S19: Zeus
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Grading Criteria
- How well is Software & Hardware Design described?
- How well can this report be used to reproduce this project?
- Code Quality
- Overall Report Quality:
- Software Block Diagrams
- Hardware Block Diagrams
- Schematic Quality
- Quality of technical challenges and solutions adopted.
Project Title
Zeus : The Autonomous Car
Abstract
When over a century ago Karl Benz invented the first car, it came as a miracle to people. Now, Almost every household owns a car. The industry has come from a 20 Horse power producing 2.9 liter Ford Model T (1908) to a massive 1500 Horsepower 5 liter Koenigsegg Regera (2018). And as such, further developments into the driving industry are bound to come. One such major field is the realm of Driverless smart cars. This project focuses on developing a driverless smart car(model) that is capable of going from one place to the destination without any manual input, avoiding obstacles along the way.
Objectives & Introduction
Zeus revolves around several SJone boards that have LPC 1758 at the center......(continue here). Following are the objectives of this project.:
- Zeus should successfully navigate from a fixed starting point to a fixed destination based on GPS.
- Obstacles on the way should be avoided.
- Code should be 100% Unit-Tested
Team Members & Responsibilities
- Neel Patel
- Team Lead
- Wiki Report
- Himanshu Gunjal
- Oliver Zhu
- GIT repository Manager
- Aman Chandan
- Material/ Components manager
- Karan Daryani
- Namdev Prabhugaonkar
- Artik Shetty
- Wendy Chao
Schedule
| Week# | Date | Task | Activities | Status | Completion Date |
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| 1 | 02/12/19 |
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| 2 | 02/19/19 |
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| 3 | 02/26/19 |
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| 4 | 03/05/19 |
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| 5 | 03/12/19 |
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| 6 | 03/19/19 |
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| 7 | 03/26/19 |
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| 8 | 04/02/19 |
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| 9 | 04/09/19 |
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| 9 | 04/16/19 |
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| 9 | 04/23/19 |
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| 9 | 04/30/19 |
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| 9 | 05/07/19 |
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| 9 | 05/14/19 |
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| 9 | 05/22/19 |
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Parts List & Cost
| Item# | Part Description | Vendor | Qty | Cost $ |
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| 1 | RC Car | Sheldon's Hobby Store | 1 | 180.00 |
| 2 | SJOne board | Preet | 5 | 400.00 |
| 3 | GPS Module | 1 | ||
| 4 | Lipo Battery (7200 mAh) | Amazon | 1 | 37.99 |
| 5 | DB9 Connector | Amazon | 1 | 6.50 |
| 6 | LIPO Battery Charger | Sheldon's Hobby Store | 1 | 39.99 |
| 7 | Ultrasonic sensor | Robotshop | 4 | 99.80 |
| 8 | PCB | |||
| 9 | CAN Transceiver | Amazon | 5 | 49.95 |
| 10 | LCD Display | Obtained From Preet | 1 | Free |
| 11 | Xbee | Obtained From Preet | 1 | Free |
| 12 | Adapter for Lipo Charger | Amazon | 1 | 15.84 |
Design & Implementation
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Hardware Design
Discuss your hardware design here. Show detailed schematics, and the interface here.
Hardware Interface
In this section, you can describe how your hardware communicates, such as which BUSes used. You can discuss your driver implementation here, such that the Software Design section is isolated to talk about high level workings rather than inner working of your project.
Software Design
Show your software design. For example, if you are designing an MP3 Player, show the tasks that you are using, and what they are doing at a high level. Do not show the details of the code. For example, do not show exact code, but you may show psuedocode and fragments of code. Keep in mind that you are showing DESIGN of your software, not the inner workings of it.
Implementation
This section includes implementation, but again, not the details, just the high level. For example, you can list the steps it takes to communicate over a sensor, or the steps needed to write a page of memory onto SPI Flash. You can include sub-sections for each of your component implementation.
Testing & Technical Challenges
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Include sub-sections that list out a problem and solution, such as:
<Bug/issue name>
Discuss the issue and resolution.
Conclusion
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Project Video
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Project Source Code
References
Acknowledgement
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References Used
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Appendix
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