Project Overview

The goal of this project is to design an autonomous vehicle that can travel around a track as quickly as possible while avoiding certain traps. The vehicles themselves will be the size of a typical RC car. The goal will be to make the trip as quickly as possible in competition with other vehicles. In addition to physical traps, the track will also have several nodes that will attempt to "hack" into the control system and cause the vehicle to crash. This trap would be a faraday cage which prevents the driver from sending signals to the RC car. Our vehicle will have its speed controlled by remote control, but the steering of the vehicle must be autonomous and handled by onboard sensors to detect objects. The students on the project will be subdivided into at least 3 teams. One of the teams will be responsible to designing the track with a particular focus on designing the traps impede the progress of the RC Cars. Our team will be responsible for designing one of the vehicles to race the other car team's vehicle.