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Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC)

What is IGVC?

IGVC stands for “Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition.” It is an annual robotics competition that challenges college teams to design and build autonomous ground vehicles. These vehicles are required to navigate through a series of tasks and obstacles without human intervention. The competition typically focuses on promoting research and development in the field of intelligent vehicles, including areas such as computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. Teams participating in IGVC showcase their innovations in autonomous vehicle technology.

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The Competition

The IGVC (Auto-Nav Challenge) competition requires student teams to design, fabricate, and program an autonomous unmanned ground robotic vehicle. The robot must negotiate around an outdoor obstacle course under a prescribed time while maintaining a minimum speed of one mph over a section and a maximum speed of five mph. The robot must also avoid obstacles on the course and follow the lane marked on the course.

The competition typically takes place each year on the campus of Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. The competition rules change each year and feature several different challenges. This year the Auto-Nav challenge is set on a 450-foot asphalt pavement course with variable track widths ranging from 10 to 20 feet and a minimum turning radius of 5 feet. The course is defined by continuous or dashed white lines and features ramps with a maximum incline of 15%. Randomly placed obstacles on the course include construction drums, natural and man-made objects, and simulated potholes (2 feet diameter white circles). Teams have to use different sensors such as LiDAR, camera, and GPS to navigate around the course while avoiding the obstacles. The competition judges participants based on the time of course completion, with penalties incurred for hitting obstacles, and distance covered in case of incomplete runs.

The Team

Gaurav Singh

Faculty Advisor

gsingh@ltu.edu

Lauren Crist

Team Captian

Eric Beeler

Team Member

Jason Tilley

Team Member

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.