Autonomous Vehicles: A Culminating Design Experience … Autonomous Vehicles: A
Culminating Design Experience … Autonomous system …

We describe a senior design project in which teams of students design and implement the
hardware and software modules that allow an off-the-shelf RC vehicle to operate
autonomously using only on-board vision, sensors and computational resources. Projects
involving autonomous robots are ideally suited as culminating design experiences because
of the technical challenges of creating vision, control, and communication subsystems that
meet desired performance metrics and that can be integrated into a working system. While …