Background
The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) offers a design experience that is at the very cutting edge of engineering education. It is multidisciplinary, theory-based, hands-on, team implemented, outcome assessed, and based on product realization. It encompasses the very latest technologies impacting industrial development and taps subjects of high interest to students. The competition challenges students to create an autonomous unmanned ground vehicle to negotiate an outdoor obstacle course while carrying a payload. The ground vehicle must be able to traverse the course autonomously and will be judged on how well it goes through the course. The judges will base their judging on a series of points and deductions that are given before the competition. Points will be awarded for meeting requirements and will be deducted for violating rules once the ground vehicle has started the obstacle course.
Team Background
Daisy-C is Embry-Riddle’s Auto-Nav robot for the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) hosted at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan every summer. Tasked to deliver a 20-pound payload, Daisy-C must simultaneously create a map of the course while avoiding multicolored obstacles, staying within the predetermined boundaries, and traversing over a smooth ramp. The focus of this year's team is primarily on a complete electrical and software overhaul. Members of the electrical sub-team are tasked with creating Arduinos to do a variety of tasks. Members on the mechanical sub-team are creating new mounts for components and working with carbon-fiber compatible composites to further develop the platform. Software members are currently working on programming LIDAR, GPS, vision, or controls.
Daisy-C - Features
Mechanical
Carbon Fiber Chassis components
Electrical
Intel NUC Kit NUC8i5BEK
Nvidia Jetson TX2 Developer Kit
Leopard Imaging IMX424 Camera
Software
LabVIEW