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R15201- Autonomous People Mover

Patrick Bayly, Eric Paterno, Steve Smith, Peter Hajosch

Project Description

Background:

• Major car manufacturers working toward adoption of autonomous vehicles.
• RIT (Dr. Ptucha) would like to be on the forefront of this technology.
• Existing Senior Design project(s)
• Phase A (ongoing, completion Spring 2015)
• Conversion of cart to remote control
• Phase B (ongoing, completion Fall 2016)
• Limited Autonomous Functionality
• Separate CE team working concurrently with MSD team

Project Description (Gap)

• Our starting point assumes that Phase B is successfully completed.
• We will create the PRP for Phase C.
• Gap:
• Current (Phase B completion): Cart that can navigate from Unity (Pi)

Quad to Infinity Quad under tightly controlled conditions with stationary obstacles.

• Desired (Phase C completion): Cart that can navigate from Unity (Pi)

Quad to Infinity Quad under controlled conditions with moving

• bstacles.
• Ultimate Goal: Use of the cart as a learning tool and to advertise the

university to potential students.

• DPL Team & Guide (Mike B.)
• Dr. Ptucha
• RIT
• institution
• students
• faculty
• MSD Teams
• current
• future

Key Stakeholders

Current State of the Art

Research Areas

• Google Patents
• Online articles

Current Autonomous vehicles (benchmarking)

• Google Car
• Carnegie Mellon Car
• Automatic parking and cruise control systems
• Roomba
• Magnet-guided vehicles

Project Goals

For Phase C The Autonomous Car Should:

• Navigate “in the wild” from Unity Quad (Pi Quad) to Infinity

Quad

• Have safety systems integrated
• Sensors to tell if objects are in the way including short range

radar, long range radar, lidar, front vision, omni vision, and stereo vision

• Birds eye map that tracks the movement of people and

position of cart on campus

• Use of redundant systems to minimize problems

Customer Requirements (Weighted)

Setbacks / Next Steps

Setbacks

• Ambiguous current state
• Overlapping of senior design projects
• Resolution with Dr. Ptucha
• Costs

Next Steps

• Continue stakeholder interviews
• Use feedback from this presentation
• Preparation for VOE

The End

Questions?