The vehicle now has a new power distribution board located in the back behind the motors. It also has the electronics and sensors mounted. The top and sides have been covered with a thin sheet of polycarbonate to protect against rain water.
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We have successful created a disparity map from our two Stereo images. An initial estimate of the disparity between the left and right images was attained using a sum squared difference algorithm. This algorithm attempts to match 5×5 blocks of pixels in the left image to the right image. If a good enough match is [...]
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We have completed Image segmentation on the GPU based on the previously completed SOM for non-linear color reduction. To segment the image from the SOM(Self-organizing map) we first clustered the 16×16 SOM into 7 color clusters. After sufficient clustering is achieved each pixel in the image to be segmented is first matched to [...]
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We have successfully done a non-linear color conversion from RGB to gray scale on the GPU. To perform the non-linear conversion we first converted the image from RGB to Modified L*u*v space by using the set of equations in the document listed below. After converting to L*u*v space a neural network variant called a SOM(Self-Organizing [...]
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Here is a rendering of our final vehicle design!
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We recently got the LIDAR unit working with our cRIO control system and are very excited with the results! The LIDAR unit communicates via RS-232 to the cRIO which parses the data and plots it onto a graph. The picture below shows a view of what the LIDAR is looking at along with [...]
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Thanks to a very generous donation from WPI alumnus Philip Blackman, we have received a SICK LMS-291 LIDAR unit. We will mount this industrial sensor on the front of the vehicle and use it for determining the distance between the vehicle and objects located in the course. We are currently working on integrating the [...]
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We are happy to announce that we just receivedsponsorship from NVIDIA. They have donated us their Tesla C1060 model GPGPU. We will receive it in a few days and start testing. The team is very excited abut this donation and are very thankful to the NVIDIA Corporation.
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