Here are clips from the software team as well as those responsible for it.
Charles (URDF, World File, Nav2), Dillon (Nav2), Jacob (Object Detection) - Autonomous Rover - Simulation
Jacob - Object Detection Performance
Charles (logic), Jacob (logic, code) - Find Largest Path
Daniel (logic), Jacob (logic, code) - IMU Rotation Tracking
Our project involves the creation of an autonomous rover that will be ejected from a rocket built by UCF students in various Senior Design groups.
UCF seniors spend two semesters working with their peers and advisors to create many different types of projects. Some of these projects are multi-disciplinary, including ours. Our project includes one mechanical engineering student, one computer engineering student, and four computer science students. These fields of study are all necessary for our the design, build, and programming of our project
Our team is building a rover payload that will be held in a rocket to be deployed in the FAR 1030-5R competition. This requires our team to additionally build a sled and a canister that will contain our rover.
Our rover will be required to use our own on-board power in order to function, have the the ability to withstand 8 G’s of force and heat from the rocket’s ejection event, and include a parachute attachment for use during deployment. Once it lands, it will need to locate the launch pad and return to it while displaying live video.
– Rover that autonomously returns to designated launch pad with live video
● Minimum 2.2-lb (1.0 kg) Payload
● Maximum weight of 9.5 lb (4.31 kg) (including payload, canister, and sled)
● Maximum of 12.7 cm width/height
● Maximum of 40.64 cm length
● Must be removable as a separate unit from airframe
● Design/build a payload canister
● Design/build a payload sled
● Must transmit live video
● Ability to withstand 8 G’s of force
● Must autonomously return to base
Adiona is the name of the Roman goddess of safe return. Since our rover's responsibility is to return to the rocket base on it's own, we thought this would be a very fitting name.
With the hardware team unsuccessful in completing the construction of the rover by the time the class concluded, this project was, unfortunately, dropped. The software team was successful in creating a simulated autonomous vehicle and was prepared for integration if the rover ever completed assembly.
Lauren Bravine - Computer Engineering
Alexander Davis - Mechanical Engineering
Dillon Burns - Computer Science
Daniel Volpe - Computer Science
Jacob Sage - Computer Science
Charles McCampbell-Hill - Computer Science