Experiments
AutoDrive Challenge Year 4 (2024-2025)
This year, our team was building on our experience from the Year 3 challenge.
Design Your Own Challenge event (outside)
We demonstrate our ability to autonomously navigate a dynamic environment, interface with the traffic lights, and track a desired trajectory.
Design Your Own Challenge event (inside)
The same experiment is shown, but from inside the vehicle. Furthermore, the use of HMI to autonomously enter the final destination and enter the autonomous mode are also evidenced.
AutoDrive Challenge Year 3 (2023-2024)
This was the first year of the AutoDrive challenge that I was leading.
Dynamic object avoidance
In this video, we demonstrate our ability to avoid dynamic objects (pedestrians). We come to an autonomous stop detecting that a pedestrian has walked onto the road, wait till the pedestrian has moved out of the road, and then resume autonomous motion.
Static object avoidance
We demonstrate our ability to autonomously avoid static objects, which are barrels in this video.
Controller demonstration (outside)
In this video, the tracking of the vehicle of a prescribed trajectory, comprising of straight, right turn, straight, left turn, and straight is shown. The vehicle is in autonomous mode (note the blue lights outside the vehicle).
Controller demonstration
In this video, I showcase a PID controller for tracking a desired trajectory. The control commands are on the throttle, brake, and steering.