After an entire semester of work, we finally got the RC car to navigate 100% autonomously! As soon as we got it working we took it to the hallways to run some tests. We gathered some trash cans and laid them in the hallway as obstacles. The car successfully navigated around them and could even go around corners and through doorways. Right now, the biggest flaw of the car is that it has trouble recognizing that a window should be considered a wall since the LiDAR’s laser just goes right through it. This is not a major concern for us right now because in any other scenario, the car works just fine. This is something we will look into next semester. Over the next few days we will be working out any small bugs that may exist in the code to get the project ready for demonstration on Wednesday.

Images of a trial run of the cars autonomous navigation can be found on the Progress page.